erm actuallly i live 50 floors above from ground with walls made of nokia and a password that has more digits than pi and also my door is made of bedrock, incase of anyone using the 4th dimention against me i have a phone pre dialed to god next to me and i have 50 wolfes in the room, also i downloaded a hacked client that automatically equips totems of undying for me. Under any circumstance I am teleported when I wake up or smt, I had an interview with the afterlife police yesterday and he said he will put me in creative in case anyone attacks me while im sleeping. Also in order to reduce fear about this topic i sleep with my mom and my cat
Right?? I was trying to sleep to this too and I start hearing about how "fairytale creatures" can haunt you during sleep paralysis and "the first time is the scariest" PLEASE?? I DIDN'T NEED TO HEAR THAT
Years ago, I lived deep in the countryside. The nearest neighbor was a few miles away. One night I woke up and, though I didn't hear or see anything, I KNEW someone was outside the house. I walked around the windows, checked the locks, didn't see anything, and eventually went back to bed. Next morning, there were candy bar wrappers littered outside my car. Never happened again, and never figured it out. But what I'll always remember was that strange certainty and knowing that someone was there.
Maybe the fact that you didn’t hear anything woke you up. Normally insects and nocturnal animals are going about their lives making noise. UNLESS a predator’s presence makes them lay low. Your subconscious may have picked up on the unusual silence.
@@MallowolfAye, the lack of ambient noise can mess people up, Its why I sleep with a forest track I made in lmms, I miss the sound of animals, insects, and the sway of the trees. Its so calming being re-assured theres nothing unusual outside by nature.
I agree with that! When i bought my first hamster i could hear him running around in his wheel every night. Well, one night i woke up in a panic and why? Cuz it was too quiet and I was worried he died or something. @@Mallowolf
I think the "waking up in the middle of the night feeling watched" thing is such a good horror concept, unfortunately though it has never seemed to work on me. And I think I can attribute that just to one fact---I own two cats. I wake up OFTEN and roll over to lock eyes with two gigantic pupils staring into my soul and purring so loud that's probably what woke me up. It's like that for a lot of horror honestly. Something touching my leg that slipped out from the covers? yeah there's a cat licking my foot. Walking past a piece of furniture at night afraid something will grab me? it will, to bite my ankles. Monsters in the closet? yes there are, they're peeing on the carpet again.
My cat has actually been a huge help with stuff like this. I briefly took a medicine that was causing me auditory hallucinations. Sounds of someone banging on the door or walls and yelling my name. But I was able to realize pretty quickly that it wasn't actually happening because my cat never reacted to the sounds. I think she would help in a similar way if I woke up in the middle of the night and felt watched. Surely she would be reacting if there was something there? So if she's acting normally im probably fine.
erm actuallly i live 50 floors above from ground with walls made of nokia and a password that has more digits than pi and also my door is made of bedrock, incase of anyone using the 4th dimention against me i have a phone pre dialed to god next to me and i have 50 wolfes in the room, also i downloaded a hacked client that automatically equips totems of undying for me. Under any circumstance I am teleported when I wake up or smt, I had an interview with the afterlife police yesterday and he said he will put me in creative in case anyone attacks me while im sleeping. Also in order to reduce fear about this topic i sleep with my mom and my cat
Stay strapped or get clapped. Always have the mindset "be prepared to fight for survival." If you can't fight and don't have the size/strength than grab whatever you can and come at them like a coked up spider monkey that's been lost in Florida and your opponent has a banana.
I think I once read that it has something to do with a heightened Amygdala response in certain people. If you've ever just been in public, thought you were being watched, turned to look and actually saw someone staring, it's supposedly because your peripheral vision actually picked it up and signaled to the brain "Hey, contact, two o'clock." Great video , by the way! I'm glad I found your channel.
I used to spook my friend in high school by looking up at her the moment she turned the corner while I was waiting for her out front of the lunch room. So, maybe there’s validity to that.
@FrostChildStudios That's exactly it. The brain senses it, and/or you have already seen it but haven't put two and two together. It's a very cool aspect of the human brain and intuition. It's been with us since the beginning.. 👍🏻👍🏻
Sometimes I stand in the corners of rooms or in the darkness while people walk by to see if they can notice I’m there or not, I’ve had people never know I was there and I’ve had people squint in the shadows; it’s interesting
the context of this can be so much less or more creepy depending on if this is a space that you've been invited to, or your home w/ family.....or if it's a random person's house :0 actually yeah, come to think of it when the actual f*** do you do this lmao? we need some crazy elaboration here
as someone diagnosed with psychosis, the feeling of being watched and judged, especially when I am alone, persists and is near constant and inescapable. at one point, I felt that god was watching and judging me through anything that had the appearance of an eye, so he could see me through other people, through dolls, through masks, through animals, even through the eye looking patterns in the trees. it was and is debilitating. i feel like Truman from the truman show, except everyone around me isnt actually in on it, and im one of the only people aware that something is observing us, and we are all performing for an invisible entity, judging us. I realize on some level that it is delusion, that I just have extreme paranoia, but the feeling persists. i never feel that i am truly alone
@@poolhalljunkie9Hey man just a tip I know you definitely mean no harm with your comment but it’s never good to say something like this to people struggling with psychotic symptoms, have a good one. :)
@@poolhalljunkie9 Not cool man. I'll drop out of my usual character trope of Barney Calhoun, but I not only sympathize, but suffer with the lad/lady going through this right now. Its been happening with me for 8 years now and counting.
“ It’s terrifying realizing that you’re being watched without your knowledge” fun fact: you can’t realize you’re being watched without your knowledge because the moment you realize it is no longer without your knowledge, so what you’re really terrified of is reflecting on the memory of the time you thought you weren’t being watched but were…. and the what if that your brain creates
Insert childhood trauma of parents catching you doing something “wrong” and punishing you, but their definition of wrong is insanely off base and you know it deep down. Or maybe that’s just me.
As a child, my abuser stepdad used to watch me sleep. Before woke me up at the middle of the night, you know. He knew everything about my life. I began to systematically erase my traces and myself. 7 years of hell, always watched. I'm 42, now. I somehow healed. Peer-helping others victims. But I spent most of my life hiding and erasing myself. Now I'm proud of me. Today, I can watch this video without dissociating.
I deal with dissociation and feeling fake or behind a window virtually every single day, the idea or terror of not being "me" and instead being a observer of "me" is something that resonates very deeply and ive never been given a greater chill from a single sentence
I live with my parents. My bedroom sits on one side of our house while I pretty much never step into the complete opposite side to do anything but laundry. It’s just my side and the middle, where the common rooms like the den and kitchen are. Whenever my parents are out of town for an extended amount of time, a part of me becomes convinced that someone has just taken up residence in the other half of the house and is watching me. I know it’s not true so I live in general peace. But at night I keep the light in the living room on until right when I go to bed, and whenever I leave my room to go to the bathroom I’m worried the imaginary person will have left their designated side of the house and intruded on mine, and that I’ll find them standing in the living room, or like… right outside my door. The paranoia’s not nearly as bad as it used to be, I’m able to brush it aside more easily. But boy do I hate having to venture into the other side of the house to do laundry, lol. The mind is a strange thing. My sister told me that when I was in college she often felt the same way when they left, so it’s not just me, thankfully.
I feel like things like these are ingrained in our brains and DNA because back in the day (say stone age) we knew where the enemy territory was and where our own ended and that fear of this enemy territory made us survive. So it's kinda logical to have developed the fear of the unknown or foreign/unfamiliar
@@mmentho6575 My cat who runs away from people will sneak in my room at night when I get up then get locked in my room without my knowledge, until he scratches at the door trying to get out. It doesn't help that he is a pure black cat who has mastered hiding but still, you never know when something can sneak in...
Unfortunately mass public surveillance via cctv and digital tracking just made this once kooky conspiracy level fear into a mundane everyday thing. It's so great.
This video hits home for me because I did find a camera in my bedroom in 2021. The fear of being watched still affects me to this day and it one of my favourite types of horror especially when it’s not happening to me
An interesting thing that I read somewhere is that: "Do You Ever Feel Like You're Being Watched?" Then you think of the time where you felt it. And now, the "future you" is staring at that version of yourself, being some sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
@@Alien_From_Another_Universe Was in my room doing some writing, got a nasty feeling in my gut, turned around and saw somebody staring at me from right outside my bedroom window. They turned and left right away.
Not even a quarter through the video yet but i thought I'd add to the "sixth sense" thing by saying I've found one of the best ways to remain hidden while partially concealed is to partially close your eyes and or de-focus your vision from the individual you're hiding from thus preventing noticeable eye movements and more importantly preventing them spotting your eyes at all. I think the most easily identifiable part of a human when it's visible is the eye, everything else can be glossed over but there is absolutely no mistaking an eye for anything but an eye.
Alternatively, humans are hardwired to spot eyes or faces where there are none. It's a known phenomenon but I forgot the name of it. It's probably part of a survival mechanism where we recognize patterns that are either a threat (predator, enemy) or an advantage (social link).
Like, yes there is a lamentation for a certain innocence that existed before learning that stuff and everything that happened afterwards way back when, but the lessons I learned from that experience are what helped me survive up til this point for better or worse lol
this is exactly why i refuse to go to sleep with my hallway/closet door open and curtain not drawn. i am absolutely terrified of looking out and seeing someone there
My body doesn’t let me sleep until I am literally unable to keep my head up if my door is open. Luckily my windows are in a spot no person would go through the trouble of getting to, but I can’t sleep with the door open.
That ending perfectly described part of my experience with derealization. Getting the feeling of being watched but it's actually a dissociation of my mind from my body. Add in social anxiety and that constant self-analysis starts to feel like it's coming from someone - or something - else. Very disconcerting.
please don't apologize for the constant Magnus references, I love whenever you do /gen and I had a feeling you'd do it this time as soon as I saw the title 😆
To throw in my two cents, I personally don't see sleep as a design flaw. Now, this obviously differs from person to person, but for ME it has always been an escape. A refreshing of the mind, if you will, from the madness of reality. My sleep and my dreams, no matter how scary or weird, keep me sane from day to day life.
I loved how tma linked hunger for knowledge with "watching" .jon made everyone mad or uncomfortable by knowing/watching them. cause you know, It's not just about being watched. It's mostly about being known. to think that your tiniest secrets or internal thoughts could be observed and revealed. And that you'll be utterly helpless.
I do doordash, so I find myself waiting in public for orders alot and I've noticed how tough it is to just stand and not look at your phone. To simply stand and do nothing feels like you're on stage sometimes.
@@spookymcg I can't either! Its my roman empire. I got a great idea for a magnus story after the watching Slenderman doc the other day, and then I realized I cannot write to save my life
“Scopaesthesia” in my experience is fundamentally not real. I’ve been a private investigator since I was 19 and I’ve followed and documented peoples every action, person they talked to, the clothes they wore, the conversation they had for days, weeks or even months in a few cases. I’d even sit next to them at restaurants, follow them through parks, follow them from state to state, have extended conversations with them at bars and they never had the slightest inclination. If you feel like someone is watching you it’s either paranoia or someone is actually watching you and they did something stupid and gave themselves away
"The feeling of being watched isn't real," says the man who is watching you...😂 I promise im not making fun, i love the image of someone getting scared, thinking their being watched, then looking over to you just HARD staring at them, mouthing (it isnt meee...)
A study was once done to check if people could tell whether or not they were being observed. Sometimes they were and sometimes they weren't, and when asked, 60 percent of the time they were correct. If you're stalking people in the city its a lot easier since you're just another face in the crowd, and people generally aren't worried about being observed or followed, especially if they aren't alone. Eyes are always on you after all.
gosh, the section discussing catholic guilt was so relatable. i was constantly told by family and catholic school faculty alike, “i may not see it, but god will.”
The part of the video about Catholic guilt rings so true for me. I knew what I was experiencing (especially as a child) brought up in a super Catholic household but couldn't put it into words. That was so validating a refreshing to hear, thank you. Also really connected with the bit about social anxiety. Subscribed and looking forward to explore more of your catalog😊
That’s true in my experience. I was constantly afraid of seeing some kind of monster watching me for the first ~12 years of my life. Finally just started telling myself that there’s nothing there, and it took a few years 🙃 but it finally stopped being an issue. I can dismiss it pretty easily when it’s just a random intrusive thought now.
for me i just get more anxiety if i don't look. i desperately don't want to look but my mind is restless so i do look (while praying nothing is there). luckily nothing is there, but if there was something, i'd probably feel my heart drop
@TamWam_ stop opening your brain up to the idea that there _could_ be something there. There is no monster hiding in your closet so whats with the what ifs? It only makes it harder to sleep at night when you constantly entertain the thought, your brain only changes if you make a conscious effort.
As soon as i turned 16, when i would walk places, i began to notice the men in their cars staring at me. I get more and more nervous walking on the road, knowing i have an unwanted audience.
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one of my very favorite things about tma is the role of the audience in the story. i’m really glad that you addressed tma in this essay, all jokes aside, because it’s really fitting to your message in this essay. throughout listening to tma, i was consistently struck with uncanny guilt, especially when the fourth wall was addressed. it’s no surprise that a podcast that focuses on fear would at least acknowledge the audience at least once. that one time annabell cane said, “you have no idea who’s listening, do you?” made my skin crawl because i knew she was talking about us. if we stick around through listening to people go through extensive trauma, through fights and personal moments, through their own deaths-who’s to say we don’t become what we behold? i’ve always held the theory that the eye that the characters worship represents us, the listeners. different aspects of us. our own fears and desires projected onto their universe. and this includes even the authors of the podcast. through listening, we become the ceaseless watcher-the crown of the fears.
The Watcher was not one person, it was everyone, all of the neighbors were the watcher. They just didn’t want that family to disturb their “peace”. I’ve seen several documentaries on the case and it was a known fact that at nearly all hours somebody was out doing something. Whether it be in their backyard, or in the street, sidewalk, what have you.
That's nothing to do with being a woman. That's called being human. Stop trying to elevate your anxieties based on your gender, it's pathetic. As if a dude is not going to feel uncomfortable and exposed when being spied on, or when being alone at night, or when being approached by people, if even those other people are women. Humans, of either gender can hold dark intent and hurt you. Don't believe what I say is true, run into an ER and look for a guy stabbed by a chick and have an argument with him on how it isn't as much as a deal that he now needs medical assistance to even use the crapper because the hand holding the blade was more slender.
@@KaiserNestyou literally missed the whole point of this womans’ comment you’ll never understand the fear women feel almost all the time and how the idea of being кi11ed and eaten by a bear sounds better that this being done by a man because you never know what he will do before and after кi11ing you and if your bоdу will even be recognisable after the fact
I wish RUclips would stop putting things on front of me that say things like “feel like you’re being watched?” I hallucinate and the feeling of being watched it part of it 😭
I have the same issue, but not as severe where the video could trigger it. I’d recommend pressing the three dots on triggering videos and pressing “do not recommend”. It does work for a lot of things!
I feel like I get the opposite these days, I’ve spent a long time in communal living spaces and I get a degree of comfort from the fact that it’s entirely likely that the others I live with are in some way aware of my actions in my home. It’s a bit different for me but it’s less being watched and more like being watched over.
Ye, we can feel when someone is looking at us even if our eyes are closed. Also, we can hear when someone we are on the phone with smiles even though it doesn't actually make a sound.
Very insightful commentary about religious guilt! It's such a longstanding trope in the spiritual life, there's actually a technical term for it in Catholicism: _scrupulosity,_ the tendency to form and/or suffer from scruples, i.e. irrational and excessive moral expectations. In some ways I'm kind of bummed that so much religious horror, and specifically Catholic horror, is taken up with demon possession, half because most films get possession laughably wrong (no, Hollywood, demons can't jump from one person to another via touch; you're thinking of electricity) and half because there's so much more to be had from Catholic theology that could make really great material for horror. Also, re Magnus (which is awesome and you should never apologize for referencing it!), although there are dozens of episodes that are genre-busting levels of outstanding, one of my favorites (and coincidentally, one smack in the middle of season two) is Episode 60, "Observer Effect." The pure menace of two simple words typed onto a piece of paper next to a mirror -- BEHIND YOU -- absolutely gutting, 10/10.
I wonder why we atheists never get possessed. I don't mean formerly religious so still deconverting from the indoctrination and fear mongering. I'm of the "wasn't raised to be religious or not religious. Just wasn't a thing."
I have 2 cats. The other night I went to bed exhausted and both cats laid down in the bed in front of me. As I started to fall asleep I suddenly felt a paw on my shoulder coming from behind me. In my exhausted state I thought “I hope to god that’s not a third ghost cat because I’m too tired to do anything about it.” I guess at some point one of my cats stealthily moved from my front to my back and and in my semi conscious mind I thought a third had manifested lol.
1:06 dude, what the fuck, one of my BIGGEST and most irrational fears is looking out a window and seeing a face or a head staring back at me. Great start for video on that alone.
I had a period of a few years where I had frequent bouts of what you're calling sleep paralysis hallucinations in my early 20s. I was never paralyzed, only very sluggish one time. I almost disagree with calling them hallucinations, because you don't "see" them with your eyes. Half the time it was so dark or my vision was so hazy from being asleep I couldn't really see anything, the images that threw me out of bed were in my mind and I had to become consciously aware that my real vision and what I saw were separate images. My interpretation is that your working memory keeps a spatial visualization of the place you're sleeping and under some circumstances, you become conscious of that visualization while your brain is still dreaming and there's a bleedover effect. All that said, the one really spooky one I had where I was extremely sluggish when I awoke had a proper visual of a dark figure standing in my doorway that I watched fade away as the paralysis wore off. I don't know how to explain it, but it felt feminine even though it lacked identifying features. I distinctly disbelieve in all woo aside from aliens, so take this as you will: I only ever experienced these waking nightmares in the 3 years following my ufo sighting, seen fuck all in the last 6 years.
I've been replaying Alien Isolation in honor of the film coming out in August. So last night I was laying on my back, and started to drift off. All the sudden the Alien rushed me fast. I was genuinely scared because it felt so real and when I opened my eyes I couldn't move for a few seconds. This is not like most cases that harm people so much, but I thought I'd mention it because it's psychological cool and never happened to me before. I think me laying on my back was part of the reason for this. I usually sleep on my side.
Agreed with your catholic bit. I’m catholic and I dealt with that feeling for a while. It’s only when you stop thinking of God as a boot waiting to drop and instead of a living parent cheering you on from behind you does that thought process change
The Mystery Man from the movie Lost Highway is a perfect example of the fear of being watched. In fact the entire movie is so if you never heard of it check it out
as someone with cptsd, i laughed every time you said "imagine" during the intro. like yes I do know every shape of my room in the dark shadows, I sleep with a huge black dog sleeping between my legs and a knife under my pillow. and even tho I don't believe in catholicism anymore, it doesn't mean I don't have rosary beads near my bed.
I'm thankful I never feel like I'm being watched It scares me that maybe I'm just not aware enough to recognize when I am but I'm thankful for the blissful ignorance
hey, just a reminder for people like me who suffer from delusions and paranoia: you're not being watched. you're safe, your mind is just playing tricks on you.
my house was broken into while i was asleep. I stayed asleep the whole time. no one was harmed and we got our belongings back but that shit scared me for weeks. there was a stranger in my house and i was sleeping peacefully in my bed. i still get shivers at how vulnerable i am every night.
i've been experiencing paranoia since i was like 11, and after a lot of therapy and geeting to know myself, i feel so much better, and i'm happy to say that my mental health is doing pretty great!! that being said, i can testify that YES, the feeling of being watched, and the fear of being watched can be much scarier than the thought of violence and the 'what after'. all my paranoias and nightmares and fears about being watched and stalked centered around the helplessness of it all, instead of the possibilities of violence. the feeling of being prey, of being part of a hunt you don't even know if it's real, is enough to kill you from the inside out. you're doing the job for the hunter. p.s. becaus i'm a nerd.: it's sort of like toxoplasmosis, if you work with the assumption that you're the rat, the stalker is the cat and toxoplasmosis is the paranoia 😅
I think ever since I was a little kid, I've always felt watched. Not feeling paranoid about whos around the corner or in the dark closet, but feeling as though everyone knows my exact movements, and everything I do. To the point where it feels like there is constantly someone over my shoulder, monitoring everything I do. Which has lead to feeling as though I have zero privacy. But I got over that. Not because It's gotten better, but I've simply accepted this feeling as a part of life. It's like how those people are overly aware of God watching them, except I'm overly delusional about Everyone watching me. My dad, mom, siblings, friends, God included. Even if they aren't anywhere near me, I feel as though they are watching me, and know about everything I do behind closed doors. I wonder if this is just an intense case of Anxiety, cuz it seems like it...
4:41 that is some truly creepy music. It feels like your senses are being overwhelmed. Something bangs on the headphones at an irregular pattern. It is louder than the person speaking so you have to strain to hear what they are saying. And the advertisement is gaslighting me. Did you know that when Aura contacts criminals to delete your information, some criminals might say no?
Scopaesthesia can also be caused by anxiety and stress, or fear. I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and I experience scopaesthesia often, but not all the time. This feeling is most powerful during panic or anxiety attacks. I've gotten used to it to the point where I just ignore it, but it still doesn't stop me from turning my head behind me, because you never know if someone or something is watching you.
Everytime i go into my bathroom, i feel like someone is watching me. Every. Single. Time. The scariest part? going number two at night. If any police ever see this after i go missing, it might be inside the walls. But surely theres nothing there, right?
One thing that I think most people over look is not some unscrupulous being looking to cause you harm while you sleep, but something unliving, like a natural disaster or house fire. Im more scared of something of that nature hurting me in my sleep than any person, because nature doesnt care how secure your house is against an intruder.
I was raised religiously, and as ive slowly worked to deconstruct my religious trauma a big forcus has been on adressing the amount of OCD i have based on the "god knows everything, even what you think." I spent years constantly being my own thought police, constantly axious that id accidentally think something bad and someone somewhere was writing it down in a tally of all the reasons id suffer longer than i could comprehend.
I'm sorry that you had to go through so many painful experiences at such a young age. There are lots of resources online: Recovering from religion and r/exchristian come to my mind. Both these websites helped me lose these harmful thoughts. If you have the opportunity to, I highly recommend you to speak with a therapist. Especially if you feel like you struggle with living your life.
about the 'design flaw' of sleep in the beginning, I think I've read somewhere that long ago, before the fire nation attacked, we used to sleep in biphasic schedules (aka sleep in two 4 hour chunks instead of one big chunk) to spend less time in that vulnerable state. just a fun fact ig
Honestly when I listened to TMA season 2 for the first time, I thought Jon was just lowkey crazy and his paranoia was mostly unfounded. Thinking back on it now and knowing he was completely correct in feeling that way is honestly so much scarier/more tense. The way you talked about it here made the podcast seem scarier than it has in a while, which is really appreciated lol!
Isn't the entity that's always watching you your own self? We all seem to judge ourselves, our thoughts and our actions. Everything we do is wrong, or can feel wrong. A lot of people have negative thoughts or confidence problems. Even if you think you're safe and your brain isn't judging you, it's always there. Just observing you, every action, every step you take, every word you say. You're always watching yourself, even though often life would be way easier if we didn't. We'd have less stress, less worries, less problems to think about. Another perspective is that it's evolutionary. Our brain is always critical of our own actions, whether we make a good decision or a mistake. It's always observing, in order to find out what's wrong and what can be learned. That way our survival chances go up. So maybe it's a good thing, our insecurities eating away at us because we're always being observed by ourselves, just so we can learn. Edit: I did not know you would end the video with this theory, but it only confirms my suspicion. I'm glad that I added that it doesn't have to be bad, maybe it's for our own selves
I don’t usually comment on videos, but I never thought Catholic guilt would end up in a video about a horror topic. The first time I ever went to confession I had a massive breakdown over the unholy thoughts my teachers told me would send me to hell. Eventually I left the church.. and I didn’t realize until I was older how important the freedom to think freely is. My mental health improved substantially. Sometimes though, I do still wonder if something somehow is listening to my thoughts and I’ll have to face repercussions for it. I love your videos! Keep up the good work!
I've been going through your video essays and watching all of them, and I LOVE all the ones that I've seen 😭 ik full well that my anxiety disorder will not love this one (my main issues are constantly feeling like I'm being watchdd and thinking something bad will happen if I fall asleep) but genuinely I'm gonna watch it anyway bc ik it'll be worth it 🙏🙏
I think, like a lot of things that we really shouldn't have had to learn to endure, people would eventually start to develop jokes, coping mechanisms, that weird nihilistic sort of gallows humor people get about other messed up things. My buddy and I are always goin on about "I hope the NSA is learning a lot about -whatever topic we're discussing that day-" and like. If there was a god, or the Eye was real, or aliens were there, or surveillance became a bit more mask off, we'd likely have to develop these mechanisms to cope. It's messed up, but that's usually what our brains try to do.
I had that once while jogging late. Shined my phome flashlight and left immediately after seeing a big boar at the treeline. It was just eating apples and occasionally looking at me, but it was intimidating.
Not knowing that you’re being watched is considerably better than knowing it in my opinion but the process of learning that you’ve been watching is worse than both.
I read a comment on a different RUclips video that side the reason we get the feeling of being watched is because we've already seen who was watching us in our side vision and just haven't noticed it in our front view yet.
even in an apartment i could never sleep without my blanket covering 99% of my body, tho my window is slightly open just so the natural light wakes me up
The one time I experienced sleep paralysis I hallucinated Garfield was watching me from the ceiling, and I was so terrified I nonsensically said "God?" before processing what I said, and bursting into laughter.
Found my absolute new favorite channel to listen to while drawing (I love the thematic and how you work them!) and it was solidified by the fact I heard "something supernatural watching you" and I went "Omg the Eye from TMA" and it was about God, BUT THE EYE BEING BROUGHT UP 5 MINUTES LATER I'M LAUGHING
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Please, oh please, make a video about Gang Stalkers / Gang Stalking.
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erm actuallly i live 50 floors above from ground with walls made of nokia and a password that has more digits than pi and also my door is made of bedrock, incase of anyone using the 4th dimention against me i have a phone pre dialed to god next to me and i have 50 wolfes in the room, also i downloaded a hacked client that automatically equips totems of undying for me. Under any circumstance I am teleported when I wake up or smt, I had an interview with the afterlife police yesterday and he said he will put me in creative in case anyone attacks me while im sleeping. Also in order to reduce fear about this topic i sleep with my mom and my cat
Literally said “last video before bed” and the first sentence he says is how dangerous it is to sleep
honestly
same i'm watching this at 1:48 am during a thunderstorm right before bed... I'm doing this to myself at this point.
Right?? I was trying to sleep to this too and I start hearing about how "fairytale creatures" can haunt you during sleep paralysis and "the first time is the scariest" PLEASE?? I DIDN'T NEED TO HEAR THAT
Oh no. I also found this at night. I clicked to keep it in my history, but I am definitely watching on a sunny morning
Same
Years ago, I lived deep in the countryside. The nearest neighbor was a few miles away. One night I woke up and, though I didn't hear or see anything, I KNEW someone was outside the house. I walked around the windows, checked the locks, didn't see anything, and eventually went back to bed. Next morning, there were candy bar wrappers littered outside my car.
Never happened again, and never figured it out. But what I'll always remember was that strange certainty and knowing that someone was there.
Maybe the fact that you didn’t hear anything woke you up. Normally insects and nocturnal animals are going about their lives making noise. UNLESS a predator’s presence makes them lay low. Your subconscious may have picked up on the unusual silence.
@@MallowolfAye, the lack of ambient noise can mess people up, Its why I sleep with a forest track I made in lmms, I miss the sound of animals, insects, and the sway of the trees. Its so calming being re-assured theres nothing unusual outside by nature.
I agree with that! When i bought my first hamster i could hear him running around in his wheel every night. Well, one night i woke up in a panic and why? Cuz it was too quiet and I was worried he died or something. @@Mallowolf
I'd be so scared to live in the countryside with no neighbours for miles.
@@FluidThinkerSafest place you could be these days.
Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean that you're not being watched, all the time.
that’s what i’m SAYING
*Any mfer who be watching me while I sleep* :......Why does she have so many fucking plushies?
Just because you're crazy doesn't mean you're wrong
@@requiem51No-bark Noonan has entered the chat
The inverse is also true. Just because you are paranoid, it doesn’t mean you still aren’t being watched
“What I am educated on, at least to a certain degree…is fear”
Connor went full Batman villain
i’m literally the joker hee hee hee ha ha hee hee
Funger ahhh line
“Gotham… this is your only warning”
Literally Scarecrow 😂
@@spookymcg no that's Scarecrow
I think the "waking up in the middle of the night feeling watched" thing is such a good horror concept, unfortunately though it has never seemed to work on me. And I think I can attribute that just to one fact---I own two cats. I wake up OFTEN and roll over to lock eyes with two gigantic pupils staring into my soul and purring so loud that's probably what woke me up. It's like that for a lot of horror honestly. Something touching my leg that slipped out from the covers? yeah there's a cat licking my foot. Walking past a piece of furniture at night afraid something will grab me? it will, to bite my ankles. Monsters in the closet? yes there are, they're peeing on the carpet again.
i want to live with cats now
You know, cats are really just the peaceful mode version of horror movie monsters
BRO I HAVE 5 CATS THAT SLEEP WITH ME 😂😂
My cat has actually been a huge help with stuff like this. I briefly took a medicine that was causing me auditory hallucinations. Sounds of someone banging on the door or walls and yelling my name. But I was able to realize pretty quickly that it wasn't actually happening because my cat never reacted to the sounds. I think she would help in a similar way if I woke up in the middle of the night and felt watched. Surely she would be reacting if there was something there? So if she's acting normally im probably fine.
Memento Mori fellow cult member
"what i AM educated on... is fear." is SUCH a hard line omg
Jonathan Crane be like
Calm down.🙄
I am AM
erm actuallly i live 50 floors above from ground with walls made of nokia and a password that has more digits than pi and also my door is made of bedrock, incase of anyone using the 4th dimention against me i have a phone pre dialed to god next to me and i have 50 wolfes in the room, also i downloaded a hacked client that automatically equips totems of undying for me. Under any circumstance I am teleported when I wake up or smt, I had an interview with the afterlife police yesterday and he said he will put me in creative in case anyone attacks me while im sleeping. Also in order to reduce fear about this topic i sleep with my mom and my cat
@@bizuplays you cant move bedrock, you wont even be able to get in and out of your house (no offence)
Me, when I go downstairs to get a snack and have to practically teleport back upstairs after turning off the lights downstairs.
Bro this is so real
I harlots of people living with me so I just go with a flashlight and a yt video playing
Stay strapped or get clapped. Always have the mindset "be prepared to fight for survival." If you can't fight and don't have the size/strength than grab whatever you can and come at them like a coked up spider monkey that's been lost in Florida and your opponent has a banana.
@@anigmaYT Same
I think I once read that it has something to do with a heightened Amygdala response in certain people. If you've ever just been in public, thought you were being watched, turned to look and actually saw someone staring, it's supposedly because your peripheral vision actually picked it up and signaled to the brain "Hey, contact, two o'clock." Great video , by the way! I'm glad I found your channel.
I used to spook my friend in high school by looking up at her the moment she turned the corner while I was waiting for her out front of the lunch room. So, maybe there’s validity to that.
@FrostChildStudios That's exactly it. The brain senses it, and/or you have already seen it but haven't put two and two together. It's a very cool aspect of the human brain and intuition. It's been with us since the beginning.. 👍🏻👍🏻
Sometimes I stand in the corners of rooms or in the darkness while people walk by to see if they can notice I’m there or not, I’ve had people never know I was there and I’ve had people squint in the shadows; it’s interesting
What is bro planning
Bro said fuck it, imma be a social experiment rq
The demon in the corner be taking notes
bro you're a terror to society
the context of this can be so much less or more creepy depending on if this is a space that you've been invited to, or your home w/ family.....or if it's a random person's house :0 actually yeah, come to think of it when the actual f*** do you do this lmao? we need some crazy elaboration here
as someone diagnosed with psychosis, the feeling of being watched and judged, especially when I am alone, persists and is near constant and inescapable. at one point, I felt that god was watching and judging me through anything that had the appearance of an eye, so he could see me through other people, through dolls, through masks, through animals, even through the eye looking patterns in the trees. it was and is debilitating. i feel like Truman from the truman show, except everyone around me isnt actually in on it, and im one of the only people aware that something is observing us, and we are all performing for an invisible entity, judging us. I realize on some level that it is delusion, that I just have extreme paranoia, but the feeling persists. i never feel that i am truly alone
What if that is what's really happening. That would be wild.
@@poolhalljunkie9 y r u being an asshole on purpose
i can assure u nobodies watching u i promise
@@poolhalljunkie9Hey man just a tip I know you definitely mean no harm with your comment but it’s never good to say something like this to people struggling with psychotic symptoms, have a good one. :)
@@poolhalljunkie9 Not cool man. I'll drop out of my usual character trope of Barney Calhoun, but I not only sympathize, but suffer with the lad/lady going through this right now. Its been happening with me for 8 years now and counting.
watching this before going to sleep maybe isn’t the best idea but fuck it we ball
“ It’s terrifying realizing that you’re being watched without your knowledge” fun fact: you can’t realize you’re being watched without your knowledge because the moment you realize it is no longer without your knowledge, so what you’re really terrified of is reflecting on the memory of the time you thought you weren’t being watched but were…. and the what if that your brain creates
Neat
Insert childhood trauma of parents catching you doing something “wrong” and punishing you, but their definition of wrong is insanely off base and you know it deep down.
Or maybe that’s just me.
No bro@@pixie12
As a child, my abuser stepdad used to watch me sleep. Before woke me up at the middle of the night, you know. He knew everything about my life. I began to systematically erase my traces and myself.
7 years of hell, always watched.
I'm 42, now. I somehow healed. Peer-helping others victims. But I spent most of my life hiding and erasing myself.
Now I'm proud of me. Today, I can watch this video without dissociating.
(English isn't my first language and I'm really tired, sorry for anyone who read my rant, I'm bad.)
@@Shaushkaayou did well
@@cecillianhater thank you !
I deal with dissociation and feeling fake or behind a window virtually every single day, the idea or terror of not being "me" and instead being a observer of "me" is something that resonates very deeply and ive never been given a greater chill from a single sentence
I live with my parents. My bedroom sits on one side of our house while I pretty much never step into the complete opposite side to do anything but laundry. It’s just my side and the middle, where the common rooms like the den and kitchen are. Whenever my parents are out of town for an extended amount of time, a part of me becomes convinced that someone has just taken up residence in the other half of the house and is watching me. I know it’s not true so I live in general peace. But at night I keep the light in the living room on until right when I go to bed, and whenever I leave my room to go to the bathroom I’m worried the imaginary person will have left their designated side of the house and intruded on mine, and that I’ll find them standing in the living room, or like… right outside my door. The paranoia’s not nearly as bad as it used to be, I’m able to brush it aside more easily. But boy do I hate having to venture into the other side of the house to do laundry, lol. The mind is a strange thing. My sister told me that when I was in college she often felt the same way when they left, so it’s not just me, thankfully.
same thing when i leave my bedroom at night and come back in im scared someones just under my bed or sum.
I feel like things like these are ingrained in our brains and DNA because back in the day (say stone age) we knew where the enemy territory was and where our own ended and that fear of this enemy territory made us survive. So it's kinda logical to have developed the fear of the unknown or foreign/unfamiliar
@@mmentho6575 REALLLL i get so paranoid about that.
@@mmentho6575 i just feel scared of my bathroom so i either close its door or keep its lights on 😭even during the day
@@mmentho6575 My cat who runs away from people will sneak in my room at night when I get up then get locked in my room without my knowledge, until he scratches at the door trying to get out. It doesn't help that he is a pure black cat who has mastered hiding but still, you never know when something can sneak in...
Unfortunately mass public surveillance via cctv and digital tracking just made this once kooky conspiracy level fear into a mundane everyday thing. It's so great.
Not knowing is infinitely more terrifying. Obv you aren’t terrified in the moment, but if you found out afterwords you would be sickened, and scared.
This video hits home for me because I did find a camera in my bedroom in 2021. The fear of being watched still affects me to this day and it one of my favourite types of horror especially when it’s not happening to me
that’s so scary dude
@@spookymcg yeah I try not to think about it
I’m sorry you found a *what*
@@LegallyinsaneLoL video camera, it was pointing at my bed too, that was not fun three days of my life
what uhhhhhhh......what was...............what was on the camera, if anything? :-E
I love finding out that the creators I watch like The Magnus Archives.
Your acting like this is new knowledge. He's already made 2 videos about it, and mentioned it in several others.
@@C._Bradford it’s new information to ME
@@Phantom682TMA MENTIONEDD?????
@@OroTheEye TMA MENTIONED!!
@@C._Bradfordyou're *
I always feel like somebody's watching me, and I got no privacy.
Oh whoa oh
Well can the people on TV see me or am I just paranoid?
the way i saw this comment while i was thinking about why i was having that is crazy
Who? the IRS?
I LOVE THIS SONG
An interesting thing that I read somewhere is that:
"Do You Ever Feel Like You're Being Watched?"
Then you think of the time where you felt it. And now, the "future you" is staring at that version of yourself, being some sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This mans knows the way to my heart, though the archives.
i just can’t seem to escape it…
@spookymcg try gouging out your eyes
Someone actually WAS watching me from outside my window the other night, so this video popping up in my feed is quite alarming lol
It’s a sign to get a cat (they will judge the watcher to death)
May I hear the story?
Yo WHAT?
@@Alien_From_Another_Universe Was in my room doing some writing, got a nasty feeling in my gut, turned around and saw somebody staring at me from right outside my bedroom window. They turned and left right away.
@@braydenmorgan4692File a police report and I recommend not sleeping there for a couple weeks.
Not even a quarter through the video yet but i thought I'd add to the "sixth sense" thing by saying I've found one of the best ways to remain hidden while partially concealed is to partially close your eyes and or de-focus your vision from the individual you're hiding from thus preventing noticeable eye movements and more importantly preventing them spotting your eyes at all.
I think the most easily identifiable part of a human when it's visible is the eye, everything else can be glossed over but there is absolutely no mistaking an eye for anything but an eye.
Alternatively, humans are hardwired to spot eyes or faces where there are none. It's a known phenomenon but I forgot the name of it. It's probably part of a survival mechanism where we recognize patterns that are either a threat (predator, enemy) or an advantage (social link).
@@NoiseDay pareidolia is the word you were thinking of several weeks ago, by the way
As someone who found out they were being watched and had to continue living as if I didn't know, not knowing is worse.
Like, yes there is a lamentation for a certain innocence that existed before learning that stuff and everything that happened afterwards way back when, but the lessons I learned from that experience are what helped me survive up til this point for better or worse lol
this is exactly why i refuse to go to sleep with my hallway/closet door open and curtain not drawn. i am absolutely terrified of looking out and seeing someone there
My body doesn’t let me sleep until I am literally unable to keep my head up if my door is open. Luckily my windows are in a spot no person would go through the trouble of getting to, but I can’t sleep with the door open.
That ending perfectly described part of my experience with derealization. Getting the feeling of being watched but it's actually a dissociation of my mind from my body. Add in social anxiety and that constant self-analysis starts to feel like it's coming from someone - or something - else. Very disconcerting.
please don't apologize for the constant Magnus references, I love whenever you do /gen
and I had a feeling you'd do it this time as soon as I saw the title 😆
thank you for describing my anxiety disorder in depth to me.
Had a sleep paralysis demon that was a facehugger once 💀 shit had me fucked up all week
lmao, sure you got real close with the lil guy
DAMN BRO
Holy fuck that sounds awful
Sorry heard about that
Don’t tell me it was face hugging you
To throw in my two cents, I personally don't see sleep as a design flaw. Now, this obviously differs from person to person, but for ME it has always been an escape. A refreshing of the mind, if you will, from the madness of reality. My sleep and my dreams, no matter how scary or weird, keep me sane from day to day life.
I loved how tma linked hunger for knowledge with "watching" .jon made everyone mad or uncomfortable by knowing/watching them. cause you know, It's not just about being watched. It's mostly about being known. to think that your tiniest secrets or internal thoughts could be observed and revealed. And that you'll be
utterly
helpless.
Being ceaselessly watched is a pretty scary thing yeah
ceaseless watcher turn your gave spin this wretched thing
I do doordash, so I find myself waiting in public for orders alot and I've noticed how tough it is to just stand and not look at your phone. To simply stand and do nothing feels like you're on stage sometimes.
When I saw the title, I started chanting "Magnus! Magnus!" And didn't stop until you admitted it. Then I just laughed maniacally
And honestly Connor, there is a depressing LACK of Magnus content on RUclips, let alone stuff as solid as yours is. The void must be filled!
I can’t seem to escape that show…
@@spookymcg I can't either! Its my roman empire. I got a great idea for a magnus story after the watching Slenderman doc the other day, and then I realized I cannot write to save my life
it must have looked extremely weird
@@gabidoescosplaystufftry anyways, do a rough draft of the idea! We need more people trying their hand even if it fails, youll learn and improve lol.
“Scopaesthesia” in my experience is fundamentally not real. I’ve been a private investigator since I was 19 and I’ve followed and documented peoples every action, person they talked to, the clothes they wore, the conversation they had for days, weeks or even months in a few cases. I’d even sit next to them at restaurants, follow them through parks, follow them from state to state, have extended conversations with them at bars and they never had the slightest inclination. If you feel like someone is watching you it’s either paranoia or someone is actually watching you and they did something stupid and gave themselves away
😨
Some people are oblivious. Some aren't.
"The feeling of being watched isn't real," says the man who is watching you...😂
I promise im not making fun, i love the image of someone getting scared, thinking their being watched, then looking over to you just HARD staring at them, mouthing (it isnt meee...)
That's insane, how'd you get into the field?
A study was once done to check if people could tell whether or not they were being observed. Sometimes they were and sometimes they weren't, and when asked, 60 percent of the time they were correct. If you're stalking people in the city its a lot easier since you're just another face in the crowd, and people generally aren't worried about being observed or followed, especially if they aren't alone. Eyes are always on you after all.
gosh, the section discussing catholic guilt was so relatable. i was constantly told by family and catholic school faculty alike, “i may not see it, but god will.”
The part of the video about Catholic guilt rings so true for me. I knew what I was experiencing (especially as a child) brought up in a super Catholic household but couldn't put it into words. That was so validating a refreshing to hear, thank you.
Also really connected with the bit about social anxiety. Subscribed and looking forward to explore more of your catalog😊
I deliberately do not look anywhere to not entertain the anxiety. If you feed into it it gets worse.
That’s true in my experience. I was constantly afraid of seeing some kind of monster watching me for the first ~12 years of my life. Finally just started telling myself that there’s nothing there, and it took a few years 🙃 but it finally stopped being an issue. I can dismiss it pretty easily when it’s just a random intrusive thought now.
for me i just get more anxiety if i don't look. i desperately don't want to look but my mind is restless so i do look (while praying nothing is there). luckily nothing is there, but if there was something, i'd probably feel my heart drop
@TamWam_ stop opening your brain up to the idea that there _could_ be something there. There is no monster hiding in your closet so whats with the what ifs? It only makes it harder to sleep at night when you constantly entertain the thought, your brain only changes if you make a conscious effort.
As soon as i turned 16, when i would walk places, i began to notice the men in their cars staring at me. I get more and more nervous walking on the road, knowing i have an unwanted audience.
Just constantly stair back making an obvious proactive effort to do so, I do this on my daily walks through the city and it works.
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one of my very favorite things about tma is the role of the audience in the story. i’m really glad that you addressed tma in this essay, all jokes aside, because it’s really fitting to your message in this essay. throughout listening to tma, i was consistently struck with uncanny guilt, especially when the fourth wall was addressed. it’s no surprise that a podcast that focuses on fear would at least acknowledge the audience at least once. that one time annabell cane said, “you have no idea who’s listening, do you?” made my skin crawl because i knew she was talking about us. if we stick around through listening to people go through extensive trauma, through fights and personal moments, through their own deaths-who’s to say we don’t become what we behold? i’ve always held the theory that the eye that the characters worship represents us, the listeners. different aspects of us. our own fears and desires projected onto their universe. and this includes even the authors of the podcast. through listening, we become the ceaseless watcher-the crown of the fears.
The Watcher was not one person, it was everyone, all of the neighbors were the watcher. They just didn’t want that family to disturb their “peace”.
I’ve seen several documentaries on the case and it was a known fact that at nearly all hours somebody was out doing something.
Whether it be in their backyard, or in the street, sidewalk, what have you.
As a woman, knowing that whatever is watching you is another human is infinitely more terrifying than anything else
being watched by a bear would be better imo. lol
That's nothing to do with being a woman. That's called being human. Stop trying to elevate your anxieties based on your gender, it's pathetic.
As if a dude is not going to feel uncomfortable and exposed when being spied on, or when being alone at night, or when being approached by people, if even those other people are women. Humans, of either gender can hold dark intent and hurt you. Don't believe what I say is true, run into an ER and look for a guy stabbed by a chick and have an argument with him on how it isn't as much as a deal that he now needs medical assistance to even use the crapper because the hand holding the blade was more slender.
@@KaiserNest just say you don’t understand or empathize with what it means to grow up as a woman🤦🏾♂️
@@KaiserNest would the bear follow me home in this scenario?
@@KaiserNestyou literally missed the whole point of this womans’ comment you’ll never understand the fear women feel almost all the time and how the idea of being кi11ed and eaten by a bear sounds better that this being done by a man because you never know what he will do before and after кi11ing you and if your bоdу will even be recognisable after the fact
I wish RUclips would stop putting things on front of me that say things like “feel like you’re being watched?” I hallucinate and the feeling of being watched it part of it 😭
I have the same issue, but not as severe where the video could trigger it. I’d recommend pressing the three dots on triggering videos and pressing “do not recommend”. It does work for a lot of things!
I feel like I get the opposite these days, I’ve spent a long time in communal living spaces and I get a degree of comfort from the fact that it’s entirely likely that the others I live with are in some way aware of my actions in my home. It’s a bit different for me but it’s less being watched and more like being watched over.
Ye, we can feel when someone is looking at us even if our eyes are closed. Also, we can hear when someone we are on the phone with smiles even though it doesn't actually make a sound.
If you smile while saying something it does sound quite different from if you just said it normally, that's why you hear it.
Very insightful commentary about religious guilt! It's such a longstanding trope in the spiritual life, there's actually a technical term for it in Catholicism: _scrupulosity,_ the tendency to form and/or suffer from scruples, i.e. irrational and excessive moral expectations. In some ways I'm kind of bummed that so much religious horror, and specifically Catholic horror, is taken up with demon possession, half because most films get possession laughably wrong (no, Hollywood, demons can't jump from one person to another via touch; you're thinking of electricity) and half because there's so much more to be had from Catholic theology that could make really great material for horror.
Also, re Magnus (which is awesome and you should never apologize for referencing it!), although there are dozens of episodes that are genre-busting levels of outstanding, one of my favorites (and coincidentally, one smack in the middle of season two) is Episode 60, "Observer Effect." The pure menace of two simple words typed onto a piece of paper next to a mirror -- BEHIND YOU -- absolutely gutting, 10/10.
I wonder why we atheists never get possessed. I don't mean formerly religious so still deconverting from the indoctrination and fear mongering. I'm of the "wasn't raised to be religious or not religious. Just wasn't a thing."
Sometimes when I’m alone I feel like someone is watching me do things, watching me do things behind me
I have 2 cats. The other night I went to bed exhausted and both cats laid down in the bed in front of me. As I started to fall asleep I suddenly felt a paw on my shoulder coming from behind me. In my exhausted state I thought “I hope to god that’s not a third ghost cat because I’m too tired to do anything about it.” I guess at some point one of my cats stealthily moved from my front to my back and and in my semi conscious mind I thought a third had manifested lol.
I read the title to the tune of Firework by Katy Pary
I love that
Do you ever feeeeel, like you’re being watched. By a criminal or maybe Sasquatch.
Baby you are paaaaaaaranoid
❤️
@@JoeBombinoGameStreams❤️
They should make an 80's pop song about this feeling
Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell
Dude, I totally feel you on that anxiety over just simply _walking_ as I've also felt that way when out in public!
1:06 dude, what the fuck, one of my BIGGEST and most irrational fears is looking out a window and seeing a face or a head staring back at me. Great start for video on that alone.
i was literally laying in bed thinking about how vulnerable you are when you’re sleeping last night it keeps me up for hours
I had a period of a few years where I had frequent bouts of what you're calling sleep paralysis hallucinations in my early 20s. I was never paralyzed, only very sluggish one time. I almost disagree with calling them hallucinations, because you don't "see" them with your eyes. Half the time it was so dark or my vision was so hazy from being asleep I couldn't really see anything, the images that threw me out of bed were in my mind and I had to become consciously aware that my real vision and what I saw were separate images. My interpretation is that your working memory keeps a spatial visualization of the place you're sleeping and under some circumstances, you become conscious of that visualization while your brain is still dreaming and there's a bleedover effect.
All that said, the one really spooky one I had where I was extremely sluggish when I awoke had a proper visual of a dark figure standing in my doorway that I watched fade away as the paralysis wore off. I don't know how to explain it, but it felt feminine even though it lacked identifying features. I distinctly disbelieve in all woo aside from aliens, so take this as you will: I only ever experienced these waking nightmares in the 3 years following my ufo sighting, seen fuck all in the last 6 years.
Watching this while I work in an empty library was not the move
0:36 you’re wrong. I’m not in danger, I *AM* the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No! I am the one who knocks!
I've been replaying Alien Isolation in honor of the film coming out in August. So last night I was laying on my back, and started to drift off. All the sudden the Alien rushed me fast. I was genuinely scared because it felt so real and when I opened my eyes I couldn't move for a few seconds. This is not like most cases that harm people so much, but I thought I'd mention it because it's psychological cool and never happened to me before. I think me laying on my back was part of the reason for this. I usually sleep on my side.
Love the idea and it should 100% freak me out.....but for me it's a "if i die, i die" type of situation
But go out like a warrior. Fight like the third monkey on Noah's ark and it's starting to rain. If you're going to die, take some assholes with you!
Most security systems are just there to report the crime after it already happens
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you"
Hey hey people
@@FasTeaasseth here
Agreed with your catholic bit. I’m catholic and I dealt with that feeling for a while. It’s only when you stop thinking of God as a boot waiting to drop and instead of a living parent cheering you on from behind you does that thought process change
The Mystery Man from the movie Lost Highway is a perfect example
of the fear of being watched. In fact the entire movie is so if you never heard of it check it out
as someone with cptsd, i laughed every time you said "imagine" during the intro. like yes I do know every shape of my room in the dark shadows, I sleep with a huge black dog sleeping between my legs and a knife under my pillow. and even tho I don't believe in catholicism anymore, it doesn't mean I don't have rosary beads near my bed.
I'm thankful I never feel like I'm being watched
It scares me that maybe I'm just not aware enough to recognize when I am
but I'm thankful for the blissful ignorance
2:29 well i knew the eye would turn to me.
hey, just a reminder for people like me who suffer from delusions and paranoia: you're not being watched. you're safe, your mind is just playing tricks on you.
Ily ♡
You are the best, keep going brother 💕 people are also there to protect
thank you, genuinely
my house was broken into while i was asleep. I stayed asleep the whole time. no one was harmed and we got our belongings back but that shit scared me for weeks. there was a stranger in my house and i was sleeping peacefully in my bed. i still get shivers at how vulnerable i am every night.
1:53 don’t forget sealing :3
i've been experiencing paranoia since i was like 11, and after a lot of therapy and geeting to know myself, i feel so much better, and i'm happy to say that my mental health is doing pretty great!! that being said, i can testify that YES, the feeling of being watched, and the fear of being watched can be much scarier than the thought of violence and the 'what after'. all my paranoias and nightmares and fears about being watched and stalked centered around the helplessness of it all, instead of the possibilities of violence. the feeling of being prey, of being part of a hunt you don't even know if it's real, is enough to kill you from the inside out. you're doing the job for the hunter.
p.s. becaus i'm a nerd.: it's sort of like toxoplasmosis, if you work with the assumption that you're the rat, the stalker is the cat and toxoplasmosis is the paranoia 😅
My body is just a receptacle for TMA propoganda \o/
The beholding protects
(Yes, I’m being warhammer into this. Unfortunately this makes me look like even more of a massive fucking nerd)
I think ever since I was a little kid, I've always felt watched. Not feeling paranoid about whos around the corner or in the dark closet, but feeling as though everyone knows my exact movements, and everything I do. To the point where it feels like there is constantly someone over my shoulder, monitoring everything I do.
Which has lead to feeling as though I have zero privacy. But I got over that. Not because It's gotten better, but I've simply accepted this feeling as a part of life.
It's like how those people are overly aware of God watching them, except I'm overly delusional about Everyone watching me. My dad, mom, siblings, friends, God included. Even if they aren't anywhere near me, I feel as though they are watching me, and know about everything I do behind closed doors.
I wonder if this is just an intense case of Anxiety, cuz it seems like it...
4:41 that is some truly creepy music. It feels like your senses are being overwhelmed. Something bangs on the headphones at an irregular pattern. It is louder than the person speaking so you have to strain to hear what they are saying. And the advertisement is gaslighting me.
Did you know that when Aura contacts criminals to delete your information, some criminals might say no?
Scopaesthesia can also be caused by anxiety and stress, or fear. I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and I experience scopaesthesia often, but not all the time. This feeling is most powerful during panic or anxiety attacks. I've gotten used to it to the point where I just ignore it, but it still doesn't stop me from turning my head behind me, because you never know if someone or something is watching you.
Everytime i go into my bathroom, i feel like someone is watching me. Every. Single. Time. The scariest part? going number two at night. If any police ever see this after i go missing, it might be inside the walls.
But surely theres nothing there, right?
he is gone…
One thing that I think most people over look is not some unscrupulous being looking to cause you harm while you sleep, but something unliving, like a natural disaster or house fire. Im more scared of something of that nature hurting me in my sleep than any person, because nature doesnt care how secure your house is against an intruder.
I was raised religiously, and as ive slowly worked to deconstruct my religious trauma a big forcus has been on adressing the amount of OCD i have based on the "god knows everything, even what you think." I spent years constantly being my own thought police, constantly axious that id accidentally think something bad and someone somewhere was writing it down in a tally of all the reasons id suffer longer than i could comprehend.
I'm sorry that you had to go through so many painful experiences at such a young age.
There are lots of resources online: Recovering from religion and r/exchristian come to my mind.
Both these websites helped me lose these harmful thoughts. If you have the opportunity to, I highly recommend you to speak with a therapist. Especially if you feel like you struggle with living your life.
in this video i discovered that eyes appearing out of darkness literally send shivers down my spine, thanks for that connor
Just switched this on whilst ready for sleep and my backlight switches on 😮
I turned it on, my universal remote be trolling
about the 'design flaw' of sleep in the beginning, I think I've read somewhere that long ago, before the fire nation attacked, we used to sleep in biphasic schedules (aka sleep in two 4 hour chunks instead of one big chunk) to spend less time in that vulnerable state. just a fun fact ig
Do you ever feel like you're being watched?
Of course you do.
It's me.
I'm watching you.
Honestly when I listened to TMA season 2 for the first time, I thought Jon was just lowkey crazy and his paranoia was mostly unfounded. Thinking back on it now and knowing he was completely correct in feeling that way is honestly so much scarier/more tense. The way you talked about it here made the podcast seem scarier than it has in a while, which is really appreciated lol!
“Was the rake” YOOOO, the creepypasta that fascinated me and scared the life out of me as a child!
Dude I can relate, I’ve been wanting to read some horror stories on my channel but I haven’t had the confidence yet tbh
OMGGGG that story ruined my life (and sleep) for a few years 😅 scariest thing I’d ever read as a kid
Isn't the entity that's always watching you your own self? We all seem to judge ourselves, our thoughts and our actions. Everything we do is wrong, or can feel wrong. A lot of people have negative thoughts or confidence problems. Even if you think you're safe and your brain isn't judging you, it's always there. Just observing you, every action, every step you take, every word you say. You're always watching yourself, even though often life would be way easier if we didn't. We'd have less stress, less worries, less problems to think about. Another perspective is that it's evolutionary. Our brain is always critical of our own actions, whether we make a good decision or a mistake. It's always observing, in order to find out what's wrong and what can be learned. That way our survival chances go up. So maybe it's a good thing, our insecurities eating away at us because we're always being observed by ourselves, just so we can learn.
Edit: I did not know you would end the video with this theory, but it only confirms my suspicion. I'm glad that I added that it doesn't have to be bad, maybe it's for our own selves
Thanks, now I can't sleep tonight. It is 2:30AM. This video will be lodged into my mind for days
I don’t usually comment on videos, but I never thought Catholic guilt would end up in a video about a horror topic. The first time I ever went to confession I had a massive breakdown over the unholy thoughts my teachers told me would send me to hell. Eventually I left the church.. and I didn’t realize until I was older how important the freedom to think freely is. My mental health improved substantially. Sometimes though, I do still wonder if something somehow is listening to my thoughts and I’ll have to face repercussions for it. I love your videos! Keep up the good work!
That feeling when you think you may have left the stove on.
I've been going through your video essays and watching all of them, and I LOVE all the ones that I've seen 😭 ik full well that my anxiety disorder will not love this one (my main issues are constantly feeling like I'm being watchdd and thinking something bad will happen if I fall asleep) but genuinely I'm gonna watch it anyway bc ik it'll be worth it 🙏🙏
I think, like a lot of things that we really shouldn't have had to learn to endure, people would eventually start to develop jokes, coping mechanisms, that weird nihilistic sort of gallows humor people get about other messed up things. My buddy and I are always goin on about "I hope the NSA is learning a lot about -whatever topic we're discussing that day-" and like. If there was a god, or the Eye was real, or aliens were there, or surveillance became a bit more mask off, we'd likely have to develop these mechanisms to cope. It's messed up, but that's usually what our brains try to do.
I had that once while jogging late.
Shined my phome flashlight and left immediately after seeing a big boar at the treeline.
It was just eating apples and occasionally looking at me, but it was intimidating.
I just discovered your channel and you upload minutes after I start binging
Not knowing that you’re being watched is considerably better than knowing it in my opinion but the process of learning that you’ve been watching is worse than both.
The age old espionage question… Are you still paranoid if they’re really out to get you?
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you
I read a comment on a different RUclips video that side the reason we get the feeling of being watched is because we've already seen who was watching us in our side vision and just haven't noticed it in our front view yet.
This is why I sleep with my windows closed, curtains fully and wide closed, and my blanket ontop of me.
even in an apartment i could never sleep without my blanket covering 99% of my body, tho my window is slightly open just so the natural light wakes me up
I spent 5 years being stalked, it only ended when I moved across the country. To this day I still can’t have my blinds opened without panicking.
The one time I experienced sleep paralysis I hallucinated Garfield was watching me from the ceiling, and I was so terrified I nonsensically said "God?" before processing what I said, and bursting into laughter.
Found my absolute new favorite channel to listen to while drawing (I love the thematic and how you work them!) and it was solidified by the fact I heard "something supernatural watching you" and I went "Omg the Eye from TMA" and it was about God, BUT THE EYE BEING BROUGHT UP 5 MINUTES LATER I'M LAUGHING