Hotel vibration

In the case of hallucinating the vibration of the mobile phone, our brain will interpret other stimuli as message notifications, similar to vibration. It may be a familiar noise, or it may be a common muscle twitch. There is another reason why we want to receive news notifications, which makes our brains more likely to interpret other exciting or even not exciting things as mobile phone vibrations.

It is not necessarily a bad thing that our signal detection system gets false alarms. But researchers want to know whether situations like anxiety or depression increase the frequency of our false feelings.