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Re: Consciousness and senses

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Originally Posted by paigetheoracle View Post
The other day I noticed that when I started talking to someone, my consciousness moved from my eyes, looking directly out at that point, to way back in my head - in fact when talking I noticed that I wasn't really conscious of the physical world around me at all, unlike when I was just silently staring at things. Has anyone else noticed this?

Also, when I'm tired, the same thing happens and my attention drifts back from the position of my eyes, to deeper inside my head, then away to nothing.
I'm the same way. I always thought it was probably a need to concentrate my thoughts, in the first case to get what I'm going to say right in spite of the person in front of me, and in the second case to gather whatever energy I still have in one place.

I don't know if I got that right, but it feels right.

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