Your Phone Is Becoming Part Of You!
If you ever reach for your vibrating smartphone in your pocket only to find it didn’t buzz, you’re not alone. Researchers say it’s a real psychological issue called “phantom vibration syndrome.”
Several previous studies that survey college students have found that the majority experience a “phantom vibration” once every two weeks.
Georgia Tech professor Robert Rosenberger it’s actually a hallucination, and chalks it up to our phones giving us a new “learned bodily habit.”
He says, “The phone actually becomes a part of you, and you become trained to perceive the phone’s vibrations as an incoming call or text.”
