Why Do You Feel Like You're Being Watched?

Sometimes it just feels like someone is staring at you, even if you can’t see them. It can be annoying, but our brains have a reason for it.

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[lizerdspherex]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you~

[nikkiwilliamson]

What about when you feel like you’re being watched but you’re alone?

[christianlapointe]

"that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”

[jerry]

Hank must especially feel like he’s being watched.

[CherCyborg]

Got the notification for this video whole reading an article about wiretapping

[Skeithization]

So when does 'feeling watched' becomes paranoia?

[amoradioheadd]

i feel like i'm being watched even in my house, i can't go to the bathroom without locking the door, cus i think someone is watching through the little crack. i also feel like mirrors are cameras and there are people behind them, watching me and waiting for me to do something dumb. i even feel like my own eyes are cameras, specially when i'm in thw shower so i always look up or straight but i never look down. i thought i was paranoid but i don't think so anymore. please help, i don't even feel well in my own house

[pinchyh]

It's a sixth sense, ever been on the train then suddenly you feel the need to look up and someone is staring right at you? That's telekinesis, Kyle...

[leylarustamova]

Why do I feel like this when I’m 100% alone

[aaronphillips]

I work retail. Whenever I look up and out into a crowd of customers I noticed some of them looking down at a text book suddenly look up at me. Despite not looking at me, seeing me in their peripheral vision, or hearing me, people often know I’m gazing in their direction and look up and locked eyes with me. Other times something gets my attention and I look over and I’m being watched. It’s rather odd.

[angel-kuim]

Only looked for this because I felt like someone or (something) was staring me down and waiting until I feel asleep to sneak up on me or take me. I was alone in my room at 10 o'clock PM after my bedtime and I just felt like I was gonna throw up and my eyes remained wide open of about 1 hour I finally got the strength to grab my pillow and go down stairs to find my mom. I asked my mom if I could sleep in her room that night and told her I felt like someone was watching me. She said yes and also told me i was crazy. I said i know how crazy i sound and started crying. I could not sleep. Got like 4 hours that night. I'm terrified to sleep in my room now. Anyone else have a similar experience?

[draenthor]

Obviously its because when a person shoots fire out of their eyes to see, another person can feel the warmth of the fire as it hits them and travels back to the observer, thus resulting in the observed person realizing they are being watched.

[ThePenguin]

Used to be able to feel eyes watching me in my sleep, nobody saw me physically sleep for long even if they were silent, because i 'felt' they were there, my sleep wasn't very good back then, id wake up very easily.
My sleep and sensitivities have gotten better, since having pets from age 18y onwards, even though i have more sets of eyes around now lol

[akrybion]

Nice try, ScyShow, but I know I'm just an unknowing extra in someones Truman Show.

[AliceSylph]

Would be interesting to do these experiments when suffers of anxiety. I have chronic anxiety and I have been tested and shown I have a much wider field of vision than usual, which is truely awful when the anxiety already makes you feel like you're being watched and judged all the time

[Hanneth]

When we can't see someone, there are other clues that there is someone else around as well.
There are vibrations caused by movement.
There are small audio cues that can tip us off.
Even sometimes smell.
I was surprised when I first got married how I could feel the heat of my wife moving around the room. Also, at first, how uncomfortable having that constant heat presence was in bed.
Though there are also things that can create these same cues and trick us that someone is there, when there really isn't.

[gachawolf]

I have been having the same dream about a stalker suddenly standing in front of my window, eyes crazy wide and a yellow hoodie. I just woke up from that same nightmare at 2 AM and I strongly feel like I’m being watched(I’m honestly scared)

[anandaariannamorningstar]

How about those who think people are staring at them and judging even when nobody actually isn't, and the times when people think they're alone and do something embarrassing but someone was watching them all along. I don't think real gaze detection without actually seeing it is real. It's just a feeling, and sometimes we happen to be right?

[nou]

I feel like I'm being watched 24/7 CAUSE I HEAR FOOTSTEPS IN MY HALL AND MY ROOM BUT I LIV ALONE HA HA HA HAHAHAHA

[alluneedislessthan]

what you’re saying is.... I have psychic gaze detecting powers... 😈