This reminds me of an experiment recounted in a great book Phantoms in the Brain, which I always wanted to try.
The subject sits with a model nose placed some distance in front of them on which someone taps and strokes in some non predictable fashion. At the same time the subject's own nose is touched in precisely the same pattern. Subjects apparently report an overwhelming sensation that the model nose, some meters in front of them, is thier own nose!
The subject sits with a model nose placed some distance in front of them on which someone taps and strokes in some non predictable fashion. At the same time the subject's own nose is touched in precisely the same pattern. Subjects apparently report an overwhelming sensation that the model nose, some meters in front of them, is thier own nose!