Show Notes
Last week I tested the internet’s favourite anti-doomscrolling trick: turning your phone to gray scale (black and white).
The theory is simple: remove the bright colours that hijack your brain’s dopamine system and suddenly your phone becomes far less addictive.
Did it cut my screen time in half?
Well… not exactly.
But it did reveal some interesting things about how our brains react to colour, stimulation, and the endless scroll.
In this week’s Field Report we discuss:
Whether gray scale actually reduced my screen time Why social media becomes weirdly less appealing in black and white How the experiment accidentally pushed me into a ChatGPT rabbit hole Why real life suddenly looked much more colourful and vivid A brief “Have We Lost the Plot?” anthropology segment on humans and colour stimulation The unexpected downside: trying to play phone games in grayscale
Plus:
Find of the Week Appreciating colour again (and the joy of bold interiors)
Fail of the Week Spending another two hours helping June solve a murder in June’s Journey
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