Generally, tunnel vision is a physical dysfunction of eye. If one can imagine viewing world around him or herself through a narrow tube, that is tunnel vision. Now, positive outcome of any physical discrepancy is that other senses tend to "kick in" and make up for disability. For example, if a person is deaf, eyesight becomes keener. If a person cannot see, hearing is more concentrated. Thus, with tunnel vision, a person can either accentuate positive or negative -- choice, however, is up to individual entirely. An equivelent thought would be to either see glass half full or half empty.

Hypothetically speaking, one could apply "tunnel-vision thinking" in both positive and negative ways. Tunnel-vision thinking is when persons act or think in either one of two ways. Primarily, positive ideal of tunnel-vision thinking would be for an individual to narrow his goals to a single, harmonic pattern and leave shady and non-essential areas to wayside. The negative form of tunnel-vision thinking is when a person becomes obcessively drawn to self-destructive and delusional behavioral patterns.

Positive tunnel-vision thinking can encourage excelling in one's career, family life, social life and an overall healthier and happier physical, mental and emotional constitution. Using mental thought process of visualization, a person may view his or her life as a long passage. As individual views this pathway, there are shady areas to left and right of himself -- but when he gazes further, there's a brilliant, beckoning light at far end. This light mimics priorities, goals and ideals of our lives. When we concentrate on positive energy of tunnel-vision light, we find enlightenment, encouragement and ultimately -- we discover our inner-psyche that demonstrates force of human and spiritual willpower.

If we utilize power of positive tunnel-vision thinking, we can set goals, find resolve and create a harmonic environment. Positive tunnel-vision thinking reinforces creative thought processes and extinguishes destructive behavior. In other words, practicing tunnel-vision visualization with combined psychological conditioning of life being viewed through a metaphorical "tunnel," we allow ourselves to remain focused in a positive light.

One part of our beings is our DNA-based species’ nature, which includes elements of our brain activity and awareness that evolved to contribute to our survival in world and especially, survival of our unique individual DNA, generation to generation.

The other part is an “accidental” outcome of DNA’s survival activities in world – Consciousness.

The nature of consciousness:

Consciousness came about as an “emergent” property from individual organism’s need to be able to make survival “decisions” moment-to-moment, rather than generation-to-generation as it was in simpler times, biologically speaking.

As complexity of organ that evolved to make those decisions, increased, a threshold was reached where new property of consciousness appeared.

There are many dynamics in nature that show this “accidental” new emergent property appearing out of simpler activities. The universe itself is probably such an emergent property.

The essential conflict:

The conflict comes from fact that needs of DNA are different to needs of self-aware consciousness.

DNA has no regard for feelings or survival of organism other than those that further DNA’s propagation, whereas our conscious selves want freedom from pain and suffering and want choice over experience of our lives.

At times, this choice goes directly against needs of DNA – such as when we choose not to have children (the vehicles of DNA propagation).