Blinking under the letter?

[Commandos]

Hi everyone,
I started to read MacCracken book, and I am reading right now, a chapter "How memory helps a vision".
Some where in this chapter, he mentioned that, if we blinking at the letters (or bellow of them).
Although it is best to blink to tiny spot, for 20 seconds, and imagine a tiny spot of letters for same time, we might see a last line at the eyechart within time of 1,5h!!!
In this case, of course is very important to not strain eyes, with staring on the letters, and we must blink at the relax manner.
What is your experience about this, and please comment this techniques.

[Commandos]

Anybody help?Any suggestion? :-\

[clarknight]

I read this too.
I think it is a older method and causes the person to spend too much time looking at only one letter, and maybe too much focusing on blinking. let the eyes blink with shifting, practice then let it go natural at its own normal time, amount.
The true function of the eyes is to move, shift part to part on a letter, blink, and shift to other letters, objects.

[David]

It's okay to keep looking at the same point, as long as you blink every few seconds. Your eyes shift when you blink. You might find it more calming than looking back and forth to other letters.

It's been years since I read that book. I was just browsing through that chapter, and there's some really good stuff in there that's spot on. Maybe I should start recommending people read that book instead of Bates's.

Dave

[Commandos]

So, Dave, does it mean that I can use methods in this book?
I mean in particular chapter about using memory, imaginations.

In each case, thank you!
You're very encourage me to read this book further.

[clarknight]

The normal eye shifts every fraction of a second.
This includes the small/tiny shifts that occur when looking point to point on a letter, small object.