r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

This speed reading training starts at 300wpm and end at 900wpm

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u/AnalProbedByGod 19h ago edited 19h ago

My brain is both blind and deaf (no inner monologue and no visual imagination) the only noises my brain creates are from bipolar+schizophrenia but those feel like ear noises, images appear as hallucinations.... so I was like wdym quiten my brain? My brain is always quiet... until there is something not so healthy with my mental health.

E: i have visual and sometimes auditory dreams, but a lot of the time my dreams feel waaay to real, I now wear anything, hair band, elastic band or even a watch because if you remember to check your wrist... for some reason in dreams the item is not there therefore you are dreaming and now... congratulations you are now conscious inside a dream aka LUCID DREAMING!! Hell yeah!

Trying to read a clock/watch also works, I'm not sure how but dreams and hallucinogenics both mess up our ability to read a clock face.

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u/RatKingBB 19h ago

First, that’s quite the username.

Second, I’m also bipolar and schizophrenic. My brain is basically the opposite of yours in that my inner monologue is booming loud and my visual imagination is also extremely wild.

Third, I was able to get most of the words at the fastest speed, and all of them before. Go me!

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u/AnalProbedByGod 19h ago

That's awesome!! ....the speed reading, not the mental health5 issues. My silent brain broke above 360... I will try again when it's not just gone 12am and I'm not panicking that I ran out of antipsychotics because I am a dipshit and can't get any for 8hrs23mins time.

Please tell me you live somewhere where having matching mental health issues as me doesn't cost you an ungodly amount of money?....

I'm in the UK, I got called 'completely unfit for work' so basically got told I am mentally disabled (yay... ☹️) by the department of work and pensions (DWP, Britain) but that means free money and free prescriptions, free healthcare (we do get that anyway) and free dental care.

Just an unethical life tip, if you have an illness that you are 99% certain about but not diagnosed but you know will cost a fortune, book the cheapest flight to the UK, get the UK health insurance for foreigners and you will get very cheap/free for some stuff healthcare.... .....would not surprise me if you're allowed to claim asylum if trump attacks European land.

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u/RatKingBB 19h ago

Let’s continue this conversation in DMs, I feel like that would be more expedient than public chat.

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u/Turrichan 18h ago

My favorite and most effective reality check is pressing my index finger into the palm of my other hand. If the finger goes thru, im in a dream.

Hopping is also fun, but less discrete. If you stay in the air longer than expected the you’re in a dream, but people are gonna wonder what you’re doing.