You go blind every time you look around

During a saccade — the jump of the eye from one point to another — vision is suppressed. You do not see the smear the motion would produce.

Dodge showed in 1900 that a stimulus flashed during a saccade is much harder to see. Later work pinned a large part of the suppression on the magnocellular pathway, the fast channel for motion, turned down while the eye is in flight. The suppression begins slightly before the muscles move. It is a plan, not a blur that was ignored after the fact.

Add the blinks, which are also suppressed, and a surprising fraction of the waking minute is a shutter. What you experience as a continuous scene is a set of fixations, stitched.