Significant glimpses are only recognised retrospectively, during distraction

Evidence

It is only when you remember, only then will you realise that you caught a glimpse. While you were talking to someone, or thinking of something else. When your attention was diverted. Just a hint, a glimmer, a shade. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 366

Categorization

• XREF: Aligned with the reader’s interest in peripheral perception, hauntological residues, and the involuntary nature of meaningful episodes. — connects to: Distraction enables perception that focused attention forecloses — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 338; Genuine attention is centripetal distraction, bending thoughts back — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 503; Focused attention necessarily amputates awareness of other stimuli

Broader Connections

• Distraction enables perception that focused attention forecloses #corroborates (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 338
• Focused attention necessarily amputates awareness of other stimuli #contradicts (0.80)
• Genuine attention is centripetal distraction, bending thoughts back #expands (0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 503