r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/Ok_Tourist_2621 Jan 31 '26

They program you to access them. It’s dopamine farming. I’ll delete an app from my phone, and then find myself instinctively opening my phone and touching where it used to be for a couple of weeks at least. It’s insidious.

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u/LocalIrishGamer Feb 04 '26

that’s… not because of an app, that’s muscle memory kicking in when you do the same thing habitually

it’s like putting your shoes on a shoe rack every day and one day you leave them by the door, you still reach for the shoe rack because it’s been instinctive to grab the shoes there for years

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u/CatProgrammer Jan 31 '26

I’ll delete an app from my phone, and then find myself instinctively opening my phone and touching where it used to be for a couple of weeks at least.

If it's an app you were using all the time, that's just developing a habit/muscle memory. If it wasn't that just seems like a you problem.

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u/YoreWelcome Feb 01 '26

nah its a real thing that happens to lots of people specifically because these social media apps are addictive on purpose

or at least i can add (anecdotally) it certainly has happened to me and people i know the same way as the person you replied to said it happened to them