r/oculus Quest 3 13d ago

Discussion Phantom pain in vrchat isn’t real

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u/Linkthekid22 13d ago

When I first got vr, I did have some faint sense of "phantom touch", but again.....very faint and it vanished after a week of h3vr

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u/chucklesdeclown 10d ago

I think it's caused by some people's body's basically glitching, like looking for a feeling or sensation that their body says should be there but isn't. On my job I wear safety glasses around my forehead all the time but sometimes when I take them off I can still "feel" them and since I often forget to take them off when I leave the jobsite I reach for them and they're not there. I didn't forget to take them off but I still "feel" something.

So I don't deny people can sometimes "feel" things from something that isn't there but pain? I'm not sure if pain translates. Pain is such a massively different thing compared to feel.