Why do you sometimes simply ‘feel’ that somebody is looking at you?
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I’d say this feeling of someone looking at you will weigh heavily on how confident someone is or how self conscious. I struggled for years with this and when I reached the point where I wasn’t worried about how I looked (too skinny to being regular weight) my anxiety about people staring at me (when they weren’t) disappeared. We look to others for slight body language cues that say “acceptable or ewwww”. In social places like clubs this was pretty painful for me as women would more often than not, pretty brutal without even saying a word.
This might sound strange to bring up here but I had a long conversation with a really rich friend about this sort of thing with regards to him driving a Lambo through Sydney and being stared at. He explained that you have to resist looking at people that are looking at you. Just stare straight ahead. He went on to say that once you make contact especially with women then they attempt to start a conversion etc and it’s for all the wrong reasons. So, when we went for a drive I spent my time looking at people looking at him with so many men and women look or double looking for an extended period. That would drive me crazy. It was much much worse when his wife drove the car too.
/rant.
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