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<p>This is true. And it’s a good way to describe it. I was an early reader, and I can’t remember a time in my life when I couldn’t do this. I try to explain it to people and they look at me blankly.</p>
<p>Actually, to go into a little more detail and try to explain what I’m seeing when I read…let’s say I’m looking at a large-ish paragraph, seven or eight lines of text. I quickly run my eyes vertically down the paragraph. I don’t attempt to read line by line (unless there are words or concepts that I am struggling with, in which case this whole method doesn’t work as well and I’m reading slower). The bits of text pop into my brain in semi-random order during the split second that my eyes are running down the paragraph, and then my brain synthesizes it into “content”. It’s like if you’re looking at a picture made of a grid of different-colored flashing lights - the lights pop on and off but what you see is a picture.</p>
<p>Since I do it automatically, I’m hard pressed to give anyone advice on learning it…maybe if you’re trying to learn it you can practice seeing and comprehending a couple of words at a time, then a couple more, then a line…and practice with interesting material; it’s so much more pleasant that way and you’re less likely to get distracted.</p>