Occupy My Body

Conscious experience is a steady stream of both internal and external perception. Listening to a conversation gets mixed together with internal comments, ideas, images, memories, ruminations, etc. Sometimes the internal additions will even become dominant and one can ‘space out’ or what is often described as failing to pay attention. It is not actually a failure of paying attention, it is that the attention is being directed inward, and external phenomenon recedes into the background. All conscious experience is really a mix of internal and external perceptions with the balance continually shifting to and fro; a simultaneous integration.