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I’d be interested to know what sort of frequency and duration of ‘rest’ or ‘down’ time includes engagement with visual stimuli, and how that actually affects our energy levels.

Pretty sure we all either know someone or are that person ourselves who can’t sit down and relax without pulling out their phone. Sure TVs have been around forever, but there gotta be something demanding about the inputs required and the intense variety of content rapidly changing - I see my wife scroll through insta for 15 seconds and it’s overload man, everything from stupid dances to someone yelling about a recipe to an emotional tug to some stupid quote. Classic TV, you’d sit there and watch and if you didn’t like it you could get up and change the change the channel and sit back down.

There’s no reprieve where your mind is free to wander based on environment anymore. Even music, you could put on an album and you would be led, mind taking a back seat to what’s happening. Now people need to hunt and peck for whatever song they want to hear, I don’t know many people who just let things be.

Roads are busier, lights are brighter and EVERYWHERE, everything ####ing car is making sounds for everything that never used to be there, we have stimuli non stop every place you go. And some people of the mindset that sitting there doing nothing means nothings happening, so they won’t. Relentless relentless bombardment of environmental agitations that certainly do not leave much room for mental recovery.