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Perhaps you've lived this moment before. Perhaps you're seeing yourself at a distance, as never before. Anomalous experiences are real and life-changing. That doesn't mean they occur outside your own head.

One of the most common anomalous experiences is the sense of being stared at. When you see someone gazing directly at you, emotions become activated - it can be exciting or comforting or creepy, and this visceral charge can give the impression that gazes transfer energy.

Another common experience is déjà vu, a phenomenon two in three people report. Most of us shrug it off as a mental hiccup. While anomalous experiences may be associated with stressful circumstances, personal pathologies, or cognitive deficits, the experiences themselves may not always be so bad, and may actually be healthy inventions. They're just our attempts to make sense of a weird situation. After all, there's nothing the mind likes better than a good story.

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