Hello - it's been a couple of years since I've posted to this group. On spontaneous activation - I've had it occur a number of times over the years that I've played with PhotoReading and Image Streaming and the most memorable occurance was when I was studying graduate level physics in college.
I was taking a graduate level course in mathematical methods and classical mechanics and I used the PhotoReading system to aid me in my studies - successfully cutting my study time and problem solving time down from 5 hours in an evening to about an hour and a half. Like many physics and math courses, we would skip chapters in the textbook and only cover material that the instructor felt was relevant. However, since I was PhotoReading the book anyways, that material was "flipped through", though not activated.
When it came time to take the final exam I sat down, opened the exam booklet and scanned the questions. It quickly became obvious that the bulk of the material on the exam was not what was covered in the class, but was the material covered in the chapters we didn't work on. I felt a rush of stress, closed the book and my eyes and just completely let go, figuring I would fail the exam and it simply didn't matter what I tried. Suddenly, I found myself in a state similar to what I feel like when I PhotoRead - relaxed and almost like I was in a mild "trance". I opened the booklet and could not write fast enough. I finished the exam in about 45 minutes (if I recall the time correctly). I was the first person out the exam - the next getting out an hour or so after me. I got a 93 (A-) on the final.
The experience was like having a "brain dump" of the material, with my mind working faster than hands could write almost. That experience convinced me that PhotoReading works.
As far as how the spontaneous activation occured - I think there were a couple of factors that figured predominantly. I had a need (the exam), I relaxed (by giving up and figuring I'd flunk the exam), and I allowed the material to bubble up (by writing as quickly as the material arose to my awareness).
Hope that this is useful.
