Cell phones are handy devices, but a new psychological problem called "ringxiety" has come along with their use. A new study found that two thirds of the people surveyed reported hearing their phone ring or feeling it vibrate when it had not actually rung. The more frequently a person uses their phone, the more often they reported hearing a phantom ring.
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I've suffered from that debilitating condition from the very first time I carried a cell phone (back in brick days). Even before that, I had a job where I had to carry a pager set on "vibrate," and I was forever feeling the thing going off when it wasn't. The odd bit is that this was a monster of a device, and its vibrate mode could rattle teeth.
In any case, I demand drug therapy. Unless the drug doesn't get me high, in which case there's no point.
In any case, I demand drug therapy. Unless the drug doesn't get me high, in which case there's no point.
Indeed.
Heh heh, I thought it was just me. Haven't heard a ring, but I have definitely experienced phantom vibrations. Curiously enough, I seem to feel them more often when I've turned the phone off and put it aside somewhere.
This is not uncommon. Recall how, at times in the past, you thought you may have heard the doorbell ring or the phone, usually from some distance, or vaguely, and then responded to find no one at the door or on the phone?
This is referred to as a form of auditory pareidolia. Pareidolia refers to the possibly hard-wired or genetic "circuitry" in the brain which is activated in babies to recognize human faces, or the fact that, say if you look at a piece of plywood, with knotholes, you can make out what appear to be surreally distorted "faces," as is true in perceiving peripherally other things which suggest on some level a face.
I would posit that the infamous "Face on Mars", at least as shown in the old 1976 Viking photos, is a pertinent example.
Weird, huh? 8^)
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