When we are staring and indifferent to the messages coming from our environment, our focus is not on the outside world, but on our inner world.
Why do we stare at a fixed area and not blink while doing this?
The main reason is due to changes in brain functions.
A condition found in brain scan studies where the brain’s visual cortex is less active when daydreaming or distracted.
The visual cortex works in coordination with the brain region that processes visual information and our eyes. Since the visual cortex is less active during distraction, there is a serious decrease in the rate of movement and blinking of the eyes.
“Where did you dive in?!” What causes us to hear the question?
When the eyes are looking at any point, it focuses itself on that point and sharpens the image, just like the focus adjustment in cameras.
The brain wants to perform the same action during distraction. In other words, it wants your eyes to focus on the images that come to mind. But because the eyes can’t find anything to focus on, they look “blankly” towards a fixed area.
Here, when we look into the distance in an “empty” way, we actually detach from the outside world and focus on our dreams in our inner world. Our eyes do not know what to do and lose their focus on the outside world. That’s why we notice the outside world in a blurry way.
As we shift our focus back to the outside world, we blink and remove that distraction.
The issue of why we end our distraction by blinking is related to the fact that blinking is another action we do while we wander through thoughts. It has been observed that people blink when jumping from one thought to another.
The blink rate decreases for the same reason when diving in.
Blinking is an unconscious action to moisten the eye. The brain during daydreaming; By processing visual, auditory and other sensory information, it creates another world disconnected from the outside world, and when it turns its focus to this world, the blink rate is drastically reduced.
In a study published in the journal Psychological Science in 2010, 15 graduate students were asked to read a chapter of a book. The purpose of the experiment was to observe the reaction of people’s eyes as they lost focus while reading a book.
During this observation, it was observed that people blink much less while in focus. They blinked more when they lost their focus.
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