That thing about being able to sense when someone is staring at you is real. I’ve read the studies and I’ve done experiments myself. It is real. It’s not 100% accurate and some people can’t do it at all. but most people can do it with an accuracy somewhere between 55% and 75%, IIRC. I was very good at it...with accuracy at the extreme high end. The dog thing I dunno. I think the dog just has a very good internal clock and knows what time it is even better than humans do when they have a clock to look at. They also have hearing so good we are not able to comprehend it. They can listen to cars driving down a road 4 blocks away and distinguish between each and every one. They know when their master’s car is coming when it is that far away.
I do not know what it is about humans that makes their senses so pathetically dulled. I know they have the capacity to enhance their senses. Take blind people for instance. They develop their hearing, touch, and smell far beyond what a sighted person has. So much so in fact that they recognize sighted people as having DISABILITIES in the other senses.
I can tell you I understand these things because I had phenomenal perception when I was young...every sense I had was better than anyone I knew. I could hear dog whistles. I could hear the sound coming off of light bulbs when they were on. I could hear the sound coming off of the picture tube of a TV when it was running. I could smell things other people could not. I could hear when people were getting out of their car and coming to the front door before they rang the doorbell. I could hear when the gas valve on the furnace opened up and I could hear when the electronic ignition sparked to ignite the flame...and I could hear it from upstairs when I was sound asleep. It woke me up every night. several times each night. I could hear when someone left the TV on while plugged into the VCR and turned the VCR off. The Tube would go dark when there was no input. I could hear the sound of the picture tube in the energized state even though there was no picture sent to it. I could hear when the dog suddenly woke up with a start and stood up because he heard something. I heard this from sound asleep also and it woke me up.
My sinuses used to burn and my throat would burn if I got within 5 feet of a person wearing cologne or perfume. I hated perfume until I was in my thirties. The odor from perfume was overwhelming. Like a firetruck siren in your front yard making your head hurt.
I could read 3 rows below the 20/20 vision line on an eye chart.
Then I got old and my senses all dulled. Now I’m far sighted, can’t see in the dark, can’t smell a damn thing and am half deaf.
You know how a dog can sense when a storm is coming? I know how they do it. They hear it coming 40 miles away...or more. I know how they do it because I could hear the storm coming 10 minutes before any human in my house could hear it. The dog would hear it 30-40 minutes before them and 20-30 minutes before me.
and not all dogs could do these things. there were some dogs that were pathetic. I remember when I was very young being disgusted by the pathetic sensory abilities of some very small lap dogs. Good god some of them were so stupid and pathetic I could hear and smell better than they could. To this day I cannot stand to be around most dogs littler than 25 lbs.
I think the dog thing is true. I had a dog and a roommate and worked irregular hours. My roommate told me Spike always knew 5 minutes before I arrived - always.