I experienced a far less conscious and intentional version of noticing reflexively throughout my childhood. Specifically, I became very highly attuned to the act of stepping on cracks in pavings in response to the schoolyard rhyme "Don't step on the crack or you'll break your Momma's back." I never labored under the delusion that there was some mystical force which would cause gross harm to my mother if I did (or didn't) step on a crack--it was more of a game. A game which lasted from early in elementary school through puberty. I have other gamified (if immature) examples of passive noticing--the game) comes to mind. (Apologies if anyone still cares about the game, by the way). Now, these parallels are shallow in that I wasn't meta-noticing as Brienne was. But it does lend a concept I'll find useful in applying the principles of noticing and meta-noticing: namely, the act of gamification. I question, however, whether gamification lends itself to moving the intention from conscious searching to subconscious noticing.