As you read these words, you are not experiencing any conscious effort on your part. On the contrary, you let the words transport you from reading per se into the world of ideas and imagination. You allow the words to link to each other and create a story, and what you experience and comprehend is the story, not single words. This description is suitable only for a person who has mastered reading, for whom the process of reading words has become automatic. The experience of reading is completely different for children who have just learned how to read, for adults who are trying to master reading in a foreign language, and for those who have general difficulties in mastering reading in their native language.