Introspective experiments are inherently confounded. I never got anywhere doing things listening to the way things have been done. What am I looking for? When inspiration fails use logic.
I devised an experiment where I would compute a math formula in my head and then look at a painting.
Ok, I happened to find an enclosed mall that would work. I will focus my mind and see what I might find walking around.
The open space on my left side puncutated with open spaces of the stores on my right side created a consistent coherent rhythm of enveloping enclosure of light and space.
I got to radio shack and I lost concentration. After the 4th time I started asking myself what was I doing. I beat myself up for the better part of an hour. What am I looking for? Wait a minute, maybe there is something down at radio shack.
I went down there. Nothing. Ok, stimulus conditions. I have to walk all the way around so I can eliminate it. On the way back on the other side of radio shack I stopped and realized something was there I couldn't see.
I was looking around and then I saw it at the base of the wall. There was a double wall made of the same material. A security hallway.
I couldn't see it from the other side.
I realized I felt it.
My autism makes me hypersensitive.
What made me lose concentration was the volume of space of the hallway which opened up the space. Alternating walls can mimic natural movementin shaping space. Thay don't have to be large to have an effect.
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