How To Tell When There’s *ACTUALLY* A Monitoring Spirit On Your Ass, And How To Handle It

Since my last blog was about energy vampires and I mentioned in it that y’all also misuse and overuse “monitoring spirit,” I may as well gone and talk about it now. First, lemme tell you what it’s not.

The ex who’s watching your stories on IG is not a monitoring spirit, they’re just nosy as fuck and have way too much time on their hands. Maybe also a touch of unhealed attachment issues. Your coworker is not a monitoring spirit, either, even if they know some shit about you that you didn’t tell them.

They, too, are nosy as fuck, and office gossip is a thing. The person who scrolled past your post without liking it is notttttt a monitoring spirit, babe!! At the absolute very worst, they’re a hater. But realistically, they probably weren’t even thinking about your post, or you.

A monitoring spirit is an actual entity—either sent by someone, or created through obsessive focus—that’s quite literally watching you, tracking your movements, and reporting back to whoever sent it or is feeding it with their attention.

They are very fucking real, and far from rare, but not nearly as common as TikTok would have you believe. Let them tell it, your bloody mail carrier is a monitoring spirit. So how do you tell the difference, then?

1️⃣ YOU FEEL WATCHED, CONSTANTLY

This is gonna be more than an “oh someone’s looking at me” feeling. If you have a true monitoring spirit, you will feel a deep, visceral feeling of being observed that does not go away, no matter where you are or what you’re doing.

You feel eyes on you, even when you’re alone in your house. You feel a presence hovering when you’re trying to sleep. It’s persistent, it’s specific, and it makes your skin crawl in a way that typical anxiety never has.

If you only feel watched when you’re out in public or scrolling social media, that’s probably just regular degular surveillance anxiety from being alive in 2026. 😭 We’re all being watched by cameras and algorithms. Or, maybe you’re just full of yourself!

If you feel it in your own space, though, in private moments when you should feel safe, definitely pay attention to that.

2️⃣ THINGS YOU DO IN PRIVATE GET MENTIONED PUBLICLY

This is a big one. You do something, say something, think something in complete privacy, then someone brings it up later like they were present when it happened.

Very specific details that they shouldn’t have known. What you were wearing, what you were doing, actual conversations that you only had with yourself. Not a coincidence, babe. Someone or something gave them that intel, and if it’s not through 3D channels (hidden cameras, stalking, someone physically watching you), it very well may’ve been a monitoring spirit.

Now before you jump to conclusions, make sure that you’ve ruled out the mundane explanations first! Did you post about it and forget? Did you tell someone who could’ve told them? Are they just really good at guessing, based on patterns?

Monitoring spirits are real, yes, but so is people being predictable and gossipy. Don’t leap straight to the supernatural. Think this shit through. 😭

3️⃣ YOUR DREAMS GET INVADED

Monitoring spirits don’t just watch you during waking hours. They show up in your dreams, too—sometimes as themselves, sometimes disguised as the person who sent them.

You’ll have dreams where someone specific keeps appearing, watching you, asking questions, trying to get information from you.

Or dreams where you feel trapped or studied, like you’re in a fishbowl and can’t escape.

These dreams are different than regular stress dreams. They feel real. You wake up from them already exhausted, like you’ve been fighting all night. And, energetically, you have been.

4️⃣ ELECTRONICS ACT WEIRD AROUND YOU

We all know technology is trash af sometimes and will glitch tf out for seemingly no reason. But if there’s a PATTERN—if your phone always dies when you’re talking about a specific person, if your camera keeps activating only when you’re in your bedroom, if your devices go haywire only when you do certain shit—that may not be a tech issue.

Monitoring spirits can manipulate electronics, so pay attention to when these “glitches” happen, and what you’re doing when they do. If there’s a correlation, you might have an uninvited guest.

5️⃣ YOU LOSE TIME OR HAVE GAPS IN YOUR MEMORY

This is a darker one. Monitoring spirits that are particularly strong or have been on you for a while can actually create confusion, brain fog, or memory gaps to make it harder for you to protect yourself or realize what’s happening.

You’ll sit down to do something, and suddenly an hour has passed with no memory of what you did. You’ll forget conversations, lose track of time, or feel disconnected from yourself in ways that you weren’t experiencing before.

If this is happening alongside other signs on this list, AND you’ve ruled out medical causes (please go to a doctor first, babe—brain fog can be a symptom of more serious health issues), then consider that something might be interfering with your awareness on purpose.

6️⃣ PROTECTION WORK GETS INTERRUPTED

Every time you try to shield yourself, cleanse your space, or do any kind of protection work, something happens to interrupt you. Phone rings. Someone shows up at your door. Your energy is suddenly fried. You forget what you were doing. Your supplies go missing. Your candle won’t stay lit.

One interruption could maybe be brushed off as coincidence, maybe even two. But if EVERY MF TIME you try to protect yourself something stops you, it’s interference. Something or someone is actively working to keep you accessible and unprotected.

Monitoring spirits don’t want you aware of them, and they damn sure don’t want you protected from them.

If three or more of these are true for you, don’t even trip. Just go to my article on protecting yourself from energy vampires, and do everything in it, with one additional step: DO NOT TELL THE PERSON YOU SUSPECT THAT YOU SUSPECT THEM.

All they’re gonna do is either deny it or call in help to make shit even more difficult for you, so move in silence. Investigate, CONFIRM, then lock tf in and handle your business.

Questions? Ask! Stay safe, stay grounded and level-headed, and fuck these niggas upppppp!! You got this. Love you 💋💋