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Doomscrolling has a powerful Kryptonite and you already do it for two hours every day
Though most people are understandably sick of experts trashing doomscrolling and its many negative effects, its kinder sibling, dreamscrolling, is something you’re already doing for at least two hours a day.
Thanks to social media, the average Joe is now grappling to understand a flurry of internet lifestyle terms including doomscrolling and the controversial Soft Guy Era. By researching these terms, experts are starting to grasp the human condition on a much deeper level.
How is dreamscrolling different from doomscrolling?
Though the term was initially coined in 2018, doomscrolling was popularised by journalist Karen Ho who attributed the growing trend to the Covid-19 pandemic. At the time, and without the need to work, a lot of people were scrolling endlessly on social media.
While the term initially described viewing negative and harmful content on repeat, it has come to encapsulate the act of simply scrolling for long periods.
In contrast, dreamscrolling is the act of looking at dream purposes for extended periods, which could be anything from your dream house to the makeup product you’ve been dying to try.
In a recent poll of 2,000 U.S. adults from OnePoll, it was revealed that the average American spends around two-and a half hours dreamscrolling each day, with 71% claiming it motivates them into reaching their financial goals. Over the course of a year, that is 873 hours or nearly 36 days spent scrolling.
Work is seemingly not safe from the dreamscrolling trend as 50% of workers they did it throughout the day and 1 in 5 admitted to multitasking for between three and four hours a day.
There is a definite generational divide
Like most other trends on social media, and no doubt like the boy sober dating trend, old people have struggled to grasp the concepts of dreamscrolling and doomscrolling. While Gen Z reportedly spent the most amount of time dreamscrolling, clocking in at three hours a day, boomers only dedicated around an hour per day.
Though the older generations aren’t obsessing over the latest skincare, 42% of participants are dreaming of the perfect retirement plan. Given how close they are to the finish line, old people are bound to be the most excited.
So next time a loved one accuses you off doomscrolling all the day, just look them dead in the eye as correct them – It’s dreamscrolling.
