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: In other words, the feeling of someone staring at you or being near you when you are alone is a psychological misperception and mirroring of your own body’s actions. Normally, our bodies can differentiate between ourselves and others, but every so often, things get a little mixed up. “ In a sense, we are absolutely the ghosts we are sensing,” Giulio Rognini, Ph.D., a senior scientist at EPFL’s Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, tells Inverse. “We take for granted that we have a solid representation of our body in space and time,” he says. “ I think this ‘feeling of a presence’ study is a nice example of the fact that when you trick your own bodily signals and you trick your brain at interpreting them, then you can have very very weird, strange sensations.” ( Here’s another way science has busted ghost stories .) Unfortunately, psychology and science can only explain so much. Because after all, how the heck do you explain this terrifying ghost video? Popular Videos
Originally Published: October 13, 2017
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