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If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally
by a_gopher 3mo ago
If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally extra mistakes can "leak" into the story telling - e.g. you read a single word incorrectly, maybe substituting a word from your other train of thought.
- Neil44 3mo agoYeah it's like I suddenly realise I haven't been thinking about the reading and I'm near the bottom of the next page somehow.
- barrenko 3mo agoInterlinked.
- Marciplan 3mo agoor any other reading for that matter!
- _ink_ 3mo agoI definitely cannot do that. Crazy.
- bell-cot 3mo agoThe ability may take time to develop. If you have a couple under-5 children handy, who'd love the ritual of having the same ultra-simplistic and repetitive books read to them every night, night after night after night, when your head is probably full of grownup stuff that you gotta get done...
- Muhammad523 3mo agoI can do that, and i notice that i kinda stop thinking about the reading and put more "brain resources" into the independent train of thought. Then i realize i was reading all the time without putting any effort in it
- thedanbob 3mo agoWhen I was a kid, my dad (a physicist) would often read stories to me and my brother. He would sometimes fall asleep while reading, and we could tell when that was coming because suddenly our children's story would stop making sense and get filled with all these big physics terms.
- johnisgood 3mo agoOh yeah, I have been sleep deprived so much that the things that I said made no sense. I still formulated sentences but they did not have any meaning. In fact, I noticed this myself and I was like "fuck, what I just said made no sense". This happened a few times. It is a pretty interesting experience.
- taosx 3mo agoI had the same experience after almost 4+ days going without sleep. A friend came to check up on me after I fell asleep, I woke up and started telling him a whole story that made no sense, but I said it with such importance that for a week he was asking me to explain to him what I meant...which I don't remember exactly, but it was important.
- invictati 3mo agoSo, sleep deprivation leads to temporary schizophrenia? Who could have foreseen this?
- altairprime 3mo agoSleep scientists and drill instructors!
- doubled112 3mo agoThis sometimes happens to me when I get a migraine. A sentence can be coherent in the formulaic sense, but complete nonsense as far as words. I immediately notice that it's incorrect, but I don't have the ability to fix it at that moment.
- lqet 3mo agoThe ability of the brain to do that gives me 15 min of quiet time to think about problems each evening. But you cannot follow the story in that mode, and the whole facade will collapse on a single innocent question... > "Dad, why did he steal the biycle?!?!" > ".... what?"
- Dibby053 3mo agoIn school, our teachers made us take turns reading the textbook. When it was my turn, I focused entirely on how my voice sounded, trying to match my cadence and tone to the punctuation. The moment I finished the paragraph, I would have to quickly re-read it in silence just to understand what it actually said. I think I still can't read a non-trivial text aloud while trying to make sense of it at the same time. I need the two streams just for one text.
- SwtCyber 3mo agoThe reading task can stay largely automatic until both streams try to use the same speech-production machinery at once
- dfgsdfgfgd 3mo agoWell, perhaps sadly, I maintain trains of thought unrelated to my environment all the time. It's because the default state of the world is so incredibly.. bland I really, really cannot take it without something going on.
- burnte 3mo agoI learned at a young age the best way for me to be a good out-loud reader was to think about something else while I'm reading aloud. If I concentrate on the words and the reading aloud I screw up but if I think about other things, even HOW I'm doing while reading or thinking about what I'm reading and going to say NEXT, then I can read aloud flawlessly.
- ulrikrasmussen 3mo agoI can have an internal monologue about something completely unrelated to the story while reading it out aloud, but I won't be able to follow the story. I don't think I make mistakes, but I probably fail to put the correct intonation on sentences which require higher order thinking to infer the emotions of the characters in the story.
- tsoukase 3mo agoI am reading dozens of books to my children (mostly of Enid Blyton) and I am able to simultaneously think about something else (work stuff, household, HN subjects etc). It lasts a few minutes during which I don't follow what I am reading and I come back and need to start again. Definitely the phonological loop (eyes...mouth) functions independently from the memory-processing-executive cognitive pathway.