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Originally Posted by Colt
Yep, I see pictures and all. Whenever I (frequently) dream it's in full color and sound which is rare according to studies, so I don't lack the ability. It's not like I'm mouthing the words or anything. Some "speed readers" apparently skip the "filler" words which I just don't understand. It's a story, not a code.
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Dreaming in color and sound is standard for me, too.
But I ask because of interest in perception theory.
We all perceive the world though our senses, but one will be our dominant sense. I think visually. I see pictures in my head. When I'm asked to explain a technical concept, I tend to reach for paper and pencil to draw a diagram.
My SO's primary sense is sound. She doesn't think visually, and I need to find different metaphors to explain things to her, as my pictures convey nothing.
I corresponded with a chap on another forum years back whose principal sense was touch: he "felt holes in arguments".
This will affect both how the author writes, and how the reader responds. I suggest that folks trying to read James Joyce read him
aloud, as he was in part trying to reproduce what he
heard on his famous walks through Dublin.
As far as speed reading, the techniques I'm aware of don't drop filler words. We normally read with words as the units of meaning, and reading is recognition of a sequence of words. Speed reading attempts to teach the reader to recognize whole phrases or sentences rather than words as the basic units.
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Dennis