I dont agree. I have genuinely met too many truly stupid people. But perhaps this might be true of the collective average intelligence of humanity.

Everybody has a self-destructive instinct. It just manifests in different ways.

It's true. And really weird. The best guess I have is that when someone or something is concentrating on you they stop breathing or change their breathing, and you hear the change in sound and it sets off an alarm. Some animals have the same spooky sense.

We have an instinct for it. What we don't have is a sense that is reliable. That instinct goes off sometimes for like, no reason. When they've done studies on how accurate this "instinct" is, people are pretty bad at it.

During WWII fighter pilots were told that once they had seen an enemy aircraft but they hadn’t been spotted that they shouldn’t stare at their intended target. Keep them in sight but don’t hold a gaze on them. We do get a sense of being watched. Read Sense Of Being Stared At, it covers the subject more precisely called scopaesthesia.

Ladies - always listen to your gut. Don't be polite. Don't be nice. If you think something is "weird" or "off", yell and kick and scream. We have intuition for a reason. Safety.

If you think someone is staring at you in public, do a fake yawn. Most people will yawn when they see another person do it. I learned this from BP

An instinct leftover from the days when we were still considered a quick lunch for sabre tooth tiger?

Does it count at 3am when I'm in bed?

This isn't true. It just confirmation bias.

I noticed this in junior high. Whenever I stared at someone's back, they would turn around. I recently read an explanation for this, but I can't remember where.

Just a little bit of THC makes you not care for those of us that have a severe problem with this

Well then I am definitely haunted, because I feel watched all the time.

Gavin DeBecker wrote a book called The Gift of Fear, and said that if you ever feel the hair on the back of your neck stand up, RUN. It's human instinct left over from our primordial days.

Thats true. And its independent from society or what part of the world. And the feeling is independent from what is behind the stare. People also feel stared at, when the person staring is not even aware he does that. Only because the other person is accidentally in the direction of the gaze. It even happens when people are blind and don't even know there is a person in front of them.

I can tell when my cats are glaring at me.

This ability likely evolved as a survival mechanism, as being aware of others' attention can be crucial for social interaction and safety.

This is not a fact.

I would say though, that not everyone has it. Or as has been pointed out it's not some special sense but interpretation of data from other senses.

It most certainly is an evolutionary trait that was very useful.

Through most of human existence we’ve been as much prey as predator. Even today there is a lot of predation upon humans by other humans. Eg. war, financial, fraud, etc

Our ancestors spent a few hundred thousand years near, but not at, the top of the food chain.

I can feel and then see peep my duck staring at me clearly dead on from about 50metres away 😆 same feeling but better consequences on who’s watching me

I heard somewhere that humans developed this sense when we were lower on the food chain. It was a way to avoid being eaten.

I'm going to have to say that it depends. Many people also get this when they're home alone in the dark, and it feels like someone's there/ looking at you. There's probably no one there. But if you're outside then yes. You can do this experiment with friends and see how many times you'll guess right whether or not they're looking at you.

Was quietly gardening and felt like I should look around. A boat full of people was quietly drifting by on the lake behind me. So I turned and pointed my bum directly at them as I pulled weeds until they were gone. Stare at me? Enjoy my bum.

Evolution, it hasn't been long since we had to be worried about predators. That kind of brain change takes thousands upon thousands of years, and we have even long of years before as primates to rewrite

Generally it’s my dog that’s staring at me 😊

A lot of animals do. It's pretty common.

Is that an evolutionary thing

It's a bug in the simulation code !

It's usally my dog!

I always say this to people. I dont know why. Nobody has ever agreed.

Paradoxical undressing is the proper name for this phenomenon.

"But out of everything in the animal kingdom, we can run the longest " Good one, but I prefer "of everything in the animal kingdom, we can throw the furthest and most accurately." Our ability to throw would have quickly made us top predators.

This isn't just for back surgery, this happens with internal surgeries in general.

Or fame (which I guess is a kind of power).

Seen it in schools, every time there’s a fight.

We are also the only idiots that cry right after birth, giving away the position of the mother and child to potential predators

My theory is that we are all addicted to the same thing - feelings. The vessel that gets us to those feelings differs from person to person but in the end it's the way those things make us feel that we all chase.

Immune privilege, your eyes won’t swell up and fill with lymph or blood during an attack from a pathogen. Your testes and ovary also have immune privilege

Human memory is super fallible. It's an unreliable witness in court proceedings.

I recommend Oliver Sacks' books if you want to know more about neurological disorders and stories of real people living with these.

We DO regenerate. If you are a living liver donor, they take part of it. Both the donor and the recipient will regrow the missing part and end up with a complete liver.