I've been photoreading a ton of books lately, and I notice I have a tendency to think about all sorts of different things as I do the photoreading step.
I'm aware of how to do all the techniques (i.e. seeing the 'blip', x-technique, and noticing all four corners) but once a thought enters my mind, I wonder: Does this information go into my subconscious despite these 'intruding' thoughts? As they arise, I simply thank them and let them go, but as soon as I do that, another thought comes in, so I thank that one and let that go.
Thanking those thoughts work since I'm acknowledging the positive intentions of those thoughts and allowing them to dissipate, but I find myself doing that frequently throughout the photoreading step.
With this in mind, I wonder: Does this mean I haven't properly photoread? Or does this suggest that we don't necessarily have to be in the ideal state to photoread?
Since the human eye supposedly takes in 10 million bits of information in a moment, wouldn't this suggest that getting into the ideal state doesn't matter since everything written on the page is going in anyway?
I'd really like some thoughts on this from active photoreaders.
-Jason