When you’re by yourself, content and at peace with whatever task you’re doing at the moment, are you ever interrupted by the intrusive feeling that someone is watching you? Or, do you feel silently watched all the time? Perhaps you’re reading this and are actually very concerned by these questions — “What is this person talking about?” you think to yourself; “Are they experiencing onset schizophrenia?” If you truly do not understand what I mean, though, then you are simply ignorant to the reality occurring around you.
In fact, you are this mysterious “someone” I keep referring to: you are watching yourself. Maybe you are not watching yourself all the time, but rather, in short moments littered all throughout your day. In order to determine whether or not you were asking yourself the questions I proposed for you earlier, you had to enter your mind for a second and silently watch — waiting to see if these sorts of questions came up, or had come up previous to me suggesting them. It is a fact that you are being watched often, although comfortingly, you are likely only being watched by yourself.