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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It sounds like you are thinking of Psychic Staring Effect (sometimes called scopaesthesia) and what most people have concluded is that feeling a strange sensation and thus turning to look at someone actually makes that person turn to look at you even if they had not been already. Sort of a self-fulfilling sort of issue. Another explanation is that we see more than we are aware of, meaning that we see someone looking at us even if our conscious mind doesn’t notice. Personally (without information to back it up at this time), I feel like animals have developed a sense of being watched because staring is a precursor to attacks.
Oh, and humans have a lot more senses than just the five typically mentioned, so there is a sixth sense, seventh, etc. Humans have at minimum nine senses, but probably many more.
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