Mmmm, I've suffered from this very same problem since I was about 17 years of age. It's usually caused by excessive rehydration on a Friday night, and often leads to weakness of the left hand, poor syncopation with the right and a sort of blurred vision, as well as the symptoms you mention, the only known partial cure ( not fully ) is to drink say 5 pints instead of 6.
Hope this helps N -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Hind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 May 2007 16:23 To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] vertical dyslexia? Dear All Recently, I have noticed that I seem to be beginning to suffer from a sort of vertical dyslexia when reading tablature, even on pieces I have played before. Suddenly, I become conscious of the fact that the notation is the inverse, position-wise, of the actual strings (high bottom-string at the top, etc.). At that moment, I feel slightly dizzy (slight vertigo) and confused (well perhaps that might be my natural state) and I become sort of literal and unable to use it as an automatic trigger for note playing. I have to consciously ask myself which string is being referred to. This seems to occur just after there are successive notations with the same letter, but one on a high string and the other on a low string. For a time, I can't seem to get back into the automatic reading mode. Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing? Regards Anthony To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
