 In this experiment, a subject sits in front of a computer screen wearing an eye tracker visor. There is a paragraph of text on the screen. The subject is asked to read the text. When subject’s eyes are focused on a particular word or phrase, the bit of text is as it should be. However, everything around the word or phrase at fixation, everything above, below and on both sides, beyond about 5 degrees of arc is chaotic: gibberish, out of order words, shapes vaguely like words but obviously not words, and so on. Each time the subject’s eyes shift to a new bit of text, it pops into correct form just before the eyes get to it and the word or phrase just left goes strange. What is remarkable about this experiment is that, while to observers all appears chaotic except for a succession of words or phrases—they are marching to a different saccadic drummer—the subject has no consciousness that anything in the paragraph is ever out of the ordinary. If the subject is one of those people who automatically reads any text in front of her, often she has no idea that the experiment has even started!