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Originally posted by Adam16:
Yes, a few more questions. Thank you for all of your help so far, Alex.

Somewhere in the middle, there, I was talking about how the information was coming into the conscious mind. I meant that it wasn't coming up as a memory or anything, it was just coming up because I have to literally read the text.

You cannot recall something that you have not consciously called on in the first place. It isn't a memory until you activated it.

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It's not being retrieved from the subconscious, it's being perceived in the process of regular reading. And I kind of do expect the "aha" feeling. Just to clear all of that up.

That's exactly what it feels like in the beginning. A vague sense of familarity is nice but one that may not show up in the early stages of activation. It comes with using the steps more and having mind probing questions.

The mind probing questions you seem to be by passing which makes me wonder if you have clarified your purpose too.

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I don't understand the superreading step. There's the 2 page exercise, but there's another one, I can't remember exactly how long, I think it was 3 pages, and everything is divided into columns. But I simply don't understand how to absorb the information that fast.

This is done before PhotoReading. You're not going to get everything.

As you proceed through the course you learn about skittering. Both require mind probing questions something you are not asked to do in the exercise at that point in time. Don't over analyse move on.

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I can hit it with my peripheral vision, but it just doesn't register. When Sheele says, "notice how you can go down the page"[when you're relaxed and have the imaginary tangerine on your head]. I can't. I can see the words, I just can't make sense of it. Do you think this is a habit caused by slow and deliberate reading with a lot of subvocalization?

Nope it's like that because you're doing it exactly right. You're not reading you're only noticing your eyes moving down the page you will pick up words here and there. When you have mind probing questions those words that your eyes register mean dip.

When you dip you read a phrase or two, perhaps a sentence, check if it relates to your question if it does you might read more if it doesn't move on.

You can move your eye down the pages in rapid succession in answer to one question then go back and gow doen the page again when answering another. it's allowed.

A beginner will over dip the lesson is to move on quickly if it does not relate to the question. You know when you're getting an answer to your question.
Alex

[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited January 11, 2005).]