Anagram Bonanza Special

[Magpie]

how do you do it? a software, or just your little grey cells?

A bit of both really. The long ones from sentences are usually with help from software, but even the best software has flaws. They don't like apostrophes or sometimes plurals. The other thing is that the more you do it the better you get at knowing when to look. It might sound strange but if I see a word I get a sense that there's an anagram in there I won't always get the anagram straight away but it's always there. The brain sees them immediately I think but then just focuses on the initial word. 

I don't know if you've ever seen something like this...

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

There's essentially lots of anagrams in there, the fact that it is still easily readable proves that the brain is taking in a lot more than what we think. So if a word is an anagram of another word it seems reasonable to assume that the brain sees it straight away, it's just getting used to recognising the feeling you get when that happens. Now and again I just get lucky like athletics - cheat list, it's worryingly accurate. Supersonic - Percussion is one of my favourites that I found and I'm still waiting for the opportunity to use it in a poem of some sort. I've already used 'eternity in its entirety' in a poem Ekphrastic Escher along with Perpetual which I discovered was an anagram of Peter Paul which is quite handy being that they are probably the two most famous saints. 
All round the net there are articles about how the spooky truth can be found in anagrams whereas the real truth is that you'd be surprised how many possibilities there are with a handful of letters.