# Poll: Putting your finger close to your "third eye"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461>\
**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:** 5\
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**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/102 "2019-03-08T04:42:40Z")

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This finger thing doesn’t work for me. Maybe it works for zombies.

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**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/103 "2019-03-08T15:47:07Z")

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No, because I don’t have a very active imagination.

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**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:** [March 8, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/104 "2019-03-08T17:11:41Z")

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> [@I.Dunno](#):
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> This finger thing doesn’t work for me. Maybe it works for zombies.

DO NOT put your finger near a zombie’s third eye. It will only end in tears.

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**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/105 "2019-03-09T04:17:55Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Impossible. You can’t “feel” something not touching you, well unless it’s radiating heat or something. It’s all in the power of suggestion.

You’re brain is a predictive engine. It is constantly anticipating sensory input based on last input plus experience etc. Signals are flowing up and down the layers of processing in anticipation of the predicted input.

If there is any sensory awareness of an approaching touch (visual, limb movements, etc.) then it’s possible (maybe even likely) that the neurons are responding to the anticipation of the calculated event.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-putting-your-finger-close-to-your-third-eye/355461/106 "2019-03-09T15:48:25Z")

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Have people who say yes tried this anywhere else on their faces? Because I feel _something_, but if I put my finger the same distance away on other spots on my forehead or even my cheeks I feel exactly the same thing - likely heat from my finger.

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