Here's How Your Smartphone Is Making You Hallucinate

You know the phantom vibrate? When you check your phone to find there was actually nothing there?

You're not alone. A study carried out by Dr Michelle Drouin, from Indiana University-Purdue, found that 89% of university undergraduates had experienced this illusion. 

The theory has been supported by Georgia Tech School of Public Policy professor Robert Rosenberger, who believes it is caused by a “learned bodily habit”.

He believes when something brushes against someone's pocket area or leg, they will often think the sensation is a phone vibration which causes them to check their phone.

In an interview with the BBC, Rosenberger explained: “The phone actually becomes a part of you, and you become trained to perceive the phone’s vibrations as an income call or text.

“We have this sort of readiness to experience a call. We feel something and we think, OK, that could be a call.”

This is believed to affect millions worldwide but experts don't believe that it's harmful. 

Imagine telling someone 100 years ago that this phenomenon would exist!

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