Between a hectic day when I have to be on my feet all day and a day spent just sitting in the car or on the train and looking out the window, the latter feels 10x more exhausting.
Why is this? If you’re not the driver, you barely have to do anything on those long trips, and yet they’re still so tiring for no reason.
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The brain is a predictive machine with the theory that consciousness is only a product of “incorrect predictions.” This is why if you move to a new city and walk to work, on your first day you will be much more conscious of all the new sights and sounds. After walking that route every day for a year, at the end you may walk the entire way and it felt like it happened in the blink of an eye or you were in your head more and didn’t “notice” as much stuff.
It could be that when you’re in a car or a train there is so much “new” stimulating signals that your brain is much more alert and processing so much more than if you were sitting for an equal amount of time on your couch at home.
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