Special, Delivery: Coming to Our Senses; MOM! 

"And then some!" Another way, choice of idioms, to express "My Oh My!" which, in turn, is an expression of surprise, incredulity...which itself can go either way...as in an anticipated pleasure or something met as ,less well-coming...In either case, if reinterpreted, re-worded through the lens of my friends - well, at least I can call them "colleagues" in the division of study of human behavior known as the "Psychology of Perception" refers, once again, as an individual's "JND" - the amount it takes, in any sense, to sense a difference (so "Just Noticeable Difference" starts to make sense now, eh?) at least half of the time which, as a percentage, for those mathematically inclined, figures out to equal to, or greater than, 50 times out of 100 -- nice, round figures. Followed in kind, as in rounding up...finds us...

Crossing the Threshold: "And how!" -- even a shorter form of expressing this experience of having our senses stimulated...in this case an overabundance...leading to the now, ever popular form "I'm getting a bit overstimulated here" - just short, prior to the traditional "I'm simply over-whelmed" which, if not, un-abated, updated in the lingo of the most recent pandemic, "mitigated" (a word that had been around since about the 1300's according to M-W) which itself has many applications, implications beyond trying to minimize the effects of COVID-19, short of being completely rid of this surly, sordid, slippery 'thing' that we tried our best to personify but it remained elusive, kept changing its image, reinvented itself...mutated...Affecting all senses, some more than others which, short of prevention, at least if a business, for example, as taught in some of the most elevated "graduate professional" schools of, "proper, successful mitigation" is an integral part of a larger program in "Risk Managment" - highly sought after, if not well thought of, as they are forever telling US that the "sky is falling"...Which could find US all, especially, or even after all the fore-warning, find US ill-prepared...even under the best of circumstances, when we think so, even after what thespians call a "dress rehearsal"...reality turns out different after such distance, time away (ask the astronauts, if you don't believe me)...

VND!: What the vast majority (90 % or so which, in academic realms is considered as "approaching excellence") is likely to experience after finally arriving "at your destination" --assisted by a voice almost all of us can now relate to, depend on, versus fold-out maps coupled with yellow high-lighter showing us the most direct route, sans orange barrels...This, after first being called back to places of work, the reconfigured, many re-purposed "Office Spaces" in small, "focus groups" (small, supposedly representative groups, asked "so what do you think?") and then "en masse" - a larger group...perhaps just short of a vast majority, allowing for some hold-outs who, in the lingo of HR has been updated to include the "no-call, no-showers" in the form of "Quiet Quitters" Among who, even before arriving back at the office, even in the form of "just thinking, anticipating all the changes...burned me out". A condition that can happen to just about anyone, well beyond the 90% threshold, if one's senses are over-stimmed, over too long a period which can first lead to a degree of what's called, even in animal training, as "habituation" and in the psychology of conditioning, "desensitization" - which allows all of us, when called for, to ignore some so-called "harm-less" stimuli and focus on the "matter at hand"...all a matter of amounts and over what period of time...Especially when, the initial experience, after not having been in this environment for an extended period, being able to order our environments...just about everything is now re-experienced more intensely..."one can't help but notice...such a noticeable difference..."

"My, how things have changed" ...around here but, thankfully, in the form of yet another idiom, "the more things change, the more..." 

"It's all about how You perceive them" Well, at least that's what the good folks in the field of the Psychology of Perception claim...that "perception is about 90% reality"...

"True Enough" So what about the other 10% - doesn't it count for something? Sure, and if you want to know about this so-called "minority report", take a few well deserved few days off after most, about 90 out of 100...made it through, what it seemed, to be a long week. And a good many of you, based on the handy dandy blog counter, endured a lot of non-sense right here, at this site (TY!). Please come back for what the radio icon Paul Harvey used to call "the rest of the story"...

Next: Rounding out your re-experience: "Eye sense something..."