I've been reading questions about soft eyes. I think I have a better explanation. Have you ever seen those posters that are supposed to have the picture imbeded in them? You can only see the image until you relax your eyes. But, if you relax your eyes so much everything becomes blurry, then you'll never see the hidden image. When you do see it, you want to reach out and touch it because it looks so incredibly real. There is depth to the image. This is the depth that Paul talks about having with the page. You relax, see the blip page, but everything is still in focus. This is what is means to have soft eyes. Additionally, that's why it's important to chant something like a song or your goals for photoreading the book. Since the words are in focus, you'll want to try to read them but the goal is to keep the content out of your immediate awareness and send it straight to your sub-conscious. Seeing all four corners, seeing only the white spaces between sentences, sensing the upturn of the corners of your eyes & mouth and sensing the tangerine at the top of your head will also act as distractions for your immediate awareness. Hope that makes sense.
Last edited by digitap; 09/04/09 05:29 PM. Reason: Content clarification and spelling errors
