Most of us are familiar with speed reading in general and know at least some basic things about it. In this article I’m going to review some of the common sense truths about typical speed reading program and try to give you a new sight of possibilities of human brain in the field of reading.

How exactly is interactive speed reading programs different from other speed reading programs?

First of all, we need to revisit the typical speed reading program scheme. It usually consists of a boring audio tapes set, which takes you like 40 hours of listening to go through completely. So by the time you get to the end, you completely forget what was in first chapters of it. The creators of such programs certainly are aware of this fact, so they also design a boring 200-page workbook, which in theory helps you to memorize all the important concepts of a program. This way of learning is good enough but for the implementation of knowledge it needs a good couple of months. Interactive speed reading programs on the other hand, offer a completely different system of learning. They’re basically like a multimedia system, which doesn’t require as much time – instead you ought to spend about 7 minutes a day on the system and as time passes by, you may decrease that amount, although I don’t believe you will.

What if I don’t understand some parts of the program? Do I have to start over?

Most of the interactive speed reading programs are made from the compex studies of the brain functions and waves, so it is very well designed to be friendly to your brain first of all. And to your knowledge, conscious fraction of brain is about 10% of the whole. So even if you don’t get something, your unconscious memory will intake it and any time you need that piece of wisdom, it will just come to you. So while you think that you didn’t get something, it is already inside your brain, waiting to be searched for.

What are the additional benefits of the interactives?

First of all, I must say that experiments had shown that the increase of the reading speed among the participants varied from 2 to 10 times the initial speed. So that is one huge benefit right here. But sometimes people may want to increase comprehension of the text – that is, sometimes you may read pages and pages of some dense book only to find that you can’t recall a thing from it the minute before you finish. Comprehension is also the subject of this program – you will also improve the percentage of text, which you could consciously recall.

What if I can’t remember some parts of the books I read in the past?

EyeQ [http://eyeqreview.wordpress.com/] system is designed to also improve your memory by increasing its capacity and recall rate. How many times did it happen to you that the answer to the question was on the edge of you mind, but you just couldn’t get a hold of it. But once the answer was told, a feeling of déjà vu flew over you. Once you improve your memory, such issues will be fixed permanently.

These were some of the questions asked about the interactive speed reading programs. I hope they clarify to the very least some things you knew or know about speed reading and its possibilities.