Do I Have the Room to Pay Attention to the Floodlight?

It seems like there's a lot of information processing that has to be happening for us at all times. The executive part is part of making that decision, where am i going to direct my light? Can i relax and focus with my flashlight? If my flood light feels safe or doesn't feel safe, i imagine. And if i'm out in a military zone or something like that, i can't actually turn off my flood right? I can't be out of the moment and just put my flashlight on something, because that could be life or death. Simply saying don't do it is not enough. These are ways in which we're spending out our attentional fuel much more than we