When you concentrate you also ignore stuff.
(we all concentrate, for work, play, reading, studying, school … we practice it in school … people who are good at it are “good workers”…)
But you call it CONCENTRATION instead of IGNORING because the stuff you concentrate on gets easy-to-see but the stuff you ignore sorta fades away (and then you stop thinking about it, and then it disappears).
The stuff you concentrate on is relatively small. A book. An idea. A game. An attractive girl’s butt. A plan for the future. A tv show.
And that stuff getting ignored is relatively HUGE. Like a whole invisible universe there.
It’s spooky when you think of it. Like a little bit of DIY brain surgery that everybody does but nobody talks about. Like we’re all a bunch of Harry Potters casting obliviate upon ourselves.
And then we forgot that we cast it, because it’s obliviate.
So tell me what you think.
Yes, I see the reason for doing it. But it’s the appalling, universally-ignored and massively-powerful side-effects that I’m looking at here.
It’s like going blind, except for that tiny important speck in focus.
It’s invisible. Whole universes disappearing… maybe lingering in memory for a while, then poof.
And everybody does it. And nobody talks about it. A 360 degree blindspot called reality.
Re your last paragraph. Call it a side-effect blindness then. Maybe a bit conscious at first. Then habitual and unconscious thereafter.
(Ah, there’s another kind of blindness : unconscious action. I did it but I didn’t see myself do it)