I’m in. Normal mode.
Thank you for this amazing prompt. I don’t even know how many hours of YT I watch a day, but it is pretty much always on, and I typically fall asleep to a video and check it in the morning. I know I’m losing so much time to distraction and comparisons.
Hey, did you guys see that new video with the cat playing piano…whoops, wrong thread.
Ok, i failed. 
Just get right back up and start again. We’re cheering you on!
Same here, man. It has gotten so intense at times…checking in the morning…playing videos in the car LOL. It’s not just that you’ll save time, you’ll rediscover yourself!
How exciting! What were you doing with your online radio show?
Day 3 is done. I did good. Yesterday late afternoon I was in a bad mood because I wanted to work on music badly, but I was so so tired after getting insufficient sleep all week. So the mood was really strong and I know that if I had turned on YT, I would have masked that mood and not really registered how imbalanced of a sleep pattern I got last week.
So I went to bed early and got a great night’s sleep and I felt really good today. Took a morning walk listening to my old minidisc player.
I am already noticing the awkwardness of not having YT to turn on when I’m trying to work or getting ready in the morning or going to bed. I am also already starting to get excited again about some ideas. But it’s early days. Weirdly I have had nightmares the past two nights, falling asleep without YT. Two of my worst night’s sleeps lately. Is my mind revolting? I keep catching myself opening up a tab in my browser to fire up YT and then I remember, oh yeah. I have removed the app from my phone and iPad so I can’t accidentally fire it up. This is intense.
Boredom is the desire for desire. --Leo Tolstoy
The above quote explains to a large extent why I look at gear threads on this forum. I am not a YouTube addict. I can go weeks without looking at it. But I wonder if there is a common denominator in these forums and in YouTube: desiring desire.
Almost three years ago I stopped, cold turkey, listening to the radio in my car on my commutes to and between my multiple school sites. I found that the vacuum left by turning off the radio was filled by reflection, frequently about the teaching I’d just done, or by an increased focus on the act of driving. Both good things, IMO.
I wish all of you luck on your fast!
Great thread to be honest.
Will not join yet, but will follow to see how things progress for others.
Eventually will try it myself, it’s still my biggest “addiction” so i am very interested to squash it down to a controlled using, like i did with other social media platforms
Day 5 done. What a wild ride. I’m starting to remember that there really is a world outside the internet. It’s alluring.
But I’m noticing some very interesting similarities going on here…
I was just about to share the same thing. Starting on the very second day of the YT fast, I started having extremely vivid dreams. Super detailed. Yes, 2 or 3 of them have been really uncomfortable and related to some fears…especially fears about disappointing other people (my big “issue” in life, LOL).
I think there are at least 2 possible reasons for this:
Who knows. I love being part of an experiment in real time. It’s not like I’m going to sleepwalk or gnaw off my own arm…
“The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.” – Eckhart Tolle 
My dreams were also very “on the nose” with insecurities in my current life situation and also VERY vivid. I could almost replay it perfectly. Weird. My dog woke me up this morning at 4:30, so I can’t blame the dreams, but I still had them, although I did not remember it after I got up.
Yesterday I caught myself opening a browser tab to fire up YT 5 times. Today it was 3 times. It’s crazy.
Tonight I gave my dog a bath. And I noticed I could make the snap decision to do it and felt little to no resistance, where as normally I would him and haw for 2 hours while feeling like I needed to close the thread on the latest rabbit hole I was following down the TY tunnel system.
These are my obvservations from day 4 (I’m one behind the thread).
such a wonderful idea, i try my best to just listen to music and not yapping on youtube but its so hard. this is also a reminder to myself to put my music on other platforms… i will attempt to try this on my own terms at some point but thank you for this reminder to chill out on the consumption on the toob
its a show where i play tunes from people with less than 10,000 followers on soundcloud. my stream got pretty deep into a side of dubstep that i now find unlistenable so i took some time off. finding what genres are tickling my fancy these days, its nice to start over a little bit
Hahah, what a turnaround. 
I’m still going strong…but oooofff, yesterday I wanted to watch a little travel doc on Amazon Prime and I conveniently “blurred the lines” and watched it. = (
Back on my feet today. Still having amazingly vivid dreams…getting kind of moody, too.
Hi, I’m in, I’ve been in.
Forgot to check in with y’all–I probably won’t be around much because I’m also, less formally, cutting down on screen time generally. But I appreciate our solidarity in this.
Best wishes to all!
Staying strong here - how’s everyone else holding up?
Any new hobbies to report w the extra time gained back? Been diving into ChucK programming and podcasts here.