
In 2014, psychologist Timothy Wilson at the University of Virginia sat a group of people down in an empty room. He asked them to spend fifteen minutes alone with their own thoughts. No phone, no book, not even a pen to doodle with. Just a chair and their own mind.

In a world that never stops talking, silence has quietly become one of the rarest experiences. Notifications arrive faster than thoughts, messages replace conversations, and days often pass without a single moment truly belonging to us.