Even when we are fully awake and alert, we are usually conscious of only a small portion of what is going on around us. At any given moment, we are exposed to a great variety of sounds, sights, and smells from the outside world. At the same time, we experience all sorts of internal sensations (such as heat and cold, touch, pressure, pain, equilibrium) as well as an array of thoughts, memories,
emotions, and needs. Normally, however, we are not aware of all these competing stimuli; after all, to survive and make sense of our environment, we are forced to select only the most important information to attend to and then filter out everything else. At times we pay such close attention to what we are doing that we are wholly absorbed in it and oblivious to what is going on around us. Indeed, the hallmark of normal waking consciousness is the highly selective nature of attention.
What will be an ideal response?
Even when we are fully awake and alert, we are not conscious of everything going on around us—instead we are selective in what we hear.
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