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diff --git a/content/entry/what-is-sensory-overload-like.md b/content/entry/what-is-sensory-overload-like.md index 4172f62..1a942b7 100644 --- a/content/entry/what-is-sensory-overload-like.md +++ b/content/entry/what-is-sensory-overload-like.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Have you ever been lost in a lecture before? You were listening to the professor For example, during sensory overload, it's harder for me to find things. It's not that I don't see them. It's just that my brain stops labeling what I'm seeing and giving meaning to it. It's closer to pure seeing. The normal object recognition filter applied to seeing is diminished. There's just a sphere of color and light full of nameless purposeless objects. -You might be thinking "How the hell can object recognition cease? It's automatic.", and to that I'd respond "The same way sentences lose meaning when you're lost in a lecture". The lecture either makes sense or it doesn't, and whether or not it makes sense in the moment is fundamentally a mysterious process. We can talk about the psychology of why certain lectures make more sense to certain people and we can come up with post hoc rationalizations about why particular lectures make sense to us. But ultimately, from our own subjective perspective, it's a mystery. All we can say is "it just makes sense" or "it just doesn't make sense". +You might be thinking "How the hell can object recognition cease? It's automatic.", and to that I'd respond "The same way sentences lose meaning when you're lost in a lecture". The lecture either makes sense or it doesn't, and whether it makes sense in the moment is fundamentally a mysterious process. We can talk about the psychology of why certain lectures make more sense to certain people and we can come up with post hoc rationalizations about why particular lectures make sense to us. But ultimately, from our own subjective perspective, it's a mystery. All we can say is "it just makes sense" or "it just doesn't make sense". So how is it that I lose the ability to recognize objects? It's the same as with the lecture. I just do. If you've never experienced sensory overload yourself, there's no way for me to communicate it to you. That analogy is the best I can do. |