Damn, not another phantom call!!!!!
Well, for a while there I though I was a little crazy, thinking that my cell was vibrating only to find that there was no call.
Good vibrations? Bad? None at all? – UsaToday.com: Some call it “phantom vibration syndrome.” Others prefer “vibranxiety” — the feeling when you answer your vibrating cellphone, only to find it never vibrated at all.
“It started happening about three years ago, when I first got a cellphone,” says Canadian Steven Garrity, 28, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. “I’d be sitting on the couch and feel my phone start to vibrate, so I’d reach down and pull it out of my pocket. But the only thing ringing was my thigh.”
This makes me wonder if people feel phantom vibrations for using another type of device that also vibrates… ;)
You forgot the line where it states only men complain about this problem.
I find that when i put my phone on its dock, which is placed close to my tv and computer speakers, the speakers receive interference just before a call/sms comes in.
Occasionally i here this intereference when no call/sms comes through.
i wonder if its caused by the same thing
I have had this feeling before. My phone phantom-rings about once a week or so.
This happens to me every some often. I generally happens while I am in my car driving. My hypothesis is that every once in a while the sound coming from my speakers hits just the right note to cause sympathetic vibration (a.k.a. resonance) in my phone.
The speaker noise is caused by RF interference when the cell phone performs the “handshake” sync with the cell tower. Sometimes the “handshake” is only for housekeeping purposes, hence the interference with no message.
#4, Alix, that’s right! Never forget to turn off that cell before going to bed if you park it next to speakers. Wakes me every time, darnit.
If the Republicans hadn’t fixed the last two elections, we wouldn’t have this cell phone vibration problem causing massive deaths overseas. Impeach Bush Now!
#6 – OFTLO, whatever you’re on today, I want some! 🙂
jeez, my man has that too. vibranxiety… ROFL!
may the lord be praised for giving us girls handbags……. 😉
I had a brain aneurysm from reading #3’s response.
this happens to me all the time. problem is, it only happens when my phone is not in my pocket. it’s usually back on my desk. i’m guessing it’s my leg being far to used to having a phone for company.
I have had this happen to me as well, and I am a female. I’ll have my purse sitting next to me, and SWEAR that I can feel the strap vibrating on my shoulder – I pull it out & no call.
And, to answer your question – no, phantom vibrations seem secular to cell phones only. ….and you should be ashamed of yourself. 😉
second life 4 eva may be on to something! Every since I stopped using the belt clip for my phone and started to put it away in my bookbag instead, I stopped feeling these vibrations. I thought it was only feeling them since I get a lot of muscle twitches!
Hey! it is likely just your quad muscles doing a little dance. a little muscle twitch, happens to me a couple of times a week and at first I was always reaching for my phone since it is right under the pocket.
Typo in the title? (Mobiles for out U.K. readers) should it read (Mobiles for our U.K. readers)?
I bought a new digital alarm clock/radio the other day. I sat my RAZR beside it an when I got a call the display on the clock went NUTS.
It was kind of strange to wake up (because of the phone ringing) and looking to see what time it was and it being a completely random and constantly changing set of numbers.
I used to get this with a receive only pager. interesting?
I quit using the vibrator function because of this. It happened all the time.
I’ve been experiencing it for years before I had a cell phone. I had the problem with my beeper. And I still have to turn down the music in the car because I think I’m getting a call. Turns out it’s the music that’s vibrating my phone – Too damn old and deaf, so I’m turning the music up too loud!
I get this quite often. I think the anxiety came from years of being on call–day and night. The paranoia of missing a call found me checking my phone pretty much on an hourly basis in addition to the phantom vibrations causing me to check belt and pocket.
Three years later and I still get the phantom vibration on occasion…
this happens occasionally to me, I figures the nerves in my thigh were just wiggin out
I have had this sensation as well. However, I have an alternate theory. Perhaps, we have been having this sensation (and ignoring it) for centuries. Now however, we are conditioning ourselves to respond to it by associating the similar feeling of the vibrating phone with the “reward” of the call.
Yeah, I salivate when the phone rings.
i don’t use vibrate. it makes me jump and yelp every time.
#13 (mortamyr), you get a lot of muscle twitches because you drink too much caffeine.
#12, (Some Lady), well, good to know 🙂
OMG I thought I was the only one who experienced this I never told anyone cause it seemed so ridiculous. 😛 This is pretty interesting stuff. 😛
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Hi, I just had the phantom cell phone vibe on my leg again when I was out for a walk this afternoon. I noticed I missed a call at approximately the same time. I believe there is a connection between the actual phone, it’s ringing, and the muscle twitching.
A previous blogger mentioned being from PEI. My grandfather had a business there btw.
This stuff seems really weird, unless you’ve been following the wireless research for some years. Fact is, there are hundreds of research studies showing that the body is not indifferent to wireless radiation. Half of all the studies and most of the independent studies show bioeffects of various kinds, including but not limited to impacts on the nervous system. So, why not your leg, or whatever?
I know you almost never hear anything about this in the US, but that doesn’t mean the facts aren’t out there. You know, the regular thing—keep it all very “gray” while the business grows. Lessons well learned from tobacco.
If you are serious about wanting to know more about this, see the latest review of the science done by a group of international, independent scientists and public health experts posted at:
http://www.bioinitiative.org. (summary for the public at the beginning). Check out websites like http://www.microwavenews.com, http://www.emrpolicy.org, http://www.energyfields.org and their links. Also see the excellent series of articles online by Nancy McVicar et al in Florida’s Sun-Sentinel newspaper, the only newspaper in the country brave enough to cover it in any depth.
The European Union, German government, and UK Health Protection chief all have issued warnings to the public that cell phones, cell towers, wi-fi, blackberries, etc. may pose a risk to health in recent months.
Consider yourselves lucky that your body may have an early warning system.
edison,
Thank you for your post, and the links provided. I was really becoming disapointed that so many people have setteled on the idea that this is your mind anticipating a phone call and willing a fake vibration.
There was no way I could possibly belive that was the answer, even though I read an article from Fox news (dont even get me started on the lack of journalism coming out of that propaganda machine), and an affiliate of Columbia Univeristy
I would have thought more people would be aware of electro-magnetic fields and the posible harm from its radiation. shit, I work in a networking field, and most Wireless access points come with warnings about being in close range of the antena signal radiation.
Thank you again for the links, that was exactly the lead I was looking for.
To those who settled for that obviously bullshit answer… Im sorry… good luck… I dont know what the hell is wrong with you.
Ryan