How can you tell when you're being watched?

Question

You know when someones watching you, how do you know? Is it some sort of subconsious thing?

Answer 1

It's our sixth sense.

Answer 2

Most people have had the experience of turning around with a feeling that somebody is looking at them from behind, and finding that is the case. They can sometimes make people turn around by staring at them. Rupert Sheldrake actually wrote a book "The Sense of Being Stared At" (1981).

What is the emotion involved when people are turned around? Curiousity and less frequently sexual attraction and anger.

There was a follow-up book: "Sheldrake and his Critics: The sense of being glared at" by Rupert Sheldrake and Anthony Freeman (Editor) A special edition of the Journal of Consciousness Studies (JCS Vol 12 No. 6, 2005) in paperback format.

Yes, it is a subconscious thing.

Sheldrake even did some experiments as reported in an article: 'The "Sense of Being Stared At" Confirmed by Simple Experiments' by Rupert Sheldrake, Biology Forum 92: 53-76 (1999)

Answer 3

No. That would infer you have some oddball ability humans aren't equipped with. You can just tell if you happen to have even the most minimal input. These days, evil being so rampant, and, thankfully, about to become extinct with it's practitioners, there are those who do what they do to keep their mind off their ... immediate future.

Did you know the body runs on minute electrical impulses? Did you know any but a committed moron is aware such can be projected with pinpoint accuracy?

Did you know your eye can be shifted involuntarily to a position of sight in line with something someone wants you to see and you'd think it was your amazing perceptive ability?

Did you know electric current has something in it like an irresistable harmonic so to speak?

Think about that.

Answer 4

I don't always know when I am being watched, but there are times when I sense someone. Exactly what it is I am not sure, but a guess would be that your inner self feels the person looking at you through what is called six sense. I do believe it rude to stare at people. Have a good day.

Answer 5

Think it is an instinct sort of left over from when we lived constantly watching for danger from larger predators than ourselves.Possibly in some cases a natural sensitivity to the presence of others using telepathy

Answer 6

Perhaps it is instinct that gives us the ability to detect when we are being watched. Of course, I can also tell someone is watching me when I can see the glare from the sun shining on their binocular lenses! So, on that note, sometimes I think we become aware that someone is watching us on a conscious level.

Answer 7

There is a theory in psychoanalytical 'schools', that of Carl Gustav Yung, if i remember correctly.
That believes that we are all part of a " collective unconscious ", and being so, are aware of others around us.
A typical example of this, is as the question asks, or another analougy is that of pulling up at a set of traffic lights, and you seem to 'know' at the very split second, the driver of the car next to you is going to turn and look at you.........lol

Scary stuff eh.?

lol

Answer 8

We humans are all connected psychically and emotionally. This connection begins in the womb between the mother and the child. It is this connection that allows the child to bond and attach to its parents and later to fall in love and bond to its mate and children.

It's the psychic bond that lets humans communicate (it's how we learn language).

It's through this bond that we can feel when someone is around us or watching us even if we can't see them.

Answer 9

Its an evloutionary sense that arises from the time whne there were predators aroundwhen you were out in the bush

Its a form of esp

Answer 10

I think so. I can almost picture someone looking at me sometimes even if their not in my line of vision. Its a hard thing to explain but its something every one can pick up on.

Answer 11

it happens to me,, in two ways though

1: I can tell if someone whether they are in the front side or behind me, I can notice with my foreye. I dont have to roll my eyeballs to look back, i can fore see the person behind me.

and if its not that way, I dont know, i can just sense it, and im always ending up right about it.