Let me digress through a psychological lens… Doom scrolling can be relaxing and mesmerizing. It’s like a digital rain during the nighttime, the sound of the water droplets, the fresh smell on the air, the comfy sleepiness… That’s how doom scrolling may be perceived by the brain. A calm, endless rain of dopamine. It’s a lower energetic state, switching to the parasympathetic nervous system. Nature and physics tend to seek the lowest energy state, it’s no different for human brain.
It’s easier to just listen to the sound of the digital rain. It’s harder to make it rain, it demands mental energy. And the brain generally wants to spare it.
Let me digress through a psychological lens… Doom scrolling can be relaxing and mesmerizing. It’s like a digital rain during the nighttime, the sound of the water droplets, the fresh smell on the air, the comfy sleepiness… That’s how doom scrolling may be perceived by the brain. A calm, endless rain of dopamine. It’s a lower energetic state, switching to the parasympathetic nervous system. Nature and physics tend to seek the lowest energy state, it’s no different for human brain.
It’s easier to just listen to the sound of the digital rain. It’s harder to make it rain, it demands mental energy. And the brain generally wants to spare it.