Title: Ever Feel Like Being Watched? Science Reveals Why and How It Happens - Learning Mind
Headings: Ever Feel Like Being Watched? Science Reveals Why and How It Happens
Ever Feel Like Being Watched? Science Reveals Why and How It Happens
Do you ever feel like you are being watched?
If you think you are being watched, you probably are
We are programmed to notice where a person looks
We pay attention to what people look at
The spotlight is always on me
Blindsight – it’s all in the brain
Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)
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Content: But in what context? We pay attention to what people look at
It has to do with evolutionary survival. Pay attention to where people are looking will alert you to oncoming danger. Thousands of years ago, humans were concerned with survival. So a quick glance off to the distance could signal that a threat was approaching. Remember, our language would have been pretty rudimentary in those days. It is fair to say that eye movements would have been an extremely useful tool for communicating. Now we have established that the direction of a person’s gaze was particularly important to our survival. This explains why it bothers us so much when someone stares at us. So we can assume that the direction of a person’s gaze was important, thousands of years ago, to our survival.