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Hi. I don't know if I am being paranoid, or if something is actually going on.
So, I live with my family in a 10 y/o building, in a rather large apartment. Before us, the apartment was owned by the building's architect, and nothing tragic has ever happened here, nor has anyone passed away.
Ever since we moved here, about a year ago, I've always felt as if there was someone looking at me at night, but only on some places. Basically, the apartment's divided in two parts: the family quarters, where the bedrooms are, and the kitchen/dinning room/parlour/study area. Every time I walk towards my bedroom (at the other side of the apartment), I usually hear a couple noises, and feel as if someone was watching me from the different halls, the parlour, or the dinning room. Strangely enough, it doesn't happen in the study or the kitchen. My dog -and my cat-, for example, will never stay in the the halls, the parlour, or the dinning room unless there is a member of the family around. At night, my dog stays with me in the study, until I go to my bedroom -she won't move an inch away from me until I am in the family room near my bedroom. Most nights the dog will sleep in the threshold of the family quarters, facing the rest of apartment, always watching out for things outside the doors.
Although nothing feels threatening, I get quite distressed when I feel watched, or hear noises. Whatever scares me always seems to stay in those places, never getting into the family quarters, nor into the study, and least of all in my room. That only happens late in the night.
In the daytime I'll sometimes hear someone calling my name, when I am in the study, as if my mum was calling me from her room -in a loud and recognizable voice-. The same happens to the maid when she's in the kitchen, and it's usually no one calling us. I used to take naps in a sofa in the entry of the family quarters, and I always had the same dream while I napped there, where I feel as if I couldn't speak or move for a while, just to wake up rather distressed -strangely enough, I feel the same person watching me in those dreams, from the threshold of the family quarters, sometimes even closer. I've found that playing music while napping there gives me the same sensation of being watched, without the immobility. Sometimes my things will be displaced if I leave them lying in any of those places.
On the other hand, my room is always a degree or two warmer than the rest of the apartment, and, at night, I usually feel as if the room was into a bubble -apart from all the noises of the street, or the movement in the apartment. Very few times I've had nightmares in my bedroom, and all the times when I've woken up from a bad dream in there, I feel a soothing presence on the other side of my bed, making me fall asleep.
Of course, it may just be that I feel a little paranoid outside my bedroom and the study, and that the shadows in the halls confuse me, but I've recently realised that I'm not the only one that hears his/her name here, and that I feel strangely at ease in my bedroom -where I do all my reading, my thinking, and my relaxation- and in the study, where I spend most of the time. I'm sorry this was so long, but could you tell me if it's me being paranoid, or if I'm feeling something not everyone else is feeling?

P.S.: My paternal grandfather, who died when my father was 20-something, said he always felt a familiar presence when he was alone, and my grandmother says he (my grandfather) has visited her every year in the eve of his birthday/death (the same day). I don't know if that's important, anyway. Just letting you know.