https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vibration_syndrome
One of the names given on Wikipedia is a “fauxcellarm” which I love.
“Researcher Michelle Drouin found that almost 9 out of 10 undergraduates at her college experienced phantom vibrations” so it’s certainly common.
The ridges of the weave in my pants sometimes produces a vibration that is similar frequency and intensity as my phone vibrate. It totally triggers the check the phone reflex even if it happens while my phone is in my hand.
Used to when I had a flip phone. But my phone now has been on silent for years.
Vibration “ringtones” should be a thing. Less likely to confuse with phantom sensations and other people’s phones vibrating.
I’m sure Android (well, Samsung anyway) had this years ago… I remember it on my i7500 back in the 1.5 days.
I wonder when it went missing…
I have a different vibration pattern for my wife’s calls and messages, work calls and messages, and all others. I swear I will get phantom vibrations from a specific set randomly.
I cannot believe buttplugs have phones beat in this area.
Innovation industry!
I think nothing phones have it
there are, back from polyphonic times
This has been a feature on iOS for a long time—I’ve still got some custom patterns from back in high school
Like, distinctive vibration patterns.
Hmm, surely it’s been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.
I’ve got a thing in my drawer that’ll do that. Doesn’t take calls, though.
Just imagine if it had Bluetooth so you could use it as a silent ringer though
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Yeah. Sometimes I hear the message ding too. Guess I’m lonely.
I keep my personal phone in one pocket and my work phone in the other, I frequently feel the vibration in the wrong pocket and end up checking the wrong phone
I thought I was getting these but then realized that my Fingerprint reader was triggering in my pocket and it does a very light vibration on a failed Fingerprint attempt.
Yes, but additionally I started getting actual random vibrations from my phone with no notifications. After a while I discovered that if I put my phone on a library book, my phone will buzz. I tested it over and over before believing it. Guess it interacts with the electronic tag the library uses for checkouts.
30 years ago we called this Beepilepsy. You fail History.
Yes
Apparently muscle twitches and spasms. Perfectly normal and common. Before phones, we all got them but just ignored them and filtered them out. Phones trained us to monitor for them so we now notice them.
Not since I turned off sound and vibration in my phone.
Before that, yes.
A long time ago.
These days, I keep both audio and vibration turned off. If somebody needs to reach me they will want to message and then wait until I check.
I don’t cause I don’t use vibration that often
I remember talking about this with friends 10+ years ago. Haven’t noticed it or heard anyone else mention it since, but I don’t know why.
