The mechanism
why silence feels loud after a busy week
The mechanism
The mechanism
The lines
Why silence feels loud after a busy week.
Your nervous system calibrates to whatever level of noise it's been living in. Busy becomes the baseline.
So when things finally go quiet, stillness reads as missing data. Something must be wrong. That's the itch you feel.
Give it a few quiet evenings in a row. The baseline drops, and silence goes back to sounding like peace.