Hi, everyone.
I'm a brand-new photoreader and am devouring the home study course. Had it for a couple days. I love what it's done for my reading already, and I'm only half way thru the program.
I'm curious what people's experiences are with using the Photoreading Whole Mind System with novels, and also with nonfiction books that have no heads or subheads (like biographies and certain history books).
I haven't tried using PR on the latter (still skill-building on the simple and easy stuff), but I've started to play around with using it on novels.
I happened to have just begun reading an extra-long Star Trek novel when I got the PR course. Last night I decided to preview the novel (learned a surprising amount just from that), then photoread it front and back. Continued regular reading of it today, but it seemed to flow a bit better. Certain passages I had confidence breezing past, for example, and I could take more in with my eyes while I was reading. One scene seemed particularly vivid and clear. Wouldn't you know, Gee, the writer seems to have suddenly improved! ;-) Tonight I photoread it again front and back, and am curious how my reading will go tomorrow.
I wonder what would happen if I photoread it every night before going to bed, then continued my regular (or rapid) reading of it the next day.
I read somewhere else on the boards that you only need to photoread a book once, suggesting there was no value to photoreading it repeatedly. But since I can't really do any activation on the text, I wonder if photoreading it repeatedly will make a difference. I'm also trusting that the incubation I'm doing overnight is working and is worthwhile.
Has anyone else played around with using PR on novels, or history books with no subheads? (I'm anxious to read a biography of Stalin, for example, but with little more than chapter numbers and a time period at the start of each chapter, there's little more to go on with previewing and activation than there is with a novel.)
I'd love to hear about your strategies and experiences. Thanks!
P.S. Also, as soon as I finish photoreading a book, my mind feels "dense." It does feel like I just downloaded a bunch of information into my brain, and the lower half of my brain feels weighted down, and like it's getting busy sorting through it all. It's a great feeling, because it makes me think that something really did happen when I photoread the book. <shrug> Anyone else feel any different immediately after photoreading?
