Last week, we highlighted the critical role of screen-free me-time in giving our overstimulated brains a break.

• We asked Finish Liners how they escape their devices, and hundreds responded.

Here are some of their ideas on how to disconnect.

🐶 "I love to take a walk with my dogs to decompress without being on my phone. I have two, so my hands are full and I can't be on my phone." —Sinead Prentiss, Charlotte, N.C.

🧶 "I knit. I take a project with me wherever I go to take advantage of opportunities where I'm waiting — the DMV, before appointments and more." —Emily Wengrovius, Broomfield, Colo.

🎶 "I acquired more than 3,000 vinyl records [with] my wife on her antiquing trips. My me-time is now sorting, cleaning and listening to beautiful, memory-making vintage music." —Dan Derby, North Hampton, N.H.

🎸 "My favorite thing to do is to put on my favorite radio show and clean my space, and take care of little things — putting old shoes in a donation box, mending a tear in a shirt, throwing out old papers. It clears my mind and sets me up for more productive me-time stuff, like journaling and practicing guitar." —Isabel Yoder, Brooklyn

📖 "I love to read, and my favorite solo screen-free activity — tied with a walk in the forest — is losing myself in a great book. Occasionally putting it down to think offers me the gift of enjoying how my brain processes the information, when given the chance!" —Eliza Sharrah, Grafton, Mass.

🏃‍♀️ "My me-time — no screen, no texts, no podcasts, nothing — is when I run. I don't even run with music. I run outdoors year-round, and in almost any weather. It's my time to be in nature and listen to myself." —Alice Harris, Lawrenceville, N.J.

👀 "I still have a joy that I've enjoyed for literally decades now. I people watch. I don't know anything about the people I'm looking at, but they're all still fascinating to me." —Mark Israel, Houston

Me-time with a view! Finish Liner Henry Sostrom of Post Falls, Idaho, sent us this snap taken while snowshoeing in the Selkirk Mountains.