What Causes Phantom Phone Vibrations?
And should we be concerned?
Do you ever feel like your phone is vibrating when it isn’t? Maybe it’s in your pocket, maybe it’s in another room. But either way, you feel like your leg is vibrating. Are we all so addicted to our devices that we just get this feeling even when it isn’t real? Let’s take a look at why this happens, ask ourselves how concerned we should be about it, and see what we can do to stop it.
Phantom Vibrations
This is a real phenomenon and it’s called “phantom vibration syndrome”. Studies show that up to 90% of the population have claimed to experience this. That is a lot! It’s hard to get 90% of the population to do much of anything these days. But what are people actually experiencing here?
Our brains are trained to react whenever we hear a phone or detect a vibrating phone in our pockets. This habit is engrained deeply into our psyche. It’s so deep that we are on alert for it at all times. Sometimes we’re so eager for the vibration to happen, we think that we feel it when we actually don’t. It might just be the fabric of your pocket grazing your thigh, it might be the wind or nothing at all.
This is really just a minor obsession for our brain. It’s similar to a habit of constantly checking the clock when you know your alarm…
