“Are you Saying We See With our
EARS?”
· 1. “I showed my teenager Mike, this new scientific research
that came to a weird conclusion about how we SEE.
· 2. “Pop, I don’t get it. We don’t just see with our eyes, the retina
part, they say past experience and our expectation change the visual
info, huh?”
· 3. “That’s why I’m showing to you. It is weird science. Should you
believe it? Yes, neuroscientists for the last 5-years have been saying that
Reading is Hearing overriding just Seeing.”
· 4. “Explain, you’re not saying reading is just hearing, but that Vision
combines with Hearing, right Pop?”
· 5. “Right, our eyes do Not work alone. Credentials: University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Professor Gary Lupyan. It’s dated August 26, 2013, in the
journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. It’s the real-deal.”
· 6. “Now I read it Pop, it’s in plain English. It says, past visual
experiences create our expectations, right? Then it adds the ‘weird-stuff’.
Quote: “words play a powerful role in what we SEE.”
· 7. “Yeah, Language influences, affects what we see. Words we use to
describe things changes what we see.
· Example: if we are drinking ‘orange-juice’ and thinking about “milk”, our
mind expects to taste ‘milk’. We experience what we expect. The juice tastes funny.”
· 8. “Excuse me, but So-What? How is this new research going to help me,
Pop?”
· 9. “First, we have to pay attention, live-and-act in the here-and-now.
Stop being robots, and use our consciousness. Keep things in Context, so
reality reflects our expectations.
· Accord to the scientists, what we understand is shaped by our knowledge
& expectations. Even one-word can “alter” what we expect, and what we see.
It means “labeling” ideas, people & things causes false emotional
reactions.”
· 10. “Don’t get it.”
· 11. “Your mind changes your
reality. Things are not Black-and-White, our thinking causes our emotions. Your
emotions shape your Expectations. Ex. It’s not just another means of
transportation (a car), it’s a Bentley or Rolls. Now you Value it
differently.”
· 12. “Wait, now the sun is shining. When we LABEL anything, it is not just
what we see because our mind adds emotion, experience & what we expect it
to be. We value it differently. OK. Here’s my example.
· Say I tell you the speaker is the son of Albert Einstein. That LABEL
makes you listen to him with credibility, even if he’s a dummy. Why? The name
causes an emotional leap. He has Einstein’s genes, and may be brilliant, right
Pop?”
· 13. “Sonny, you get it better than the researchers. In reading our body
participates by linking Eyes & Ears. Reading automatically moves your
LARYNX (voice box). You cannot Read without Hearing the words on the page.”
· It’s called subvocalization (your internal self-talk). But you do Not
have to hear pronounced each-and-every word you read.
· You can Consciously choose to each every second or third word. Why?
Because hearing each word slows down to a snail’s pace, the speed of speech
which is only 150 words per minute. SpeedReading is choosing to hear every
second or third word.”
· 14. “I speedread all my textbooks, even use that “6-Wh-s & How” to
double my memory. You saw my report card – I’m acing school.”
· 15. “And you’ll ace your career in college and later your career. Did you
know the writer of Treasure Island, Stevenson was the first to explain the
power of “Who? What? When? Where? Why? & Which? And “How?”
· 16. “Great. I’ll remember that. And that it makes me look like a
brilliant star to my teachers.”
That’s it. See ya next time.
Copyright © 2013, Bernard Wechsler
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