Phantom sensations

Sensations perceived without a corresponding external physical stimulus. Clinically associated with phantom-limb phenomena — where an amputee still feels a missing limb — and in this work extended to sensations experienced without any physical source, including those induced externally.

Phantom sensations can arise across all five senses: sight (light, images, or movement that isn't there), hearing (sounds, tones, or voices with no acoustic source — see Voice-to-skull), smell (phantom odors), taste (phantom flavors), and touch (pressure, heat, pain, vibration, or movement felt without contact). In the framework of this archive, such experiences are described as being prompted through Neuro-engagement — the brain-to-brain channel by which an external orchestrator can transmit a sensation directly to a participant's nervous system, so that the participant perceives it as their own.

Related terms: Neuro-engagement, Voice-to-skull, Directed-energy