I somehow managed to read 85 pages of Don Quixote in 2 hours. I didn't skim, it was with near total comprehension...

I somehow managed to read 85 pages of Don Quixote in 2 hours. I didn't skim, it was with near total comprehension, I've never read this fast not even in the month I stopped using the internet.
I was sat outside yesterday in my layers of clothes and neighbours were outside in their garden too, they could partly see me through the hedge, I had my hood down because of the sun and I was worried they could see how much of a slow reader I was, or if they hadn't seen me up until that point they would if I tried to move so I didn't move at all apart from breathe and tap the screen on my kindle. I was worried they could see how slow I was tapping the screen so I sped up my reading, I was anxious if they could see how much of a slow reader I was, they were making noise but the noise didn't distract me it only intimidated me, so I sped up my reading and before long I was reading 40 pages an hour, the ideas from the sentences flying straight into my consciousness, I barely subvocalised, I hardly ever regressed (sentences made sense the first time I glanced at them and I didn't need to reread to keep the idea in my head because I was going so fast compared to usual), it was like I was finally awake for the first time in years.

Then after 2 hours, the neighbours went back in and my reading speed dropped, I started stretching and looking around occasionally while I read. It dropped to 25 pages an hour, then finally 12 pages an hour. I kept on trying to force myself back to the speed I was at by scanning my eyes as fast as I did across the pages but I couldn't do it, I couldn't read as fast as I did (felt like my mind went back to sleep), I had to reread and I had to slow down again because I couldn't get that level of anxious concentration where I was too scared to move my body or slow down.
There are 1120 pages in my epub of don quixote, I've read 224. I have 894 pages left, it will take me 74 hours to read this if I go at 12 pages an hour but only 21 hours if I read at 42 pages an hour like before. 53 hours saved.

Whats even better is when I was reading at such a fast pace with near total comprehension (other than a few footnotes to reference knights from chivalry stories/few less known archaic words) is the humour was actually amusing, before I had to reread everything constantly to keep the ideas in my head and the humour felt too forced but it felt so natural at 40 pages an hour, the novel actually felt alive.
Is this seriously how normal people enjoy literature? You must feel incredible

What does this all mean?
How do I regain my speed of 42 pages an hour?
How do I read this fast for 6-10 hours a day?

>that webm

My heart.

she's an asmr-ist, forgot the channel name though, think she hasn't been active in a while
Just keep on going, don't let this happen to you for just one book

stop pretty girl posting

Mio doki doki desu

You HAVE to remember. My life depends on it.

I think I have something seriously wrong with my brain. When I was younger I could focus for hours, now my mind just goes blank whenever I read. It just goes blank. The sentences are all familiar but my mind just goes blank. What I'm reading is usually interesting and I want to know what it is saying, yet my mind just goes blank.
I look into space then look back at the sentence I'm on and my mind is still blank.
Maybe this is because some sort of trauma or dissociative disorder or something. I just can't fucking read properly, I've been at this 6-10 hours a day for a year now. No progress whatsoever why does no one else have this problem? My mind just goes blank when reading anything. I just stare into space for minutes and I'm content with just staring into space, thinking about nothing and not even realising I'm alive. I just stare into space not focusing on anything in particular but just staring into space with an empty head.
Maybe because I haven't written anything or focused on any problems, all I've done is scan my eyes across lines of text.

I have no opinions on anything, never cared about theology, politics, morality, ethics, mortality. I'm just content with staring into space, yet at times I still want to acquire knowledge. But I think my brain needs switching out with a better one or one less diseased and unfocused. I just read Euthyphro at a rate of 4 pages an hour, I wasn't even deliberately reading it slowly, that was the fastest speed I could go at, I fell asleep for about an hour and I thought I was still reading, then I woke up and realised I wasn't reading and my kindle had gone off about an hour ago. The cooper introduction to the text itself took about 4 hours to read I think. The sentences are so simple but I can't read them without my mind going blank or if I read them about a dozen times each.

Have you ever read something simple at a rate of 4-12 pages an hour in your native language and wondered where the hours went? Even though I read so slowly the time just flies by. Half the time at least is just spent staring at the page, no thoughts or anything just staring at the page waiting to resume reading.

Stop coming to Veeky Forums. This website is cancer for your brain.

I'm a pretty slow reader too. Now I'm really anxious to know if most people actually do read like that.

Sounds like adhd or something anxiety related.