I have always been very self-conscious about the way I look.
I think most people are to a certain extent. It is defined as being a heightened sense of self-awareness.
Yes, I would definitely agree that most people experience some self-consciousness at some point in their life.
Most people experience a feeling of being unpleasant, especially, when they notice they're being watched. Like everyone is looking at you
Yes It's funny we think that way because in all likelihood, people aren't really looking at you.
Self-consciousness
Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being, though the two terms are commonly used interchangeably or synonymously. An unpleasant feeling of self-consciousness may occur when one realizes that one is being watched or observed, the feeling that "everyone is looking" at oneself. Some people are habitually more self-conscious than others. Unpleasant
, philosophy and mysticism. In other words the secularisation of society has deprived people, or most people perhaps, of an awareness of the depth of reality, of the spiritual dimension. He goes on to talk about a ‘perverse closure of consciousness against reality’ (p. 129). I wonder about the ‘perverse’. For some, perhaps, yes. They make a conscious decision to ignore any spiritual promptings. But for many, I think, socialisation into a secular and materialist culture has simply obscured any such