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...
and we're default anxious, tense, on edge ... but we're not receiving the signals of safety that nature sends us continually when we're outside