It’s funny to think that your mental map of the entire universe could be tiny, but compared to the actual universe, it is.
If you were able to look back at all the things going on around you at any moment, you’d see unlimited events occurring that you didn’t have time to experience, consider, or intuit. It’s a little bit like matter. The amount of mass in a human body compared to the amount of space is surprisingly small. Our molecules are connected by intermolecular bonds and have space between them. Those molecules are made of atoms that have an incredible amount of space between their nuclei and electrons. The subatomic particles inside of those aren’t exactly touching, either, by our common understanding of the term. And just as our physical world is mostly space, our ontographs are mostly made up of the tiny fraction of what we’re able to sense and pay attention to at the moment.
Some people are more intuitive and probably grasp the situation they’re in pretty effectively. Some people are more focused and tend to miss things outside their field of attention. And of course we all have moments in which we’re more focused or more generally aware. But whichever kind of moment you’re inhabiting, you’re not doing both at the same time, certainly not to the degree that you’re keenly aware of everything going on around you. Human experience catches critical curds of substance, like a cheesecloth. And that’s probably best, since we don’t have unlimited attentive energy or sensitivity, which sounds overwhelming anyway.