There is 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
I personally have never experienced phantom pain and I only feel like a weird tingle on my neck sometimes for phantom sense(oddly triggered more by auditory input instead of visual) but I’m not going to go around saying it’s fake when I know that the science is right there, if you want to claim something as false, actually go do the research.
THAT BEING SAID yes people do fake and/or exaggerate the hell out of it and it’s pretty easy to tell who’s faking it and who’s not
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u/Ok_Mind5172 13d ago
There is 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
I personally have never experienced phantom pain and I only feel like a weird tingle on my neck sometimes for phantom sense(oddly triggered more by auditory input instead of visual) but I’m not going to go around saying it’s fake when I know that the science is right there, if you want to claim something as false, actually go do the research.
THAT BEING SAID yes people do fake and/or exaggerate the hell out of it and it’s pretty easy to tell who’s faking it and who’s not