Theists: What is it like to believe that God is watching you every single second of your life, no matter what you’re doing? Do you ever wish you could have some occasional privacy?
Why? If he’s omnibenevolent, then you lose all reasons for privacy concerns. The only reason privacy has any value is that you are afraid somebody is going to do something bad with the information given.
Sure, God is watching me - but he’s watching everyone, and it’s a big universe. It’s not like He’s focusing on me.
Actually she only watches on alternate January 1st’s from midnight to 3am EST 
Yes, but I wish much more heartily that I was the kind of person who had nothing to be ashamed of. 
I’ll try to answer from my own experience. But I fear that this won’t make sense to those of you who have a different concept of God or a different relationship with Him.
Most of the time there is great comfort in knowing that God knows me more intimately than I know myself. His love for me is utterly “unrealistic”–he has no illusions about my weaknesses or failures, yet He loves me. He is never disillusioned with me the way I so often am with myself. It is the ultimate experience of intimacy without shame. I don’t need to pretend or hide or put up a false front of goodness that I have not achieved. I can trust that He will continue His “improvement project,” molding me into His image, using all the events of my life as raw material.
But I think all of us flee or hide from God at times–despite the fact that it is impossible. We do this when we don’t want to follow His way or when we have done something we know is totally unacceptable. Scripture shows us that this is a common experience. In the images of Genesis we see Adam and Eve hiding from God because of their disobedience and self-will. Yet He sought them out. We are told later that Jonah fled from God. Yet he could not escape. In the New Testament we hear that light came into the world but men preferred darkness because their deeds were evil. Yet we are told that the darkness could not overcome the light.
To sum up, yes, there are times when the thought of God knowing all can make us shudder and flee and try to hide. These are the times when we are in rebellion. But a shift in attitude, a surrender and repentance, flips the whole thing around, restoring the relationship and making the intimacy a delight again. The comfort or horror of intimacy with God depends on whether we are seeking to follow His ways or whether we are in active rebellion.
I’m used to it.
Regards,
Shodan
I’m giving this as “Awesome! Wish I’d said it.”
All I got is- Doesn’t bother me. It is what it is.
No. My heart beats and my lungs draw breath, the earth turns and time flows. And God is watching me and all that as well. Why concern myself with things I can’t change?
So why do people who believe in God go to hotel rooms with male prostitutes? See, I’m guessing they wouldn’t have sex with a male prosititute if their wife was watching, because that would result in disaster. So why do they do it when God is watching?
They’re probably assuming they’ll be able to settle things with God later.
If he’s omniscient he is focusing on you in greater detail than you can imagine. He knows which shells your electrons are in at any given moment.
How do you think he feels when you post something snarky on a message board?
I’m honestly asking. I know if I believed a supernatural judge was observing me at all times I’d be less abrasive. Thankfully, I don’t. 
True, but there are a lot of electrons in the universe. I can’t assume mine are particularly interesting.
I can think of two kinds of things I might have qualms about God seeing me do:
(1) Things that I shouldn’t be doing, because they’re bad or mean or harmful or immoral, and
(2) Things that are embarrassing, though not wrong.
For the first kind of thing, my awareness of God’s awareness might help me not to do the thing in the first place. Or at least, after the fact, it might help me to realize that I shouldn’t have done it, and to repent.
For the second kind of thing, I just keep in mind that (1) God’s seen it all before, and (2) God loves me. If God’s watching me dance around the living room in my underwear to Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana,” it’s no stranger than the things God has seen other people do, and God isn’t going to use it against me. If God’s watching me have a bad bout of diarrhea, it’s because I’m human, and God made me that way, and God seeing that is no more unnatural or shameful than a mother changing her baby’s diaper, or a dog’s owner watching it do its business.
In either case, I needn’t worry about losing my dignity before God—that ship has long since sailed.
(Or I could just say “ditto” to the things some of the other people have already posted here.)
Well yeah, but I take it to be the suggestion is that he understands you like you were the subject of his doctoral thesis times infinity.
Omniscience would suggest that simultaneously he has total knowledge as if you were of particular interest. And he’d have a perfect memory for every minor mistake and hateful thought you ever had. Every sin would be covering you like a post-it note until absolved, every muttered curse and momentary doubt about Him standing out in high contrast.
If I believed in this sort of being I’d live a very different life than I live.
I guess my God is more lenient than yours. He doesn’t care about little sins like curses or doubts, and I don’t think he particularly cares whether we believe in him. All he wants is, in the words of his prophets, is for us to be excellent to one another. I try to do that.
I ain’t doin’ nothin’ God hasn’t seen before.
No. I don’t particularly want anyone staring at me at all times, even if I’m just sitting here on the couch with my laptop and listening to music. It would be invasive and creepy.
God is forgiving, pissed off wives not so much so.