Ah, the root chakra, the elusive foundation of your consciousness.  This chakra stores all the unconscious fears we have about being in our bodies,  humanity as a collective, and the inherent dangers of life on the planet.  

In short, it carries your basic sense of safety.  And that sense of safety is largely unconsciousness.  It is very difficult to see the effects of the root chakra in daily life because it is so woven into all of our experiences that we take this chakra's perspective for granted as absolute truth.  An unexamined truth, but truth all the same.