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The 'Phantom Vibration' of the Mobile in the Pocket We All Feel: Psychologist Explains It, and It Is to Be Frightened

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The ‘phantom vibration’ of the mobile in your pocket is that strange feeling that makes you take your hand to your pants, convinced of having received a notification, to discover that absolutely nothing has happened. You’re not alone, you’re not going crazy. In fact, this phenomenon is an incredibly common tactile hallucination in the digital age that affects most users. It’s a tic so widespread that science has already named it and found a fasc…
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The ‘phantom vibration’ of the mobile in your pocket is that strange feeling that makes you take your hand to your pants, convinced of having received a notification, to discover that absolutely nothing has happened. You’re not alone, you’re not going crazy. In fact, this phenomenon is an incredibly common tactile hallucination in the digital age that affects most users. It’s a tic so widespread that science has already named it and found a fasc…

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Qué! broke the news in on Friday, August 15, 2025.
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