rhythms of attention

DREAM:
​Background music is non-engaging distraction that does not produce alpha waves.
It is there to allow work to be done.

​"This research makes it clear that while humans spend so much time in search of hyper-focus, it’s likely an unachievable goal. Thousands of years of the struggle for survival have wired us to be distracted. Maybe it’s time to embrace it as a fundamental part of life."

Betuel, E. (2018). Scientists reveal the number of times you're actually conscious each minute. Spoiler: It's not very often (and that's a good thing). https://www.inverse.com/article/48300-why-is-it-hard-to-focus-research-humans

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RESEARCH REVEALS
Four times every second, explains Princeton Neuroscience Institute Ian Fiebelkorn, Ph.D., to Inverse, the brain stops focusing on the task at hand. That’s about 240 times a minute.

“The brain is wired to be somewhat distractible,” he says. “We focus in bursts, and between those bursts we have these periods of distractibility, that’s when the brain seems to check in on the rest of the environment outside to see if there’s something important going on elsewhere. These rhythms are affecting our behavior all the time” (i.e. rhythms of attention).

PERSONAL OBSERVATION
During "rhythm of attention" cycles when my "brain stops taking snapshots of individual points of focus (whatever is in front of me at the moment)," I am giving my brain brackground reggae music as an alternative focal point upon which my mind stitches together a narrative of the complete experience, be it Storytelling for Social Media promotion or analysis' and interpretations of academic information. This is why my most productive times are in the very early hours of the day when people are asleep and there is virtually no other sound and movement.

When someone brings any topic, including sex, into the discussion,
​it becomes part of the narrative, changing the tone of the experience.

NOTA BENE
It takes me 72 hours to process new information that results in a paradigm shift significant enough to change my perception of reality regarding my personal mental, emotional and physiological processes. This time line is consistent with a biochemical change such as detoxing from drugs.
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​Do you think the physiology is similar between the two?