Thread: Something is happening to me

I took adderall for add/adhd but only for a week cuz it made me feel paranoid and depressed and was givin me heart problems. but that was month ago but other then that i feel fine. usually one would think.that if they thought someone was looking at them they would look and see no one looking at them and just think ok I'm just paranoid but no in my case i feel someone looking at me and i know the exact location they are,and we end up lookin at each other

Originally Posted by savage

I took adderall for add/adhd but only for a week cuz it made me feel paranoid and depressed and was givin me heart problems. but that was month ago but other then that i feel fine. usually one would think.that if they thought someone was looking at them they would look and see no one looking at them and just think ok I'm just paranoid but no in my case i feel someone looking at me and i know the exact location they are,and we end up lookin at each other

If I am standing at a spot (like a bus stop) and someone else is approaching the same spot, it is likely that person will look at me. They will be looking at their destination, and seeing another person there they will look me over to decide if I am someone worth talking to or if they should avoid me, hence they will be staring in my direction. If I then look at them in return (because I became aware of their gaze) we will be looking at each other and its possible I would feel like they were staring at me, while they were thinking the same thing.

Because of our peripheral vision it's easy to become aware of people moving around to our side, and when we look at someone, regardless of the setting, the probability is high that we will be stared at by the other person.


Small changes in light in our surroundings make us aware of these people moving around or towards us. Some people will tell you that you're psychic, and that you were detecting their thought waves or some other unmeasurable force, and I concede that the possibility exists, but I'm more inclined to believe that your eye caught a glimpse of movement from a direction where you would normally expect movement even if you couldn't see anyone coming, and as you turned to see the person approaching your gazes locked together and the situation becomes uncomfortable.


So...when you lock gazes and everything becomes awkward, what are your exact thoughts about the other person?

i explained it wrong excuse me what really happens is im at the bus stop and theres this girl that rides my bus but she come's from behind me out the side of a building and im always facing forward and have headphones with the music playing loud so i cant hear no one talking or walking the only thing i hear is cars passing by. but what usually happens is that ill just be listening to my music minding my own business then i get this feeling of a pull coming from the behind and usually when i get that feeling someone is about to come around the corner or someone is coming.
I remember one time blocking a punch in middle school right before it happened i wasnt expecting it but i knew something bad was about to happen but i didnt know what so i got ready for it. two second a later some kid throws a punch at me i blocked it. lol its like super reflexes dude. and about the staring thing the person is usually far away i remember one time feeling someone looking at me and feeling where it was coming from i looked and the person was across the freakin cafeteria lol and we were lookin at each other and my first thought was "wtf damn wierdo"

Originally Posted by savage

I took adderall for add/adhd but only for a week cuz it made me feel paranoid and depressed and was givin me heart problems. but that was month ago but other then that i feel fine.

Taking any drug can alter your brain chemistry and open new neural pathways or damage others. It can also make you more aware of things that you never thought about much before. Since adderall is a psychostimulant, it's quite likely that it was a catalyst in the changes you are now noticing, even though you only took it for a short period.

Originally Posted by savage

usually one would think.that if they thought someone was looking at them they would look and see no one looking at them and just think ok I'm just paranoid but no in my case i feel someone looking at me and i know the exact location they are,and we end up lookin at each other

Actually, I think for most people, the opposite is true...when we have a feeling of being stared at, we expect to see someone looking at us, and they usually are.

Psychic staring effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amazon.com: The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (9780609608074): Rupert Sheldrake: Books