Why do you sometimes simply ‘feel’ that somebody is looking at you?
In: Biology
People tend to notice when events coincide but fail to take notice when they don’t. For example, if I have a dream that something happens, and then something very similar to my dream really happens, that’s fairly noteworthy. But I don’t really notice the other 99% of the time when my nothing similar to my dreams happen – there’s simply nothing to take note of. This tendency is called [confirmation bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias) – basically, the tendency to remember the hits and forget the misses. Correctly identifying when someone is watching you may simply be a result of the fact that it’s noteworthy when your feeling is correct, but completely forgettable when it’s not.
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