If I could stop time, I wood. (opens in new tab)

Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours. "When you're actually in it, the reality of the solo is, at least at first, one of total boredom. I cannot stress enough how little there is to do when you have confined yourself to the inside of a small circle of stones and sticks in a forest. But it is an instructive kind of boredom, insofar as boredom is the raw and unmediated experience of time. It is considered best practice not to have a watch, and to turn off y...