Most of the students in her robotics class found it maddening, but Charlie liked it. It was like she skimmed the text in her head, reading out a few words here and there. Her words seemed to be falling behind as her mind raced on ahead Charlie had realized by the second day of classes that her professor sometimes broke off in the middle of one sentence, only to finish an entirely different one. Treadwell went on, she paced faster, occasionally flinging an arm toward the screen to illustrate her point. She was staring straight ahead at the display at the front of the lecture hall. вЂњCharlie!вЂќ An urgent voice whispered her name, inches from her ear. The next time you enter that same house, youвЂ™ll already know where you are.вЂќ ItвЂ™s drawing a floor plan, creating a palette of colors, and saving an inventory of images to draw on later, so you donвЂ™t have to go through that exhausting intake every single time. вЂњItвЂ™s why when you enter a house for the first time you experience a moment of dizziness. In order for you to function in the world, your mind fills in the spaces of that tree with its own leaves and branches.вЂќ A hundred pencils scribbled all at once, filling the lecture hall with a sound like scurrying mice. вЂњIf your mind didnвЂ™t do this, then simply walking outside and seeing a tree would consume all your mental energy, leaving no resources to do anything else. It fills in colors and trajectories based on what youвЂ™ve seen before, and calculates what you should be seeing now.вЂќ Another image flashed onto the overhead screen. вЂњYour mind creates motion when there is none. The professor gave a hint of a smile and continued.

The class tittered dutifully, then became quiet as the image of another multicolored design flashed onto the screen. You may be quite thankful for this phenomenon, depending on the habits of your roommate.вЂќ We see this most easily with olfactory fatigue: your nose ceases to perceive a smell when youвЂ™ve been around it for a while. The things we are familiar with are the things we can-for the most part-ignore. It does that based on your experiences, and your expectation of what is normal. At every moment, your senses are receiving far more information than they can process all at once, and your mind is forced to choose which signals to pay attention to. вЂњWhen I say вЂsensory overloadвЂ™ I mean that quite literally. вЂњYour eyes deceive you every day, filling in the blanks for you in a world of sensory overload.вЂќ An image of dizzying geometric detail lit up the canvas screen behind her.

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