system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How, when looking for an item that is right in front of us, does our brain skip over the item while scanning for it?

I was looking for something that was right in front of me. My eyes passed over the spot as I scanned the room a couple times. Not until I did a full turn and came back to my original position did I see the object I was looking for - directly in front of me...
gpt
We are almost never actually focused on the item we're looking for.  We're usually extremely distracted by all the thoughts about where the item was last, what will happen if we don't find it, all the havok and frustration of not having the item...  

It's 100% just because of distraction.