Phantom Pocket Vibration Syndrome

You may have heard the story about the time all of the Binghamton police officers showed up at my house because I'd turned off my cell phone and didn't know my in-laws were trying to get in touch with me and they called the police, thinking that something had happened to me.

Since then, I sleep with my cell phone on because having the Binghamton police force show up was mortifying. The upside to sleeping with my phone next to me is that my in-laws are able to get in touch with me all hours of the day and night. The bad news is that my in-laws are able to get in touch with me all hours of the day and night. Oh, and that I wake up all night whenever I 'think' I hear my phone vibrating.

Are you like me? Do you suffer from Phantom Pocket Vibration Syndrome? This happens with you're convinced that your phone just vibrated and you got a text message when you didn't.

Phantom Vibration Syndrome isn't a joke.

Dr. Michelle Drouin is a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University found that 89% of the students in her study experienced phantom phone vibrations when their phones weren't really vibrating. The study also found the students, who were dependent on texts and social media posts, were more anxious when their phones weren't actually vibrating.

[via Psychology Today]