Ever check your phone at exactly double-zero o’ clock?
Or text someone right when they’re texting you – not in mid convo?
And – to make weird weirder – their message relates to what you were gonna say to them?
Technology coincidences are nada new for me – especially with respect to specific folk. And recently, there’s a new one to add to that list: whether something in my brain can detect the waves themselves. After scouring the internet (and by scour I mean, stop after the first “O” of Google’s searches), all I can seem to find is that some folk are electrically “sensitive” leading them to get sick, body achey, and headachy from too much cell phone or cell phone tower exposure. While that’d explain some of the peripheral stuff going on in my life that’s not germane to this story, my biggest ache right now is a crick in my neck from tilting my head sideways in wonder at… this…
I don’t even know what to call it.
Coincidence? Phenomenon? Cellular synchronicity?
First some quick background: Okay, so I’ve been keeping my phone on silent and off vibrate for several weeks now. It makes me happy to never have the ongoings of my life be punctuated by a hateful clang of someone trying to wheedle their way into my day. Really, I’ve tried changing the ring of a call and text notification alike so many times, but all that’s really done is generate an equally awful albeit unique Pavlovian loathing response to each. So, I leave it silent – with the buzz function powered off. And how do I know when someone’s messaged me? When I’m good ‘n ready to get up and check it. That’s when. I treat my texts kinda like emails that I respond to a little faster (or ever). That seems fair enough to me. And, even though the experts advise against it, I’ll even check the blue-lit bastard in the middle of the nights sometimes if I wake up. Fortunately, for the past couple weeks I’ve mostly been sleeping through the night till 5ish when I wake up and start trying to lasso my errant soul back into my body. But, lately, something strange has been happening:
I’ve been waking up when my soundless, reverberation-less cell receives a message.
I’ll wake up from a deep sleep, and turn over to grab my phone outta the basket I keep it in (where I keep it ‘cause I don’t want the light of it waking me up), fully expecting it to be five or six in the morning. Instead, however, the screen displays that it’s just two or three in the witching hours – along with the fact that somebody’s just sent me a message. So, how is this happening? I’m ready to find a good scientific explanache that’s not just spirits and withcraft. My hypothesis thus far’s this: parts of our bodies are said to give off slight electromagnetic fields. And phones function on EM waves. So, like, maybe the two waves crash and create a third that serves as a three hour premature alarm clock? (Maybe that’s why Oprah keeps her phone outta her bedroom at night.)
Has anyone else on here experienced this?
Or is that a dumb question?
Since 0.0 percent of my friends keep their phone on blackout mode and are more likely to be woken by an actual ring?