 Researcher Michelle Drouin found that almost 9 of 10 undergraduates at her college experienced phantom vibrations.In the comic strip "Dilbert", cartoonist Scott Adams referenced such a sensation in 1996 as "phantom-pager syndrome".The earliest published use of the term "phantom vibration syndrome" dates to 2003 in an article entitled "Phantom Vibration Syndrome" published in the "New Pittsburgh Courier", written under a pen name of columnist Robert D. Jones.