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I waz reading a studi last weak , wear it sed that people with superior intellekt could read a paper wit gross misteaks and understand it perfectly while people of middlin intel often can't sea the forest thru the trees.
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I read this and didn't even realize there were spelling mistakes until I read it the second time. I read so much that my brain just looks for the clues it doesn't really see the word. I took a speed reading course once and was pretty good at it but you can't read a novel because you miss all the nuance.

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Quote: billryan

I waz reading a studi last weak , wear it sed that people with superior intellekt could read a paper wit gross misteaks and understand it perfectly while people of middlin intel often can't sea the forest thru the trees.
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I read this and didn't even realize there were spelling mistakes until I read it the second time. I read so much that my brain just looks for the clues it doesn't really see the word. I took a speed reading course once and was pretty good at it but you can't read a novel because you miss all the nuance.
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I'd laugh my butt off if Billyran came back and said he got it wrong, and it actually means you're a dimwit.

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Quote: billryan

I waz reading a studi last weak , wear it sed that people with superior intellekt could read a paper wit gross misteaks and understand it perfectly while people of middlin intel often can't sea the forest thru the trees.
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I read this and didn't even realize there were spelling mistakes until I read it the second time. I read so much that my brain just looks for the clues it doesn't really see the word. I took a speed reading course once and was pretty good at it but you can't read a novel because you miss all the nuance.
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I'd laugh my butt off if Billyran came back and said he got it wrong, and it actually means you're a dimwit.
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No he got it right. I've seen this before that the brain doesn't really read the words it looks for clues. If you had to actually read every word you'd never finish a book. The brain looks for familiarity and you don't actually read a sentence you just get the gist of what it means. That's why when you're reading a good novel and you get to a part that's important you go back and read it again and again to make sure you understand it.

I took a semester-long speed reading class in high school, and it has helped tremendously. I can quickly scan most papers and understand the gist of them.
What we see and what the brain tells us we are seeing are very different. If the nerves that transmit the information from the eye to the brain aren't working right, the message gets jumbled.
Two people look at a tree. Both sets of eyes transmit a binary code to the brain, and the message center translates it. One person's nerves work fine, and the brain gets the correct message. The other person's nerves aren't well, and thirty percent of the message is lost in translation. With only 70% of the code received, instead of having the unique code assigned to trees, the code could be anything from bananas to the man on the moon. The brain takes the messy code and tries to decide what the message is. The result can be what we call hallucinations.
My Mother was legally blind for the last few years of her life, and once she accepted this, she wasn't shy about telling us what she saw.
We were in New Hope, PA, and banners were across the streets celebrating some festival. My Mom looked at the banners, and somehow, her brain told her she was looking at strawberry shortcake—not a banner that said strawberry shortcake, but actual cakes floating above the street every hundred yards or so.

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I waz reading a studi last weak , wear it sed that people with superior intellekt could read a paper wit gross misteaks and understand it perfectly while people of middlin intel often can't sea the forest thru the trees.
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Oooh you reminded me of two mind tricks. I may not get this right though since I'm not looking it up.

!. In a page of text someone can easily spot their own name much quicker than other random suggested words.

2. As long as the first and last letter are correct most people can read a page even if the other letter in between are scrambled.

I think that's what they were.
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I wasn't aware of number one, but it makes sense.

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<snip>My Mother was legally blind for the last few years of her life, and once she accepted this, she wasn't shy about telling us what she saw.
We were in New Hope, PA, and banners were across the streets celebrating some festival. My Mom looked at the banners, and somehow, her brain told her she was looking at strawberry shortcake—not a banner that said strawberry shortcake, but actual cakes floating above the street every hundred yards or so.
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billryan,

Your mother may have been experiencing Charles Bonnet syndrome:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_release_hallucinations

I had an elderly friend who eventually went blind. She often described seeing all kinds of strange images which she realized were not real.

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