Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, thanks to all of our new and long-term listeners.

I had a great opportunity over the last few days to meet people from different parts of the country to do neuropsychiavals.

And looking forward to other people that'll be coming out.

And I know a lot of people have reached out on Buzzsprough.

That's the platform I use to do the podcast, but I can't return any of those or respond.

So I'll give you contact information at the end of this episode.

And I kind of last minute switched what I wanted to talk about today because somebody contacted me through psychology today,

thanking me for the episode I did on, I think, quiet suffering and motivated her apparently to begin to seek

out treatment. So again, thank you for those comments. And so I did the episode on how

technology is, or social media technology is rewiring the brain.

And I, just recently, just, I must have been 15, 20 minutes ago, I got the message and read it and figured I would do something similar, more so in the sense of, like, loneliness and solitude and kind of the modern

experience that we were all dealing with.

And, you know, there was a time, I think, when silence was normal. People would

set on their front porches. They'd ride their bikes. Take a long drive with just, you know,

the windows open. Walking through neighborhoods would nothing except their own thoughts.

You know, kids got bored, adults stared out windows, people prayed, reflected, daydreamed.

And now it seems that every second of our existence is filled with phones and music and streaming podcasts notification

text scrolling group chats i can't stand the group chats i don't know who's on them

who'm responding to um algorithms artificial noise um artificial urgency artificial artificial connection.

And I think somewhere inside all that stimulation, I think a lot of people, I think all of us lost something profoundly important, which is the ability to be alone.

And I've said this at different points throughout episodes.

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