How to spot a narcissistic person?

There is a specific energy field around some people that makes you feel instantly on guard, with a sense of deep unease. You know they carry such an amount of self-importance that is over-leaking, and becomes overbearing - for those around. 

It is such an emotional charge that we often do not know how to react, and if we are unconscious - it can harm our own sense of self worth, for some time. Psychology developed a term narcissistic personality disorder

The main theme is a field of arrogance. Arrogant thought-forms surround such a person: 'I know better', 'My opinion is the ultimate one', 'There is no discussion about my opinion, because you are a low-life, so I do not consider what you think at all', 'You are no one to me, I can hardly tolerate you, but you may come in some use to me'. 

There is a lack of connection. Narcissistic people are not interested in anyone else but themselves. If they show some interest - it is because it serves their self-interest, their self-admiration. They may help you - but it will be felt as they are your saviour, and 'you-stupid-little-thing' did not know how to do things. 

They have a wall of self-importance around them, and they will lower it a bit only if they see you as an object worthy of their attention. And they treat you as an object - their own material possessions are more worthy than you. 

As they crave admiration - they will often chase all the wordy possession that the culture considers as the ultimate goal of life - great look, superb intelligence, many talents, and of course all the lovely possessions - house, garden, car, career, travel around the world. Your jealousy is their fuel. It does not mean that they will acquire all those things, but they will chase them anyway. 

We all are sometimes cocky, patronising and demanding, but narcissistic people are only sometimes not that way. There is hardly ever any conversation that is felt as mutual - a sharing of opinion. They do not take the slightest criticism of their opinion, because they are deeply identified with them. 

They don't HAVE an opinion - they ARE the opinion. And because of that, everybody that does not agree to it - is diminished, told off, ridiculed, mocked. Narcissistic person feels and thinks they are the ultimate judge of what is going on in the whole of the Universe.   

Others, in this Universe, are a mere mean to their survival. So they may slow down the arrogance towards the closed ones, being even very smarmy - in their strategy - to bring more adoration and admiration which they crave the most. 

I have encountered a few such personalities, and they had a very strong impact on my life. I did not know how to react to such behaviour. As I learned to know my own emotions, and the emotions of the whole of humanity - for that matter, as we all have similar ones - it is easier to handle such energy. 

I spot them on the go - in a supermarket, on the street. Previously I would feel a sense of fear that they want you to feel when you around them. Not anymore. This energy is like a toy in a window shop. Not the person, but the energy they carry. Very peculiar. I respect the person, but their energy is grotesque

And if you ponder if you might be narcissistic yourself - because of the high level of self-esteem, there is one more hint: a narcissistic person would never ask this question to oneself. No self-reflection. Just a walking snub-nose opinion.