Phantom Texts 

When you are certain you feel your phone vibrating inside your pocket only to find you don't have your phone on you.

I spent a minute searching for my phone, just to find I haven't got it on me, I must be getting phantom texts.

Phantom Texts by askannAar January 25, 2016

Phantom Text Syndrome 

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."

Phantom Text Syndrome by Chargeitup09 March 8, 2009

phantom text 

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.

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."

phantom text by VeryReliableSource August 6, 2009

Phantom Text Message 

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.

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.

Phantom Text Message by applehop July 23, 2009

phantom text message 

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!

phantom text message by fbar December 2, 2010

Phantom Text 

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.

It happens wherever, whenever. The Phantom Text happens to everyone with cell phones.

Phantom Text by P Krizzle April 1, 2008

Phantom text 

Feeling your cellphone vibrate in your pocket, even though it's not.

"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!"

Phantom text by Cass-y-Uli-that October 12, 2010