You and your Most Innermost Thoughts

Did you ever get the feeling that your innermost thoughts are being observed? 

 I mean what would people think if they knew one was thinking these strange thoughts. 

What fuels this kind of mental pyrotechnics, these excitations of the brain, is the fantasy of disclosure. For if it was just you having these thought without the dangerous prospects of someone finding out then it would be no fun at all.

The excitation of  commiting the sin is that you might get caught.  Trespass onto the forbidden is only fun if there is a gatekeeper who might catch you.

Therefore whenever we drift into the fantasy that our innermost thoughts are being observed by God (wharever that is) a friend , a law court, we are indulging in the fantasy of such an inspection itself.

We might now think of the notion of the panoptic, the watcher, who cannot be seen, but we alway know he/she is watching us.

The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the incarcerated being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omniscience."^[1]