It’s amazing how much information we ignore. I used to volunteer at a nursing home and I was pushing a blind lady down the hall and she said “this room is mine.

It’s amazing how much information we ignore. I used to volunteer at a nursing home and I was pushing a blind lady down the hall and she said “this room is mine.” I asked her “how did you know?” And she explained that she could hear the recessed doorways (and the difference between open doors and closed ones) as we passed them, and knew that hers was the 11th door. She told me I could do it myself. I thought “bullshit, this is some magic power for blind people” but when I just closed my eyes and focused on it, it’s completely easy. Your footstep’s echo off a closed door is completely different than hallway. It took me literally no practice, I could do it on the first try.