Why Many People Feel When Someone Looks At Them

Everyone has this ability.

But there is no mysticism.

Each person has several signaling systems.

At least two.

In the second signaling system, information is non-verbal in nature (gestures, posture, breathing, smell), transmitted and received unconsciously. There is a powerful filter in the human mind that filters out most of the perceived information as irrelevant.

But this does not mean that it is not perceived at all.

It is perceived, processed, and as soon as something from this pile of data turns out to be significant, an alarm will be given, the person will turn around and see that someone is staring at him. This is not without reason, measures must be taken.

A person does not have eyes on the back of his head, but "regular" eyes are caught by peripheral vision micromotion (or an immovable object among moving ones), for example, in reflective surfaces.

So our ancestors survived in the Stone Age. The reaction to the gaze made it possible to “smell” a predator or an enemy in an ambush.

At the same time, there is no need to realize where the alarm came from, but it is possible to react instinctively (stop, turn around or not turn around, change location, and so on).