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{{quote|''"Hey... did ya ever get da feelin' you was [[Trope Codifier|bein' watched]]?"''|'''[[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]]''', '''''Hair-Raising Hare'''''}}
Don't look around, [[Talking Through Technique|pretend we're talking]] about [[Cool Car
We're being watched.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', Johann Liebert himself is very good at knowing when he's being watched. Case in point is when he made it clear to Tenma that he knew he was sniping him by making eye
* A vengeful doll spirit [[Showing Off the New Body]] in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' picks up a stick to bash Ranma with. He grabs the stick, but not because he's on to her intentions: he thinks she's giving him a stick to hit his dad who's hiding in the bushes watching.
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', the first warning that you're about to fall victim to the Curse of Oyashiro-sama is the sensation of being watched.
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** In the forth [[Dark Tower]] novel, [[The Dark Tower/Wizard and Glass|Wizard and Glass]], Roland's love Susan can sense when the witch Rhea is watching them through the eponymous glass.
* In the YA novel ''The Dancing Meteorite'', misfit Kira tries to tell her less-experienced fellow students that someone is watching them... and they think she's crazy and ignore her. Needless to say, it turns out they should have listened.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]]: [[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''Sabbat Martyr'', Baen says this to Varl. {{spoiler|He's right, because Pater Sin and his psyker-[[Creepy Child
* In one of the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' ''Eisenhorn'' short stories by Dan Abnett, a veteran soldier twice has this feeling, which is good enough to make the titular Inquisitor ready weapons and get into cover. Good job really, as they get fired on almost immediately.
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', characters in the World of Dreams have a constant feeling of being watched. Often, possibly always, they're right.
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* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Gandalf calls Sam out for eavesdropping on him when he is explaining the properties of the [[Artifact of Doom|One Ring]] to Frodo.
* In ''[[Warbreaker]]'', Breath gives you this ability, called "lifesense". With only one Breath (which everyone is born with), it manifests as this trope.
* In ''[[Shibumi]]'', the protagonist Nikolai Hel is capable of sensing when someone is watching him. It is not really telepathy and he isn't wholly sure how he gained that ability but he speculates it is a result of his senses being sharpened to cope with the lack of external stimulus after spending several years in solitary confinement. Considering he has several other [[Charles Atlas Superpower
* [[Heralds of Valdemar|Herald Mage Vanyel Ashkeveron]] convinced a type of elusive and generally harmless minor spirit to watch any non-Herald that used "true" magic in Valdemar until a he or another Herald Mage told them to stop. Given that Ashkeveron was the ''Last'' Herald Mage for several centuries and the spirits were nearly impossible to ignore, block out, drive off, or even properly locate... most mages either fled or cracked within a week or two of crossing the border.
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