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Why we can tell when someone is watching at us?

That Q is being in my mind for a long time.

Today while riding the subway i was reading

and i feel like someone is watching at me

when i look up there's someone in fact

watching me read!

Why is that???

thanx for your help!

Update:

BTW:

i'm not paranoid!

24 Answers

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Because people are animals. It is your natural instinct to feel

    eyes on you as a matter of protection from what you feel to

    be predators. Perhaps you are attractive and people just like to

    look at you. Don't look at it as a negative. It's good to

    keep your guard up in this cold world.

  • 1 decade ago

    i believe it is a little something God gave us called intuition. It is that sense we get when we feel something is happening in your chance, someone is watching us. It is also apart of common sense and maybe for you it is a stronger gift. This is not strange at all and it most definitely doesn't mean you are paranoid. I feel that way sometimes and so does EVERYONE. We all get that feeling from time to time that someone is watching us. It's ok and it's even better when someone really is watching you because then you know you aren't seeing or feelings things that aren't really happening. It's ok, calm down, and now that your situation is perfectly normal.

    Source(s): me
  • SC
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    It's a hunch or a feeling that washes over you, and you literally feel like someone's watching you. The atmosphere of the place you're in could seem more colder and stranger than usual. It's human instinct to have a gut feeling to know some things, even when we think we're wrong sometimes.

    That happens to me too sometimes.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Brainwaves. It's like when you think of a friend you haven't talked to in years and they call you out of the blue. The universe is connected in ways science can't begin to figure out.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    When it comes right down to it, your senses play a major role in this. You may see a shadow, hear a noise, see a glimpse of something, giving you the idea that something or someone is there.

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe energy? Dont know. I think is maybe gut feeling or long forgotten instincts that we had before when survival depended on our awareness of surroundings. Now is not like that but is a latent thing inside us all.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sometimes you can see someone staring at you from the corner of your eye.

    Your head just dismisses it and you don't remember.

    But soon you'll receive the feeling again and look and find out that that person is staring at you.

  • 1 decade ago

    I have always thought it was a survival instinct left over in our genes, the reason your length of time noticing varies is our minds are more cluttered and block our senses.

  • 1 decade ago

    Becuase someone is always watching someone else. Its a part of boredom. They have nothing else to do so they just look around. Most are harmless. It happens all the time.

  • Huh?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Whenever I'm riding in the car I look at other drivers and they *always* look back because they can sense me watching them.

    It's weird.

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