" Phantom vibrations"

[[R-MOD]Saobh]

Wonder how many of us 'suffer' from this condition, I know i have

If your hipbone is connected to your BlackBerry or your thighbone is connected to your cell phone, those vibrations you're feeling in the car, in your pajamas, in the shower, may be coming from your headbone.
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Cell phone users are reporting feeling vibrations even when their phones aren't ringing.

Many mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies report feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as if they're wearing a cell phone when they're not.

The first time it happened to Jonathan Zaback, a manager at the public relations company Burson-Marsteller, he was out with friends and showing off his new BlackBerry Curve.

"While they were looking at it, I felt this vibration on my side. I reached down to grab it and realized there was no BlackBerry there."

Zaback, who said he keeps his BlackBerry by his bed while he sleeps, checks it if he gets up in the middle of the night and wakes to an alarm on the BlackBerry each day, said this didn't worry him.

"As long as it doesn't mean a tumor is growing on my leg because of my BlackBerry, I'm fine with it," he said. "Some people have biological clocks, I might have a biological BlackBerry."

Some users compare the feeling to a phantom limb, which Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary defines as "an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated."

"Even when I don't have the BlackBerry physically on my person, I do find myself adjusting my posture when I sit to accommodate it," said Dawn Mena, an independent technology consultant based in Thousand Oaks, California. "I also laugh at myself as I reach to unclip it (I swear it's there) and find out I don't even have it on."

Research in the area is scant, but theories abound about the phenomenon, which has been termed "ringxiety" or "fauxcellarm."

Anecdotal evidence suggests "people feel the phone is part of them" and "they're not whole" without their phones, since the phones connect them to the world, said B.J. Fogg, director of research and design at Stanford University's Persuasive Technology Lab.
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[Fullforce]

Blackberryitis effects 4 in 5 People. Donate today.

[NickO]

^lol

I guess its the same thing as when you aren't wearing your watch..

Mine just broke so It feels horribly weird without it on my wrist. ^^

[Expendable Grunt]

I get something like this with IM messages. I'll be doing something and then I'll hear the trillian message sound and alt tab out of something or look up.

Most disturbing is when I'm not even near a PC and hear it.

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

I just hear voices in my head !
But I know the feeling although I am not a cell phone/ technology junkie but if I wear shorts without a back pocket the lack of weight from a wallet always has me checking.

[sekiryu]

I don't have this problem....probably because the only calls I get are wrong numbers from people who are completely incomprehensible.

I had the same damn number call me 6 times in two weeks.

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

Originally Posted by sekiryu

I don't have this problem....probably because the only calls I get are wrong numbers from people who are completely incomprehensible.

I had the same damn number call me 6 times in two weeks.

LOL
My phone has Nextel and late night on the weekends I usually get a wrong numbers chirping and they never believe me when I say they have the wrong number and it mostly devolves into a cussing match until I turn the phone off.

[JohnnyPissoff]

A few good years of Sailing and third world living has helped divorce me from constantly needing to be "in touch" and being an out-right phone junkie. Every device freak should take that therapy...in fact I believe I'm in dire need of a booster treatment now.

[HughJass]

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