I looked around NOVA online homepage and I found some notes from Ramachandran's Notebook. It was about phantomlimb syndrome. All of the notes were interesting because they were connected with the video that we saw in the class. But the case 4 was really felt realistic to me. The part of what they were talking, felt me really realistic.
'I placed a coffee cup in front of John and asked him to grab it. Just as he said he was reaching out, I yanked away the cup.
"Ow!" he yelled. "Don't do that!"
"What's the matter?"
"Don't do that," he repeated. "I had just got my fingers around the cup handle when you pulled it. That really hurts!"
Hold on a minute. I wrench a real cup from phantom fingers and the person yells, ouch! The fingers were illusory, of course, but the pain was real—indeed, so intense that I dared not repeat the experiment.' (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mind/note_nf4.html)
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