12-21-2007, 12:42 PM
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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Phantom Text Messages
I'll be at work (I hate my job BTW), doing my thing, when all of a sudden I feel my pocket vibrating. Now I'm one of those people who gets really excited about texts, when I'm in a group and someones phone vibrates, and everyone pulls theirs out to check, and it turns out it was mine that got the text, I will rub it in all of their faces. Anyway, so I swear I feel my phone vibrate, so I pull it out and NOTHING! Talk about a let down....my mood goes to an absolute high, only to be followed by an absolute low. I'm wondering if it's karma getting back at me for all the times I gloat about getting texts when nobody else is? It's got me on an emotional rollercoaster!
Does this happen to anyone else? I know I'm over-reacting, its just text messages, but it's driving me crazy!
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12-21-2007, 12:45 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Saskatchewan
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Originally Posted by The Fonz
I'll be at work (I hate my job BTW), doing my thing, when all of a sudden I feel my pocket vibrating. Now I'm one of those people who gets really excited about texts, when I'm in a group and someones phone vibrates, and everyone pulls theirs out to check, and it turns out it was mine that got the text, I will rub it in all of their faces. Anyway, so I swear I feel my phone vibrate, so I pull it out and NOTHING! Talk about a let down....my mood goes to an absolute high, only to be followed by an absolute low. I'm wondering if it's karma getting back at me for all the times I gloat about getting texts when nobody else is? It's got me on an emotional rollercoaster!
Does this happen to anyone else? I know I'm over-reacting, its just text messages, but it's driving me crazy!
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I get excited when my phone vibrates in my front pocket, but for different reasons.  ...
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12-21-2007, 12:47 PM
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aka Spike
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Darkest Corners of My Mind
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Originally Posted by Flameschick
I get excited when my phone vibrates in my front pocket, but for different reasons. ... |
Can I have your phone number...
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12-21-2007, 12:49 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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12-21-2007, 12:51 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2005
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I'm not at all popular and I get that occasionally.
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12-21-2007, 12:52 PM
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
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"I secretly want it to ring," he said.
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Haha, thats me
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12-21-2007, 12:52 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Does this happen to anyone else? I know I'm over-reacting, its just text messages, but it's driving me crazy!
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It happens to me all the time and it seems we are not alone.
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Psychologically, the key to deciphering phantom vibrations is "hypothesis-guided search," a theory that describes the selective monitoring of physical sensations, says Jeffrey Janata, director of the behavioral medicine program at University Hospitals in Cleveland. It suggests that when cellphone users are alert to vibrations, they are likely to experience sporadic false alarms, he says.
"You come armed with this template that leads you to be attentive to sensations that represent a cellphone vibrating," Janata says. "And it leads you to over-incorporate non-vibratory sensations and attribute them to the idea that you're receiving a phone call."
Alejandro Lleras, a sensation and perception professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, adds that learning to detect rings and vibrations is part of a perceptual learning process.
"When we learn to respond to a cellphone, we're setting perceptual filters so that we can pick out that (ring or vibration), even under noisy conditions," Lleras says. "As the filter is created, it is imperfect, and false alarms will occur. Random noise is interpreted as a real signal, when in fact, it isn't."
Phantom cellphone vibrations also can be explained by neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to form new connections in response to changes in the environment.
When cellphone users regularly experience sensations, such as vibrating, their brains become wired to those sensations, Janata says.
"Neurological connections that have been used or formed by the sensation of vibrating are easily activated," he says. "They're over-solidified, and similar sensations are incorporated into that template. They become a habit of the brain."
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...llphones_N.htm
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12-21-2007, 12:57 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary
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never happens to me, what network are you on
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12-21-2007, 01:01 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Location: Saskatchewan
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Originally Posted by CMPunk
Can I have your phone number... |
Uh, sure, it's 1-900-643-9963 .....
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12-21-2007, 01:03 PM
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Chick Magnet
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Yeah, happens to me with my Blackberry. I think I feel it, pull it out and nothing... I don't get excited to get messages, but I'm disspointed when there is nothing there.
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12-21-2007, 01:04 PM
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Chick Magnet
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Originally Posted by Wookie
Yeah, happens to me with my Blackberry. I think I feel it, pull it out and nothing... I don't get excited to get messages, but I'm disspointed when there is nothing there.
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Sigh, waiting for Fotze to add to this.
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12-21-2007, 01:06 PM
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aka Spike
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Darkest Corners of My Mind
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Originally Posted by Flameschick
Uh, sure, it's 1-900-643-9963 ..... |
Texting now....
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12-21-2007, 01:08 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Saskatchewan
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Originally Posted by Wookie
Sigh, waiting for Fotze to add to this. |
Maybe you need to pull it out repeatedly to eventually get the reaction you're looking for...
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12-21-2007, 01:09 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Saskatchewan
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Originally Posted by CMPunk
Texting now....
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LOL, I'm at work so it's shutoff.......but I appreciate the unique gesture obviously made in the Christmas spirit..
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12-21-2007, 01:38 PM
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aka Spike
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Darkest Corners of My Mind
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Originally Posted by Flameschick
LOL, I'm at work so it's shutoff.......but I appreciate the unique gesture obviously made in the Christmas spirit..
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Ya...that's it...Christmas spirit.... 
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12-21-2007, 01:42 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Calgary
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I have had this happen. I have felt the vibration on my other leg which is weird. Glad I am not alone in this.
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12-21-2007, 01:45 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Wow... weirdly enough, sometimes I think my phone is vibrating in my pocket, and I'm getting called... turns out its not.
That article blurb that Suave posted is like reading a prescription for these phantom vibrations I get.
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12-21-2007, 03:52 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Do any of you smell burnt toast at the same time?
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12-21-2007, 04:10 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Southern California
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This came up with a group of friends at Staples Center. We all have different carriers and phones yet we've all experienced phantom vibrations with our phones. In the arena we constantly text each other because you can't hear on your phone, we figured it was just us worrying about missing a text that made us hypersensitive.
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