Just curious- especially how colors factor into it
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Inattentional blindness is when you’re so focused on one thing that you completely miss something else that’s happening right in front of you. It’s like when you’re playing with your toys and you don’t notice that your mom is calling you for dinner. Your brain is so busy with what you’re doing that it doesn’t pay attention to other things around you. This can happen to grown-ups too, not just kids!
It’s when something is *right in front of you*, but you don’t see it. There’s nothing wrong with your vision; you’re simply so focused on something else that you’re not paying attention.
Everything thinks they’re good at multi-tasking, but the fact is that people are *awful* at multi-tasking. What we do is actually task-switching, where we focus on one task, then stop and focus on another, then stop and focus on another. If you tell someone to stay completely focused on a single task, then they might not even notice someone in a gorilla suit walking right past them…because they’re not switching to the “look around” task.
Inattentional blindness is when you’re so focused on one thing that you completely miss something else that’s happening right in front of you. It’s like when you’re playing with your toys and you don’t notice that your mom is calling you for dinner. Your brain is so busy with what you’re doing that it doesn’t pay attention to other things around you. This can happen to grown-ups too, not just kids!
Your eyes see things.
Your brain thinks about those things.
If your brain is affected by stress, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, exhausted, inebriated…. then you can fail to mentally acknowledge something even though it is in your range of vision. So it kinda feels like “blindness”.
It’s when something is *right in front of you*, but you don’t see it. There’s nothing wrong with your vision; you’re simply so focused on something else that you’re not paying attention.
Everything thinks they’re good at multi-tasking, but the fact is that people are *awful* at multi-tasking. What we do is actually task-switching, where we focus on one task, then stop and focus on another, then stop and focus on another. If you tell someone to stay completely focused on a single task, then they might not even notice someone in a gorilla suit walking right past them…because they’re not switching to the “look around” task.
Inattentional blindness is when you’re so focused on one thing that you completely miss something else that’s happening right in front of you. It’s like when you’re playing with your toys and you don’t notice that your mom is calling you for dinner. Your brain is so busy with what you’re doing that it doesn’t pay attention to other things around you. This can happen to grown-ups too, not just kids!
It’s when something is *right in front of you*, but you don’t see it. There’s nothing wrong with your vision; you’re simply so focused on something else that you’re not paying attention.
Everything thinks they’re good at multi-tasking, but the fact is that people are *awful* at multi-tasking. What we do is actually task-switching, where we focus on one task, then stop and focus on another, then stop and focus on another. If you tell someone to stay completely focused on a single task, then they might not even notice someone in a gorilla suit walking right past them…because they’re not switching to the “look around” task.
Your eyes see things.
Your brain thinks about those things.
If your brain is affected by stress, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, exhausted, inebriated…. then you can fail to mentally acknowledge something even though it is in your range of vision. So it kinda feels like “blindness”.
Your eyes see things.
Your brain thinks about those things.
If your brain is affected by stress, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, exhausted, inebriated…. then you can fail to mentally acknowledge something even though it is in your range of vision. So it kinda feels like “blindness”.
I’m pretty sure this is a good example – focusing on one thing so intently that you miss other things in plain view.
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