Bangalore: Technology had become an integral part of our life, even to an extent where we can’t live without it, even for an hour. You may say you never spend hours in front of internet, use mobile phones only to communicate and hardly play any video games. But whatever it is, tech addiction is real, and it can have dreadful consequences.  

“Internet addicted people may experience chemical changes in their brains similar to alcoholics and drug addicts,” states a recent report in journal of the Public Library of Science, Plos One. And that is just the Internet. Think about all the other technologies we are addicted to.

Here are the biggest tech addictions ever discovered.

1. Phantom Vibration Syndrome

Have you ever searched for your mobile phone because you felt it vibrating, only to discover that it hadn’t? This could be what many call “phantom vibration syndrome,” the victims of which feel vibrations even when their devices are in an entirely different room.

The name is based on a medical condition called phantom limb syndrome in which someone who has lost a limb experiences sensory hallucinations that it is still attached to the body and functioning. Similarly, those with phantom vibration syndrome feel their phones as extensions of themselves.

According to a study by Dr.Larry Rosen, 70% of people who heavily use mobile devices experience phantom vibrations. It is common and recent studies are finding different ways to recover from it.