What sort of physiological change does your body go through?
Does your heartbeat a bit faster? Do you break out in beads of cold sweat?
Do you get angry, frustrated, feel at a loss? What if you miss an important message? What if someone needs to get in touch with you urgently?
You may, like me, be addicted to the internet.
Lots of people may have felt these feelings on Monday after an accidental internet and mobile outage.
Hundreds of customers were affected when a fibre cable was cut between Rotorua and Tauranga during roadworks at the Ngongotahā roundabout this week.
A colleague's children dealt with the outage by playing video games on their offline console, while his friend's son tried some new things: tidying up and baking.
While Monday's outage was a forced digital detox for some, there are some benefits to putting down the phone and picking up a book — or a wooden spoon.
AUT Business School's Dr Lena Waizenegger told NZME's Carly Gibbs this month about digital detoxing.
She said a sustainable solution to stop relying on your phone so much is to implement mindful and purposeful phone-use patterns so you don't experience "nomophobia" - or fear of being without your phone.
Some of these include putting your phone away at work, turning off email notifications and – instead of mindless scrolling – only using your phone to listen to your regular podcasts and then putting it away.
I love walking the dog while listening to music or recorded books, but I know I can do this without the phone and enjoy quality time with the pooch.
I reckon the trick is to build up slowly, don't check your phone during meal times, have screen downtime before bed – maybe read a book – and put your phone away when you're talking to someone face-to-face.
So next time there's an accidental outage you're less likely to break out in a cold sweat.
