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Baitball Blogger

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Mon Jan 6, 2014, 02:19 PM Jan 2014

Sixth sense.

Where I grew up the area around our homes was overgrown with tall grasses, shrubs and jungle forests. In the course of growing up I recognized that my eyes could scan the horizon of a canopy and pick out the things that didn't belong. One of my favorite spottings was the day I saw a tree rope hanging from a forty foot tree. It was a great day in my childhood, finding the playground of the older kids who had come and gone before us.

But the point I wanted to make was this. I learned that even if you're out minding your own business, if someone is hiding and staring at you from the bush something just alerts you. If you canvas the area where they're hiding, their eyes just tend to pop out as unnatural. But it's more than just a casual sighting. Something just alerts you to their prescence.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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Sixth sense. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jan 2014 OP
That depends on whether your situational awareness extends beyond your smartphone screen. hobbit709 Jan 2014 #1
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