Photoreading - Why It Doesn't Work

Well you've heard enough of me bragging about my experience with the photoreading system, so here are some pointers on why it doesn't work.

Before you photoread you give yourself affirmations which are said to 'help the text go into your inner mind'. Examples of these are 'As I photoread my concentration is absolute' and 'All that I photoread will go into my inner mind  ... etc'. Before you say these you go into a state of relaxed alertness where saying these 'affirmations' makes you believe the system works and that you are getting results. It's a hypnotic suggestion! This means that you will only notice and remember the successful parts of your reading, e.g. when you don't remember where the word is on the page, you are told not to worry and you completely forget about it. Belief is another complicated thing which I won't go into on this post.

The creator of the system, Paul Scheele did some EEG (a scan which measure brain signals) scans on people who were photoreading and compared them to scans from people who were reading normally. Unsurprisingly normal readers had much more brain activity to photoreaders. This is because you are relaxed and calm during photoreading which turns off brain activity. Basically when reading normally many through processes are at work, which provides better comprehension and memory of what you have read. 

If you have tried photoreading you will know that you can't really connect with a book the same way you do with normal reading. During normal reading you imagination thrives giving you an image in your head or affecting emotions. This creates neural connections in your mind and allows you to recall that book when you start to think about it. With photoreading these neural connections (if they are even created) in you inner mind don't have these links. This means to benefit at all you have to go back to the book to do some normal reading to obtain any comprehension. This makes photoreading a complete waste of time which if you are unlucky enough to have been caught up in the system you will have spent more time on a book learning much less. I remember when I first photoread a book I had spent 20 minutes photoreading and had learnt about two things from the book. What a waste of time.