London: Do you always feel your phone ringing or buzzing away in your pocket? You might be suffering from 'phantom ringing syndrome'.

Scientists have now come up with an explanation to describe the cause of the phenomenon experienced by millions of people every day.



He explains the vibrations as being similar to the buzzing noise produced when a phone is placed near a speaker. Although Blaszczynski hasn't conducted any formal studies on the vibrations yet, if he is right then the feeling isn't a figment of our imaginations, but a real sensation.

However Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University disagrees.He believes that because people are often anticipating a call they often interpret unrelated stimuli, such as a chair leg dragging against the floor or trousers rubbing their leg as a phone call.



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