1) You are not insane. I have had that same experience many times with different types of activation of material previously studied read etc.

2)This is qoute I originally used about learing the pr state etc. It's Pete Bissonette: "PhotoRead 5-10 books a day for a month or two. This is a big commitment, but those who do this have many difference experiences with activation including spontaneous activation, weird cooincidences, dreaming about the contents of a book or applying the principles from a book, opening books to exactly the information you are looking for, and so on. It is a great confidence builder. That's how I started out, and I highly recommend it. Activate one book a week--but PhotoRead 5-10 a day to see what happens--even if it is the same book over and over"
This is the link to it in the Archives on Step 3 Photoreading under the subject Speed. http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Archives/Archive-000003/HTML/20001203-8-000020.html

3) Sorry not it Arizona