As she shared her life story with us, she asked us to close our eyes and to imagine a world where all we saw was darkness, no color, no light.

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The memory hole feels like a dark cavern, but light that makes us close our eyes is darkness to us.

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Our pupils grow wide, which is likely one reason that so many of us are apt to close our eyes.

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It would be in vain to close our eyes and see others' differences as if they were odd.

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Somewhat in the manner of a therapist directing his patient towards a profound inner truth, Leo Johnson asked us to close our eyes and recall a time and a place when we we'd been "totally in the groove, really happy".

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We can now fast-forward through commercials, black out banner ads and I suppose close our eyes when we drive past billboards (not recommended), and as such, companies are desperately trying to think of new ways to force feed us advertisements.

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