Ever feel your cell phone vibrate…even when the phone is nowhere near your person? I’ve had this sensation once or twice a week for years now, a faint buzzing on my hip where I carry my cell phone. Before that it was a buzzing in my pocket (when I stashed my smaller phone in my shirtpocket.)
I don’t know if my cell is turning me into a mental case, or if possibly it has conditioned me to be able to “sense” some electromagnetic frequencies. Wired has an article in experiments in this type of extra-sensory perception. For instance, using a specially designed belt, one participant grew to have a nearly infallible innate sense of direction. Similar experiments were done with people who had rare earth magnets implanted in their fingertips. Even after the magnets were removed they could detect the presence of ferrous metals.
So maybe there is something to this phantom cell phone buzz. If you’ve experienced “the buzz” drop me a line in the comments.
[Via BoingBoing]