Sometimes I get anxious when I hear a low rumble that resembles my phone when it is on vibrate or hear a similar phone ringing. Anxious primarily because I'm probably dodging someone's call. Does this happen to anyone else, or with anything else (like getting angry when you hear an alarm clock go off on TV or Radio)?
Posted Dec 11, 2009, 5:41 PM UTC
No, because no one calls me.
That too.
No, because I'm not a teenager.
Yeah, when I was a teenager, I would always have a mini panic attack when my phone rang, but these days I just go with it.
I think it has to do with the fear of my mother having discovered something I've done.
Yes! When I hear a Panasonic phone ring on tv I always think it's mine. I will be driving, and something will make me think that my phone is buzzing. It's usually bass or a bump though, I've discovered.
For about a year after I started keeping a cell phone in my left pocket all the time, I would get phantom vibrations, but I've not had it happen in well over 2 years.
I randomly feel my left leg vibrate and it feels EXACTLY like the vibrate from my cell phone. I have also heard what sounded like a phone vibrating a few times before when there was nothing. It freaks me out when it happens because I really believe I felt/heard it.
edit: I smoke weed daily, have done opiates, took adderall many times to study and have done hallucinogens several times(pretty done with that though).
Yes, because I'm a teenager.
I always attributed this to too many hallucinogens. Have you guys done drugs?
I feel my phone vibrate when it's not. Also used to hear my phone ring in all sorts of music that I'd listen to.
I'm sure part of it is conditioning, where your brain is used to hearing that sound, which is an important sound to you, so it tried to pick it out in other barrages of sound.
The vibration thing I don't get, but I assume it could be something the same.
Anyway, I always thought I was wigged out from drugs or something, I'd like to hear that normal, stable individuals WITHOUT hallucinogen history experience this same phenomenon.
EDIT: None of this makes me anxious, I just experience the ring/vibrate when it's not actually happening
I used to do the phone in pocket vibrate thing, and I would OFTEN, with no hallucinogens whatsoever, get phatom ring when my phone wasn't even in my pocket.
After years of blackberry use for work, I can't stand the sound of a phone ringing or the sound/feeling of anything vibrating.
Those things are a nightmare.
Yes, but my iPhone is a little buggy. Sometimes it vibrates for no reason, other times it doesn't when I get a text.
I used to get anxious about my phone ringing when I was in the army. Especially on weekends and when off duty. If someone in the unit gets a DUI, the whole unit had to come in, absolutely retarded. If they needed someone for a detail and you are lower ranked, you can look forward to working on Saturday/Sunday.
Pavlov's Cellphone
No anxiety, but phantom vibrations.
I haven't had a phone for a while now, but occasionally I try to take it out of my pocket, when my imaginary phone is buzzing.
The proper word is ringxiety.
I hear it's from wearing the tight jeans that are popular with the kids these days. It's cutting off circulation. I mean, it's probably more complex than that I'm just going off of what I remember.
I have been cruising around without a phone for about 6 months now and I still get this sometimes, although not as often anymore.
I sometimes think my phone is vibrating when it's not but I always thought it was the nerve damage.
I suggest The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. You just need to chill the fuck out.
I always keep my cell in my right pants pocket and usually on vibrate. I often experience phantom vibrations in my right leg.
This, especially because I often don't feel it vibrate when it actually does. And no, no drugs for me.
I don't do drugs either. But I will wake up at night thinking I heard my alarm only to wake up an hour earlier
It helps to change your ringtone every now and then.
Eh, I keep it on vibrate because a lot of the time I'm walking around with headphones in, and I don't want to piss off people around me with a phone going off that I can't hear. In theory, this works great - in practice, I miss calls all the time.
This, even if I know my phone is elsewhere, even if it's in my fucking hand, EVEN IF I'M FUCKING TALKING ON IT
I mistake leg vibrations for cell phone vibrations too.
/no drugs at all. I don't do any illicit drugs (and haven't done any...ever)
Have you ever done hallucinogens?
Nope.
Great. Thanks for answering, it definitely was a genuine question.
Even that sounds like sarcasm, I think I've been on Reddit too long.