I'm not one to believe in anything supernatural, however there is one phenomenon that I find quite curious, and is the idea that you can 'feel' someone watching you. My boyfriend was walking through campus and I was sitting on a bench outside since it was a beautiful day. His back was to me and he had headphones in, and although he couldn't hear me, he could feel me watching and turned around and saw me. While this is very strange, I do believe that there is a few possible logical explanations for why this occurs. Perhaps environment plays a key role. He was walking in an open area on a college campus where there are many people, and thus subject to many peoples' eyes. It is possible that on some level subconsciously we expect that we are under the scrutiny of others' eyes or consider the possiblity. Also, he may have heard my voice very faintly calling for attention, but not strong enough for him to recognize consciously that he heard it. It IS possible to hear and encode something without being aware - such as a recent study had participants listen to an audio tape that asked them questions they had to answer. In the background a song was playing very softly. Its been shown that familiarity breeds liking, and in this study participants were played two songs (one of which was the song playing softly during questioning) and asked which they liked better. Participants consistently chose the song that they had heard once before, although they had not realized they had heard it before. Is it possible that environment and our subconscious are responsible for this apparent phenomenon?