It’s pretty common in movies, that kind of “sixth sense” where people can feel a presence around them, that may be observing or following them.
It actually happened to me in real life a couple times, where I was right about that guess.
Do humans have a “sixth sense” in real life, is it just a placebo or are we just really lucky figuring it out?
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You can’t. Numerous studies have been done, an the results are pretty solid: you may as well flip a coin. Same chance of being right as just straight up guessing.
The reason it seems like you do is due to a sort of bias: If you think you’re being followed and it turns out you’re not, then your brain discards that information as useless.
But if you thought you were being followed and it turns out right? You’ll remember that. So you remember the times it happened and not not the times it didn’t happen because there’s no point in remembering something that didn’t happen.
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