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Technology-induced Psychosis

Does anyone else get that tingling sensation in their leg that feels unmistakeably like a cell phone ringing, except there's no cell phone present? :blink:
 
It comes and goes for me. I'll have it a week or two then it will go away for months.

When it starts happening I always start taking my phone out of my pocket when I'm sitting down instead of keeping it in there.
 
I've heard of all kinds of auditory, visual, olfactory, and other sensory flashbacks, but never a tingling in the leg when there's no cell phone present flashback. I only get those when the cell phone's actually on my belt. The 21st Century version of hearing (phone) bells ringing.
 
It's a similar thing to having a phantom sensations in a limb that is missing. Your brain views tools like cell phones as extensions of the body. It's super interesting, do a google scholar search and prepare to learn stuff.
 
It's a similar thing to having a phantom sensations in a limb that is missing. Your brain views tools like cell phones as extensions of the body. It's super interesting, do a google scholar search and prepare to learn stuff.

Interesting! Odd thing is that tort law treats tools/objects as extensions of the person, too. If you're holding a cell phone and I throw a rock at you, but the rock only hits the cell phone and no part of your body, it's treated as a battery to you, personally.

Not to threadjack, but yes, I often feel my phone "ringing" on vibrate even when it isn't.

This from a person who adamantly refused to get a cell until a few years ago. My family staged an "intervention" (seriously) and I was bullied into getting one.
 
Anybody get a tingly sensation in your toes.....


that spreads up to your feet.....


and then your legs....


and then suddenly.....



you feel like....






D A N C I N G !




Yeah, me neither.....


:w00t:
 
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