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Do you have phantom vibration syndrome?

  • 09-01-2016 10:44pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35271420
    The sensation that your phone is vibrating in your pocket when it is doing nothing of the sort is not unique.
    Philosopher and assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr Robert Rosenberger describes the feeling as a "hallucination" caused by anxiety, and says it is quite common.
    This is spooky as I have felt this several times, even when I know the phone is not in my pocket.
    Do others feel that their phones have power over them?

    Do you feel the phantom vibrations? 34 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    82% 28 votes
    I send texts and slip the phone down the front of my jeans
    11% 4 votes
    Whatever
    5% 2 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Yes. Happens all the freakin' time.


  • #3
    Valentina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    I don't have my phone on vibrate but I often think I see the little notification light flashing when it's not.

    Nobody ever texts me :(


  • #4
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    *checks phone*


    f*ck


  • #5
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    No it doesn't happen to me ever but then again I'm normal.


  • #6
    Bryant Happy Hanger
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Bryant Happy Hanger


    Yeah I get it
    :(


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    No it doesn't happen to me ever but then again I'm normal.
    What! As opposed to human. :pac:


  • #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Very often.


  • #9
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,846 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Yes I have had that. Go to check the phone thinking it was a text maybe but its not its just that weird feeling. I think going without the phone in your pocket for a day or even two can really help.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #10
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Happens go me all the time. Sometimes I'd go to check my phone only to realise its in a different one to where I felt the vibrating :/


  • #11
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    No it doesn't happen to me ever but then again I'm normal.

    Well la-di-da


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  • #12
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Only when I have a ouija board in my pocket.


  • #13
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    My mobile doesn't find it just flashes
    I'm from the past where we live day to day not second to second


  • #14
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,888 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    http://myvibrations.ie
    or
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdt0SOqPJcg

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #15
    agent graves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭agent graves


    Tigger wrote:
    My mobile doesn't find it just flashes I'm from the past where we live day to day not second to second


    Lay off the drugs marty


  • #16
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    agent graves wrote: »
    Lay off the drugs marty

    It's Marty


  • #17
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I don't keep my mobile in my pocket.

    I'm quite attached to my balls.


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I don't keep my mobile in my pocket.

    I'm quite attached to my balls.
    it's not the phone's vibration that spooks you so! Just don't have the phone down there when you use a bluetooth handset while making calls.


  • #19
    agent graves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭agent graves


    Tigger wrote:
    It's Marty

    Saying something like "my mobile doesn't find it just flashes" puts you in no position to correct someone's spelling ;)


  • #20
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Deleted User wrote: »
    it's not the phone's vibration that spooks you so! Just don't have the phone down there when you use a bluetooth handset while making calls.
    Haha, the bit attached to the brain should be a bigger concern, no?:pac:


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The bluetooth transmits less power than the phone, in other words it cooks your brains slower than the phone cooks your balls.


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  • #22
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    agent graves wrote: »
    Saying something like "my mobile doesn't find it just flashes" puts you in no position to correct someone's spelling ;)

    Auto correct find - ring
    But my name designs a capital


  • #23
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Medusa22


    This happens to me too, though it doesn't really bother me.


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