I OFTEN FEEL LIKE MY CELL PHONE IS VIBRATING IN MY POCKET, EVEN THOUGH NO ONE IS CALLING. THIS IMAGINARY BUZZING IS SLOWLY DRIVING ME MAD. CAN I MAKE IT STOP?

摘要

As the late, great Michael Jackson was fond of crooning, you are not alone. So many of your fellow humans are vexed by this phenomenon that it has officially been dubbed phantom vibration syndrome. A 2010 survey at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, found that 68 percent of the hospital's staff suffered from PVS. Those results suggest that billions of cell phone users regularly experience tactile hallucinations and thus have something vaguely in common with meth addicts who feel insects crawling beneath their flesh.