The world of an infant must be tremendously confusing…
The world of an infant must be tremendously confusing, even leaving aside the difficulties of language acquisition and one's own physical coordination. Sounds overlap. Diverse sensory impressions attract attention.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Narrative Brain: the Stories Our Neurons Tell by Fritz Breithaupt
In the book
You were born already airborne, mid-flight, into noise and traffic you did not choose and were never trained to handle. Think for a moment about what the world of a newborn must truly be like: sounds overlapping, sensory impressions arriving all at once with no order to them, before language, before even command of your own two hands. Imagine your faculties peeled away one by one and you will feel how close to raw chaos a human consciousness actually starts — disturb its wiring even a little and the senses bleed into one another. — Takeoff Into Chaos