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Why Is It You Can Sense When Someone’s Staring at You?
« on: August 25, 2017, 07:44:42 am »

Why Is It You Can Sense When Someone’s Staring at You?

    August 20, 2017

by Philip Perry
 

Say you’re engrossed in a task, scrolling through your phone or reading a book. Suddenly that creepy, prickly feeling grabs hold of you. Someone’s staring. You turn to find out who it is. Be they friend or foe, the feeling itself seems like an eerie sort of 6th sense. It’s also a necessary part of being human, an adaptation that kept our ancestors alive. So how is it that we can even do this? It’s actually an important feature of our sight, our brain, and certain social aspects of our species.

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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2017, 08:51:38 am »
Likely a developed trait when we were being hunted like prey.
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