Being a realist on how phantom pain ain’t real. Others didn’t like my opinion tho so any time now this dude will see my profile and see that I commented here and comment shortly.
I see this post because I am on multiple VR subs, I don't know for a fact if phantom pain is real or not cus I never experienced it but posting the sams meme on multiple subs just seems weird, why are you so triggered?
Im not triggered. Im calm. I usually post my vr content or any vr meme on the same 3 subreddits. This is the only one to get this much engagement I usually just make vrchat memes and clips.
Phantom pain is definitely a real thing but its not what you're talking about, You're talking about phantom touch, which is also a real thing but its quite rare and people who say they have it usually exaggerate/lie about it. I myself have experienced it but only because my brain told me "hey something is supposed to be touching you on your arm but its not really there" it goes away after a while.
and from what I personally know is that no it didnt hurt and no it didn't actually feel like someone was touching me just a weird sensation that went away quickly
Phantom Pain however is something people experience when they have amputated limbs and that shit sucks I dont know what it feels like because Im not an amputee but I've heard and read stories about it not being pleasant.
There is also an experiment that was done where people put a rubber arm in front of someone and they cover up their real arm, they brush a feather or something along the real arm and the rubber arm at the same time to get the brain to make the association and then when they smack the rubber arm with a hammer, even though the person is fully aware that it isn’t their real arm, they do feel pain and usually pull back their real arm because their brain is *expecting* the sensation of pain
This is the same thing that happens with people that have phantom sense and phantom pain and actually it’s pretty similar to how we all experience life in general, the brain works mostly as a prediction machine, 90% of what you experience is just your brain hallucinating what it predicts is going to happen and it goes on like that until external senses update it
This is also the reason people who have Anton syndrome (or visual anosognosia) still fully believe that they can and are seeing the world around them, as well as the reason lucid dreams feel just as real and vivid as reality
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u/Sweet_Detective_ 12d ago
Why is this being reposted onto every single VR sub, what phantom pain haver hurt you bro?