Title: All About That "Being Watched" Vibe
Headings: Why You Get That Gut Instinct You’re Being Watched
Why You Get That Gut Instinct You’re Being Watched
What Is Blindsight?
Blindsight Patient TD: Recognizing We’re Being Watched
What Does This Mean?
What About the Feelings of Being Watched from Behind?
You’ve Turned Around
You’ve Been Alerted
Okay, But Why Do I Get that Feeling When I’m Completely Alone?
Our Brain Get’s a Little Confused Sometimes
What Should You Do If You Really Are “Being Watched?”
What If I’m Being Watched for Another Reason?

Content: It get’s even weirder than that. Blindsight Patient TD: Recognizing We’re Being Watched
TD (to preserve anonymity, the patient is only referred to by his initials), suffered from a stroke that made him cortically blind because of a damaged visual cortex. And one study with TD showed people may be able to feel they are being watched even if they can’t actually see it. TD was shown pictures of people, some looking directly at him and others looking away. While he “looked” at the pictures, TD was wearing a fMRI scanner that measured his brain activity. TD’s amygdala, part of the brain responsible for processing emotions and processing facial information, was more active when the people in the pictures looked directly at TD. What Does This Mean? Well, it shows us that our brains can detect when people are looking at us even if we haven’t noticed them. But there are some limitations to this.