Why Does Your Gait Get Disrupted When Someone Stares At You?
You may have difficulty walking, talking, or even standing while someone is watching you. It is as if that person is influencing you with telepathic powers and preventing you from doing these actions. Moreover, if this person is someone you do not like, this situation becomes even more pronounced. Okay but why?
Here is the scientific explanation for you
The walking function is what you think is simple, but in reality it is a very complex action. While walking, hundreds of muscles in your body contract and relax at the same time in an extremely balanced and harmonious way. The slightest inconsistency in these muscle movements will cause you to lose your balance instantly. Not just walking, but all our movements, including eating, are complex. For example, think about how many muscles you use when you take a spoon of soup and bring it up to your mouth without spilling it… This is actually not that simple at all.
But we don’t think about them. We think with our brain just to take a spoonful of soup, and then we transmit this command to the cerebellum. The cerebellum takes care of the rest without us knowing because the cerebellum has evolved for these tasks. That is, our brain is the boss who makes the decisions, while our cerebellum is like the company employees who implement these decisions. The brain says let’s climb those stairs, then our cerebellum coordinates the step-by-step work of climbing the stairs; leg muscles, hips, back muscles, abdominal muscles, arms, feet all participate in this movement, and with all of them working in harmony, you will climb the ladder. Of course, because the cerebellum takes care of this, your brain thinks about other things while you are walking the stairs, makes plans, curses the bad people that come to your mind, plans what message you will send to your lover, and while you are thinking about these, you come to the end of the stairs. You don’t know how did you climb that ladder, because by coordinating those hundreds of muscles, the cerebellum takes care of the chores like stepping. The brain focuses on more important tasks.
Now, let’s come to our question: why is our walk disturbed while someone is watching us?
Because we are afraid of making a wrong move in the eyes of the person watching us at that moment and we try to act more carefully. In this case, our brain takes control by deactivating the cerebellum. But the problem is that our brains don’t understand these things at all. It’s like the boss saying to the chef, “You stop, I’ll cook this meal” in a restaurant. The boss doesn’t understand those things. This is the reason why you fall down and become disgraceful in front of the person you like, this is the result when the boss tries to do the things he doesn’t understand. This is why you stutter when talking to the person you like. It has taken over a job that is no longer a duty on the brain. You falter until the bottom says “I like you”. It’s not easy for sure. Do you know how many muscles you have in just your tongue? You cannot control them individually. When you try to do it, bad results are inevitable.
In short, when someone is watching you, the deterioration of your gait is entirely due to your brain’s overemphasis on this task, deactivating your cerebellum, which is an expert in these matters, and taking over the management. Some things you can’t do by thinking; that’s why your cerebellum exists.
For more detail information: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-truth-about-exercise-addiction/201706/what-happens-when-someone-stares-you
