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When phones become too intimate with daily rhythms

I use my phone as my alarm clock so it is the first and last thing I see every day and I feel like it is watching me sleep.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital devices in sacred spaces of rest can disturb the natural transitions between consciousness states.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Buddhist contemplative computing?”

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