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When you read a book -- when you get into the reading groove, that is -- how do you absorb the individual words? Do you start at the beginning and go to the end? Do you recognize the letters as a group? Do you recognize the shape of the word, or word sets? Something else entirely? Is this something you can even SEE in yourself?

In general, I think of my brain as working very much like my brother Paul's, but in this case, we've never really lined up, so I'm curious how the rest of the world works. I sort of have a pathological relationship to letters, so I'm not very objective.

EDIT: when people speak, I see the letters pass through my brain.

Date: 2007-03-29 04:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spike.livejournal.com
Through various Unusual Procedures™ the eyes can be trained to read straight across each line and then down to the next one, and so on.

I had this done to me when I was in 4th and 5th grade. I can't do it now as well as I could then; just out of practice I think. But at the time, I had an ungodly fast reading speed. Now it's just like a minor demon.

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