When you read/process information...

When you read/process information... what is going on in your head?

My room mate is very intelligent, and I asked him what he does when he reads, and he said he visualizes in his head. I mean in one way this is common sense, you have to "visualize". But I wanted to know hard far you can improve your visualization. I thought about this, and started consciously visualizing what I read.

This has been over the course of a month.

I kept consciously saying "double it", "2x detail", "zoom in" "turn up the brightness level" "Make everything more clear" and sure enough my brain kept going. I would close my eyes and sit there and visualize something I just read, creating everything as vividly as I could. I tried and tried to create the images while the words flowed. At first I could only very clearly visualize with my eyes close. Eventually I got to the point where I was creating vivid images while the sentences flowed together. Then I realized that instead of images, go full blown video make sure everything is moving, if something was not moving, I would move in 3D space, spin objects around.

I started saying to my brain "faster, more detail, clear, double it" and sure enough I can move around spin in 3D space, creating vivid video while reading. Then I started asking more questions. I can create all the senses in my head, it is not limited to video. Sound, touch, taste, smell, they are all used in experiencing reality. Instead of using imagery and visualize I started called this the parallel reality since, it is not images anymore, it is not just using visuals. I realized I can create a whole reality while reading, while is running along parrellel to the real reality.

I started touching the objects and concepts with my hand in the parallel reality with my hands, and everything becomes clearer still. Then after practicing, I didn't have to use my hand anymore, I could well feel the objects, or touch-feel the objects all over extremely fast, which makes them even more real. I also have started feeling things like the wind, and water depending on the settings.

For sounds I am hearing the sounds objects in the environment make, and what sound an object would make if I hit it, like a wall. For taste, I have actually started to imagine miniturizing an object and what would it feel like in my mouth to chew it, basically your brain will need more data then it is giving you at the moment so it creates even more lifelike objects when you imagine doing something like this. For smells lot's of objects like food have smells but I lot of objects don't I'm still thinking what do do with this.

It seems like I have gone from faint imagery while reading to full blown reality creating, and I don't even know how many times this has improved my comprehension. It has started to come automatic unlike before when it was forced. I can't read any other way now. Instead of seeing the words, I feel the reality being created as I read almost if it is read and I don't even have to close my eyes. When I have conversations with people, I create what they are saying in my head, and can understand what people are saying a lot better.

I thought that maybe everyone is creating these strong realities when they read, so I started asking people what happens in their brain when they read and some of them are put off "I just read the words" "no I don't visualize anything" "sometimes I can't visualize anything" "what are you talking about?" "I read the words and think about it" "yeah I make some images" "I dunno"

They can't even describe what goes on in their head, while I could go on for hours about what is going on in my head while creating these models and realities now, while before in the past I would have just said in response to my question "I just read the words" I mean, I go to a hard university and wasn't dumb before and these people are not dumb either, but I can comprehend and understand so much more now!

BTW, I have been reading nonfiction biology, chemistry, neuroscience, economic books. I haven't even read a fiction book with this new "reality reading" yet, I have been concentrating on school.

I don't think people realize that they can create a reality that is as clear as real reality and use this to comprehend extremely complex information in less time, I didn't before. It also took practice, it just didn't click on like a light switch, and the results are not apparent right away.

I tried telling some people, they are really skeptic. I think there is a lot more to reading and information comprehension potential than meets the eye. I'm a neurobiology major and love figuring out how the brain works.

So after knowing my story, can you describe what is happening when you are reading in as much detail as possible? I would like different perspectives on this.

-StarBeamAlpha

Jam it back in, in the dark.