Natural, or everyday, attitude can be understood as a network of commonsensical beliefs about the independent existence of the world. This attitude drives our ceaseless focus on things, objects, and content while simultaneously leading us to overlook the process by which this colourful menagerie manifests in our consciousness. By emphasizing what experience is seemingly about, the natural attitude obscures the way in which it actually appears to us. Phenomenology teaches us that to become aware of the fundamental nature of experience, we must "bracket" the natural attitude—shifting our focus from "what" we are experiencing to ‘how’.

However, even when we succeed in noticing subjective experience, we are not necessarily free from the grip of the natural attitude. Experiential reports often resemble descriptions of a physical landscape, reflecting the belief that consciousness is a space filled with experiential "things" (e.g., "there is a sensation X" "there is a visual aspect of"). Much like the illusion that we can continuously grasp the entirety of our visual field, these reports can lead to the mistaken belief that we are in constant contact with all the "things" populating our experiential Landscape. This talk will address this issue, arguing that to deepen our understanding of experience, we need to learn how to notice the attentional dynamics behind ‘choosing’ what and how is being experienced. Additionally, the possibility of identifying the experiential source of these dynamics—or its absence—will be explored.