how closing our eyes helps heighten our other senses.
In: Biology
Basically what the other commenter said, a useful way to utilise this overstimulation filter is if you ever hurt yourself, stub your toe, bang an elbow etc, hurt yourself purposefully (and safely) for example by pinching your skin or slapping your leg hard and the injury will feel less painful.
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Your brain is constantly being pelted with information from all of your sensory organs. Unfortunately, our brains aren’t super computers, and it has to filter some of this out. In reality, you’re actually hearing, seeing, smelling, and feeling a lot of things, but your brain only processes as much as it can, and chooses to perceive things it considers important. Cutting off vision allows your brain to budget more processing power to the other senses.
Sight feed cutoff leaves more nerve bandwith for the other senses. It also leaves the brain with more processing power for dealing with the input. Also also, the brain craves sensory inputs, seeing that it’s its main function, to analyze them and find a way to get better off, so…
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