I suppose it’s subjective. For sleep quality, for most people studies support that “turning off the screen” will provide the best rest; it’s also true that often a mental break from scrolling various sites and their potential obligations or frustrations is good mental rest.
That said- it depends on the person and the type of rest they need. For some, taking a little time or perhaps hours to scroll may be what is best for their relaxation or recharging in that moment.
We do often forget in the modern world that it is ok to just sometimes “do nothing.” While many hobbies or activities can be meditative- building scale models, gardening, even cleaning or working out; every so often depending on the person just doing nothing and clearing the mind and senses can be beneficial, or just thinking or being introspective.
It is all very individual, but it is true that scrolling for hours at a time in one go probably isn’t the most healthy thing for anyone.
I remember reading an article a decent while back that talked about how scrolling sites like here or twitter or reddit was inherently exhausting mentally because of how the human brain is wired, it posited that it consisted of a large amount of microdecisions relative to daily life outside of scrolling a website like this that is mentally taxing without being consciously taxing.
I could see that. It’s odd the things we don’t realize take so much mental bandwidth until we go without for awhile or we reach a point where we go to do a seemingly simple thing and are just overwhelmed.
It’s also easy to become fatigued when we see an internet or media fixated on certain things that may often not actually be real issues in our daily lives but reverberate and are magnified online- seemingly everywhere and all important, when if we simply “disconnected” we probably wouldn’t likely notice they were going on or feel any daily impact.
My SO is very prone to this as they are very sensitive and empathetic. They “feel” everything very personally. Trouble reconciling that the world is many things at once and fixating on a singular aspect I suppose.
Give yourself some time on full battery for once.
That said- it depends on the person and the type of rest they need. For some, taking a little time or perhaps hours to scroll may be what is best for their relaxation or recharging in that moment.
We do often forget in the modern world that it is ok to just sometimes “do nothing.” While many hobbies or activities can be meditative- building scale models, gardening, even cleaning or working out; every so often depending on the person just doing nothing and clearing the mind and senses can be beneficial, or just thinking or being introspective.
It is all very individual, but it is true that scrolling for hours at a time in one go probably isn’t the most healthy thing for anyone.
It’s also easy to become fatigued when we see an internet or media fixated on certain things that may often not actually be real issues in our daily lives but reverberate and are magnified online- seemingly everywhere and all important, when if we simply “disconnected” we probably wouldn’t likely notice they were going on or feel any daily impact.
My SO is very prone to this as they are very sensitive and empathetic. They “feel” everything very personally. Trouble reconciling that the world is many things at once and fixating on a singular aspect I suppose.