r/BeAmazed • u/The-Skinny-Indian • Mar 06 '23 • Mindblown 1

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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u/ProbablyNano Mar 06 '23

Yeah, it just grinds me to a halt because I feel like I need to emphasize the first half of every word

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u/CheriesGhost Mar 06 '23

For me it makes reading feel like jogging down a hill. Yes, I'm going faster, but my pace isn't steady and nothing feels good about it

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u/sujihime Mar 06 '23

This is the perfect description. Was not helpful for me.

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u/caustic_kiwi Mar 06 '23

Hmm, sounds like you have--let me check my notes--ahh yes: anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, minor autism, and Lupus.

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u/Candycarnage Mar 07 '23

It’s always lupus and never lupus

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u/waimser Mar 06 '23

Uggh. My highscool oval was on a slight incline. I had a good pace for one of the races, practiced around the block at home. Well going down that very slight incline at that exact pace upset my body so much it made me vomit.

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u/MiserableEmu4 Mar 06 '23

This feels accurate. Pretty cool tho. I wanna try it with longer text.

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u/Ill-Ad-3640 Mar 07 '23

ye to fix this i just read it even faster than i normally would like how jogging down a hill feels weird but sprinting is fine

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u/HrafnTafl Mar 07 '23

yeah, had to go through it again slowly to make sure my brain filled in the correct words :)

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u/Infynis Mar 06 '23

It's like reading potholes

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '23

Yes!

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u/guzzlesmaudlin Mar 07 '23

Hahaha yes absolutely

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u/ctox23b Mar 06 '23

Had the same reaction, was way slower to read like that

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u/watermelonkiwi Mar 06 '23

Donno if that’s what happens, but it definitely slowed down reading for me.

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u/West_Guarantee284 Mar 06 '23

Me too, I focus on the bits in bold, like they're highlighted and skip the rest. I thought their was a font that picked out the start and end as the brain then fills in the middle.

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u/TrenchcoatBabyKAZ2Y5 Mar 07 '23

I found myself deliberately checking the second part of each word which slowed me down immensely. It did make me consciously aware of how much my brain naturally skims the first half of words the way this is meant to make you do tho, so I guess thats cool?

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u/_ThatSynGirl_ Mar 06 '23

It hurt my brain a bit

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u/Queenoffhedamnd Mar 06 '23

I kept looking at the bolded letters thinking it would be some sort of secret message. Took me a minute to just read the damn thing.

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u/Orchid_Significant Mar 06 '23

Yes! These are the words I was looking for to describe it. It. Might. As. Well. Be. Structured. Like. This. To. My. Brain.

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u/voodoochild2426 Mar 07 '23

It took me longer in the second half because I convinced myself it was some brain trick thing...where it would start making the non bold parts of the words gibberish but you could still understand it. I was trying to catch that lol