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Post by auntym on Sept 7, 2011 11:03:10 GMT -6
www.unexplainable.net/Simply-Unexplainable/The-Feeling-of-Being-Watched.shtml The Feeling of Being Watched[/color] By Chris Capps 9/5/11 Isn't it strange that we have an actual sensation or feeling equated to being watched? For centuries people have reported an eerie feeling when they feel like someone they can't see is observing them. And this phenomenon would be added to the laundry list of other strange but ultimately baseless occurrences if it wasn't for the research of one man when he decided to put the feeling of "being watched" to the next level. Rupert Sheldrake, a researcher and parapsychologist came across evidence while conducting trial research on the matter that people had a definite impression of when they were and were not being watched. The experiments he conducted gave a whole new level of controversy to the subject and finally gave some level of credibility to the phenomenon of scopaesthesia, or "feeling like you're being watched." In the experiment, Sheldrake lurked in the background of a quiz show in the UK while it was being taped by the BBC. At random intervals Sheldrake would designate a time to stare at people in the audience behind their backs. He and his research assistants then videotaped the event and looked back on their results. What they found was astounding. While the audience members did look back into the shadows where Sheldrake and his group were sitting, after a few moments of being stared at a number of audience members would turn and look back at the "observers" as if to try to find the source of an eerie but not quite entirely explained feeling. Almost as though they were being watched. When the video of the event was looked back at they found astonishing evidence that something was indeed going on when the audience members were under the impression they were being watched. Just how they knew precisely was not well understood, but they did somehow. CONTINUE READING: www.unexplainable.net/Simply-Unexplainable/The-Feeling-of-Being-Watched.shtml
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 15:06:10 GMT -6
Very interesting... Thanks for sharing Auntym, I didn't know anybody had ever done any research on this until now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 15:58:24 GMT -6
I think we probably have more of our senses working for us than we realize. Wild animals sense when predators are close, I think many of us do also. It's probably not psychic (although in some it could be) but nuances of sound or smell or vibrations in the air that we pick up without knowing we are. I think everyone is intuitive..some don't listen.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 17:05:17 GMT -6
I think we probably have more of our senses working for us than we realize. Wild animals sense when predators are close, I think many of us do also. It's probably not psychic (although in some it could be) but nuances of sound or smell or vibrations in the air that we pick up without knowing we are. I think everyone is intuitive..some don't listen. I personally think it is a psychic sense. I was chatting with Skywalker and Steve in the forum chat room several months ago and I told them the same thing when they asked me about how it felt to get a "psychic flash" as I call them. I told them, "You know that feeling you get when you're at a stoplight and you feel like someone is staring at you, so you turn your head and you see the guys in the truck the next lane over are both staring at you? It feels like that..." And it's true. It feels just like that a lot of the time. Other times, it feels like a "memory" but usually it turns out to not be a real "memory"... like when one of my customers came up to the counter, I "remembered" him all of a sudden and asked him if he had worked with my father. He told me he had worked with my father 7 years before I was born. How did I "remember" something that happened before I was born? This whole psychic thing is really confusing and perplexing. I just know that it happens, and it is very accurate whenever it does happen. 95% of the time these "feelings" "thoughts" or "memories" are true, and I freak people out all the time which is why I typically try to keep it to myself. Sometimes though, like in the example I provided above, I don't know that it's a psychic thing. I thought I recognized him from my childhood or teen years. I seriously thought that. That's what it felt like. I "remembered" him. There are people who live in this small town who see me in public, get this look on their face and go running the other way because of this ability I have. It makes me sad and uncomfortable whenever I see people do this... Then there are others who seek me out for help. "There's a spirit in my house and I want you to talk to it..." or "What's going to happen with my husband when he gets deployed to Afghanistan?" or "Am I ever going to have children?" Stuff like that. People either accept my abilities and ask me for help all the time, or they whisper about me and eye me suspiciously or run away... there are others who, like my father, roll their eyes and say, "Coincidence. Pure and simple." ~shrug~
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Post by paulette on Sept 7, 2011 21:51:05 GMT -6
Surfers and divers repeatedly talk about going out but feeling that the situation was "sharky". The environment for this is also gray light and lots of fish around. People in the water have often felt in peril before they were tasted (they lived to tell the tale). This is being watching from BELOW. Just typing that makes me feel creeped out. Then there is the feeling of being watched FROM ABOVE. I'm guessing that a lot of us here have experienced that!
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Post by skywalker on Sept 7, 2011 23:06:37 GMT -6
I know exactly what feeling you peoples are talking about. That is the kind of premonitions that I am constantly getting. I always somehow sense danger before it happens. I don't know why or how but it happens...when I'm walking in the woods, swimming in the ocean, hiking on an avalanche prone mountain or driving towards a speed trap. I can feel the bad things before they happen. The main problem is that I don't always know what is a premonition and what is just my imagination. It's hard to tell the difference until after the bad stuff happens...or not.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2011 1:12:50 GMT -6
I can't say anyone ever ran the other way when they saw me..it was always the opposite..people want to know what you can tell them about themselves...and I've always enjoyed doing that. I get two types of premonitions..either the hair will rise on my arms and weird electric shoots down my spine or my belly ties up in knots..the belly is bad juju...it's coming ..stuff. The other is excitement ..something way good. I feel if I'm watched but I'm still fairly certain we all have the abilities...just not the little gene that is awake in some compared to others
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Post by lois on Sept 8, 2011 23:47:43 GMT -6
I have felt watched almost all my life. This is one thing that still bothers me today.. I never see a soul anywhere. That is good as far as Im concern..
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Post by paulette on Sept 12, 2011 11:24:40 GMT -6
Lois - I guess you learn to live with it. I would imagine that you are a sensitive (empath or telepath) and pick up all the random observations of others. Although feeling that when no one is present is spooky.
I think in my own life that it would interesting to have an overview of what I avoid through my own esp precognitive stuff. For example, I usually drive home a certain route. But some days I "find myself" driving home an entirely different way. Did I avoid something? A fender bender or kid chasing a ball?
When we go out in the bush I sometimes suddenly do not want to be somewhere. My husband, to his credit, turns the vehicle around at that point. Would that be the moment that the rock dislodged from the cliff? We see VERY BIG rocks on the roads sometimes - sometimes too big to move aside. I have sensed danger in the water and when walking in the bush - was there really a predator or was I just spooking myself? I follow my inner voice even if its fooling me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 13:41:22 GMT -6
Paulette, you Canadians are cool. You say "In the bush" like we do! (Didn't know that until now) I thought it was just an Alaska thing. You have no idea how many Americans I have had to explain that to. Just so others know, "In the bush" means "Out in the wilderness". A "Bush Plane" flies supplies out to "The bush".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 20:28:43 GMT -6
Aussies use that too..least wise Steve Irwin did. I sure liked him.
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Post by skywalker on Sept 12, 2011 21:31:33 GMT -6
The crocodile dude was one of my favorite dudes. I sure do miss him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 23:30:27 GMT -6
Yes..he was good and funny and brave and crazy and nuts and amazing and...he cared about this planet and all of the life on it. "Aliens" are missing a bet by not cloning someone like him by the dozen. He was a very rare individual
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