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I do. Try it, YMMV. - - - - Normally when you look into your own eyes in a mirror they are each looking into themselves. If you cross your eyes and get the

I do. Try it, YMMV. - - - - Normally when you look into your own eyes in a mirror they are each looking into themselves. If you cross your eyes and get the distance just right, you can look into each eye from the other. For me it causes a strange effect, or seems to. I would be interested to hear reports from others of their subjective experience of doing that? - - - - Edit to add: Reading aloud also has different effects than reading silently. I surmise that the extra feedback loop from voice to ear has something to do with it. A common proofreading trick is to read your writing aloud. You catch errors that are [negative hallucination?] elided by, uh, non-external loops.

svnt 4y ago
Your auditory memory is a different space than other forms of memory, so when you read aloud to yourself it permits you to buffer additional information and get to it later, in addition to mapping it through different perceptual space as you’ve noted. So at least the perceptual circuit and the time constraints are changed by doing so. I find that it no longer works very well for me though: I often read aloud without experiencing or remembering anything I’ve read at all. It’s the same autopilot that takes over driving.
- loa_in_ 4y ago
  Both may be true!
  - skirmish 4y ago
    A life hack I found useful: if I need to remember a few numbers for a few minutes before I can write them down, I keep quietly repeating them in my mind. It works much better for me than trying to memorize them since I think it uses auditory memory; after a few repetitions the sequence of words becomes automatic and easy to repeat without thinking.