A closer look
People spend roughly ten percent of their waking hours with their eyes completely closed due to the biological necessity of blinking, which lubricates the cornea and clears away dust particles, meaning if you live to be eighty years old, you will have spent at least eight solid years wandering around in the pitch black while technically awake, just so your eyeballs do not dry out and turn into useless raisins; the brain operates a highly sophisticated neural mechanism to actively ignore these constant micro-blackouts, seamlessly stitching together your visual reality so you do not feel like you are living inside a cheap strobe light, which means a significant portion of your conscious life is basically a fabricated illusion designed to hide the fact that your body requires constant, high-maintenance windshield wiper fluid to interact with the world, making our grip on reality feel much more fragile than we would like to admit
