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Case No. 11 Feeling  of a field

The subject used to take a bus every morning and evening going out and coming home. Every day

the bus was crowded and he had to accept the body contact with the passengers near him. Sometimes he noticed them, but usually it was routine. The time when he was reporting he was in a crowded bus and trapped between several bodies for many minutes. He was wearing an overcoat as anybody as it was winter time. At his back he felt a body  with and overcoat too on it. He felt the temperature of this body as being hotter then that of the others surrounding him, but  also an  an unconfotable feeling  an over sensation of tension on all his skin  which was in contact with that body. He wanted to move apart,  but it was no way to do that, as no place at all was available to move. He had to support the sensation until he left the bus. Having nothing else to do in that situation he tried to see the person from which the sensation came. He recognised a woman who     accidentally was a colleague  of him which has the reputation to change easily every conversation in a fight, whatever the context  or subject might be. He thought that he felt then her inner tension which was perrenial.

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Case No. 12 Impairment of vision

The subject made an excursion with a girlfriend in a wood. They stopped to chat. They

were standing and leaning their bodies against some close located  trees. They spoke a lot, maybe half an hour, without changing the position, looking to each other. The girl said at a time that something happened that has to be mentioned, that,  looking to him, the image of his body changed. He suddenly became bigger, bigger than all the landscape, for several seconds.

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Case No.13 Impairment of vision

 

The subject went to the market to accompany his wife to carry home what she will buy there. She was shopping cabbage from a woman, a landowner who sold her own crop. The subject wife carefully selected several bits of cabbage which seemed to be bigger than the rest. It was a low bit difficult because all the cabbages were quite alike, not too big, not too small. The wife selected them and positioned them on a wheighing plateau. The plateau was full now, but the wife wanted one more bit of cabbage and there was no one on the table to satisfy her. Then the owner searched under the table in a sack, found a bigger one, put it on the plateau, the wife was content now and made the deal and paid it. After wheghing it, the owner made an authomatic move and took the last desired bit from the plateau and put it down on the table somewhere, before delivering it to the wife. The subject suppose that this supplementary move was made but he is not very sure of it. It might have been so. He was not very attentive at the process, as shopping cabbages was not his most hard skill. and interest. At the very next moment the owner and the wife said simultaneously, quite aloud: But where is the cabbage?!, meaning this last bit of cabbage which was taken from under the table. Their perplexed state made the subject to wake up from his day dreams and to try to understand what happened. He looked around and saw another woman normally dresed at middle age who was sitting nearby behind them, at a short distance looking at the pile of cabbage on the table with a little  but unexpressive smile and a face saying much of a nothing. The subject felt somehow that, the woman has some involvement in the incident but it was not at all clear to him in which way. He asked herDid you buy anything from here, did you close the deal ? . He wanted in else words to ask her if he had any other reason to stay nearby. She answered nothing, just nodded  a little  at every of his questions, as for an answer, and continued to look at the cabbages with an enigmatic smile. For an unknown reason, her attitude made the subject to feel very angry and he solved this by turning nervously his back to that woman. The wife and the owner seemed to come to an agreement on which of the pile was   the last bit of cabbage sold, it was put in the  bag carried by the subject and they left, walking through the market place to the exit gate. The subject saw the woman who made him nervous passing near them, depassing them, carrying two tote bags in her hands. She stopped near a gipsy woman,dressed in gipsy clothes, younger than her. This gipsy woman was in the middle of about twenty tote bags full of merchandise. The two new tote bags joined the twenty others and the two gipsy woman began to speak. The subject reanalysed  after a time the happening and found this.

All that happened at a time when food was scarce  there  and retailing by second hand sellers was prohibited. Gipsies were low status citizens there, living  most of them from jobs at the limit of the law. Gipsies were doing second hand retailing in the manner described here. There was some days of the week  when prices were higher namely on friday or saturday. To make some more money they had to be with some good merchandise e.g. big cabbages on the market on friday. The gipsies were buying some products during the week and used to sell them back on friday. The owners saw this practice as an undesired concurence and were not willing to sell to gipsies. So the gipsy woman who was collecting the merchandise to be sold at friday had to be normally dressed and not to attire the attention on her etnic background. Even so, these second hand retailers became known and there were many times refused when trying to buy from the farmers. So they develloped strategies to obtain the good merchandise to be resold after.

So the event with the bit of cabbage lost by the subjects wife might have happen as follows.

The gipsy woman needed to buy some bits of bigger cabbage. She knew that the owner had perhaps  some under the table in the sack, but if she would ask for this bigger ones, it was very possible to face a refuse. So she bought some cabbage from the table selecting perhaps what she found to be af a certain quality and a good dimension. She managed somewhat not to close the deal and to wait until another buyer came and possibly a better merchandise will be displayed from under the table for this new buyer, which accidentally  at that time was the subject's wife. A  new bigger bit of cabbage was to sell and was sold to the wife. But the gipsy woman wanted this bit for herself. And he had a mental technique to disturb the others mind and movements so as to get this bit. He made first the owner to manipulate this bit and to put it on the pile near the weighing pan ,   where there was not more its place, as it was  already sold. The next task was to hind it , to make it unobserved, as to be not seen in the pile. That was the moment when the owner and the whife asked simultaneously But where is the cabbage ? ,while the gypsy woman was looking attentively at the pile. The new bit was taken from the sack, weighed and sold  and put somewhere on the table and lost.The subject might prevent what happened after,  but was eliminated  from the scene as the gipsy woman made him feel nervous and to turn the back to her. The next step was to convince the owner and the wife about the identity of the last bit of cabbage. With the silent but effective help of the gipsy  woman who continued to look at the pile, another  little bit of cabbage was identified as the last one sold. The wife took this and left  the scene with the subject. Now the gipsy woman was the only buyer and her deal was not yet closed. She took from the pile this last bit of cabbage, the desired, the bigger one and asked the owner to add this one to the deal. The owner wanted to close this deal now, to may continue his commerce with another buyers. So she accepted to sold it. The gipsy took it, put it in her tote bag and joined her partner, with which she would resell it the next day. The subject is not quite sure that all that happened exactly so. But it might be a possible explanation. And he knew from his own experience  that such a sequence may be arranged by a trained person.

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Case No.14 A  feeling of dizziness

The subject was entertaining a conversation with a girlfriend in a room. She was sitting on a sofa and he on a chair at 1 meter distance facing her. They were speaking quietly without many bodily or hand movements. During the discussion,at a moment he felt a tension to grew in the muscles of his eyes, which made him to look to her in a more staring manner. It was an authomatic event, a mechanical one, with no any other change of his feeling or mood. The tension in his eyes was sudden and  it relaxed more slowly, but soon after. Now she was looking herself too to him attentivelly and seeming to forge an argument with her mind. She does not seem to be aware of his swift change of expression i.e. his eye movements. She asked him if the sofa on which she is sitting is rocking, shaking or tilting. She felt that it happend but was not sure if it was some real or only an inner feeling. She felt a bit of dizziness added to the feeling of the moving sofa as during an earthquake. Her new felt sensation began and was somewhat concomitent with the the tension in his eyes. She began to move a little her body on the sofa to feel a real motion and to compare with the sensation felt before.

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Case No. 15 Impairment of speech

The subject is a student,facing an important examination in his final year of study to get his graduate degree.

It makes him to be in a very tense state of mind, quite all the time, for several days. He goes to a watch repairing shop to solve a minor disturbance of his wrist watch functioning. The person working at the shop is a girl having the same age as him. He sees her name on a card, a foreign name, a german one, a native minority there. She  announces that she will solve it at once in five minutes. She begins to open the watch case and to repair it. The subject looks at her hands and movements as she is working. He sees her organised and firm working style and compares it mentally with with his rather loose commitment to his school work  which brought him in a somewhat hard situation of lacking of time to achieve all his duties before the final examination. As he looks at her hands he becomes more and more angry upon himself as if would be the watching his own drama  of somewahat  lazy student played on the stage of a theater. He think on all this while looking at the girls hands but he think so intensely as if he would shout it with a loud, intense voice to himself.

The girl has finished her work now and looking again at the watch sees that the leather belt is worn out and opens a box to look for another belt left there by a customer, to replace it. She does not find  any one and tried to began to speak that It is recommended to buy a new leather belt as this one could break and the watch may fall down and then it could be hardly damaged. This sentence was pronounced at last ,but not immediately. At first the girl looked at the subject and opened her mouth to  begin to speak, to emit the first word. Her mouth remained open and no sound was emitted. She realised that she cannot speak any more in that moment and at first she seemed very astonished of this and a little scared after. She tried once again and that time her  face began to loose composure as before loosing consciousness. Her face expressed more distress by now and trying to speak, she uttered some inintelligible, and after it some words in German which was its mother tongue. These words were  pronounced quickly and was not understood by the subject who appologised that he knows a little german but not enough to understand her. She recovered at last his speach ability and said the desired phrase but looked very shamefull and tired as after a big effort. The subject paid for the work and left.

 

 

Case No. 16 Thinking impairment

 

The subject was a college teacher. In a year he had many meetings with a student, female, to coach her for the graduate disertation. They meet in his office sitting on opposite sides of a table at one meter distance and discuss the topics , in different days, in several sessions of about half an hour. She speaks in a remarcably speedy manner, the speech being accompanied by swift motions of her hands. The subject is a thinker with a rather slower pace of mind. Speaking with her he has to adjust his thinking habits to her speed and for it, after a session with her, he feels always exhausted and concluded that the difference in the speed of thinking  and the need to follow quickly her reasoning as at a modern test or TV contest, make him feel every time exhausted after meeting her. It was not just pure exhaustion, the subject felt as becoming suddenly dull as after a lot of drinking or after a box punch recieved in the figure. He knew about him to have and enjoy the possesion of a perfect and  trained mind and was very proud of this quality of him, and being always in controll of it and very angry when a glass of drink or an unexpected emotion had impaired its thinking ability.

So he remarked after several meetings that the student girl is making him to feel dull and accused her manner of speaking very quickly and challenging his own rhythm  of thinking to be the cause of this.

An evening they had the usual  weekly appointment. She came very tired, maybe a little sick, and maybe a little angry or sad. Now she spoke in a low and slow tone all the time. They spoke about half an hour as usually, maybe a low bit more. The subject felt again the known blocking of his thinking ability and becoming dull as every time when he met her. He was astonished, as by now, he was the quick thinker  and speaker and posed  her  some problems of understanding if he was emiting too many ideas in a short time.

Then a clarifying event occured. He had to move in the office to collect some data from an electronic counting device and coming back , he choose to sit in a chair which was positioned at a 3 meter distance from her. His state of mind exhaustion and impairment of thinking  diminished but he did not mentioned it immediately as an important change. He comes back near her and sit again in the chair near the table ,one meter apart from her. He feels again to become mentally exhausted and dull. Now he begins to have a clear understanding of the process of becoming dull in her presence by sitting at a close distance form her.. Speaking with her, he deliberately changes his distance to her, sitting in the distant positioned chair and after that ,  in the one closer to her and experiencing the losing of his mind and the recovering of it as he approaches and recedes from her. She concluded that she was emitting a field, and this field had an influence on his brain. In a clear way this field disturbs him when sitting too close and not at all, or very few, from a 3 meters distance. It seems that mind impairment is accompanied by some anxiety  as he felt need  a need to eat something quickly and made it in a hurry that was unusual to him,every time when he met her, after she left.

He discussed this possibility with her and she related to him that another teacher

with which she was working becomes every times nervous when she is sitting near him when working and begins to shout at her and find a reason to make her to move at a distance from him, giving her something else to work.

Case No. 17  Itching and speech impairment

 

The subject is a social worker and spend his times visiting families and speaking

with the patients about their problems. He reports that he has to face a problem of him when

speaking to people, this being his professional tool. When speaking, many times it comes that a client looks straight to him. Than his thinking is blocked and he cannot find the words he needs. He feels the eyes of the client with the skin of his face and the skin becomes to itch first gently and after harder. He has to scratch it in order to release the tension, if not, the muscles of his face become to jerk. He loves his profession and wants to do it at best and found that the only solution when it does occur is to tell openly  to the person which with he is speaking about it and ask him to not look directly and a long time to him during the meeting.

Case No. 18  Speech impairment

The subject worked as a research worker in a laboratory. A day the lab was visited by a team of young ones. He was asked to make a speach on the work being done there. He began to do it facing the visitors and looking to them while speaking. He felt the eyes of a girl looking straight to him in a short but intense way. He loosed the trace of his discourse and had to stop, to slow his speech and to fight to recover and to remember  what he said before, to may continue.

Case No. 19  Thinking impairment 

 

The subject was on travel in another town. As at the only one hotel there were not rooms available he accepted to share the room with another visitor. This one was a southerner with a quick temper and voluble. They had a lot of conversation at night in the room. During it, the other traveller moved a lot in the room while speaking. To be more eloquent he approached the subject, spoke loudly, touched the subject, moving back to his chair after that. Sometimes he stood about ten minutes near the subject at  short distance. They found many common interests and the discussion was animated and long, and challenged intellectually the subject making him to think a lot to give answers.

The subject observed that if the other came near him while speaking he cannot think any more clearly and recovered his thinking abilities as the other departed from him.

 

Case No. 20  Impairment of  thinking

The subject was before an english examination very important to him for a new job,  English being not his native tongue.

 he decided to test  himself having a conversation with a english teacher. She was a old lady in the last year before the retirement. Going to her  home by bus, HE  prepared himself, thinking in english, on what he would say to her during the meeting. They met in a room  in her house.

They sat on chairs at 4 meters apart and he began to speak. It was a hot summer day.He was speaking carefully to avoid mistakes.  He tried to repeat the discourse that he has prepared in the bus coming to her. He felt suddenly that he cannot use at  will his mind.

He could not find the english words in the boxes of his mind in which they were usually located. He felt his head empty and he felt as all his mind deserted his skull and emigrated somewhere in his feets and not being able to use it as usually. The lady weared eyeglasses and he could see not her eyes, but he saw her concentrated look at him trying to follow his speech in english which has become slow and interrupted by pauses , to think and find the necessary words.

After this meeting, the subject collected information about the english teacher from her pupils. Some of them reported that during class hours, if she is examinating somebody and begins to look at him it comes that the child forget the answer even if he had prepared enough his lesson.Then the teacher becomes angry and accuse him of laziness. For that she is not much beloved.

Case No. 21. Headache

It was before a convention.The subject  a middle age man is introduced to a lady,

They heard each about the other but they met for the first time. As the session begins

soon they enter the conference room. By chance he is seated in a  rank of chairs behind her

seat  at one meter distance. He is looking award to the speaker. As he is a little intrigued by the personality of the lady with which he just met, he looks at the speaker but from time to time his eyes stop to the back of the lady looking at her head. During the break they met again in the hall. She says to be angry to him. He felt him staring at her from behind and she felt an intense headache which he attributed to his intense and concerned looking to her head and neck. The headache was intense and she could not follow more the speaker and wanted to leave the room but she should have to move too many from their seats so she managed to support it until the session was over.

Case No.22 Headache

The subject, a male in the thirties visits a young lady at his  home. They are sitting in the kitchen where she is buzzy with some homme duties. He looks at her and they speak. She ask him not to look any more at her with such an intensity because she began to be suject to  a progressive and intense headache which she described as a nail forced to enter in his skull with a hammer.

He remembered then that, being more young, he had a girlfriend which asked him many times when they met to close the eyes when he stared at her, an asking which he has not understood, then.

Case no. 23.1 A state of alertness

 

The subject report of a number events which brought him to know of a phenomenon.

He is a male middle aged and this experience is of a lifespan and it noticed it many times.

When he was 18 years he was learning hard for the entering examination at a college.I t was a 3 month ,16 hours a day of voluntary comfinement in a closed room with only a little window through which he looked out only several minutes every day. Through the window he had a sight to an alley of the neighborhood on which few people walked. Sometimes looking through the window, he saw  a girl or woman passing. He looked at them for about 30 seconds. After that time they moved out of his sight. He looked at them intensely. He observed many times the same behaviour of the female persons being watched by him. Until the prior moment when he began to look  at, the female moved in a normal way pacing on the pavement of the alley. He began to look. Imediately the female had a quick  stop, followed by a little change of the way of stepping. After that, looking around, checking for some presence, but usually the street was empty. After that, becoming to smile sometimes with a vivid complexion as coming from a great joy. He thought that his way of loooking to them generated these reactions and the fact that they thought that some body on the street wants them, but they saw nothing as he was hidden behind the window.

     

Case 23.2   

The next event happened  was when he was in the army.. He went in town on a free day. He walked  on an empty  town road  in the morning. On a lateral alley at about 50 meter distance it was a girl of his age at which he looked  intensely. The girl was at first oriented with the back at him .After the moment when he at her she turned immediately her body to look at him. The turn of her body followed immediately his interest on her and his  action of looking at her .He was at a great enough distance as not to see her face very clear, but  he saw that it was an unknown face. It was normal as he was then in an unknown street and  area. The girl seemed to have the same intense look as himself, she looked at him short and she turned her body with the back at him. He had the feeling that she turned her face  at him at first because she felt his eyes fixed on her and seeing her face as she changed the expression, that she turned her body back as she could not support his eyes looking at her. He had not arguments for this it was merely a feeling based on the timing of all their motions and the meaning he gave at  the changing of her expression.

      Case 23.3

      The subject was abroad and at a bank tried to change some money. His currency was not accepted at every bank but he needed hardly to change an amount and his papers were not quite in order. All he had to do is to convince the woman at the counter to make the change even so. He spoke not well the language of the country. At least he arranged to be served. While working with the papers to register the operation the woman asked him polytely but firmly  to not look any more so intensely to her as it hurts her and she cannot concentrate to her work.   

 

Some cases taken from the literature

 

Case No. 24.1 

 

Just at the right side ,entering the toilet in a phone booth, I see a blond head..The man wears a gray-blue overcoat and fine velvet pants.At his feets I see a bag. If it is about a war gun it must be in this bag. It is 35 past 16 oclock. If it is him, probably he tryes to phone to his palestinian friend which is late, we know why. I avoid to gaze to the man speaking at the phone. Men who know that they are followed feel the eyes looking to them.(from Daniel Burdan -Neuf ans dans la division antiteroriste, Editions Robert Lafont, Paris, 1990)

COMMENT

 

The author, an intelligence service agent, is relating a real fact from a surveillance operation, and comments about the experience of him and his colleagues in many similar events. For them to succeed means not to be observed felt and discovered by the person put under surveillance. They know from many events this fact, that if the human pray is fixed with the eyes, it will feel that.

So they look to him but only a short time. This short time of looking make them not to be discovered.

To analyse, lets imaginate a scene. A man is somewhere in the street and walks as an agent to do some illegal or hidden activity. Another man is following him and looking for him as not to escape from the surveillance. They are maybe 50 m apart  one from each other, maybe closer. The first in front did not want to be watched, and want to be free of followers, and think that he might be watched and is not sure of that. He looks back  from time to time and maybe at his sides to see a possible follower and seing no one he must guess what the  real situation is on this mattter. And he continues to move and suddenly he feels something suplimentary to his usuals sensation of the moment, but this sensation is accompanied  by the thinking that somebody looks to him and this one might be a watchman, one of his followers. This sensation generates a feeling of tension, a tense state of mind, a feeling of uneasinesss, a feeling of danger a bit of anxiety coming from an unknown source and this tension grows and becomes embarassing and generates the desire to run and  to go somewhere away from it. All this is not always clear in the mind of the subject but it comes in a bunch in the feeling: Alert ! Somebody is watching me! . The feeling is intense at first, diminishes after, as it comes to habituation but the idea remain and the subject acts as an avised person  trying to hide and escape from the sight of the enemy. The author of the quotation knows this from his own experience in which he was sometimes the hunter ,sometimes the pray.

Lets analyse again. The street might be full of people which look one to another for some moments and pass away after. The human pray moves among them and sees the street and hear the sounds of the trafic. Let the  human hunter enter in the scene. He begins to look at the pray. After that, the pray has the suplementary feeling. Now in the scene are the pray,t he hunter and they are conected by a line of sight between them and in plus the action of the hunter to look at the pray. He does look with purpose and concern as not to loose him in the crowd. Now , a new event enter in the scene, the feeling generated in the pray brain as a result of the act of the hunter looking to him. In plus ,a long look make the event possible. If the look is short, the pray feels almost nothing. The act of a long look is accompanied by the the feeling. We may guess that the feeling is causated by the the look. It is causated at a distance of perhaps 50 meters. Being caused at a distance we may infere that a physical field is connecting the two actors and transmit to the pray that the hunter is behind him and is watching him. And the physical field action  is corelated with  the action of the eyes of the hunter. If the hunter looks a long enough time at the pray then the pray feels the eyes fixed on him. As it feels the eyes and the loook directed to him, we may infere that the eyes themselves emit and transmit the field from  the hunter to the pray. The image point on the retina and the fixed object are optically conjugated and a source of light positioned on the retina  of the hunter should illuminate the pray. We do not suggest  here that this physical field is electromagnetical but it seems to behave as  a light field in this case.

Another professional from this domain is asserting the same experience :

"... Of course there is a sevenths sense, .the most complex and most disputed. namely ....of the man  who is tracked.Even if you do not have any precise clue that somebody follows you ,in most situations you become to feel  that.Of course if you get to overcome the edge of a simple paranoia attack....Nobody is in disposition to recognise the real existence of these senses, beside this, there are very few  professionls to deny them hardly.(Victor Sheymov, Tower of Secrets,Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1993.USA, part 2,chapter 3).The quotation is approximate through translation,and the underlining is made by us.

It is again an intelligence service professional that ascertain that in this profession they are experirncing the feeling of somebody tracking them without another physical signal.The feeling of being tracked is a real fact, a hard evidence for the subject.A paranoia seizure is used as a metaphor to suggest the intensity of the feeling.

What do we have on the ground :  the hunter fixing the eyes upon the pray, and the feeling of being followed in the brain of the pray. The connection between the two is by the line of sight. On this line of sight the signal of presence is transmitted.The transmission is at distance. A physical field must rely the two ones.This physical field might be emitted by the brain of the hunter and transmitted through the eyes to the pray.The brain of the pray decodes it and  an intense feeling of fright is the result of it.