In November last year I was involved, like the drummer in Spinal Tap in 'a bizarre gardening accident' and lost the tip of one of my fingers.
Because my brain still thinks I have a fingertip it assumes that lack of information from the end of my finger is caused by a gap or hole in any surface that I am touching.
If I run my finger through my hair, for instance, it feels as though my finger is poking into my skull. Unfortunately, as there is no information from where the end of my finger used to be, the inside of my skull seems empty. Thus my brain tells me that it doesn’t exist.
Apparently my brain will eventually work out that I have no finger tip and will be very annoyed about it.
