to not be scared by seeing ghosts

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Just that really. I just saw someone walk across the landing in my house, there's no one there of course. Usually like this incident it's out the corner of my eye but I've also seen ghosts looking straight at them too. Sometimes I smell things that aren't there too. I'm reasonably sane and well adjusted and I've been seeing phenomena for years and years. I was just thinking though that ghosts are supposed to be scary but it's not that I've got used to it, I can't remember them ever scaring me. Would you be scared if you saw a ghost? I don't feel brave, more like "oh look there's another one"
Well prepared for all the people saying I'm stark raving bonkers but I know I'm not imagining any of it.

The walls in a home act like sponges and absorb energy and if something happened A LOT or a person frequently visited or something really bad or good happened then it can act like a stain and create an energy to recreate that so yes ghosts are real

This is absolutely glorious. I do enjoy a really woo thread 👻

Its not really about believing or not believing. It has actually been proven that consciousness survives bodily death.

Links to research please.

As an example, during episodes of sleep paralysis I have woken up to clearly see: the predator (from the film) standing on my bed, Bart Simpson laughing at me, and woodland creatures running around across my floor. Now if these had been somber Victorian women would I have more likely believed they were ghosts? But they still wouldn't be. They would still be my brain creating a perfect image of something that isn't there.

@SerenDippity, that would be proof from that well-known school of ‘Someone Talked About NDEs on the Internet.’

Also OP I'm concerned about your phantom smells. This is a symptom of a brain tumour.

The walls in a home act like sponges and absorb energy and if something happened A LOT or a person frequently visited or something really bad or good happened then it can act like a stain and create an energy to recreate that so yes ghosts are real

Wtf 😂😂😂😂

@StressToy yes very probably

There’s a J G Ballard short story about a man whose brain and eyes had somehow got out of synch and he kept seeing himself doing whatever he’d been doing a few moments previously. Very creepy.

Ghosts are real!

How could Ghostbusters have gone into business if they weren't?

I think things exist in other dimensions. When I was in a very bad place I attracted something. It was in the the depths of despair and Steven Speilberg would struggle to recreate the sounds it made. No point in trying to offer a rational explanation because I wasn't the only one to experience it.

I just sat and prayed for it until it faded away.

Maybe some people are more aware of these things?

@UserUndone do you mean a bad place emotionally? But more than one of you heard it at the same time?

My house is haunted, i have seen the ghost plus my husband and he is sceptical but he knows what he saw and he can't explain it .Before my DF passed away i had things happen that i cannot explain away no matter how hard i try also things experienced by the hospice nurse that was caring for my DF overnight on a couple of occasions they were there. I have felt really uncomfortable in some places yet not in others .Just a observation there a people that are adamant god exists yet it has never ever been proved so likewise why are people so adamant ghosts don't exist 🤷‍♀️.I believe fully there is something we don't understand regarding what happens when we die but i also fully accept that other's would think that is crackers .I do go out with a group and i had experiences that we will try and debunk before we say yes that definately a ghost but sometimes there is no rational explanation.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

Thanks. I'll take a look.

I've 'seen' things, but am very aware that my senses aren't reliable and that brains try to interpret external information in a way that makes sense to the onlooker, so that the 'figure' I thought I saw may have been something else, but my brain knows what 'figures' look like so tells me that's what I saw.

There's also a lack of understanding of hypnogogic and hypnopompic experiences and sleep paralysis, which leads to other 'paranormal' stories.

I'd like to believe. I've seen things I didn't understand and couldn't explain. But I know how unreliable my senses are so...dunno really.

How come they’re always victorian women or Georgian soldiers and not someone from the 80s with shoulder pads and a bad perm?

I've never seen anything, but I have been really unnerved by a dream I had a few days after my mum died. I'd fallen asleep on the sofa and the phone rang and it woke me up, so I got up to answer it and it was my mum.

She told me she would give anything to come back for the day, that she's really sorry she was so stubborn about her health and that she regrets so much. I asked her, "is this real? are you really speaking to me right now?" and she said yes. She had to go, I said please don't, she said "Sorry, got to darling. I miss you, please take care of yourself" and that was it. I sat back down on the sofa and... woke up

Fucked me up good and proper.

Awwlookatmybabyspider I genuinely hope that there is nothing after death but I agree, the thought is terrifying. In an overthinking kind of way obviously when it happens it would be the best outcome. I’d rather lights out than ending up stuck in the veil because you can’t move on or not even knowing what you’re moving on to.

Im learning not to be scared.

For those who doubt I wish you could sit in my kitchen and meet the pokey lady.

A few years back myself and a friend were sat having a glass or two together when she moved in her chair suddenly and said over her shoulder "Oi get off" She told me that something had poked her in the side. I struggle to believe other peoples stories so though yeah yeah and forgot all about it.

A few months later an elderly friend with dementia was sat in the the same chair drinking coffee, she suddenly shouted "Oi get off" then told me someone had poked her in the side. Yeah yeah of course they did.

Then another friend sat in the same chair.......you get the picture.

I wasn't convinced, being a cynical believer and understanding that psychology can account for many experiences.

A year or so after the last event I was leaving the house and remembered I had a form to fill out and post, so dashed back to the table, sat in the same chair (which I don't usually sit in) and started to fill out the form. Suddenly I felt a boney finger poke me in the side.

None of the others who experienced this had met each other (all came from totally different areas).

This is the oldest house I have ever lived in and it is the quietest in terms of activty. Oddly enough I have had a psychiatric assessement which flagged up adhd but noting to account for my many experiences.

I have had a similar experience, Ok. Except it wasn't a phone, the wall of my living room opened and I went into a room on the other side where my dead relatives were and sent some time talking to them. Obviously it was a dream, but it felt really, really real. It shook me up for some time afterwards. I think it was part of my brain processing the recent deaths of my relatives.

The walls in a home act like sponges and absorb energy and if something happened A LOT or a person frequently visited or something really bad or good happened then it can act like a stain and create an energy to recreate that so yes ghosts are real

Which breeze blocks did your builders use? my house is constructed almost throughout with Brickforce Galvanised 215mm, and I've never seen a dickie bird. Claire over the road has got Masterlite Pro and she gets all sorts coming through, old ladies, roman centurions, you name it.

thedancingbear

^^ 😂😂

I've never experienced anything ghostly at all. However, I'm 100% keeping an open mind. I can't categorically state that the phenomena does not exist.

And, in answer to your question, yep: I think I'd be quite unnerved by any form of paranormal experience And ..... I'm a very unnervy person in general.

@thedancingbear 😂😂😂

Place marking cos I love all this kind of shit. Back to read after work

My dad sees them quite frequently. Main one he saw was a woman jumping from Rochester Castle. Broad daylight, he heard a scream and looked up. He wasn't the only one around, there were loads of people. Being a trainee paramedic at the time he ran over (as did others) to see how she was. Nothing there. Yet many people had responded.

He's also seen his dad sat at the end of his bed, as a last sort of goodbye.

I've had dreams where I've seen my best friend who died. The last time I saw him in a dream he looked really shocked and said "you shouldn't be seeing me, this will have to be the last time". His dad has also seen him and knows he's quite happy living another life (What he saw was him having fun with other people, as though life continues)

We also have a photo of me when I was younger with a shimmer stood next to me. It was a Victorian day at school. No explanation for how the shimmer got there.

I do believe in something. I've seen things, heard things that I can't explain and had premonitions in dreams. Nothing important, but I've seen silly things in dreams that have then happened for real a few days later.
I feel something is around me in my home sometimes, I've seen someone out the corner of my eye, heard footsteps and heard a phone ringing upstairs several times but there isn't one.

I accept that there's things out there that we can't control and that we're never going to get all the answers. If you think how miniscule we are in comparison to the universe, it's ignorant to dismiss the idea of there being something beyond this life.