"Nicole Sunderland doesn't have to ponder the in-flight entertainment options when she looks at the screen on the plane seat in front of her. She'll be watching the map, thank you very much. "I'll fly to Qatar for 14 hours and that map will be on the entire time," said Sunderland, 41, a content creator and consultant who splits time between the D.C. area and Phoenix. Flight attendants don't always understand: "Sometimes they'll reach in and be like, 'Do you want us to turn it off?' And I'm like, 'No, no. Leave it on.'""
"The name of the trend is too crude to spell out in a family newspaper (think: uncooked canine). In some cases, according to news articles that questioned whether participants were "heroic or foolish," travelers shunned drinking water or even bathroom visits. Some commenters hailed the "ultimate dopamine detox" while fliers bragged about reaching a new personal best. "The mind is capable of amazing things," the text over one apparently tongue-in-cheek TikTok says. "My mind knows no limits. I am operating in a different spiritual realm.""
Many airline passengers use seat-back in-flight maps frequently; FlightPath3D reports about 68 percent open the map and 20 percent view only the map. Some travelers keep the map displayed for entire long-haul flights as a preferred form of entertainment or focus. A social-media trend amplified the practice, featuring passengers staring at maps or blank space during long trips as an endurance stunt. Some participants reportedly avoided water and bathroom visits, with observers divided between calling the behavior foolish or admiring it as an extreme form of dopamine detox.
Read at Boston.com
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