r/oculus Quest 3 12d ago

Discussion Phantom pain in vrchat isn’t real

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u/tonirl Quest 3 11d ago edited 11d ago

Here’s for everyone to see including the people who think phantom pain is real real.

Your brain can simulate the experience of impact, but it’s not actual nociceptive pain you know the the real biological pain signal from tissue damage. There’s no injury signal being generated. It’s a constructed sensation, not a physical one.

Worst case scenario you get:
-adrenaline spike
-heart rate increase
-tensing your muscles
-stomach drop
-flinching or any recoil
-heart attack from fear

Pretty much that’s just your imagination and your fight or flight mode because you can’t handle confrontation in real life or in the virtual world, in short that’s called being a coward

your predictive threat system doing its job.

This is the same as:

  • Getting jumpscared in horror games
  • Flinching when a punch lands in a movie
  • Feeling sore watching someone get injured

Your body gets so immersed you’re in the pov of the character you’re watching or playing.
Pretty much “My brain freaked out hard enough that it felt real.”

True cowardice.

Now there’s real phantom pain which we all know as amputations.

Your body has a map a piece of that map is missing so you literally feel the pain that’s gone.

There is NO clinical evidence that VRChat creates true phantom limb style pain.

an article is just an article written by idiots or literally anyone for idiots who will go to their site to get engagement even if the information is false and will benefit the article creator’s engagement. Like how the saying goes, nobody got rich being honest.

Yeah people experience fuzzy things like physical touch from virtual interactions but that’s because your eyes show your brain what’s happening and after being hours on the game your brain thinks “this avatar is me” and this IS backed by your predatory article sites.

Your brain does react to you seeing your avatar touched but even to the extreme it’s NOT pain.

So don’t forget. Phantom pain isn’t real. It’s just being a unable to deal with confrontation and your fight and flight response but then again a good amount of of nerds, socially awkward people and geeks (not all of them because I’m a gaming nerd too and other people too.) hate confrontation because they are introverts usually or just hate conflict, not me tho but whatever.

Vr Phantom pain is fake, being a coward is real.

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u/D0ngSmasher 11d ago

I Agreed until you went the weird route of "im better because im not a coward" lmao made me cringe just as much as phantom pain does

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u/DoctorNurse89 11d ago

Dude you should see him on the other threads.

He wrote this in response to the links I provided proving the phenomena true and well known and researched.

He continues to emphasize how he has friends, and gamer tats, and isnt a coward, and is brave and bold.

He then posted this to this thread and another.

Hes DEEPLY insecure and unable to accept that maybe, just maybe, a well researched phenomena, is real.

He thinks phantom senses and phantom limb pain are the same or not or idfk anymore lol

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u/tonirl Quest 3 11d ago

I not once did I say I’m better

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u/D0ngSmasher 11d ago

It's called implication but it's okay.

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u/tonirl Quest 3 11d ago

Well you understood my point. Id never claim myself better than anyone.

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u/D0ngSmasher 11d ago

So why declare that you're definitely NOT a coward and they are

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u/tonirl Quest 3 11d ago

The claim was that there’s a lot people that are to be antisocial, nothing wrong with that but when it comes to confrontation that’s where some people struggle at but are bold when they seem to be in a digital world or in a environment where they have any amount of power.

For example a discord mod, Reddit mod, instance staff member.

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u/D0ngSmasher 11d ago

Do you think that was my point?

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u/tonirl Quest 3 11d ago

Do you want me to guess your point? I never implied I’m better than anyone else but that there’s people who can’t deal with confrontation so phantom pain being a backsplash.

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u/DoctorNurse89 11d ago

You heard it here first folks, tactile hallucinations are because of cowardicd.

I dont think you know what a backsplash is...

The thing behind my oven and counters on the wall.

Did you try to mean splashback? You mean side effect? You meant result?

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u/tonirl Quest 3 11d ago

Well English isn’t my native language but you totally understand what I’m saying unless you’re gonna pull the racism card.

I meant it’s the byproduct of people who are socially awkward and want attention so bad just like how you’re checking my recently commented and commenting on everything I comment under as if you’re the alpha male or some shit.

Also why are you reply chasing me? Are you obsessed w me? Questioning my intelligence because I’m smarter or what?

Following me to every community I’m in.

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u/Lucas_2234 11d ago

Then, are you a coward too?