i can't tear my eyes away

I've spent the last two days at a leadership seminar.
It has been uber-informative and i'm glad that i went, but there was one problem:
the carpet-

sometimes my eye would wander from the speaker to the floor and i would be mesmerized by the pattern and color.
The phrase that echoed over and over in my head was nauseous eyeballs.
I'd want to look away, but i couldn't.
This little picture doesn't do it justice; imagine a whole conference room of this pattern wall to wall.
It was like a textile nightmare come to life.

nauseous eyeballs...

nauseous eyeballs...