A text that you swear you got. Either by feeling the vibration on your leg, or hearing your tone, or in the worst of cases both. But when you check your phone you are left feeling cheated.
A texting miscarriage.
A texting miscarriage.
Guy 1: "Dude, let's do something"
Guy 2: "I texted those girls I met yesterday, I think they just responded. Let me see what they said... Oh nevermind, it was a phantom text..."
Guy 1: "stfu man, nobody likes you."
Guy 2: "I texted those girls I met yesterday, I think they just responded. Let me see what they said... Oh nevermind, it was a phantom text..."
Guy 1: "stfu man, nobody likes you."
by VeryReliableSource August 6, 2009
When you have your cell phone in your pocket, you feel it vibrate across your leg, but when you look at your phone there is no notifications of a text message, or anything else of that matter.
by P Krizzle April 1, 2008
"Why does he keep looking at his phone?"
"The post-break-up stress disorder psychic-dols oodles embody themselves as phantom texts, dude. Give him a break!"
"The post-break-up stress disorder psychic-dols oodles embody themselves as phantom texts, dude. Give him a break!"
by Cass-y-Uli-that October 10, 2010
Phantom Text Syndrome, or PTS, is an acute neurological phenomenon characterized by thinking you have received a text from someone (i.e. by vibration or sound indicator) when actually nothing has occurred. Recently coined by world-renowned Psychologist Gustav Kuznetsova, PTS is now accepted by the American Psychological Association.
Guy 1: (Abruptly reaches into his pocket)
Guy 2: "Got a text, dude?"
Guy 1: "Yeah, let me just…"(Pulls phone out to see a blank screen) "Oh, wait.
Forget it. Guess I was wrong."
Guy 3: "Phantom Text Syndrome!!!"
Guy 2: "Yo, I think they got meds for that shit now."
Guy 2: "Got a text, dude?"
Guy 1: "Yeah, let me just…"(Pulls phone out to see a blank screen) "Oh, wait.
Forget it. Guess I was wrong."
Guy 3: "Phantom Text Syndrome!!!"
Guy 2: "Yo, I think they got meds for that shit now."
by Chargeitup09 March 8, 2009
Like A phantom pregnancy. (Where you think you're pregnant but your actually not)
Whilst waiting for a text message, you think you can feel your phone vibrate and get excited but it is actually just your imagination.
Whilst waiting for a text message, you think you can feel your phone vibrate and get excited but it is actually just your imagination.
Girl1: Oh! My phone's gone off!
Girl2: Omg, has he texted back?!
Girl1: Hmm, I haven't got anything, must be a Phantom Text Message.
Girl2: Omg, has he texted back?!
Girl1: Hmm, I haven't got anything, must be a Phantom Text Message.
by applehop July 23, 2009
You could swear you feel your phone vibrate against your thigh, but when you look there are no text messages.
You: (pulls phone out of pocket to check text)
Your wife: That better not be that little slut from your office texting you again!
You: It was a phantom text message, honest!
Your wife: That better not be that little slut from your office texting you again!
You: It was a phantom text message, honest!
by fbar December 1, 2010
A new syndrome spreading among the teens of America, where a vibration is felt from the pocket holding a phone. Once the phone is checked, it turns out there was never a text.
Teenager-"Doctor, It seems that Im always feeling a vibration coming from my cell phone pocket. What could possibly be wrong with me."
Doctor- "Hmmm, It seems you may have Phantom Text Syndrome"
Doctor- "Hmmm, It seems you may have Phantom Text Syndrome"
by JuicyA September 26, 2011