Can the brain focus on being unfocus so that you won’t miss alot of information when you’re in focus mode? For example like watching magicians Unfocusing seems to do better than focusing. Does that make sense?
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Unfocusing is just paying attention to something else, whether it’s something in the environment or your own thoughts it doesn’t matter. I believe you are trying to ask whether it’s better to look at the “whole image” (the whole act, the magician and his stage) rather than focus on something more specific(for example his hand movements)?
You can do that, however you won’t catch as many details because our attention has limited resources. For example we often find details we missed out in movies when we rewatch them. The brain already processed the big picture once and you already know what’s happening, so now it can pay attention to something else as well, for example a poster in the background.
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