Sentence examples for phantom sensations from inspiring English sources

Not long ago, I met a man who made me wonder whether such phantom sensations are more common than we realize.

Likewise there is drama in the way he experiences phantom sensations of a lost arm, deals with his loved ones or tries to figure out what kind of Twilight Zone he's wandered into.

Ramachandran posited that the phantom sensations are also created by higher brain centers, produced by a complex interplay among the sensory cortex, the motor cortex in the frontal lobes, and a "body image" map in the right superior parietal lobule, a section of the cerebral cortex just above the right ear.

For one thing, it cannot explain how we experience things that seem physically real but aren't: sensations of itching that arise from nothing more than itchy thoughts; dreams that can seem indistinguishable from reality; phantom sensations that amputees have in their missing limbs.

Chronic phantom sensations, phantom pain, residual limb pain, and other regional pain after lower limb amputation.

"Seventy-80Seventy-80percent reporthatatheirir brain is telling them they have gotten some haptic feedback," said Buckwald, when addressing phantom sensations from users of Leap Motion's Orion.

You've likely had an experience of phantom sensation yourself.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome (involving distorted awareness of body size, mass, or its position in space), autotopagnosia (involving mislocalization of body parts and bodily sensations), and phantom sensation (awareness of an amputated limb) are examples of such disorders.

The name of the work was inspired by Phantom Vibration Syndrome, the phantom sensation that one's phone or other mobile device is vibrating or otherwise sending out a notification.

The underlying physiological mechanisms that lead to this phantom sensation are still largely unknown.

The resultant sensitization effect unmasks the surrogate pathway, giving a phantom sensation.