# Poll: Putting your finger close to your "third eye" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 4, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461 "2006-05-04T22:24:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/82 "2018-06-26T18:42:29Z")
> [@Sachi2018](#): > > I mean no offense, but why does anything phychic etc. related have to be valid to you or anyone else for them to be allowed to hold a conversation about it? [Here ya go.](https://www.spellchecker.net/misspellings/phychic) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/83 "2018-06-26T19:01:10Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Related: any other jarheads here remember in boot camp when they were teaching how to approach a combatant from behind and choke them out. Our D.I. said when approaching your victim don’t stare at the back of their head but rather offset your gaze slightly so you don’t cause that phenomenon where _“you know that feeling you get that someone is staring at you and you turn around and sure enough someone is looking right at you.”_ Maybe that phenomenon is related to the sensing someone else is approaching you with a finger when your eyes are closed phenomenon. Was that during the [staring at goats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats) era? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/84 "2018-06-26T19:03:56Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Yeah-that doesn’t exist. A quick google seems to indicate sensing someone’s gaze (even when you’re not looking at them) is a thing. And no, it’s not all psychic phenomenon type stuff either. There are other more prosaic explanations to account for it. > **[How You Know Eyes Are Watching You](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-narcissus-in-all-us/201102/how-you-know-eyes-are-watching-you)** > > You know that feeling you get when you're being stared at? Here's how it works. > **[Think someone's staring at you? You're not paranoid... it's 'hard-wired' into...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2308318/Think-someones-staring-Youre-paranoid--hard-wired-brains.html)** > > Scientists suggest this feeling is designed to put us on our guard or make us ready for interaction before it actually happens. > **[A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us](http://theconversation.com/a-sixth-sense-how-we-can-tell-that-eyes-are-watching-us-65661)** > > Is someone looking at you or are you just imagining things? A neuroscientist explains. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/85 "2018-06-26T19:23:25Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > A quick google seems to indicate sensing someone’s gaze (even when you’re not looking at them) is a thing. And no, it’s not all psychic phenomenon type stuff either. There are other more prosaic explanations to account for it. > > [How You Know Eyes Are Watching You | Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-narcissus-in-all-us/201102/how-you-know-eyes-are-watching-you) > > [Think someone's staring at you? You're not paranoid... it's 'hard-wired' into our brains | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2308318/Think-someones-staring-Youre-paranoid--hard-wired-brains.html) > > [A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us](http://theconversation.com/a-sixth-sense-how-we-can-tell-that-eyes-are-watching-us-65661) Your first link is an opinion piece, the second link says that we are “hard-wired” to _believe_ that strangers are watching us, and the third link states that “However, it turns out we can only reliably detect such gaze within four degrees of our central fixation point.” The fact that, if you turn around to see if anyone is looking at you: 1. You will remember the times it happens 2. There is a good chance that if you turn around anyone behind you will look as if they are looking at you _because they are already looking in your general direction unless they are walking backwards_, and 3. The act of turning around is likely to cause people to look at you just to see why you are turning around, ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/86 "2018-06-26T21:43:18Z")
(Am I the only one to open this thread expecting a discussion about anuses?) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/87 "2018-06-26T22:09:06Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > (Am I the only one to open this thread expecting a discussion about anuses?) Hopefully. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/88 "2018-06-26T23:02:11Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > (Am I the only one to open this thread expecting a discussion about anuses?) I think you had a bad guru. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/89 "2018-06-26T23:06:31Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > (Am I the only one to open this thread expecting a discussion about anuses?) > [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Hopefully. > [@CarnalK](#): > > I think you had a bad guru. I didn’t say I was disappointed when my expectations weren’t met! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/90 "2018-06-27T11:10:28Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > (Am I the only one to open this thread expecting a discussion about anuses?) You lookin at me? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/91 "2018-06-27T11:39:49Z")
Never heard of the anus called the “third eye.” Heard “itchy eye.” Then there is [this](https://hyakumonogatari.com/2012/08/19/shirime-eyeball-butt/). ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/92 "2018-06-27T13:51:52Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > No “ditto” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/93 "2018-06-27T17:11:04Z")
Yes, although not as much now that I’m an adult as when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/94 "2018-06-27T17:45:11Z")
It is amazing how many times people ask why we poke holes in their WOO, on a site that’s subtitled “fighting ignorance”:smack: So, what was up with that precum joke?:eek: Anybody care to explain that one? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/95 "2018-06-29T10:35:10Z")
Precum is found most commonly issuing from the meatus of the penis during sexual stimulation. And the penis is sometimes referred to as the “one-eyed trouser snake.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/96 "2018-06-29T10:39:04Z")
Also, nobody thinks of their own woo as being based in ignorance (or as being woo). ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/97 "2018-06-29T14:08:28Z")
When I let my finger hover closely over ANY part of my body, I feel that tingling. So I don’t think it has anything to do with the “third eye.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/98 "2018-06-29T14:33:50Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > When I let my finger hover closely over ANY part of my body, I feel that tingling. So I don’t think it has anything to do with the “third eye.” Maybe trim those nails?! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/99 "2018-06-29T14:36:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Maybe trim those nails?! Or maybe trim that body hair? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/100 "2018-06-29T14:48:39Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Or maybe trim that body hair? Vibrissae even. ---
**Author:** ![JGUH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@JGUH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JGUH)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/101 "2019-03-07T02:40:55Z")
I thought I was the only one! I don’t like touching my forehead because of this it hurts my head when I do. I also heard it’s because you can sense things that other people usually can’t but I really don’t know why it does that. When I was young I just told my friends that I can tell what should be next to your forehead and what can go near your forehead Ik stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461.md?page=6)