How to FEEL TOUCH in VR (no haptics) 

checklist of first getting vrchat: - set your safety settings - go to the pug and black cat - do you have phantom sense

When I had a Vive for a school project my dad tried out VR as well and when he was painting a car with the spraypaint in the steam VR home environment he could smell it. He theorised that his brain made the connetion between the motion, the sight and his years of being a hobby mechanic. He was very fascinated by the fact, that it didnt stop once he realiesed the sense and could recreate it. Unfortunately my mentioning of his experience in my school project was seen as uncientific and i lost points D:

Alternative title: How to enhance your vr floonarb experience

Still can't get over how amazing that thumbnail is...

From someone who experiences phantom touch, it’s honestly one of the coolest and scariest things to experience ever!

YOU'VE GOT THE TOUCH YOU'VE GOT THE POWWWWWWEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR *YEAH!*

My brain every time I experience phantom touch: "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"

Well i almost fell asleep during the hypnosis. I see how he does it.

It is weird when people run through you in VR and you can feel that. I wish more people would pay attention and go around.

Every guy has felt someone else getting kicked in the nuts That's a fact

Phia is serious about this stuff. She's passionate and creates quality content.

Phantom Touch AND Hypnosis? this is awesome! this are the best topics I've ever found, and no-one is talking about it. You are the best Phia n,n

Love how the whole body moves when her head shakes

I have personally studied hypnosis and I loved it when he used the phrase "Down deep and and fall asleep" or something like that. Phrases like that help relaxation and notice the rhythm of his voice and the tone of the voice. As they say "sleep" or of the like, it is usually followed by trying to get the person to fall deeper and deeper into the hypnotic trance faster. It's very interesting

Another idea for this. Rubber hand experiment in VR. Real hand touched by a feather at the same time virtual feather on virtual hand, then trying other places or other objects for person who does not have phantom touch . P.S. Love your videos.

No one: Ads during the hypnosis section: RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

I feel like I have a light dose of phantom touch cause when my friends give me head pats I can feel the sensation. My biggest issues is someone with an attractive voice gets to close to my ear. Ya girl cannot handle it 😤 I politely ask people to not get close especially in my ear cause I get anxious and I DO NOT like being anxious 😅

I feel like I've been developing phantom touch, I was playing a game called Into the Radius and got really immersed in the game, the atmosphere and the sound got me shook. it got to the point where I got shot at and visibly recoiled after feeling pain for a split second. Lately in VR games I've been noticing whenever something touches me I feel kinda weird. It's getting a bit weird when I switch over to VRChat and people keep getting a bit too close to me, I had to switch my safety settings a bit to keep my personal space. VR is weird yo.

If this level of immersion can be achieved with current VR headsets, I cannot even imagine how real will be when we have Full Dive VR in the future like in SAO, it will be so scary but amazing at the same time.

i feel heat when in tight places in vr especially when other people are around

Best thumbnail ever

A 26-minute breakdown of Phantom Touch? Yes please! I actually haven't learned a lot about this phenomenon, despite hearing about it all the time in... Certain VRChat communities.

i can feel weird when people touch me on pc vrchat cant wait to see how it is in vr

That lil dude at the end is trying to convince me to go accept the matrix

JEEZ!!!! I felt the fuzziness on the tip of my finger when I saw you touching that rose!!! And I'm not even watching from a VR set! I'm on my phone! Heck this is weirdly existing >.

I have phantom touch and its gotten stronger over time. Last time I literally had to take off my headset like 20 times to make sure I wasn't hitting up against something. about once every few mins somethings can actually make me feel vibration. Ive had it all my life even when I was just messing around in my head when I was like around 6 or so. I was never surprised cause I had a big imagination and when vr came around, it actually just transferred over

last night someone booped me, and i felt it. weird.

the 5 people who disliked this: I HATE THINGS THAT MAKE ME FEEL GOOD!

a real good experiment would be to see if they feel this phenomenon when being touched and can't see said person touching them.

Omg, I was in VRChat with VR for the first time and despite Everything looking kinda off and unfocused in the distance, when I interacted with a friend I had tingling when hugged or just touched and weird shiver when they just went trough me.

Such an interesting video! I tried to get hypnotized at the same time like you in the video, but I started feeling really weird and "drowsy" so I had to slap myself out of it, since it's really late and I get anxious about work. I'll have to try this another time when I really have the time to relax!

It doesn’t feel like someone physically touching you, more like the feeling you get when someone’s presence is around you. like the feeling you get right before something touches you but while it’s there. it make ur chest feel weird

I'm a touchy, feely guy irl. I always invite hugs and initiate handshakes. I'm a very sociable person. Though, that has been stunted because of... well... the "Back Street Boyz Tour". I'm still new to VR, but I found that I have experienced faint touches and sensations. Though, I just chalked that up to translating MEMORIES PAST of irl sensations into the game.

This reminds me of when i'm immersed in a game like the witcher or skyrim and it begins to rain i can smell it or when the sun is shining the comfortable heat hiting my face

I tried to follow along and it felt so much like meditation, Which was great cause I was having a stressful day at work. So thanks for the for the relaxation segment. Hopefully one day I will be able to experience phantom like you did with the rose and not just hot and cold sensations.

I thought phantom touch was a device 😂 Also my brain is half dead so ill never experience this sadly

Oh so that's why I can ""feel"" it

I feel like I'm addicted to phantom touch. It seriously effects my emotions. Like, this one girl I recently met was super nice and would poke, pat and hug me on occasion. I felt really clingy and had to hold back to try and be respectful. That urge was there the whole time. Whenever it happened, it felt so nice and gave me this loving feeling. I just always wanted to have physical contact after experiencing it.

I've had phantom sense only thrice. Body heat (noticed it's absence, really), the ping of metal on my chest when a shell casing ejected from a rifle I fired hit me (felt like someone threw a paper-clip at me), and heat from a hot tub (nowhere near as hot as IRL of course).

You know, Phantom Touch isn't restricted to Virtual Reality, although the majority of the individuals that experience phantom touch are currently cause by VR, it is also possible to experience phantom touch without ever interacting with VR and it's not restricted to something that you see happening, but it can be caused by most senses, at least from what I know from my own experiences. I can confirm that other than smell and taste, the rest of the senses have been successfully caused a phantom touch reaction. Even just imagining an action happening, it is possible to feel it, whether or not you're willingly imagining it. Of course how much you feel depends on how immersed or focused you are on both the sense and/or your thought of said action. It doesn't have to be an imagination, but it could be a simple thought that just comes up for an instance or a moment that could cause you to feel a various kinds of feelings or other senses reacting. The taste sense is really complicated & hard to describe on how it creates said Phantom Touch, especially since I don't understand it that much myself. In terms of smell however I haven't experienced anything, so I can't really confirm whether or not it is possible. Why I said "Other than the Taste & Smell Senses" earlier was because I'm 1) Not sure how they work & Haven't experienced them enough/at all to somewhat understand them. And 2) Not sure if they can be categorized within Phantom Touch since they could be related to something else. There's also the fact that all these could be caused by my hypersensitivity, but I doubt being able to feel something like being stabbed or just someone touching you from imaginations, seeing it whether it's in a dream or a video, hearing someone talk about it(without actually doing it). Just thought I'd bring in my opinion since I missed my chance with the Questions that you were previously asking. I'm sorry for the long wall of text and thank you for taking a little bit of your time to read this comment. o/

One time I was playing poker stars vr and I was so upset with everyone's level of play that I bought a revolver with my in game credits, pointed it to myself and was going to shoot, but it was the scariest feeling I've ever felt, it felt like I was actually going to die. I still shot myself of course because I'm not a coward, but when I pointed it to my head again I felt the same feeling. Like the barrel of the gun was going through my head and my instincts made me feel like if I shot the gun I was going to die.

I wish you could've gone into phantom limb, it may have helped your research. Often after surgery of the removal of a limb the brain still has a psychological-like map of the senses and experiences of that limb. Some patients may even experience an itching sensation and being unable to itch it bc it isn't there. This could be linked to how when the brain expects a physical interaction it already predicts it with a 'fuzzy' or 'heat sensitive' feeling, similar to how the closer you put your hand to a flame the hotter you experience the flame, even if the fire was a simulation. Our brains are magnificent organs, but are easily fooled.

It's so nice how you actually started to feel after getting a bigger set up!!

I wanna share something about this, actually sometime when i play vr peuple tease me irl, they try to scare me but they can't, the reason why is actually i can feel his whole body and it dosn't even touching me. I can sens everybody moving around of me like a spider sens. It even work with things in the rooms sometimes.

It's strange how I heard your voice in my dream last night and the first video I get in my recommendation is this one. Man I've been having too many coincidences lately

Can't wait to actually get into VR and find out what I can "feel" in the field!

I didnt know this was a phenomenon, I always kinda thought everyone had this. Love your vids Phia

I have phantom touch extremely heavy on my face and sometimes it gives me chills lol

Another amazing episode! Thanks so much for your hard work. Glad to have you guiding us through the frontier of VR.

I had a couple of times Phantom Touch in VR and it's really cool when playing VRChat and i got the Index a Week ago and now i get it a lot more often ^^

I went through the hypnosis and I was laying on my bed and my arms felt numb and heavy

I’m not going to lie when I first played vr chat after I got off and and just sat down and thought about it the real world started feeling and looking like vr and it honestly confused and scared me I use pc as well which makes it even weirder

Whenever something is hovering over my forehead is really the only time I feel the "phantom touch"

It’s so crazy because I was watching it on my TV and it’s still started to work

Yay finally a video about this

I know it´s really niche and weird to talk about, but me, my family and some of friends of the family deal with spiritual things, my mom and a few of our friends has even worked professionally with it. And the way that people explain phantom touch is the exact same way it feels to be touched by a ghost (yes surprise, most ghosts are neither bad nore out to harm), I´ve also experienced sensations such as temperature and a difficulty breathing through it, similar to what they talked about in the video

Congrats on finally getting an index! I'm kind of hoping the Reverb G2 starts shipping soon as a more budget friendly option.

Yup, I have it. When you move your arm in the game the brain is sort of tricked on a mental level where it thinks that the virtual arm is your actual one. So when people touch your arm it sends signal to your brain telling you what you should feel. As you just saw it varies from person to person but for me I can't feel sudden movements like a high five or a punch to my face but slow movement I can feel, even if it's painful or the opposite.

I can sometimes feel a bit of heat behind my neck when I'm driving in DiRT Rally and the sun is on my back. I never put much thought into it until now. Fascinating stuff.

sweet vid, the only "struggle" I have with it is that you keep reminding me of Marinette from the show Miraculous Ladybug. XD I don't know if it's your behaviour or some things in your avatar. Keep up the great vids :)

That hypnosis part of the video was hella relaxing.....

I subbed at 10k, and you're already at 16k. I can't wait to watch your channel keep growing. :D

I feel like my heart beats harder when I watch videos of Beat Saber now that I’ve played it. The brain is hella WACK

Im not 100% sure if these are the same but i get the same feeling irl wen something is near my head or arms etc. I can put things near me and feel a tingling near the area they are even though they arent touching me.

i have something kinda similar in RL: when i see ppl get hurt i feel pain, it litteraly hurts -.- funny enough when i watch movies it doesnt happen, but when i see RL situations its almost always happening. tbh i always thought im just weird and its my imagination going wild, so learning about phantom touch is somewhat of a relieve * ^^ *

Okay, so I am never completely immersed in VR. I am always aware that this is not the reality so when I did these nothing happens in VR......... But.. when your dreaming It a different story So when I was dreaming I could feel everything. And I still can. I must admit, I was doubtful it would be irk for me. But then when I went to sleep. I FELT EVERYTHING

The only time i've felt this is in walking dead vr when the zombies get close. Mostly because it's the only vr game I really let myself get immersed, since I would play alone for hours at a time.

The production quality of these videos is something I would expect of a channel with far more subscribers. I can't wait to watch this channel grow.

I really enjoy of your videos, are so cool

A friend of mine has severe nerve damage and lost all feeling in his left hand. He went through therapy the purposefully develop phantom touch, so I'm curious to see how VR would turn out for him.

This video was a long time coming. Nice work! Edit: Oh my goodness you covered VR Hypnosis!! I'm extra stoked now.

Man, I just might be blessed by youtube algorithm. I am pretty sure I am going to see the rise of a channel that is going to be pretty big. Thanks youtube gods.

She's so cute tattata

First of all, It feels like thousand of electric toothbrush laying on your body. it's weird.

you might say i felt it when you said you felt it

I like how she’s just looking up the entire time

I had Phantom Touch when I first played Job Simulator, and it was because whenever I would walk into the counters in the cooking environments, I would start to feel my legs tremble. It almost felt like my brain was telling my legs that they were not meant to be there. But whenever I walked out of the counter, my legs would feel fine.

I NEED IIIIIITTTTT!!! I NEED VR AND I NEED PT! I NEEED IIIIIITTTTTTTT!!

"...as my fingers brushed over the petals...." tears are now streaming down my face, so glad to know you've felt what we feel :')

The fact that you can make Phantom touch work using Hypnosis means you can make yourself have phantom touch. I’ve been doing “experiments with my brain” as in just thinking and making things happen and I’ve found that I’ve started to be able to do weird things and I’m starting to develop phantom touch. So I basically put myself into hypnosis but not in the traditional sense

I have a friend who's in that pain category, playing anything with shooting with him in VRC and some other games is an interesting experience because half the time it actually feels like being shot or hit by something to him.

I get this when like I do the pointer of a vr controller on my forehead

Lol through most of the conversation I just noticed when people nod there body its like brrrrr.

She has achieved transcendence.

This is awesome! So much information about phantom touch and it was cool seeing Amanugai in it XD The most phantom touch i feel rn is slight warmth on my face and tingles on my nose, im still trying to improve it everyday in VRChat :D

I never even considered that I may have phantom touch until watching this video, but I think I may be able to experience it sometimes! I remember I was playing H3VR and my hand brushed this flying thing (I believe it's called a slicer) AND I ACTUALLY FELT IT! It was so weird, and I'm glad that I now have some sort of explanation. I also can feel other people's presence in VR, if that makes sense, so thank you for making this video!

as a person with phantom touch i am proud to say I saved 500 dollars on a haptic suit XD

My experience with people with phantom touch and a bit of advice: DO NOT SIT IN THEIR LAP!!! If they have phantom touch, make sure that it's okay because they WILL feel you on their crouch/private area! So make sure that the person is comfortable with it and do not move around too much! Where your avatar is touching, it will make a constant tingling sensation for them!

i have phantom sense in DESCTOP MODE (rezonite) lol, mostly boops and head pats

Omg once I was playing the Spider-Man vr demo and I reached out to grab the mask and when I did I felt as though I grabbed an actual mask and put it on it was so weird I freaked out.

I have a wierd avatar and people always put there head throug me to watch it. It's the only thing I fell as of now. It's horrible feeling somebody going trhoug you XD I hate desktop mode just for that. Cause I really feel uncomfotable since I'm out of control of MY body.

I've been playing vrchat for 6 years, and still never experienced phantom touch :c

After the hypnosis part I was so relaxed I could barley move

Honestly i want those superpowers🥺 I never hug irl so i wish i could atleast experience it but i dont have it. Im jealouss af

nice thumbnail!

I see this as weird, I feel like too many people fake it, they love talking about how much they hate having so strong phantom sense.. for attention maybe? I've experienced something like that in the beginning after I bought my headset in vrchat, it happened for a while when I was new to this but the immersion broke after a while, I still like vr but it doesn't feel as real as then, hence I can't believe that phantom touch persists in people that long or gets stronger with time, I also find this topic awkward

Nice.

The only thing similar to this that I felt in vr is when I'm falling, I feel like I'm falling in real life. I'm sure that's the most common vr phantom feeling

For the person talking about feeling other people's pain, there's research into what are called mirror neurons.

How to FEEL TOUCH in VR (no haptics) *(no haptics)* Thanos: Impossible. Me: No it is ask my friends. *What you thought I had friends?*