Think you're in the spotlight

Author: admin     01 6th, 2009 in xn--9ou.com     edit

  • I thought the "halo effect" was the idea that everyone is noticing you or something about you, that you are more conspicuous than you really are, that you are in the spotlight, especially for some particular little thing ("Oh, my gosh, everyone will be staring at me because I wore the wrong shoes" or "How can I go to the party with this little bandage on my chin?" or "I missed a word when I recited my poem"), when in reality nobody is paying any special attention to your little imperfection because they're all busy thinking *they* are in the spotlight. But that's not the halo effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect So what's the term for the phenomenon I described? It's some term vaguely similar to the halo effect, but that's not it. What is it, then? Thank you, Archae0pteryx


  • Self-consciousness? Exaggerated self-image?


  • Or, distorted self-image.


  • How about "the fishbowl effect"? "Many former cult members experience 'the fishbowl effect,' feeling that the uninformed 'world out there' is looking askance at them, including family members." http://www.csj.org/infoserv_bookreview/tobais_madeleine_captivehearts.htm


  • It's the "Hello" effect, as in, "Hello, get over yourself, ya dip, and stop worrying about what others think because they are enmeshed in their own little worlds and are by far too busy fretting over their own real or perceived problems to notice you, unless they are freaks." Once you are no longer in high school (or college, but to a lesser extent because there you are paying to go to school and have a different set of concerns), this begins to make sense. When you are working to support a spouse, kids, house, car, and consumerist lifestyle, you stop freaking out over stupid stuff and start freaking out over keeping your head above water. Or getting enough sleep. Mmm, sleep.


  • Hi, Pink! Nice to see you here. Hmm, I think that's very close, but it doesn't seem to me to be quite the same thing. As I understand it, the fishbowl effect is about a feeling of exposure, lack of privacy, nowhere to hide--you're in full view. And maybe you really are--it's not an illusion or a consequence of being the center of your own universe. The effect I'm talking about is more like an exaggerated awareness of oneself, the idea that you're center stage to everyone else just because you are to yourself--an illusion because they are probably not looking at you at all; instead, they are imagining themselves to be center stage. (I'm not judging or analyzing the phenomenon, much less requesting help with a cure, just looking for the name I've heard that sums it up.) Thanks, Tryx


  • Self-consciousness, sure, that's part of it, sublime1, and thank you for chiming in. But I'm looking for an expression that is like "the halo effect" and "the fishbowl effect" and not just a literal term. I am positive that I have heard one. My problem is not with understanding or describing the experience. It's remembering the expression.







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