like, we have contracted awareness... but also we spend most of our lives with literal walls around us blocking sensory experience from beyond the space of a room
we are ungrounded- we walk around in hard soled shoes on harder flat surfaces that don't engage the senses of the feet- walking is dull ache, trudge... and yet we're surprised that our awareness is in our head not our feet?
we dissociate and don't engage with our surroundings- but we're surrounded by unpleasant experiences that we shouldn't avoid - stinking garbage, blaring horns, grating saws, bright chaotic lights in the night...