Our Minds Can’t Sit Still Anymore:

When a user hears silence, they’re reminded for a split second that they’re a person staring at a phone.

In other words, those gaps and spaces when our content isn’t stimulating our brain are precisely where we remember that we’re human beings.

And for this exact same reason, I’d argue that we literally need those moments. They teach us that we’re not just brains on a stick amusing, scrolling, and vegging ourselves to death. Silence—or just the lack of stimulation—reminds us that we’re embodied souls aching for something deeper than dopamine.