BS: Are you aware when you are being stared

Subject: RE: BS: Are you aware when you are being stared
From: Tangledwood
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 06:43 PM

How sad! Maybe she should perform in the dark?


Peripheral vision provides the ability to detect movement, separate from normal sight. Some people, expecially those with compromised hearing have enhanced peripheral vision abilities. So, it is logical that people with extreme peripheral vision may distinguish slight movement changes by a starer. This could be a factor in boosting a reaction to being stared at beyond chance?

I have a vision impaired friend whose hearing, as is often the case, is very good. He will detect an approaching train long before I will by a hissing sound from the rails. However in a noisier environment he has trouble hearing an individual speaker while I have little trouble. Does my ability to visually focus on the speaker assist hearing, even though I can't lip read? We tend to think of each of our senses as individual abilities but is it true that they work together to create a total awareness greater than their individual sums?

A while back I used to scuba dive in a place with very limited visibilty. Most of the divers in the club agreed that sometimes they would get a slightly uneasy feeling for no apparent reason. Shortly after getting that feeling we would usually spot a wobbegong shark, relatively harmless, hiding among the rocks.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you aware when you are being stared
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:25 PM

Could humans (some more developed than others) have a yet to be discovered sixth sense?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090828103932.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Are you aware when you are being stared
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:34 PM

Peripheral vision is, I believe, more to do with the eye and it's spatial relationship to the skull.

I have an almost perplexing range of peripheral vision, to some. I can detect movement up to 110 degrees from a straight ahead stare and at about 140 from looking to my extreme. When looking to my extreme, I can ID most anything up to 135, and movement to 160.

Now, I do have a problem. I have developed astigmatisms in both eyes due to "out of round". This is due to, I believe, the fact that my eyeballs protrude to the extent that they are pressured against my pillow when sleeping on my side. Indeed, if I sleep past dawn and bury my head in the pillow to stay asleep, I waken with a sore eyeball.

It's not sommat that one would notice... it's quite common. I wonder how common.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you aware when you are being stared
From: Peace
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:54 PM

"Are you aware when you are being stared [at ?]

Yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you aware when you are being stared
From: Tangledwood
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 05:04 AM

Gnu, your eyes sound similar to mine. I've had medical advice that it increases the possibility of glaucoma, so if you haven't already done so I'd suggest that you get some advice too. Apparently it is hereditry - my mother is close to blind as hers wasn't discovered soon enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you aware when you are being stared
From: Paul Burke
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 05:49 AM

6th or even more senses? Perfectly possible. Senses which other animals have include magnetic fields, electric fields, seismographic sense, electromagnetic spectrum outside the visible range, pressure gradient, chemical gradients of many sorts, in fact anything that produces a physical effect. I suspect we are sensitive to many of these, but vestigially such that the signal is lost in the noise and has in evolution not made sufficient difference to us to be pursued. Anyone is free to devise their own tests; it's only a few years since a fifth kind of taste was proven.

Also remember that sensations of all sorts are highly processed before we become aware of them. You probably NEVER have a raw sensation. Before you know what you've sensed, it's been catalogued, put in context, and loaded with meaning.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you aware when you are being stared
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 11:15 AM

Hey! Stop staring at me! Yeah, you know who you are... Just cut it out right now.

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Are you aware when you are being stared
From: Ed T
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 11:55 AM

The roles of our two vision system:

http://www.wayfinding.net/visiontwo.htm