Every nine of 10 smart-phone users suffer from phantom vibration syndrome, where the user mistakenly thinks that phone is vibrating, claims a study. Learned bodily habits cause this phenomenon, says Dr Robert Rosenberger, philosopher and assistant professor at Georgia institute of technology.
The research claims that leaving the phone in pocket becomes ‘part of their body,’ in same way as wearing glasses can, and it becomes easy to forget that they were placed there.
“People then perceive other sensations such as movement of clothing of muscle spasms as vibrations from your mobile, but it’s just a hallucination,” said the professor referring the research which was published in the Computers in Human Behaviour journal.
He further revealed that a recent study conducted on undergraduates reported that 90% of them experienced the phantom vibrations.
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