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Do you ever feel the impulse to "ctrl-f" when you're at the grocery store?

Imagine the feeling of going to reach for something, and accidentally just envisioning moving your arm. Might be like "stepping into air" when you're almost asleep.




When I used to regularly play a particular lane-based MOBA, any time I'd need to react quickly while driving, I'd instinctively feel the need to burst some variation of QWE depending on which character I'd recently been playing.

Sometimes if I practice difficult scales (those with novel movements for weak fingers e.g. left pinky and ring) on the piano before typing on a keyboard, I'll mistype more frequently.

I wonder if this type and similar phenomena is also related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vibration_syndrome


I've had this happen when opening a cookbook. Spooky for sure.

Time to go outside for a bit.




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