An attentional experience can reveal whole swaths of familiar environment previously unheard

Evidence

I walked out of the symphony hall down Grove Street to catch the MUNI, and heard every sound with a new clarity—the cars, the footsteps, the wind, the electric buses. Actually, it wasn’t so much that I heard these clearly as that I heard them at all. How was it, I wondered, that I could have lived in a city for four years already—even having walked down this street after a symphony performance so many times—and never have actually heard anything? — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 369

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Schizophrenic temporality makes present experience overwhelmingly vivid and material — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 367; People can pay attention to something while being unaware they are attending to it — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 361; Joint attentional protocols can be performed publicly to draw attention to neglected objects — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 438 (+3 more)