diff --git a/lib/module.js b/lib/module.js
index 74db325dabe276..526b1fa313f2cd 100644
--- a/lib/module.js
+++ b/lib/module.js
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ Module._nodeModulePaths = function(from) {
   // guarantee that 'from' is absolute.
   from = path.resolve(from);
 
+
   // note: this approach *only* works when the path is guaranteed
   // to be absolute.  Doing a fully-edge-case-correct path.split
   // that works on both Windows and Posix is non-trivial.
@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@ Module._nodeModulePaths = function(from) {
     paths.push(dir);
   }
 
-  return paths;
+  return [from].concat(paths);
 };
 
 
@@ -250,7 +251,7 @@ Module._resolveLookupPaths = function(request, parent) {
   if (!parent || !parent.id || !parent.filename) {
     // make require('./path/to/foo') work - normally the path is taken
     // from realpath(__filename) but with eval there is no filename
-    var mainPaths = ['.'].concat(modulePaths);
+    var mainPaths = modulePaths;
     mainPaths = Module._nodeModulePaths('.').concat(mainPaths);
     return [request, mainPaths];
   }