u/bbyfantasma

I'm fed up. I hate that our phones listen and watch everything and more. It's beyond just the "innocent" marketing now. It's psychological in sinister ways e.g. insta reels showing you psychological takes on matters in your life that it has, again, just eavesdropped on. PSA: I am not willing to debate whether or not I am being paranoid. This is my experience and it's so much so now that I can't ignore it anymore.

I also hate that AI is the first to put its hand up to answer every goddamn thing and I hate that people are now even talking like AI. I don't want AI to worm into my brain like it has done to other people. I want to stay myself.

Making a switch to a phone that just supports Whatsapp and maybe also a maps feature would be good. Every other essential app I am happy to move over to my tablet and keep that shut away most of the time until I want to use it. There are aspects to modern tech I enjoy i.e. Reddit(!), social media etc. however I would enjoy these things more with better moderation and sense of control.

Please share any routines, systems, ways you have found to live like this. Any ideas about how to better protect my privacy currently on my Google phone and maybe stop getting spied on as much would be good too haha! Thanks!!

Any advice on how to cope with severe sleep inertia in the mornings?

I find it impossible to keep my eyes open and fight going back to sleep in the mornings. Even though I know I need to get up etc etc. I can't make the rational decision to motivate myself to move until the verrrry last min. E.g. sometimes I wake up with a false sense of wakefulness as in I don't feel immediately crap but then my brain says "see you're fine this morning u can go back to sleep" which is so frustrating!!? When I go back to sleep I am literally falling in and out of dreams and it is all just so chaotic and stressful. I can also like hallucinate the words on my phone screen when my alarm is going off. I basically feel trapped in my body and behind eyes that feel so heavy it can be painful. I think it is worst when my alarm disrupts my sleep but I can't go without an alarm clock. This is a real problem as I end up rushing every single morning and also have spent far more than I should on last min Ubers to get to work on time....

I know I need to work on falling asleep earlier the night before but that is hard too as sometimes my mind is so busy. There are also times this happens when I have had ample rest so I'm really confused. Also had blood tests done - everything fine.