Posted on 11/21/2015 4:16:10 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
If you've ever felt like someone was watching you, you may have attributed that awareness to a sense of unease or a prickling on the back of your neck. But there's nothing psychic about it; your brain was simply picking up on cues. In fact, your brain is wired to inform you that someone is looking at you even when they're not.
"Far from being ESP, the perception originates from a system in the brain that's devoted to detecting where others are looking," writes social psychologist Ilan Shrira. This concept may sound confusing, but it actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it as a survival instinct.
Many mammals can tell when another animal is looking at them, but the human "gaze-detection system" is particularly good at doing this from a distance. We're able to easily discern where someone is looking.
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In my case, it’s because I probably owe them money.
My grade school teachers, whose average age was about 96, could see better with the eyes in the back of their heads than the ones in the front.
That I am hot. H-O-T!
for later
40 years ago, I taught point men, FAC’s and snipers to NEVER look at the individual enemy directly. Always look past them. You can still tell what he’s doing, where he’s going but you can’t tell if he shaved that morning.
At the little Calvert school I went to in Istanbul in the 50s the principal was 90 years old the last year I was there. She probably weighed rather less than 100 pounds. I watched her once smack a 7th grade boy against the wall. In the nineties a fellow walked into my brass shop in Florida and we talked some while I worked. It turns out he had gone to the same school 11 years after I had been there. He told me about Mrs. Kelly the principal. He said she was awfully old but could still run up the stairs. Well, Mrs. Kelly was the name of the principal when I was there so she had to have been 101 years old.
Excellent teaching! Many many times, inside, but usually outside, I’d hear others coming, step off a little ways, not having to really seek very good camouflage, but just stay motionless, clear my head, and go into sort of a gazing without focusing attention on the approaching others. I have a hard time recalling any incident where the others, being so into their own heads and where they are going, that they ever saw me or even sensed me.
I used to get strong feelings of deja vu. Deciding to put it to the test, I decided to try to predict what would happen next, since I’d know if it had happened before.
The first time I tried it, I predicted someone coming into the room. They came into the room.
Shook me up to the point I haven’t had deja vu feelings since.
I read an excellent book recently called “Neptunes Inferno” which is specifically about the naval battles that occurred between the U.S. Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy in the Summer and fall of 1942.
One of the passages in the book talked about the lessons that had to be learned the hard way, and one of those lessons was “if you feel as if you are being observed, you probably are.”
It has been the observation of many men that women definitely have a Sixth sense about when they’re being checked out by a guy.
Like a Larry Bird no-look pass or a Joe Montana receiver look-off.
The only reason to look right at them is to determine rank.
is to determine rank....In guerrila war, the ranking people never wore insignia. They blended into the middle or were not there. The idea was to avoid looking at them until they were into the kill zone and then get as many as you could. If you got a tax collector, leader or squad leader, more the better.
Yes, but isn’t the feeling that everyone is watching you considered a disorder? So how many times do you get to have that feeling when you are wrong before you get categorized as nuts?
We don’t have eyes in the back or our heads. There are probably other legitimate sensory abilities kicking in which we are not as aware of that trigger our correct feelings. It is not necessarily esp.
isn’t the feeling that everyone is watching you considered a disorder?...If you are in a combat situation, or close to one, it is NOT a disorder. Not everyone is watching you. Just that one guy, lining up on you to put your miserable existence out of order. It is not something you can teach, only something you can inform others about. The PI Negritos demonstrated this to me and it really comes from primordial fear of snakes, bigger carnivores or something that was instilled in humans when we lived in trees to avoid those hazards. Believe me, it is real.
The ‘eyes looking at me’ detector. Not just humans, not just mammals. Birds are very good at it. Because if another animal is looking at you it may very well be thinking of trying to EAT you.
That might have been the phenomenon called coincidence.
Because we are hunter/predators. Spidey senses.
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