(2015·南京市高三学情调研)Phantom vibrations — the phenomenon where you think your phone is vibrating but it’s not — have been around since the mobile age. Today, they’re so common that researchers have devoted studies to them.
For Valerie Kusler, who works on a cattle farm, the feeling is complicated by the cows. “The cows’ moo is very muffled, it kinda sounds like ... errrrrr,” she says. “So that’s very similar to what my phone sounds like when it vibrates on my desk or in my purse.”