yes…this was a joke, but also a chance to start a conversation. Is it possible to look at your first language, (or at least one you are fluent in) and not read it? Is reading automatic?
yes, i read words.
conversation over 
thanks…thanks a lot…But seriously, can you choose not to read? I think reading is more automatic than breathing. I can hold my breath, but if i look at a sentance written in english, i can’t NOT read it.
well, a word anyway. The human brain is so powerful that it registers a word almost instantly, but is it powerful enough to decide wether or not it will register a word?
lol sorry man, yeah i know what you mean though. it just sort of goes into your head and one doesnt even have to think about it. tis crazy.
i wonder if you can ‘un-learn’ the english language and or how to read?
Exactly! ok here, you may have seen this but here goes:
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid tooCna yuo raed tihs?Olny 55% plepoe can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch atCmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are,the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?
yeah i remmember seeing that a while ago, we studied something along the ame line in phsychology last year.
THat’s cool. Our psychology class is a joke. Our teacher (if you can call her that) is a moron. She merely talks about manners, and directs us towad web-site that have informatuon that we “won’t need to know for a test, but its just good information to know.”
my psychology was great, we got to do case studies and everything. the teacher was fresh out of university and she was awsome.
Well, I can focus away from the words and look at it out of the corner of my eye (not literally) not be able to read it. But otherwise I pretty much can’t help to read it, unless of course there is more text then I can read at a glance. Like what I just typed here. I can’t read all that at once…
It’s like the thing where you’re supposed to not think about pink elephants, but then all you think about is pink elephants…
I Can’t Stop Thinking About Pink Elephants!
these dont look at this jokes are getting old fast
+768
you keep count?
Yes, actually, I haven’t left my room in 3 months. I’ve gone through every page of these forums, and made a tally mark of all the threads that involve “Do not read this”. It’s so weird though. It all happens to add up to the most used number on the forums.
It’s either the coolest coincidence ever, or I was using the number 768 both because it meant more than just “+1”, and because it happens to be the most used number on the forums.
Hmmmmm. 
yeaa… i do see 768 a lot
i just recently found out the origin of that joke.
How did this thread get 1 star? Think before you post, people are obviously going to read it, then get pissed off at the lack of content. I would go so far as to call this the worst thread ever. Thanks for wasting our time, and bumping a more meaningful thread to page 2.
Um…if you read my first post, i was actually trying to get a neat discussion started on the capibilities of the human brain and language…but yeah your probably right…its a much better way to spend time arguing with people whose opinions are not going to change.