phantom whisker


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By kazu on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 05:31 pm:

    You know when people get their limbs amputated and they can still feel it?

    I pulled a thick, wiry hair out of my neck yesterday and I swear it's still there even though I got it all out.

    I also get phantom sunglasses-on-my-head in the summertime




    just thought you should know


By TBone on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 05:40 pm:

    I get phantom mosquitoes.


By jack on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 06:54 pm:

    morgellons!


By semillama on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 10:32 am:

    I get phantom limb syndrome, even though I'm not missing any actual limbs. more like I feel like I have extra limbs.







    No, not really. but it sounds neat.


By TBone on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 03:09 pm:

    Claiming to have a phantom tail would be an interesting icebreaker.


By Dougie on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 03:11 pm:

    I always keep my cellphone on "Vibe Then Ring" and carry it on my hip, and I constantly have phantom cellphone vibe of the hip.


By droopy on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 03:30 pm:

    i have a phantom doctor. this morning i had to get up extra early (for me) to make my appointment for and x-ray for my busted knee. i have to take a reservation only bus service there because this part of rosedale is so torn up with construction that i couldn't possibly find a regular bus that would get near to it.

    i get there 20 minutes early for my appointment. the nurse informs me that she'd left a message on my answering machine and that the doctor wasn't in today. i said: do i really need him here? i'm just here for an x-ray, can't i just get that done and call later for the results? nope. the doctor has to "order" the x-ray. the idiot knew i was going to be there for an x-ray, you'd think he could've left a note saying "give the kid an x-ray" just in case.

    so i now i have to go home. the only problem is that the bus service won't send me an unscheduled ride. i have to wait for 2 hours to get a ride back. there's a book about this section of town called "left behind in rosedale". i wished i had copy with me to read so i could kill some time. but then i found a 2 day-old newspaper.

    finally i made it home. and the message from the doctor's office was on my machine. i had gotten home late last night and hadn't bothered to check the machine.


By Spider on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 10:04 pm:

    When do you get your x-ray for reals? (One day it will no longer amuse me to say that...but that day has not yet arrived.)


    I sometimes have the sensation that my hands are huge, like huge inflated giant oven mit hands. It makes me think of the Pink Floyd line, "my hands felt just like two balloons." Because they do.


By TBone on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 01:11 am:

    You get that too?


By Spider on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 10:23 am:

    Yeah, you too? I notice it most often when I'm about to fall asleep, but it happens at other times, as well. Like right now, but I think I'm psyching myself into it.


By TBone on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 11:49 am:

    Sometimes it includes my jaw. Feels like I have a big blocky robot jaw. It tends to subside if I move much.


By lapis on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 04:27 pm:

    i often have phantom insects, particularly when working in the garden.

    when i wear contacts, sometimes i'll catch myself trying to push my glasses up and nearly poking myself in the eye instead.


By Deja Skin on Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 12:40 pm:

    holy crap! I get that as well.

    I also have the Doc Marten syndrome. I spent over 15 years of my youth wearing large steel toed boots. Now that i'm older and ive chosen to sport more sensable foot attire, I still feel thoes damn boots weighg me down. I often walk quite fast to almost feeling like I still have to compensate for the weight. Needless to say, I trip quite often.


By sarah on Sunday, July 2, 2006 - 12:33 pm:


    i have phantom body fat.


    the sensation almost never goes away, just something i live with.



By sarah on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 11:59 am:


    today i had phantom sweat running down the back of my leg.


    i hate you with this phantom shit. now i have phantom everything.




By patrick on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 05:41 pm:

    whenever we take the dog to the beach, she brings a few fleas home. i get phantom fleas. i capture and destroy one, then it feels like they are all over me.


By semillama on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 05:35 pm:

    That happened to me last week at Kazu's apartment. I found a flea on me (probably was picked up by the dog on a walk, and jumped to me while I was petting him), and swore I had more on me, even on areas I was looking at.


By V on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 05:11 pm:

    sem,most animal fleas dont like humans,one bite and there gone.,you find this to be true?


By V on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 05:30 pm:

    ....its PAKISTANI fleas you want to watch out for.,big as your thumbnail.