There's a sort of spectrum of things you're doing from whether their natural state is dissociative to fully engaged, and it's often worth having a mental check in process of whether you want to upgrade to a more engaged activity.
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A related question: is your less-engaged activity fun, restful, or neither? It's okay if it's neither; sometimes you really do just want to kill time but it's good to be deliberate about it. I love this framing, which I got from :