Your smartphone is making you hallucinate. It's called phantom vibration syndrome yes, it's a real psychological phenomenon and studies in the past few years have found, when surveying college undergraduates, Electric Buzzing Feeling in Body: Feet, Toes, Hands, Fingers, Arms, and Legs Wockhardt Hospitals Why Does My Phone Randomly Vibrate: iPhone + Android The phantom vibration effect is when you feel your phone vibrate even though it didn't. over 90% of people under 30 report feeling it, often because their brain is used to expecting My Blissful Week as a 'Do Not Disturb' Maximalist WIRED