Multiple Object Tracking – Ins
When I started with the mobile movement technique I started looking at converging and diverging between two objects but after a while I could track many objects at the same time and in all directions. So in other words, I wasn’t seeing one thing at a time, I was seeing everything at the same time.
I noticed while doing this outside; I felt the muscles in and around my eyes twitch and constantly scan my peripheral view in 360 degrees. This would include the extraocular and internal eye muscles. They were particularly more active when there was a lot of activity, like walking on the sidewalk of a busy street or riding in a car.
I would keep my central vision fixed on an object and watch multiple objects in my peripheral. While doing this, I could also make the muscles of the peripheral portion of my eye pull towards the thing that I felt most alerted to, or that I wanted to direct my attention to. For instance, if I was walking on a sidewalk and saw a car coming towards me driving past my right side, while stilling looking ahead, I could pull my muscle attention towards the car. After realizing that it was no longer a threat, I could pull the muscle attention towards a tree on my left. All while still looking at everything else at the same time.
I learned to direct the muscle attention of the peripheral in a random scanning pattern as I walked. Doing this made my central vision sharper.
Doing the multi-object tracking combined mobile movement with the peripheral triangulation at the same time. I believe our eyes were meant to work this way, to always be aware of a potentially dangerous environment.
When I ended up coming back indoors, I noticed that the peripheral muscles didn’t twitch as much because I felt more relaxed and knew there were no potential dangers in a stationary, closed in environment. Outdoors I was able to experience more clarity at first but after I realized that I stopped using these muscles when indoors, I taught myself to look at everything and make these muscles twitch occasionally to keep the peripheral always scanning.
