u/indiemindset

I feel like I'm slipping into an alternate dimension or some kind of astral plane, I can't even describe it with words. I have these memories I've never experienced in daily life come rushing into me, then as I come to, I try my best to remember them but they just fade away. Am I the only one or has anyone else experienced this?

I'm gonna sound like a toil foil hat guy when I say this, but all of us epilepsy warriors know that during seizures the electrical activity in our brain goes from normal to unhinged and all out crazy!

Normal life is like listening to your standard, everyday radio station frequency, but when a seizure happens, your brain changes frequencies, reality goes static and starts buzzing and glitching (just like a radio does when you change its frequency) and we can experience glimmers of other things that are out there, like when you hear faint noises of other radio stations when you change the dial to hear other radio frequencies.

I dunno. I may be crazy, I may be taking too much lamotrigine and topiramate and brivaracetam and cenobamate and levetiracetam all at once but yeah, that's my weird theory.

Sorry if it offends anyone and I wish everyone else going through the same struggles as myself all the best!

Oh, and message if you want me to delve deeper into this theory.

Here's the details...

- Bought the phone brand new upon release in 2019

- I've kept it on Low Power Mode for most of its lifetime

- I use it daily for calls, messages, social media, internet browsing and taking photos

- I don't use it for gaming, the only other apps I use are AI apps, Spotify, YouTube and a few other streaming services

- It's had a high quality case it's entire lifetime along with a screen protector

- Every 6 months or so I deep clean the speaker/mic/charging port.

- Daily screen time is between 2-3 hours (although this was higher when I first got the phone, maybe around 4-6 hours)

- I'm running the latest iOS 26.5 update

- It came with 128GB of storage and has 22GB left out of this

- Battery health is sitting at 72%, but this still lasts me a full day when just using it for the basic things I need it to do (calls, messages, occasional social media browsing)

- Camera still works a charm (smooth 4k 60fps video, night mode, and just high quality pictures overall)

- Absolutely zero lagging, zero glitching, everything still runs so smoothly

So my question is this.... how the hell is my phone functioning so well after all of these years?!

I have a friend who had an iPhone 14 and they replaced theirs this year because it was lagging and they were having issues with the camera. For example, they'd type and sometimes the characters would delay for maybe half a second before popping up on the screen. They showed me the camera and the camera and photos apps just seemed glitchy to me (I don't really know how to describe it). They'd open apps and the app opening animation (when the app icon expands to open the app fully) would sometimes play twice or flicker fast when opening. And if I was in the same boat as them, I would've upgraded too.

I've heard multiple accounts of people with iPhones newer than the iPhone 11 encountering the same and similar issues to what I just described.

I honestly have no clue how my phone is still functioning so smoothly.

Share your stories if you're having the same experience as me! I'd love to hear about your iPhone 11 experience!