Feeling Of Being Watched?

[JDL]

I've read less fictitious stories in Penthouse Forum than I see here. What an imagination.

Hard to argue with someone so adept at self-dignification.

[georgerm]

If true, how can we explain someone being aware that someone else is looking at them? What's the physics if true?

[JDL]

I'll hazard a guess as to why people can sense when someone is staring at them even though I'm uncomfortable doing so.

We all live in an environment bathed by electromagnetic radiation of various types and wavelengths. Our bodies are adapted to this environment, and we, ourselves produce electrochemical energy. We also know that certain types of electromagnetic energy can produce physiological effects at certain wavelengths and intensities. Intense sound can produce sympathetic responses that disrupt neurological function, and microwaves, for example can literally cook our bodies.

On a macroscopic scale, whenever electrons move, they produce a magnetic field. And whenever magnetic fields come into contact with conductive materials, they produce induced flows of electrons. Further, whenever two magnetic fields come into contact with each other, they are perturbed, resulting in subtle changes to the magnetic flow.

In our brains, this same effect takes place at the electro-synaptic level, it just happens on such a minute scale that the magnetic fields produced are virtually unmeasurable, certainly by any commonly available devices. Our brains interact with and respond to both natural and artificial magnetic fields, and during our evolution it stands to reason that we became attuned to natural flows, but artificial sources are too new for us to have become attuned to them. Homing pigeons, migratory birds, and other animals are attuned to the earth's magnetic field and use it to navigate essentially as their brains interact with it. I should say here that there are some who believe that the rise in autism and in certain other diseases is due to the vastly increased numbers of artificial electromagnetic sources in our environment.

It stands to reason that our brains, like those of other animals, are sensitive to subtle changes in magnetic fields, and one might particularly conclude that there are certain electromagnetic sources to which we are particularly attuned. We also know that different emotional states produce different patterns of synaptic activity and, by extension, different states of electromagnetic fields.

Now I'll speculate. It's possible that our brains are sensitive to the states of the electromagnetic fields of brains close to us. It is also possible that certain neural states may emit micropulses that other nearby brains can detect sympathetically. Assuming that this is so, it is potentially possible that someone staring intensely at someone nearby may subconsciously be detected by the person at whom they are staring. Obviously such an effect would have a limited range.

Or it could just be magic.

[WSA]

We all know it happens, don't we? In over 40 years of hiking/camping/hunting in N.A., including extended solo backpacking trips where I didn't see another soul for days at a time, I've had it happen exactly one time, but it was enough to convnce me it was real. Danger was the remotest thing from my mind at the time...I was on a familiar mountain ridge, not even that remote, out on a beautiful sunny late afternoon mountain bike ride when a, "YIKES..I've got to get out of here now!" feeling came over me in a flash. My rationalization was "cat", but who knows what kind of critter it might have been? Could have been a human, but I'm doubting it. There's a BFRO incident report posted today which details a truly traumatic episode of this kind, experienced by one man out hunting with his son. He got so creepd out by it (and the classic BF odor) he walked out of the woods and went directly to a bar!

The very interesting thing about this sixth sense is it is testable. The explanation is not so easily determined, but considering our long, long history of co-existing with predators, this seems to be as definite a case for natural selection as you could want. Those who sense predators, get to reproduce.

Now, somebody explain to me how my old man always knew when I had taken the family car on a joyride with my friends, despite us taking every precaution to avoid detection. Couldn't ever fool him.

[georgerm]

I'll hazard a guess as to why people can sense when someone is staring at them even though I'm uncomfortable doing so.

We all live in an environment bathed by electromagnetic radiation of various types and wavelengths. Our bodies are adapted to this environment, and we, ourselves produce electrochemical energy. We also know that certain types of electromagnetic energy can produce physiological effects at certain wavelengths and intensities. Intense sound can produce sympathetic responses that disrupt neurological function, and microwaves, for example can literally cook our bodies.

Maybe brain energy produced by staring is the correct wave length that we can perceive. This adaptation could have kept our species safer in a world of carnivores during our stone age existence.

During a deep sleep in the woods, I snapped awake only to look at some animal staring at me!

[WV FOOTER]

I've had the feeling that I was being watched, and boy was she pretty.

[Guest VioletX]

^Thanks!

[JDL]

It's too well documented among combat veterans to ignore.

[Guest miller44]

In surveillance courses the instructors always say that when you are following someone from behind look at the subject's feet, becuase if you look at the back of the subject's head they will know you are following them. Interesting notion, but I'm not sure.

In real life I've practiced meditation for many years. I usually sit still, eyes closed, in the woods (the real forrest not fringe area) for 2-3 hours at a time with my back to the forrest. I'll tell ya, the feeling that I was being watched used to drive me absolutely nuts. It took almost 1000 hours of sitting like that over the period of several years to master my fear of this feeling. Now after about 3000 hours of doing this exact practice the feeling still arrises from time to time, but it is easily overcome. I don't consider that particular fear to have been based on intuition at any point in time, to me it's just fear based on causes and conditions.

I have meditated in a similar manner in forests and jungles in Asia also, and I will say that pound for pound the Pacific Northwest forests feel much spookier to me. That feeling of being watched seems to go hand in hand with the woods hereabouts (for me at least). I've heard that some of the forests in the Eastern US are off the charts spooky; the Pine Barrens especially.

Edited February 16, 2013 by miller44

[Guest njjohn]

Yes, Pine Barrens are on a completely different level. I'd go camping growing up in upstate NY and on the appalachian trail and would just wander off without a care in the world. And these were places that had a healthy bear population and feel nothing. If I go into the Pine Barrens, it almost creeps up as soon as you're out of viewing distance of where you parked.

[JDL]

That's the way I feel when I'm anywhere in New Jersey.

[georgerm]

In surveillance courses the instructors always say that when you are following someone from behind look at the subject's feet, becuase if you look at the back of the subject's head they will know you are following them. Interesting notion, but I'm not sure. THIS MAKES SENSE AND THE PHYSICS OF THIS OBSERVATION IS ASTOUNDING.

In real life I've practiced meditation for many years. I usually sit still, eyes closed, in the woods (the real forrest not fringe area) for 2-3 hours at a time with my back to the forrest. I'll tell ya, the feeling that I was being watched used to drive me absolutely nuts. WHAT WOULD BE WATCHING? DOES THIS HAPPEN WITH ALL FOREST?It took almost 1000 hours of sitting like that over the period of several years to master my fear of this feeling. Now after about 3000 hours of doing this exact practice the feeling still arrises from time to time, but it is easily overcome. I don't consider that particular fear to have been based on intuition at any point in time, to me it's just fear based on causes and conditions. INTERESTING.....OVERCOMING FEAR IS A COMMON HUMAN INDEAVOR AND GLAD THAT MEDITIATION HELPS....INTERESTING.............I HAVE A FEAR OF CAMPING OUT IN THE DEEP WOODS SUCH AS WHERE THE NOTION OF BEING WATCHED OCCURED. THIS FEELING CAUSED ME TO SNAP AWAKE FROM A DEEP SLEEP, AND STARING IN THE FACE OF A BEAR OR BIGFOOT. I MAY ATTEMPT TO CAMP AND OVER COME THIS FEAR................................BIGFOOT HAS ME SPOOKED OUT.........WHICH GETS WORSE AS DEEP FOREST ARE ENTERED..........

A GOOD BF DRIVE IN OREGON IS FROM AGNESS OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO POWERS, THEN TO MYRTLE POINT, OREGON. THIS DRIVE GOES THROUGH THE HEART OF SOME OF THE FINEST BF COUNTRY IN OREGON AND US FOR THAT MATTER. DO NOT DO THIS DRIVE IN THE WINTER OR SPRING SINCE GETTING SNOWED IN AND FROZEN HAPPENS TO SOME!

IS IT A FEELING OF BEING WATCHED OR THE FEELING THAT SOME SPOOKY FORCE SUCH AS BF CONTROLS CERTAIN FOREST. EVEN IF BF IS 100 MILES AWAY, IS BF'S PRESENCE IS STILL PERCEIVED. THE NOTION THAT SOME FOREST ARE HAUNTED IS ANOTHER ISSUE THAT IS LESS INTERESTING.

I have meditated in a similar manner in forests and jungles in Asia also, and I will say that pound for pound the Pacific Northwest forests feel much spookier to me. That feeling of being watched seems to go hand in hand with the woods hereabouts (for me at least). I've heard that some of the forests in the Eastern US are off the charts spooky; the Pine Barrens especially. DO YOU THINK THIS FEELING IS ASSOCIATED WITH BF?

READ BELOW, SINCE ELECTRONS KNOW WHEN THEY ARE BEING WATCHED!

If you ever want to get your head around the riddle that is quantum mechanics, look no further than the double-slit experiment. This shows, with perfect simplicity, how just watching a wave or a particle can change its behaviour. The idea is so unpalatable to physicists that they have spent decades trying to find new ways to test it. The latest such attempt, by physicists in Europe and Canada, used a three-slit version — but quantum mechanics won out again........AND IT KEEPS GOING..........SERIOUS PHYSICAL SCIENTIST READ ON. WHAT ARE SLITS?

[Guest miller44]

READ BELOW, SINCE ELECTRONS KNOW WHEN THEY ARE BEING WATCHED!

Yes I have heard of this experiment. It is very interesting that scientists have discovered that light particles will take a different route through an obsticle (the slits) depending entirely on how they are observed during the expariment. If you observe light particles one way they take one route, and if you observe them another way the take another. As I understand it the way it happens is pretty much unexplainable unless you take into account that observation itself somehow plays a factor along with the physical laws that govern phenomena.

That's a very good point, thanks for posting.

But for the record, I don't think the spooky forest feelings I have encountered and confronted in my meditation practice have anything to do with Bigfoot. If anything I was more tormented by the idea that a cougar would jump on me from behind while I was sitting with my back to the woods, but it's all just in my mind.

[georgerm]

When watching animal something is sent and received for the animal to become aware.

[georgerm]

I have had this sensation 2-3 times when hiking alone with my dogs. The first time it hit me I was running with my husky in NJ woods during a snowstorm. I had been back in these same woods dozens of times and was never more than a few hundred yards to civilization. All of a sudden I was overcome with fear. I looked all around but with the snow and woods the visibility was probably less than 10 yards. I took off back towards the condo at a full run. After about a hundred yards or so I realized that it was probably nothing and stopped to calm myself down. I heard nothing, saw nothing, and could smell nothing, but was terrified. Weird huh.

It all starts with a feeling.