👉🏽 At home, you feel pain sitting on the same sofa, staring at the same wall – it blends into one endless gray.
👉🏽 In a new place, the pain is still there – but now it’s pain while hearing ocean waves or pain while watching strangers in a cafe. The sensation is constant but the brain has new signals to process alongside it.

That contrast matters. Your nervous system stops treating the suffering as a single unbroken block, because the environment forces fresh input. So the pain isn’t erased, but it is no longer the only thing filling the screen