She saw his phantom limbs as if they were real.
But my mind was alive now, or at least moving as with a phantom limb.
She was told to touch her right cheek with the phantom limb.
They watched themselves in a mirror as they tried to move their phantom limb.
Once his phantom limb was in place, mentally, that is, he could face the day as a crippled man.
The phrase is now only technically accurate, following the death of one body, although she can still use it as a "phantom limb".
But it can affect the arms, the torso, or a phantom limb.
The relationship between phantom limbs and neuroplasticity is a complex one.
The condition of phantom limb has a message for us.
Yes, it is common; it's called a phantom limb, when you still have feelings in a part that's been lost.