Decoding the feeling of being

A new study in Australia helped explain this scary feeling.

Have you ever been alone and suddenly felt like you were being watched by someone from behind, typically when sleeping alone at night? You are constantly startled but don't see anything, you begin to feel uneasy in your body as if you're being followed and followed even though no one is really there. This is a really stressful and frightening experience, especially for those who are weak, they feel as if they are haunted.

Don't worry, the feeling of being watched by someone and just following is an instinctive mechanism of human being formed and perfected in the process of evolution. It helps us warn us and is ready to react to something that has the potential to affect us before it actually happens. What happens when our vigilance is based on vision is disabled by darkness.

The results of a recent study by Professor Colin Clifford, who majored in psychology at the University of Sydney, showed that there is a rational mechanism in the human body that makes them believe that they are being watched by someone. A direct look can also signal a danger and if you realize this, you won't want to neglect that danger even if it doesn't really exist. Therefore, the brain will identify itself as being followed by someone as a safe, simple response solution.

In order to prove this conclusion, the professor asked a group of volunteers to determine which direction the group was focusing on in a situation where it was unclear where the people around were paying attention. Even without expressing their vision, participants felt like they were being watched by someone. Professor Colin hopes that further research will help determine whether this is a learned behavior or a genetic trait. Thereby, we can find out the reason why some people with autism become difficult to talk when someone looks at them or why those who are worried have a higher frequency of being watched than normal. .