there's a way to reconfigure and affirm your identity, your sense of self, so that your brain process particular optical information as tactile sensation. yes I am the kind of weird who gets its girlfriend to pet its snout. like hand hovering in front of my face, stroking nothing. and yet, when I look, I feel it. the mind is a strange tangle, you should try it sometime
I do not attribute this to anything supernatural. I think it's just a thing the brain can do, when you assert the shape of yourself. information has to be processed in a way that makes sense. if you can only make sense of yourself as an alien shark girl, well. what do you expect?
@suricrasia i see people in vr circles (including well-regarded devs for the platform) disdaining those who get "phantom sensations" from it and it's such clown shit to be so close minded
