Listen to the Rain

Thank you for sharing that article! I'd never seen it before, and it reminded me of two things.

1) There's a Jewish practice called התבודדות hitbodedut ("Self-seclusion"), that involves going off alone, preferably into a wilderness, and talking directly to G-d without the formalized language of prayer. It's more structured than the seclusion in that article since it has a goal, but it has a similar point in that it's about leaving the world behind for a bit.

I suppose Shabbat is, in its own way, similar as well, though that doesn't involve isolation.

2) The video game metaphors, about always going right as the clock ticked down, reminded me of a game called Passage that played out an entirely lifetime in five minutes and that I first played over a decade ago. It was very affecting for something that only took a few minutes to play through and whose main mechanic was "go right."