Every person is confronted with moments of being alone. The term knows many faces. On the one hand it is the dropout who escapes from his everyday life because he longs for silence or the single senior citizen who develops strategies to fill the time she has alone.

To find out how I live and feel with being alone in everyday life, I track my sensations for a week – every day, every few hours. It should make me aware in which situations and how often I feel lonely in everyday life and when I feel the urge to want to be alone.