Word Salad.
Your brain always sees a word salad. However, your brain has learned how to represent the 3 dimensional world when you use your normal hard focus. Now when you diverge your eyes the concious mind still uses the old program for interpreting the input from the eyes and you have your blip page or word salad. However, the nice thing is that your conscious mind hasn't developed a traditional reading strategy for reading the word salad, so the information can go unfiltered to the other than conscious mind.
The Short answer is No, you are doing it properly.
Do you really get more than a couple of inches of overlap?
