When the brain gets incomplete signals from its peripheral nerves, it does its best job to "fill in the gaps" with its best guess of what that information shoul

When the brain gets incomplete signals from its peripheral nerves, it does its best job to "fill in the gaps" with its best guess of what that information should be. Unfortunately, this mechanism can lead to symptoms like phantom pain or itching. As the author puts it, sometimes the check engine light is really nothing wrong with the engine but a faulty light itself. One promising solution to these medical problems is to fill in the missing data in a different way. For example, phantom limb sufferers can look in a mirror image of their good limb, pretend it's their missing limb, and feel immediate and lasting relief. This may help with things like phantom itching, too.