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"Seems like you'd be interested in this - want me to send you the details?" "Sure."

My boss then forwards me an email. I open it, and it contains a couple of lines describing the event, but no actual details.

Conversation resumes: "Hey - did you send me the right email? I don't see any details in there - where's the event being held?"

Boss, confused: "It looks like the right email to me - I'm seeing all the information. Weird."

Me, rereading the same two lines of text in the email half a dozen times, increasingly confused: "Where are you seeing the address?"

Boss: "The top right?"

I'm now utterly bewildered. Top right? Who describes a text-based email like that? I look at the top right of the text but it's just a basic intro sentence. It's almost like there should be an image...

And slowly, gradually, I become aware that there is an image. Not an attachment, mind, but an image in the body of the email, that's been occupying about a third of my screen through this entire exchange. It's a big colourful poster describing the event, with all the details in big bold text carefully placed in the most eye-catching locations, with lots of arrows pointing towards them in big bright colors. All of which scanned, to me, like an advertisement. And as a result, my brain had literally failed to percieve the image at all. It didn't even get to the stage of "huh, weird that there would be an ad in a work email" - no, my mind simply failed to acknowledge that the image was even there, at any conscious level.