College students are at high risk for this problem since they spend long hours studying or using a computer. That makes them knowledge workers just like office workers. When study is done where there is detectable repeating movement in peripheral vision you have created those “special circumstances.”

This incorrect workspace design allows your brain to subliminally detect threat-movement while you engage full mental investment. That should normally cause a vision startle reflex. But you can learn to consciously ignore this movement, so the startle will stop, allowing you to continue working. But you cannot “stop seeing” anything in your vision field. The repeating failed attempts to trigger the startle reflex will eventually color thought and reason.

Because of the way your brain subliminally detects threat-movement this exposure is not detectable by the victim. It is invisible, silent, painless.

VisionAndPsychosis.Net, a seven year investigation of Subliminal Distraction, has many cases where students suddenly altered behavior. In a few cases it can be shown they created the failed workstation design. News reports do not gather information about SD so that information is limited.

The cubicle was designed to deal with this KNOWN problem by 1968. But no school warns students or provides Cubicle Level Protection for study areas or computer workstations.

If your student suddenly wants to drop college have them visit my site and examine their activities for SD exposure.