[arnejenssen]

Some years ago I played a car game with Virtual Reality (VR). I noticed that it felt like the car was a part of me.

I wonder if the brain can experience if clothing, tools, bikes are part of the body?

[Sharlin]

Yes, I think it’s a well-known phenomenon that the brain extends its concept of the body to tools, vehicles etc that you learn to use well.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Yes. My rifle feels like an "extension" of my body. Also, when I drive my car I will focus on how the car feels like an extension and the scale of objects feels different. Like if I am walking down a long street it feels big, in a car it feels small.

[roywiggins]

I actually think drivers routinely experience this, which explains a lot of road rage.

[jtr1]

Yes. I think the concept you’re describing is proprioception:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception

[euroderf]

Proprioception could be the basis for a thinking man's version of the sci-fi trope "exchanging bodies".

[woliveirajr]

A cell phone vibrating in your pocket: in the first days, after some days of use, many people would feel it vibrating as a muscle sensation, not as external thing vibrating.

[roywiggins]

I experience "having something in the copy/paste buffer" as a distinct sensation in my Ctrl-V hand.

[pixl97]

Which can lead to phantom ringing syndrome.

[euroderf]

Some overlap with ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Media as extensions of man.