The phenomenon in which individuals believe they are being noticed more than they actually are is known as:

other people know what we know and have the background to understand us. Spotlight effect - is the phenomenon in which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. We project our current mindset and assumptions onto the past and future. Hindsight bias - the knew-it-all-along phenomenon Declinism – the tendency to view the past more favorably and the future more negatively.