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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.
+This process of ‚zooming in’ into the details of our environment, it could be really exhausting (and overwhelmling, 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 maybe our perception system devellopped on purpose 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....
+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 our subconscious.