Immediately, every sight, every sound, every smell coming at you carries equal weight; every thought, feeling, memory, and idea presents itself to you with an equally strong and demanding intensity. You’re receiving a dozen different messages in a dozen different media—phone, e-mail, TV, CD player, friend knocking at the door, ideas inside your head—and you’re unable to choose which ones come to the front and which are relegated to “later.” It’s the crowd at the Super Bowl, and they’re all yelling directly at you.
