How to get into Second Life without really trying
Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
You know how well you can recall the things you see. Too bad you can’t see the things you read about when you are studying. But you can. If you just give your brain a chance. If you load up your visual modules with reading, they are not going to give you much imagery. If you want images, you have to stop reading and imagine what you just read about.
That’s one reason for using the Explore-a-Chapter Clipit. If you do that, you will have trail marks to remind you to stop reading and look at pictures in your head. Once you get the hang of that, you probably will like it better than just plowing on through the text.
Concretize. Use words that say what you would see, hear, handle, or watch happen. The opposite of abstract, which means to summarize in more general terms. Concrete language is more effective in communicating to the imagery system and other parts of the brain that handle concrete action.
Pictures and graphs are also trail marks to remind you to use your powers of imagery. Don’t just admire the artwork there. Imagine yourself entering a picture. Imagine yourself inspecting the important things in the picture. Animate the things in your head and watch them do what the text says about them. Or imagine yourself walking around in a graphic display, talking about it. Wave your hands. Point at things.
If you do this in the library, people will leave you alone.
If this kind of imagery stretching sounds strange, remember that you have been watching such things for years. In cartoons. The only difference is that you had a cartoonist to help you out. If you want to be in charge of your own imagery, you have to be your own cartoonist. Fortunately, running images in your head is much easier that drawing them. That’s fair. It is your head.
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