This is facinating ...

[AsahinaKimi]

A friend posted this. See if you can read it!

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7H15 M355463 53RV35 70 PR0V3 H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N D0 4M4Z1N6 7H1N65!
1MPR3551V3 7H1N65! 1N 7H3 B361NN1NG 17 W45 H4RD BU7 N0W,
0N 7H15 L1N3 Y0UR M1ND 15 R34D1N6 17 4U70M471C411Y W17H 0UT 3V3N 7H1NK1N6 4B0U7 17,
B3 PR0UD! 0N1Y C34R741N P30PL3 C4N R34D 7H15. R3 P057 1F U C4N.

If you can read this message you have a strong conceptual mind.

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**only took me a few minutes to figure out
what was said here..

[Little Star]

1. I could read it straight away. Now that's what's odd! lol

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. R3P0571NG

C05 1 C4N

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. L33t Ha40r, you R!

6R1N2

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. orly I 4m

U2?

[ohiosmith]

3. Did it on the first try.

[barbtries]

4. i have a strong conceptual mind.

though i didn't get every word. so i have a somewhat strong conceptual mind.

[Little Star]

5. AsahinaKimi,...

This is the lounge and for fun so I won't quote anything from this link. But thought you may find it interesting.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/brain.html

[AsahinaKimi]

19. Not sure what that has to do

with this?

[Stuart G]

6. I am weird...but knowing that doesn't help.. I still bounce along...

[Yooperman]

7. The first scan my eyes skipped over the first words until I read

"How our minds c4n do a4m4zin6 7hin65" then I new what was being done, I started over and proceeded to read the rest with out any problems.

very cool....

[GoCubsGo]

20. Me, too.

It was just the first to words I didn't catch right away.

[Neoma]

8. Oh, I've always known how to do that.

After all, I was once a young teen on the Internet.

[erinlough]

9. read it immediately

but I still think it is strange.

[dimbear]

10. On the savannah, one of your ancestors figured out a confused mess of tracks and traced down

and killed an antelope. That's why you can read that.

[dhill926]

11. yep, got it......

cool. I can conceptualize......it's the day to day shit that gets me ha ha...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. Yay, I can read it!

I think I would have just shut down and moved on if you hadn't said it was meant to be read.

So I did. No problem!! Cool!

[denbot]

14. Hey, bad brain is good for something.

It was pretty easy to read that..

[Duer 157099]

15. I wonder if this ability is related to being able to read handwriting?

Because of all the variances in handwriting, we have to be able to decipher various forms and styles.

So I wonder if the kids today who are not learning cursive will be less able to read such glyphs?

[Arkansas Granny]

16. 4M4Z1N6! 1 C4N D0 17!

I've seen something similar to this with the letters scrambled inside the words, but I hadn't seen this before.

[HopeHoops]

17. Okay, the third line freaked me out because I WAS doing that.

[Rhiannon12866]

21. I can read this!

Fascinating stuff! Thanks for posting!

[nuxvomica]

22. 17 was a tough year for me, too

But I think it was the whole year, not just the beginning. And, yes, I'm reading "17" but I really am thinking about it, too. It was my senior year. Lots of decisions that year and, yes, it did prove minds can do amazing things. Very provocative post. It brought me back.

[Solly Mack]

23. Fun!

[rbnyc]

24. The implications are really interesting.

Our brains want to make sense of things and will relate something that doesn't make sense to the closest thing that makes sense. There are actually things that happen around us that are random and have no meaning, but our minds will always squeeze it into a pattern and derive meaning from it.

How many things around you do you think mean something that really don't?