Quote Originally Posted by nhighton View Post
That's a very good point haha, I'm not ACTUALLY reading, so the 'words-on-book-to-eye-to-brain-via-optical-nerve' delay isn't there! Must just be my brain processing...stuff then. Glad that one's cleared up

Thanks!
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Well, you could say that you are actually reading, because it's not your eyes that read. It's your brain. Your eyes just convey optical information which your brain processes.

I met a guy once who did a training workshop on some sort of special reading. It enabled you to digest a whole book in a few minutes. You'd take all kinds of preparations (like bend the pages so you could flip through them at ease and other stuff.) and then you'd gaze at all the pages with a fuzzy non-focused look, flipping through 300 pages within a few minutes.

He said that you don't know what you read consciously, but you could easily answer written test questions (multiple choice) on the contents afterwards.

So, point I am making. The eyes play a minor part in reading. Whatever it is you are reading in your sleep, I bet it's the same brain regions doing the work as in wake state.

Maybe you could ask yourself some questions like:

"What kind of information did I receive?"
"Which parts of my life does the piece of information refer to?"
"Does that piece of info suggest any action on my part?"

In short, a bit like a synopsis test on what you read.


Check this out for more information on word recognition, btw


P.S.: are you lucid in those word processing dreams, actually?