The characters attempt to fortify their homes, only to see their surroundings washed away.
Well, imagine if you can't even see your surroundings changing around you.
Once I sat down, I found I could not easily turn my head to see my surroundings or the others in the room.
@sfennema thinks of Instagram as "a channel for sharing the way I see my surroundings and as a way to meet people who think alike".
You come to see your surroundings as hostile – they're making you feel bad, after all – so you respond to others in unfriendly ways, or avoid contact altogether.
Has "the phantasmagoria of the marketplace" overtaken us so completely that we're unable to see our surroundings in any other way?
But hackers quickly modified the Kinect to be used for many other applications, too, like allowing robots to "see" their surroundings, or for directing a digital orchestra with hand gestures like a conductor.
Periscope, optical instrument used in land and sea warfare, submarine navigation, and elsewhere to enable an observer to see his surroundings while remaining under cover, behind armour, or submerged.
In case you can't find the creatures, you can lift the flap on each page to see their surroundings faded out and the animals visible in full color.
This sort of "augmented reality" approach, as it's known in the tech industry, could also allow users to see their surroundings as they may have appeared in another era.
