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

Nothing. You’re all nuts.

Nothing in the proximity zone.

However, if I gently massage that area, it really relaxes the tension in my neck and shoulders. And if I can get SWMBO to do, she can put me to sleep with it because it is so relaxing.

No, it’s not. Just because you don’t experience it doesn’t mean that others don’t. Having things near any other part of my face don’t bother me. But if you put something over the bridge of my nose, even when I can’t physically see it, then I will feel a very unpleasant tingling sensation. It’s probably caused when the object touches the tips of the hair there. Because I dislike the sensation so much, when you put another object near it, but not within range of the hair, I feel the sensation anyway. I’ve done studies on some of my friends where I ask them to close their eyes and I move a pencil tip or some other object over their faces. Some people have it, some don’t. Some people didn’t even know they had it until after I moved the pencil over that spot. If I constantly touch that spot, then the sensation goes away over time.

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.

lol, I should have put a j/k disclaimer.

Nothing much, but then, my karma needs new chakras.

Perhaps the hairs there are longer than in other areas, perhaps I am paying attention to wind currents, shadows or other clues while my eyes are closed, perhaps it is caused by heat radiation. There are many scientific explanations for why it could occur. I don’t believe in 3rd eyes, mystic energy or anything else of the sort. The reason I can “feel” it while my eyes are open and the finger or object is out of distance of any hair is because of my mind of course but there is something there I can feel while my eyes are closed and when the object is held close.

I’m pleasantly surprised by the response to this question. We got a lot of yes’s.

As to what might be the purpose of this sensation, initially I thought it might be an evolutionary thing. i.e. if you sense, by any of your senses, that there is something very close to your eyes, you should get a warning signal.

But, on second thought, if something or someone malicious is already that close to you, then you are in deep trouble, and this warning will be useless.

So, maybe it’s just a quirky feature of the human body, and serves no clear purpose.

Yes, as far back as I can remember. Never understood it. On a possibly related note I remember a discussion of relaxation techniques on TV and one of the things suggested was to imagine that you had a spigot on your forehead and water was coming out. Not sure why that image is relaxing but I want to laugh every time I think about it.

Thank youy. Why do people always have to come along and state that because they don’t feel something of course we don’t too. Like only their experiences matter. Sheesh.

Maybe that’s why I didn’t notice anything. I recently tweezed there. I’m no Frida Kahlo.

Because what you’re describing is akin to psychic powers, astral projection, or any other hooey that a lot of people have no patience for.

Unless you’re all just talking about feeling radiant heat from a finger, or the sensation of a finger touching your body hair. . .in which case, yes, I feel that too.

I’ll take your word for it. :wink:

I HAVE THAT TOO. I searched for this on google to see what it’s called, or if anyone else knows what I’m talking about. I’ve been aware of this since I was a kid,
***and it has nothing to do with something touching me, or hairs, or even my finger in particular. It happens quite often with anything that is close to my forehead.
***It doesn’t have to be something that has energy, like a finger. Somtimes I have to take my glasses off because my glasses on the bridge of my nose will trigger tightness and slight tingling in the lower-middle of my forehead. It can be a pencil sticking out of a cup, or whatever inanimate object.

It mostly happens when it’s something I’m not holding or controlling, but it’s really unpredictable as to when I’ll get that super-strange feeling and I can’t often make it happen.

What I heard a long time ago (no idea if there is any truth to it) is there is some type of natural metal- some kind of element- that is concentrated in that area of the forehead that helps you find your sense of direction. Like an internal compass. Again, don’t know if it’s true, but I’m googling that right now :slight_smile:

Hate to be a bringer of bad news, but within five or ten minutes, this thread will be full of zombie jokes. These jokes will confuse you. But that’s OK. You’ll live, and you’ll grow, and you’ll be stronger, and one day, by God, you’ll make zombie jokes of your own. And then you’ll think back and say “holy cow, Steken was right all along.”

No.

Yes, I always have, but…right now I can get that feeling just thinking about my finger touching it, without actually doing it, so…yeah.

Doh…I got zombied. :stuck_out_tongue:

I don’t feel anything different from the feeling I get with my finger near but not touching elsewhere. I suspect I’m picking up the same cues, using hairs, air currents, radiated heat, etc. , rather than any mystical “third eye” sensing.

I, too, get a tingling sensation when I place a finger close to my…head.

This is one of those things that I remember having done before but never fully explored. Never heard anyone mention it before. But yes, I’ve done that and feel that weird sensation there.