Some type of tingly 'feeling'

[qwerty]

Hi everyone,
So this is a weird topic as it's hard to describe.

When you're sitting in a room and some stares at you from across the room do you sometimes get a tingly feeling that makes you look up and see the person staring at you?

Have you ever gotten that tingly feeling at another time when it was impossible for a person to be staring at you?

Some how this happened to me recently and I couldn't explain it. If you understand what I'm trying to say then chime in and tell me your experiences with the tinglies.

[Tarrick]

I have. I also heard about this before, on the radio. Can't remember the guys name though.

I think that the explanation is in the bioelectric fields that we all project, our "sixth sense" if you will. Whenever you direct your attention to something, it projects your field out to it, and other people/animals can sometimes detect it.

[Paul V]

Yes. It's eerie. It's also very creepy reading the emotions or thoughts they're experiencing in their eyes. And they're often related to you.

[Rohsiph]

Yes. It's eerie. It's also very creepy reading the emotions or thoughts they're experiencing in their eyes. And they're often related to you.

I'm glad to have a detachment, though . . . it generally ends up being more of an interesting questionable insight than something really eerie, as I'll rarely go the mile to completely confirm my intuition with whomever I'm "reading."

I discussed it once around 3am with some of my best friends . . . that was eerie.

In general, out in public, it's just more food for thought. Glancing around a room and, without fully running through the statement in my head, determining "this person doesn't want to be here, this person wants to get really drunk, this person is already really drunk, this person wishes that person would make his/her move already" etc. etc., pretty much instantaneously.

[qwerty]

I wasn't really referring just to eye contact but I know exactly what you mean. I think I've mentioned a few times here that I am not a person that looks in peoples eyes often as generally I get stuck there.

I think the most embarrassing example of this happening recently occurred when I was visiting a friend and his girlfriend was in on the conversation we were having. Somehow I locked eyes with her midway through a point I was trying to make and I couldn't look away (which sort of caused him to get annoyed at me) and I lost track of what I was saying to the point where I was actually talking to him but looking at her.

Back on topic though:
What I was talking about happened in the chat room the other day (strange example I know but it was so surreal), I was talking to someone and I got this eerie 'feeling' that the person I was chatting to was literally staring at me from the other side of the world. Maybe it means I've become too much of a nerd and need to take a break from the computer?

[logos]

It happens to me sometimes. Sometimes it's so strong I can tell where it came from. I'll pick up the phone to call them and see what they want. Sometimes, it starts to ring right before I pick it up and it's them. :P

I think everyone experiences things like this. I've always considered it to be what I've been taught to consider it - an undeveloped sixth sense that we all possess but can't yet bend to our will.

[Booko]

I've had plenty of experiences of the hair on my arms standing on end and as illogical as that is, I've learned from hard experience to trust it anyway.

What I don't get is how it happens when the TV is on mute, I'm not looking in that direction, but there will be one of 5 people who will be on that screen when I turn around to look. Never happens with anyone else.

Since it's too easy to for it to be selective memory, just for a lark I recorded the occasions for several months. It's not selective memory.

[Hdier]

I'm not totally sure if this is what you meant, but sometimes I will get the 'tingly feeling' across my back, I'll start to feel the instinctive 'fight-or-flight' response, and my body will automatically straighten (if it's not already) and my head will jerk towards the person watching me. I have absolutely no control over my body moving of it's own accord, though afterwards I am (almost) in (near) total control.

[AnandaMeansBliss]

I often get this feeling to which you are all referring. Do you think our iN makes us more sensitive to these phenomena?

[quentin]

As a white person living in Asia I've become immune to staring. I don't even notice it even more. I'd grow crazy if I felt that tingling sensation all the time. Unless, of course, it's unusually strong - for example, I used to go out with a Filipina girl and sometimes when we went out I'd sense hostile disapproving stares from some of the locals (Taiwanese society is deeply bigoted against people of dark skin, especially Southeast Asians). Maybe I was being paranoid but I got pretty angry about that, being a bit touchy about both racism and my girlfriend. When I got one of those looks I wanted to snap back in Mandarin, "My girlfriend speaks 5 languages. You've studied English since you were 6 years old and can barely say anything but 'Hello, how are you?' What gives you the right to think you're superior?"

This is a bit off-topic. But, like I said, I'm immune to staring unless it's very strong and loaded with hostile intent.

[axiomtangent]

I can't say that I've experienced that specifically. I have found that people tend to get uncomfortable when I stare (my wife says I glare, even though that isn't my intent) at them and don't hold my eyes too long. I've developed a habit of not "studying" people too long so as not to make them uncomfortable... unless making them uncomfortable is what I intend. Maybe I'm a tingle transmitter instead of a tingle reciever, which sounds like a quip but it has validity in the context of the discussion, I hope.

[Solaris]

I think I tend to receive more than I transmit. For the few closest to me, there are times when I will have a physical sensation related to their emotions when there is no possible way I can know what they are feeling -- as they are miles and miles away. I'll often know who it is, so I call and ask what's going on. Also, sometimes I just get a weird tingle (always just above the navel) that indicates something is going to happen. Sometimes I know what, sometimes not, but it's never wrong.

[Kfbr]

That tingly feeling may be a heart attack..