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Trying looking at a sign or a sentence directly without reading it.

If I am fluent with the langauge and alphabet I kinda just start reading the words automatically.

I can't tell myself to not read.

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[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 129 points 1 month ago
[-] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

Sir, how dare you.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

I accidently followed the instructions perfectly.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That's why you're perfect.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

No, YOU are! ☺️

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How you felt after being unable to read top one on mobile and clicking to zoom in.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Sometime during my processing of the bottom 3, I realized I shouldn't even look at the top line. I still haven't read it.

You said some shit about me, didn't you?

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

This person does NOT consent to reading.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't read/write a single letter I don't have t

Whn me prsidnt, tey c

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They consented until they didn't and that is their right!

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I asked if I was the only one that gave a damn about the rules

[-] ell1e@leminal.space 10 points 1 month ago

how does this work as well as it does 😭 😭 😭

[-] teft@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

Size of the typeface draws you eyes largest to smallest.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Centuries of playtesting

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Jokes on you, I went middle, top, then bottom.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago
[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Or how I check 3 paths in a video game that all lead me to the same place

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

You will read this first

And you will read this last

And then you will read this

Then this one

Did I do it right?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And you will read this last.

Sorry Beeny

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Nope, I read the top second cause I thought I should start from the top

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

I read the top second cause I thought I should start from the top

🤔

lol. I didn’t even noticed the top until I started scrolling away.

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

I read the top second cause I thought I should start from the top.

🤔

Lol. I didn’t even see the top until I started scrolling away.

[-] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

You are in luck, as your eyes get older they add their own blur effect.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 month ago

Damn, so presbyopia is leveling up!?

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is this a good opportunity to introduce everyone to my obsession with not being able to consent to have public advertisements or sudden, unannounced advertisements hijack my brain from whatever i was trying to think?

[-] wizbiz 8 points 1 month ago

Public advertising shouldn't be legal

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's this meme in argentina were people write "puto el que lee" that translate kinda to "gay who read".

[-] famijoku@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago
[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I saw that on a scaffold one time curiosity got the best of me. Walked right into it

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Homo says what.

Sorry for the term, it was the 90s.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago

Haha, this joke goes back at least 50 years. Nice.

[-] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago

Speak for yourself, person who doesn't require glasses.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's even harder to ignore people who are talking to you, or are just talking loudly in general.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

You underestimated my power

[-] Decq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I think just like the reading it's very different per person. I'm great at zoning out and not listening to people. Intentionally or not.

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 month ago

That's why we invented spoiler tags

[-] memfree@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Don't do this while driving, but if you are a passenger in a car, focus on the traffic, the car in front of you, but NOT the license plate. You generally can't read it. You get a sense that there's a 'G' in there, but can't figure it out until you focus on the plate. The brain is funny that way.

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