Is this really true?
What do you guys on Lemmy say? Most of us are tech people so we are more used to being alone with our thoughts perhaps.
What makes you think this is a new phenomenon?
Then why do you suggest that this is occuring now and not in the past in your original post?
Don’t knock electric shocks. TENS provides me nice pain relief and soothes muscle cramps.
There’s a distinct line between social/sense deprivation torture and simple inner reflection or meditation. Just saying. It’s maybe for every individual different, but there definitely is.
Humans are social creatures, loneliness is a form of pain too
Vsauce actually did a real-life experiment on this in one of his videos, definitely worth a watch. Basically as long as the shock isn’t harmful, some people can see it as some stimulation to help boredom. If I left you alone in an empty room with nothing in it but that fake pack of gum that shocks you when you pull it out, chances are you will try playing with it even though you know it’ll shock you.
There’s only one way to find out, we gotta lock you in a room with nothing to stimulate your mind but a single pack of gum that will shock you every time. 10 bucks you shock yourself on purpose.
Veritasium just did a video on boredom that touches on this study as well.