Adults think like pngs.
Children's brains are bitmaps.
Jaded adults see the world as an animated gif.
When you are a child, you take in every single detail. Everything is worth commenting on - "Daddy, that dog is brown!" Every single detail is taken, itemised, and examined.
Adults, on the other hand, have seen a thing or two. Perception becomes optimised. "This thing is like this thing is like this thing." You filter information. Instead of viewing everything separately, you group similar objects.
Jaded adults reduce the world to a limited set of viewpoints and groups, and categorise their experiences accordingly.
For the graphic-nerd, a bitmap is one of several image file types which saves information about the nature of every single pixel it contains.
The png file format is able to still store a decent amount of detailed information, but saves on file space by not storing data on every pixel, but instead saying "pixels X, Y and Z are colour G". Gifs do the same but with a far more limited colour palette.
When I'm looking for inspiration, what I'm really trying to do is experience something I haven't seen before. Something that will shake my brain out of its regular categorisation loop.
Sometimes I'm nostalgic for the bad old days of bitmaps.