why do eyes get “pulled” back while focusing on something in a car

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When you are a passenger on the freeway and focus on a repeating structure e.g. a divider, why do our eyes naturally bounce back and forward between the repeating structure instead is staying focused on one spot?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

That’s how our brains perceive things it sees – it focuses on this very narrow point and analyzes it, filling in peripheral visual information with peripheral vision.

If you want a hack to get around this, focus on a very small, transparent dot on the window and pay more attention to what your eyes see peripherally without shifting focus

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