Nerve induction
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Nerve induction is a theoretical method of creating a sensation by stimulation of the sensory nerves rather than by actual stimulus.
History
The concept is mentioned in the 1965 science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert as a method to inflict pain with no actual injury.
No known real-life analogues of such a device currently exist. However, the effect sometime occurs as a side effect of
Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) which use painful directed sound waves, and electroshock weapons such as tasers
, which deliver an incapacitating shock to the nervous system.