Phantom phone buzz
Jun. 21st, 2011 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mollyringleDoes anyone else experience phantom phone buzz?
I tend to leave my cell phone on vibrate, so as to avoid having a call wake up a sleeping toddler, or chirp loudly in the public library. But that means I've become susceptible to thinking the phone is vibrating when it actually isn't. The car rumbles over a rough patch of pavement, someone scoots a piece of furniture, two pieces of fabric rub against each other--each time, I snap to attention and check the phone, thinking maybe someone called. Ugh. Nope, generally not.
Phantom phone buzz, I tell you. It's a real thing.
I tend to leave my cell phone on vibrate, so as to avoid having a call wake up a sleeping toddler, or chirp loudly in the public library. But that means I've become susceptible to thinking the phone is vibrating when it actually isn't. The car rumbles over a rough patch of pavement, someone scoots a piece of furniture, two pieces of fabric rub against each other--each time, I snap to attention and check the phone, thinking maybe someone called. Ugh. Nope, generally not.
Phantom phone buzz, I tell you. It's a real thing.
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Date: 2011-06-21 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-22 01:34 am (UTC)~j
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Date: 2011-06-22 06:57 pm (UTC)I think I've had an ordinary stomach growl fool me into it too.
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Date: 2011-06-22 10:34 am (UTC)There totally is! Proof that there is a study for everything... And if you don't feel like reading the article, someone wrote an article about it. XD
... sometimes, I think there needs to be a Science Rule 34.
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Date: 2011-06-22 07:00 pm (UTC)Funny about Rule 34. I wasn't aware of it until someone cited it recently, and now I seem to see it everywhere. Another of those little phenomena. No research funds required; I know it happens all the time.
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Date: 2011-06-22 06:25 pm (UTC)I finally turned off the vibrate function and often leave the phone on silent now. If I see you calling, great. If not, I have voicemail. I'll get back to them when I can.
I still get the phantom buzz from time to time though. :D
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