It's interesting. Shift from SELF to ALL AROUND ME implies shift of personal referential index, and... animals don't do it. When a cat wants to be treated, it does not take its paw up and line it aross your back, it takes a posiition "as if that cat is treated on its back." Perceiving sequence as part of "time" is part of a perception strategy--some people have it, others have no, even it is obvious that events unfold in time sequentially!! It is suprising how these things matter and don't matter just in people's minds. Glad we figured it out. Cheers!