Every seam.
Every texture.
Every label.
Every little indentation in every object.
You would never get anything done.
So your brain learns what matters and what doesn’t.
Milk jug?
Recognized.
Little plastic circle?
Probably irrelevant.
Ignore it.
That’s actually a useful survival mechanism.
But it also means we spend our entire lives surrounded by details we’ve never really examined.
And every once in a while, one of those details jumps out at us.
Then we wonder how we missed it for so long.
