To think people staring into your window is creepy?

[itsotoy]

I’m currently in my bedroom and I just have one large window and a woman and walked by and was proper staring in and looking at me - even me staring back didn’t stop her.

Yes, someone staring into your window is creepy. However, it is also easily done. Especially if you're a daydreamer like I am. I let my mind wander whilst I'm walking and sometimes find my eye has been caught by, for example, a nice lampshade or kitchen or something and I suddenly realise I'm being very inappropriate. I think what I'm saying is you're not unreasonable to not like it, but also it's likely not to be as sinister as you think.

We have some nice roller blinds that let in loads of light but also means the school kids who use our road as a route to school can't see in. I'd recommend them.

It’s worse if they have binoculars…

Sometimes people are just looking at their own reflection

It’s even worse on a narrowboat. Sometimes people get on the boat to get a better look.

I SO miss the laugh emoji

shut your curtains

I don't know which way to vote, as, obviously if someone stands outside your house and stares in, then yes, that WBU, but it also seems unlikely.

If you have no blinds, then it is human nature to glance at things that move, or the light catches, or the colour changes or something, and that can sometimes be into people's homes. More so if your window is near the pavement. Obviously if you have a 200m driveway, and someone (as pp said) is up a ladder with binoculars, then that would be a different answer, to someone looking as they walk past.

Just echoing its so much worse with barges
Once a mother & daughter couple got on their knees to take a good beak into the narrow boat I was on as it was starting to rise in the lock. I think they thought it was empty as the others were sorting the lock while I was sat downstairs at the table. They were proper commenting & pointing but they didn’t see me until I waved & they scrambled back up, caught out in their excessive, brass neck nosing 😆😂

It IS creepy. However- when I’m out and about and there’s a brightly light uncurtained window, in a street of properly curtained and blinded houses, it’s hard not to look. It’s so arresting- the unusual brightness, the intimate nature and the shock of the clarity of view- it’s hard not to look- or even stare!

So I am both in agreement but also an incidental stare. Shut your curtains or blinds. It’s easy.

I've put that YABU because if your window is in such a position people can easily stare into it then you should probably cover the window if your particularly bothered by that.
Coz people can easily do this by accident..
If it's something that does upset you consider getting some privacy film or nets. I have kitchen windows that are straight onto the pavement on a busy street. So I have privacy film on them halfway up. Doesn't block out the light but just means no one is gonna end up accidentally making eye contact with me if I'm sat in my kitchen!

My DM is from central Europe. Where she’s from, they love people looking in and always have their window dressings open and lights on. She used to get real pleasure from looking in at her own house as well as other peoples in the evenings. 🙃

I agree with PP that if it happens a lot then it's probably s human nature type thing to look accidentally and you can only affect what you can do about it - curtains/blinds.

There's also such a thing as being too ashamed to look away, so they pretend you're not bothered by your stare.
As others have said, blinds or nets.

Get yourself some sheer curtains or blinds and keep them closed, problem solved!

It's fine to look, but you shouldn't be seen to look!

I live in a converted pub, with a large window right next to the front door. It looks right in on my living room/office/bedroom. You wouldn't believe the number of people who walk up the driveway to stare in - recently a young woman came and took a photo through my front window, ignoring me gaping at her from the other side.

Lots of people (family, friends, delivery people) also like to knock at the window instead of the door. WHY?

Its really odd how an unconventional frontage encourages people to behave in ways - like the local mums who let their kids wee in my driveway. I think they look at our building, think Rented (which its not), nobody there cares, and behave in ways they never would at the other houses in the street.

Not much more creepy than someone inside the window staring at you

I know it's frowned upon on Mumsnet, but that is what good old fashioned net curtains are for. So that you can look out but others can't see in (not much anyway).

It is human nature to stare out of or at a window that doesn't have a closed curtain window dressing. Most of the time after looking in a window, they have forgotten what they saw in a few seconds/minutes.

So, if people's human nature bothers you, then as others have said, cover your windows.

This makes me think of those Netflix/C5 thrillers in which the - young and attractive, about to be killed - woman lead goes into her house, inevitably a large well lit glass box often surrounded by trees to accommodate malign lurkers, and looks around nervously. Oh no! Never a curtain or blind to be seen. What happe)ned to haberdashery?