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+And later on I think…
+This process of ‚zooming in’ into the details of our environment, it could be really exhausting (and overwhemling, and upsetting) if we did this constantly.
+So maybe our perception system purposely devellopped a functionalism that works in a way which ‚saves‘ us from overstimulation: we look at things, quickly, recognize them [= as being the thing we learnt they are], say „Aha, this it is!“,  and move on.
+So our usual rather ‚superficial‘ way of perceiving things is also a coping mechanism of our own inner system because if we would really perceive everything in so much detail we would most likely be really really overwhelmed.
+And I feel reminded of people with forms of autism that are supposed to deal with exactly this topic of ‚over-perception‘ because they can't help but be stimulated by so many things at the same time.
+And as they say many of those people love to listen to e.g. the roaring of a vacuum cleaner or watch the rotating of a spinning top on the other hand. As these are constant, steady, uniform sounds or movements  (with certain patters), it calms them down.
+And I wonder then.... Why is it that listening to a vacuum cleaner for a long time would rather make me nervous than calm me down, and for other people its the other way round?  A sound/movement/whatever needs to be so steady and continuously that it secretly slips into your unconciousness maybe....