sight reading

[ektoras_greek]

i have heard that through hypnosis one can read about 30,000 words per minute
is that true???

if it is what are the methods used to achieve such results?

[Merlin]

It's more an issue of learning to read differently.
Instead of reading one letter at a time, or even one word at a time...
Instead of sounding out and saying each word in your mind, one reads a page at a time.

[skip]

Search speed reading in the forum and on google, you will get all the information you could want in that way, and yes it does work.

[ektoras_greek]

I have read several books about spped reading.
I started three months ago with a reeding speed of 300 words per minute
now using those techniques told "speed reading" i have a reeding speed of 1000+ words per minute

SIGHT READING is however something way more than that
. it is a real revolution that is why i am asking

[Merlin]

>SIGHT READING is however something way more...

Yes.
As Skip says, check the archives.
60K WPM is reasonable.
750k-1000k is doable, but not with books.
Page turning is the usual limitation.

[solaris152000]

100,000 words per minute?!!!!!!! How that seems impossible, why have I never seen this on television, does it really work ...... How can I learn.

[Merlin]

Solaris, did you read Skip's message?
>why have I never seen this on television

is that the ultimate authority for you?

[solaris152000]

All hail the television!

Ill google it then.

[solaris152000]

I can just see music related suff.. can some one please give me a link?

[ektoras_greek]

i would also like a link for reading speeds of 10,000 words per minute.

I don;t ask for extravagant things i don't want 100,000 words per minute

10,000 are enough for me !

well solaris I have a link for you

www.themindaccelerator.com I have visited this page. it is selling a book which shows you how to read 25,000 words
I ordered it today! but i am not sure that it actually works .
In three weeks time i ll know

[Shuriken]

http://www.photoreading.com/

[Merlin]

For reading 10,000-100,000 words per minute

Hypereading is good
So is photoreading
Both can be found by Google search

[deeptrancenow]

The popular name for what you have in mind - these days - is Photoreading. You may want to visit Paul Scheele's website and check out his set of recordings. You may also be able to locate workshops in your area. You can do search on the internet for "photoreading".

Best wishes,

Laura

[JimmyGR]

You guys have tried photoreading? Does it work?

Jim

[AnthonyM83]

I've yet to meet someone who who has been table to "activate" and actually make it work after learning how to do it.

Doesn't mean it doesn't work, of course.

[Merlin]

It works.

I think there are better methods, but it works.

[JimmyGR]

It works.

I think there are better methods, but it works.

Can you direct me to some?

Thanks a lot
Jim

[Don]

Many years ago I attended the Evelyn Wood School of Speed Reading which was held near UCLA. It was six or eight weeks of classes and required daily work at home. I was able to get my speed up to 700-1400 words regularly with most types of reading.

However, a few times, something would happen. I'd be reading very quickly (only fiction) and suddenly I'd find concepts, feelings and events just flowing into my head. My speed jumped up by a factor of 10-12. It was an amazing sensation--you could actually "read" (i.e., absorb) as fast as you could turn the pages in a book--and they told us that when we reached it we would have to continue practicing to maintain the skill.

I didn't for two reasons:
1) For non-fiction reading, I often want to take notes, refer to footnotes or endnotes, etc. They suggest that we just go through the book and when we come to notes our minds will simply relate it to the appropriate part of the body of the text.
2) For fiction, it worked well with fun reading, but I went through a phase where I wanted to focus on fine literature. When you're reading that fast you can't savor clever use of language or a turn of a phrase.

Today I still use the skills for some things, such as reading cheezy books and the newspapers. I like to refer to the original course I took (Red Skelton's daughter was in my class) as the "Evelyn Wood School of Speed Skimming."

[Merlin]

I like www.hypereading.com
It's similar to photoreading, but the trance is different and hypnosis is also used.

[Emmanuel]

Hi guys!
Following your discussion I got to visit www.themindaccelerator.com (http://www.themindaccelerator.com/) which I really thank ektoras greek for! The information on that website is really convincing, so hard that I couldn't help coming back to it tonight and place my order; it is so inexpensive for the promised results, so I'm ready to give it a try! The first phase reminds me a lot of some NLP books I've read (IMO it's always good to study a topic from different school and point of view). On the other hand, phase 2 through 4 soud like some more real and powerful magic which we've all learned to believe to. I cant wait to get i

You definitely have to tell us about it when you receive the book ektoras greek, and I will do the same:)!

Next I went to http://www.photoreading.com/ which is amazing too! But the whole home learning package is so expensive that I'd rather pass my turn for now. I read on some other forum the the book itself delievers the same results, but requires more struggles, so I guess that option would be worth giving a try in the near future!

Considering www.hypereading.com (http://www.hypereading.com/)Merlin, it seems very interesting too, by applying hypnosis, but most the pages would give me error 404 results, lets give it a try later!

Here the begins a new chapter of this amazing advanture that is life!

[betlamed]

Don,

I think I know what you're talking about. With scientific literature, I need a keyword-search type reading, somehow accelerated, but please please not so fast that the contents traverse directly into my unconscious, for obvious reasons.

Well, and with fiction, I want to enjoy the language, and this takes its time as well.

Just to point out that acceleration isn't the only factor here.

bl

[Don]

You got it, BL.
One of my favorite poems is Poe's "The Bells." Each descriptive sections sounds, when read, like a different type of bell. I love saying it out loud and hearing it in my head. Some of the bells move swiftly and some are slow. All of this is missed with extreme speed reading.

[betlamed]

Yes, Don!

Plus, the joys of knowing things by heart. I attended a speech by a nun, recently, who was (of course?) all for learning the bible by heart and repeating the verses unto oneself. While I wouldn't do it with bible verses, a poem you know by heart can give you great pleasure when you're otherwise idle, or depressed, or in trouble.

bl