I work and learn at a university. I used wake up early, drive around half an hour and walk to the building I had class in or my work building. I spent hours either in a lab on the computer or in class. I used get tired like any normal person would, but not like after Zoom classes/meetings. After Zoom meetings I suddenly get hungry and I’m exhausted as if I’ve been doing manual labor. Why is there a difference between how mentally draining Zoom meetings are at home and between a normal routine?
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Normally, using computers and stuff for a long time would make you tired by itself, but when you’re on a computer for hours doing something that makes you happy, then it makes your brain feel good, so you don’t notice that you’ve been on a computer for hours, it distracts you. However, too much of anything is bad, so too much computer time can make you sleepy and hurt your eyes because of the light coming from it. When you’re at a computer for a long time doing something that doesn’t make you feel good, then your body gets tired faster.
This is because if you’re sitting on the couch playing Fortnite, you’re having fun, so your brain doesn’t care that you haven’t moved in hours. Meetings tend to be very boring, and your brain doesn’t like being bored, so it notices that “hey, I haven’t moved, but I need to and now my body hurts and I need to take a nap.”
Even if you find the meeting fun, you typically are using more of your brain than you might normally, like if it’s for school, so your brain’s like “Ok, this is fun, but I’m having to do a lot more than usual.” It’s like if you exercise a lot then take a month’s break then start exercising again, your body gets tired faster than it normally would have. So if you spend 5 hours a day playing a fun game but then replace those hours with school meetings, then your brain doesn’t like that.
Do you have a bluelight filter? Helps with the screen and eye tiredness. Otherwise, I think maybe the content is different when presented in class vs online lecture. Sometimes the professor can’t gauge whether the students understand or not on online, unlike in person
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