Go flash blinking lights at printed text right now

Do you have a hypothesis you're collecting data for, or is this just fun for you?  I'm a little put off by the imperative in the title, without justification in the post.

Some other things to try:

• find a long hair on your arm
• find an imperfection in your mirror or fridge door
• count the number of quarters in a small pile
• find an object you lost recently
• figure out the weave on your jeans

Instructions were unclear as to whether the strobe should be the only light on the page, or supplement ambient light. (instructions didn't actually say to point the strobe at the text either, but the title implied it, so that's what I did)

With ambient light, all tested frequencies seemed mildly annoying but easy to ignore, like reading on a train that's going under a bridge.

Without ambient light, higher frequencies were annoying like trying to read by a fluorescent bulb that's dying. In the dark, lower frequencies presented an interesting experience like attempting to memorize the visual appearance of the text while the light was on in order to process it at a steady rate when the light was on and off.

I went up to 14hz and have yet to find one that seemed subjectively more pleasant or helpful than steady light, though this may be partly because I find it less subjectively pleasant/relaxing to analyze the experience of reading a book while doing it than to just read.

I just tried 11.9 for a while and it looked almost psychedelic