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Have you ever experienced such a strange thing: you think your phone vibrates or rings, but nothing happens when you pick it up?

Is the phone ringing? Turns out it was a hallucination. | Giphy researchers named it hallucination vibration / ringing syndrome (Phantom vibration/ringing syndrome).

This is not uncommon, and many people may have the experience of feeling the phone ringing unexpectedly, but not looking at it when they pick it up. Some people even experience auditory hallucinations several times a day.

In 2010, 176 doctors who regularly carried pagers and mobile phones were surveyed, and 68% of them had experienced hallucinatory vibrations. 111 people have this illusion every month, every week or every day. For students, such hallucinations are more common, with 89% of students having such hallucinations.

Auditory hallucination ringing / vibration is a common phenomenon. | Pixabay but more questions follow: what on earth makes our brains feel something that hasn't happened before?

Scientist Rosberg explained that when the hallucination bell / vibration occurs, it may be that our cerebral cortex misunderstands the incoming signal. When we are expecting a phone call, any change in the environment may be misunderstood by us as the phone vibrating or ringing, such as the background sound of the TV, the sound of the hairdryer and bath, or even the friction of clothes.

And why this illusion happens may also have something to do with our state.

Generally speaking, the sound frequency that humans can hear is about 20Hz~20000Hz, but it is the most sensitive to the frequency of 1000~6000Hz. Because the shape of the outside of our ear and ear canal amplifies the frequency of this part.

Some high-pitched music and electronic tones are used in many advertisements in order to raise people's vigilance and even achieve the effect of "brainwashing".

And the classic ringtone happens to fall within this range. Similar to it are the "death" alarm clock when you get up every day and the cry of a baby. Sometimes they sound harsh.

A survey found that new mothers will have another hallucination-baby crying hallucinations: obviously the baby is not crying, but always feel that TA is crying.

Cell phone ringtone hallucinations are similar to this phenomenon: the crying of an audible baby is seen as a mother being vigilant about the baby's situation, so the same may be true of phonetic ringtones?

New parents always hear "the baby is crying", which may be the same reason. | Doctor Pixabay is a very vigilant profession because they should always pay attention to the sound of pagers. And their hallucinations of vibrating / ringing are common. Studies have shown that this situation is more likely to occur when there is stress.

The researchers surveyed a group of interns for six months and found that their hallucinations, vibrations, anxiety and depression all continued to rise, and the stress and hallucinations were likely to interact with each other and work together under the brain's response mechanism.

Doctors tend to be highly vigilant professions, and hallucinations of ringing bells may be more common. | screenshot of "pain is inevitable". For people who are more dependent on mobile phones (such as young people and students), the illusion of ringing is not only because of vigilance. Or because we can't live without mobile phones at many times in our lives, many studies have reported that if you take away a person's cell phone, TA will feel anxious and at a loss as to what to do.

When we want to get information from our mobile phone, this feeling of tension, anxiety or expectation may be projected into vibrations and rings by the brain.

However, hallucination ringing must be the product of technological development, and the people who often have such hallucinations are also those who often use mobile phones. The researchers speculate that hallucinations must not be so obvious for older people who don't use cell phones very often. Today, hallucination rings and vibrations are not just phone calls, but also messages from text messages and social networks.

If you use your cell phone frequently, you are more likely to have the illusion of ringing. | although this situation often occurs in the image source network, there is no need to worry too much. Because in the survey also found that, in fact, most people do not think that this illusion will cause great trouble to life.

But if it has become an inevitable habit to take out your phone from time to time, and even feel anxious, distracted, or even inattentive while driving, it can still have a negative impact.

Therefore, the researchers also suggest that if this situation affects daily life, you can change the ringtone, reduce the time you spend using your phone, or find time to turn off ringtones and message alerts to relax your brain.

If you are really bothered by "hallucination", you can turn off your phone and relax sometime. | Pixabay has not only this illusion anyway, but also: go to bed early tonight / lose weight successfully / this can kill back.

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