How can we sense when someone is watching us?

Question

Is it a six sense?

What about outside? It happens then too for the guy explaining about it in a room.

Also i only feel like i'm being watched at when i really am. You just feel something come over you and then you look and someone staring right at you.

Answer 1

According to parapsychologists, a commonly reported form of distant mental influence on human beings is "the feeling of being stared at," which is closely related, historically, to the notion of the "evil eye." Considerable folklore endorses the idea that gazing at someone carries special powers, favors, or influence. Folklore aside, contemporary opinion polls confirm that the feeling of being stared at is known in all cultures (Radin 1997).
A typical occurrence is that of a woman eating alone at a diner who suddenly becomes agitated. Then the hair on the back of her neck raises and she gets the feeling that someone is watching her-someone behind her. She turns and, sure enough, a young woman is staring directly at her. This type of situation is reported over and over and raises the question: Can a starer's intense focus affect the human nervous system?

According to some parapsychologists it not only can but does, and they insist that it has been confirmed in several laboratory studies, (e.g., Braud, Shafer, and Andrews 1993a; Braud, Shafer, and Andrews 1993b; Schlitz and LaBerge 1994 and 1997; and Peterson 1978). Wiseman, on the other hand, in a series of studies (Wiseman and Smith 1994; Wiseman, Smith, Freedman, Wasserman, and Hurst 1995) as well as a study carried out with Schlitz (Wiseman and Schlitz 1997) found no evidence of psychic functioning. In fact, psi (extrasensory perception) proponents are the only ones who seem to obtain evidence for psi while skeptics do not and, as Wiseman notes (Wiseman and Schlitz 1997), this fact may provide strong support for "the experimenter effect" (Palmer 1989), i.e., the experimenter somehow controls the outcome of the study. Such an effect, however, would be as mysterious-if not more so-than the alleged "staring effect" itself. In another context Wiseman (1999) suggests that the positive results might well represent a "file drawer" effect, i.e., people who failed to obtain impressive positive results simply filed the study away and didn't bother to report it. Nevertheless, Blackmore, who is a severe critic of parapsychology in general (Blackmore 1996), has stated that most contemporary parapsychologists believe this phenomena to be true and offer it as valid proof of psi.

Unquestionably the most vocal supporter of this claim is the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake who, in chapter four of his book Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide To Revolutionary Science (Riverhead Books, New York, 1995), argues that not only do our minds "extend beyond the body" but also suggests, "If our minds reach out and 'touch' what we are looking at then we may affect what we look at just by looking at it. If we look at another person, for example, we may affect him or her by doing so" (107). Sheldrake, moreover, insists that the sense of being stared at is not only very "well known" but in informal surveys in both Europe and America, "I have found that about 80 percent of the people I have asked claimed to have experienced it themselves." Sheldrake also notes it is accepted as a premise in countless works of fiction and it plays an important part in the relationship of people with animals and their pets.

It is, therefore, of considerable importance and significance to determine if such "mental influence," independent of other possible material means of human-to-human communication, does exist.

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Answer 2

just as a blind person listens to sounds, and feels the change in air or the sunlight changing on their skin to tell if someone is in the room, or maybe even by fragrance, we all have the sense of being able to know when someone is watching us. When you lose one sense the others make up for it. So you're right, it's like a sixth sense and we're born with that. It could also be just a feeling we get, maybe along the lines of things like loving, caring, hunger, etc. And it's not only within us mentally but it must be in our body parts too because when parts are transplanted into another person that person takes on the feelings of the person who gave the parts. We even have systems that can heat and cool without our intervention. I have no real answer for you. It's just the way we're made.

Answer 3

We can intuit what is about to happen sometimes. I guess it is a sixth sense, but it is based on our experience about what happens in similar situations. There is some thought that this is a survival thing that has been passed down to us through time.

Answer 4

We subconsciously anticipate that someone might be watching us, and that makes us start thinking someone might be watching us, so we check to see if anyone is, and, if they are, we jump to the conclusion that we knew they were, even if we were really just guessing.

Answer 5

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED BY A BUNCH OF SCIENTISTS
THAT SHOWED THAT HUMANS CAN KNOW THAT SOMEONE IS CONTINUOUSLY STARING AT THEM OWING TO THEIR SIXTH SENSE YOU CAN SAY

Answer 6

its advantageous questioning that somebody is staring at you each and every and each now and then... yet dont enable it take over your existence. and you probely be attentive to that any one is coming your way on account which you may hear them and so on devoid of realising on account which you dont provide it any interest till they get to you, after which you think of.. oh i knew u exchange into coming :P

Answer 7

a shut man, my mom and I were just tlaking about it.
I really don't know, but yeah, that sensorial thing sounds about right.

Answer 8

its a 6th sense, gut feeling... always go with your gut

Answer 9

yup!