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That's a cool way to put it. I'm not dyslexic, but I've had this phenomenon happen many times before. The word literally changes in front of you when you reread it. Perception is a powerful tool but far too often we conflate our superimposed visual experience with the reality it samples.

The website in the OP reminds me more of the experience of trying to read during a semi-lucid dream, or my experience with deliriants. The "visual fuzz" created from letters jumping around and changing before your eyes. I would look at my clock and it might be two different times superimposed on each other, or just a completely different language or set of symbols.

It's a nerve-wracking experience when caused by a deliriant, but it's also a common tool I use to help me realize I'm in a dream to break into lucidness. The clock will almost never read the same way twice in a dream! Often neither will a sign or piece of paper.




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