Title: Why You Feel Like You're Being Watched | Reader's Digest
Headings: Here’s the Psychological Reason You Sometimes Feel Like You’re Being Watched
Here’s the Psychological Reason You Sometimes Feel Like You’re Being Watched
“In a sense, we are absolutely the ghosts we are sensing.”
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Content: That eerie feeling of someone—or something—watching your every move. Well, we have good news. Before you call the police, or ghostbusters for that matter, psychology has an answer. If you’re not home alone, sometimes our “sixth sense” is right, and someone is staring at us. ( Here’s how to positively tap into your intuition .) How many times have you looked up only to make awkward eye contact with someone who was already looking at you? In the case that someone is actually looking at you, it’s because your eyes are always picking up on things that are outside your direct field of vision—even when you don’t realize it. Despite the awkward eye contact you may encounter, this is actually a survival technique. “Direct gaze can signal dominance or a threat, and if you perceive something as a threat, you would not want to miss it. So assuming that the other person is looking at you may simply be a safer strategy,” said professor Colin Clifford of the Vision Centre and the University of Sydney in a media release. “