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Your brain triggers “phantom phone vibrations” because it’s addicted to being needed.

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Phantom vibration syndrome is a real, common experience where people feel their phone vibrate when it hasn't. Researchers link it to expectation and sensory misinterpretation, not to addiction to being needed.

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