How are humans able to “sense” we are being watched?
In: Biology
in my experience, the feeling of being watched is almost always a sense that someone is nearby, not watching me remotely.
A blind person with experience can often tell when they are approaching a wall. A sighted person can do it if they really concentrate. The point is, we have subliminal input from lots of senses, like smell and sound, that we aren’t conscious of, but if someone is standing still 10 feet behind us, we might feel their presence before we “know it”. When that happens, there is a certain, skin-crawly realization as the lag hits the consciousness. That’s my take.
The majority of cases. though, where you might feel someone is looking at you, you search and see someone looking at you at some distance, seems like simple confirmation bias. But don’t under-rate your subliminal perception.
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