Phantom vibration syndrome

Posted on Friday, 13 July | Comments

La tecnología trae cosas buena y malas. Las malas son, sobre todo cuando se abusa de ella. Según este estudio, la gente que es demasiado dependiente de sus celulares puede desarrollar varios trastornos, como una especie de alucinaciones llamadas Sindrome de Vibración fantasma.

Supongo que es un fenómeno similar a lo que le pasa a las mujeres cuando tienen bebés, que lo oyen chillar en todos lados…

Lately, I’ve found myself doing something I used to make fun of my mother for: holding my purse up to my face to hear if the phone inside is vibrating. Men aren’t immune to this embarrassment either, many a back pocket pat down has been observed when a guy thinks his phone is ringing. This is called “phantom vibration syndrome” or vibranxiety. The phenomenon occurs when one feels the familiar vibrating of a phone even though no actual alert, notification or call has happened.

Phantom vibrations happen so frequently and to so many people that researchers from Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts conducted a study to find out why. The study described the imagined ring as a “hallucination” that 68 percent of the medical center’s staff had experienced. Eighty-seven percent of those people felt the vibrations weekly, 13 percent daily. Michael Rothberg conducted the study and said that his team’s hypothesis was based on the process the brain goes through to deal with the vast amount of sensory input it receives on a daily basis. A smartphone user’s brain is so attentive to vibrations, that it anticipates them, creating a false vibration when any stimulus is experienced…

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