I feel nothing.
Also, putting my finger near my forehead doesn’t elicit any response from me besides my finger is next to my forehead.
I’m not trying to say that other people don’t experience this but, and I have no idea how you’d design this, I’d like to see a blind study on the phenomenon.
I found this to be a bunch of hooey 6 years ago, and still do.
All I feel is a tension in my forehead, probably due to concentrating on the question of whether I feel anything odd or not.
But I will note that sensing something unusual when an object is close to one’s forehead comes up briefly in Heinlein’s “Beyond this Horizon”.
Yep! I’ve always had that, since I was a kid - never heard of anyone else having it before. It’s much stronger when my eyes are closed, whether it’s my finger or someone else’s.
My husband doesn’t have it and doesn’t know what I’m talking about.
I don’t believe you. I don’t believe this would ever hold up in a blind test.
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Whoa.
It’s also a schedule I drug in the US.
I also discovered this strange sensation about 50+ years ago. It’s funny that I recently recalled the sensation. This past week while camping with 7 others I asked them to try it to see if they felt it.
During evening daylight, around the campfire, I handed out new unsharpened wood pencils and gave simple instructions, don’t cross eyes, look straight ahead, slowly move pencil toward bridge of nose, don’t touch pencil to skin.
There were 4 men 4 women. I and only 2 others, men, could feel the sensation. So that’s only 3 out of 8 felt it.
I’d like to see a brain scan while this is going on. I don’t think it’s magical. But I did comment that this may be useful as a meditation tool-process, as I suspect your mind is cleared of other thoughts while doing this.
Has anyone tried this to help with meditation?
Ron
Hi. I hope you will answer to me. I have had since childhood this and I still have it. While a child I didn’t find others with the same sensitivity. As I have now many health problems, also neurological and with my eyes, I wonder if this sensitivity can be of some help, some exercises or so. Thank you!
Yes I got the sensation.
It’s interesting. I see some of the (zombie) posters upthread saying (paraphrasing) “It’s no big deal; it’s just discomfort at having something that close to your eyes”, but even that is interesting, since I don’t get the same feeling elsewhere on my face, including right between my eyes. And moving a finger close to my eyes is obviously unpleasant but doesn’t trigger the tingle either.
Yes, I feel it. I’ve always thought the discomfort was caused by my eyes looking up and increasingly inward in an attempt to focus on the fingertip.
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? If you have no patience for it then why not just leave it be and let the conversation carry on without you? Why can’t they say they have those experiences just because you personally don’t believe it? I believe in ghosts and believe I interact with them. I am allowed this belief whether you believe in ghosts or not, for example. Again I mean no offense, just wondering why is all. I mean it as a thought experiment.
As for the question: I have noticed this sensation since I was little. I actually found this because I Googled why it happens. I believe in science, the paranormal and the supernatural - and I don’t think a scientific explanation suddenly means it isn’t psychic in nature, like with me being able to sense the tv being on in other rooms or in a house from the outside, or feeling someone’s presence (especially my mother) for example - so for me all possibilities are available and I wouldn’t have it either way. Life has been too hard to close possibilies and realities off from myself.
My psychic sense says that you are going to have a long and productive stay here…
Because this is the Straight Dope. If you want to talk about something, outisde of witnessing in Great Debates, you better have proof.
You can describe the sensations you experienced and nobody will bother you. But if you claim those sensations have an explanation that contradicts scientific fact, then we will indeed correct you.
Do you have any proof to back up these beliefs?
Although you have the right to believe anything you want, the rest of us are under no obligation to respect that belief, and we have the right to comment on that belief.
Then why bother with science at all if you will just choose to side with the supernatural? To accept science only when it tells you what you want to believe is the same thing is not accepting science at all.
Bad move-This gives the respondent the “out” that because we supposedly can’t prove anything 100%, that somehow makes science and the paranormal equal in stature. It is better to ask what evidence exists, because this this allows us to see which case is stronger.
No. Sounds like an ASMR type thing A phenomenon that’s probably real but I don’t experience at all (and I’ve tried). I doubt it has anything to do with “new age stuff.” A phenomenon that’s probably real but I don’t experience at all (and I’ve tried).
Nothing for me either. And mrAru has learned he can put me to sleep with a forehead rub as well. Inless I am having a migraine, then touching me makes me want to kill him to make it stop.
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.
Yeah-that doesn’t exist.