I bought a pre owned wardrobe now the place has bad energy..

[ItbarelysnowsinLondon]

I want to start this post by saying I'm not generally a 'woo' person. I'm not talking about ghosts or implying that the furniture is haunted but I am wondering about bad energy. I've NC because I expect to be torn a new one

Just over 2 weeks ago I bought a pre owned wardrobe on the Facebook market place. It's quite old.

Probably irrelevant but the people who delivered it were quite strange folk, the sort you get an uneasy feeling from. It was a very awkward handover.

Well ever since I got this wardrobe in the bedroom I've been plagued with disturbing nightmares every.single.night without fail.

My toddler DD who also sleeps in my room has been saying she is "scared" in the night now, she has never done that before. She doesn't know about my nightmares and has no reason to be so unsettled all of a sudden.

My mood has been quite low for the same amount of time with no particular cause identifiable, I'm finding myself feeling uncharacteristically short tempered and down.

AIBU to think all of the above may be linked to the wardrobe/bad energy.

Bonkers or possible?!

@CriticalWoman

Genuine questions - how do objects absorb energy? And having absorbed it how do they emit it to make people feel bad? And how does burning sage defeat the bad energy?

I'm not a scientist (this might surprise you when you read the following...) but I believe the theory is that the 'bad' object emits tiny freefloating ions that are subconsciously picked up by human senses. Humans get a bad feeling and attribute it to spirits or the supernatural, but it's actually cause by these little floating bastards. By burning sage or similar the minute particles contained in the smoke grab onto these freefloating ions and neutralise them, removing them from the air. This is the theory behind smudging, it also applies to himalayan salt lamps.

Hashtag SCIENCE

I'm not a scientist (this might surprise you when you read the following...)

Any “explanation” about bad energy and sage doesn’t even belong on the same page as the word “science”.

Yes, @Ashard20, it does seem a little contradictory, doesn’t it? 😁

Any strange roaring or cackling sounds coming from it?

I don't think it's 'woo'. A good deal of what we perceive to be spooky or supernatural is entirely natural and has an ordinary explanation. A PP points out that we are all just energy and matter.

There was a fascinating feature in New Scientist about foxes' eyes; the fox can see the earth's magnetic field as a 'ring of shadow' on its eyes that darkens as it heads towards magnetic north. So they use the earth's magnetic field to hunt and are more likely to pounce with the prey is in that direction. Similarly, birds that migrate long distances are thought to use the earth's magnetic fields. This stuff is outside the human range of vision; doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Your response to your wardrobe is your response, no matter how many people tell you you're being irrational. You don't like its energy so change that energy. Clean it. Upcycle it. Paint it a different colour (pine to me looks quite 90s and dated anyway) and give it a new lease of life. And yes, sage smudge it, if it's likely to make a difference.

It's odd how different places' 'energy' affects different people in different ways. I've had an exhilarating sense of vibrating emptiness near the Iceland gizas, New England forests and the Blue Ridge Mountains; in a less positive sense have felt a powerful, oppressive atmosphere of foreboding at Beachy Head and Portland Bill/Chesil Beach. I also had a similar feeling about a mirror to the one reported by a PP. Although this was likely nothing more than my own irrational response I smudged it anyway. But then I regularly do sage smudge my house and have sage candles: for no other reason than I love the smell!

Hope you manage to give the thing a new lease of life. As to being ripped off by mercenary former owners, I'd chalk that one up to experience.

Disclaimer: I don't believe in Boggarts ...

Bonkers, I'm afraid.
I'm slightly shocked at the number of answers that are superstitious, although I probably shouldn't be.

I think we're probably heading back into another age of superstition, given how frequently people buy into magical thinking over science and facts.

I suspect it's not the sage itself; it's the psychological "intention" you invest in the gesture. A bit like a medicine having a placebo effect.

The same sort of thing applies with children and animals! If you say "no" to a toddler or a dog who are doing something silly, but inside you are laughing and you don't really mean it, they will sense that, because of the "energy" (for want of a better word) that you throw out.

So saying a prayer might not seem enough, but saying a prayer plus burning sage might make you feel that's a job well done.

Also, I think that scientists are beginning to discover that plants in nature do emit feel good chemicals to humans; so it's not a huge stretch to think that burning a herb might modify or intensify that effect.

I think I believe that certain places or objects do hold on to bad "energy" , or something, from the past because I have felt it, or interpreted it as that, but I don't think "woo" and traditional science are necessarily mutually exclusive, because there are lots of things about nature and the brain that we don't know enough about yet.

Utterly bonkers. Nonetheless do what you need to to feel ok in your bedroom again (get rid of wardrobe/sprinkle it with salt/animal sacrifice)

I think the problem is that it is really very ugly

Also, I think that scientists are beginning to discover that plants in nature do emit feel good chemicals to humans; so it's not a huge stretch to think that burning a herb might modify or intensify that effect.

That one's proven. Plants emit energy and oxygen and promote wellbeing; trees emit oxygen and remove pollutants and carbon dioxide from the air.

These are all properties that have been attributed to those Himalayan rock salt lamps, but none of this stuff has a shred of scientific proof. TBH, I if I wanted to promote my 'good energy' I'd probably go sit under a tree in the garden. Don't get me wrong, I love my salt lamp: it casts a lovely, pink, comforting glow that's very restful to relax by just before going to sleep. But that's probably all it does!

I've been a bit negative on this thread, so I'll make a suggestion instead:

It is ugly as Nd dated,
Give the inside a good clean/ disinfect, maybe sorry with something to make it smell nice, then paint the outside in a nice colour and put some new funky knobs on.

Sorry, it is ugly and dated as PPs have remarked, so...

*spray with something!

£100 for a second-hand wardrobe on FB 😂😂
They saw you coming 😜😜😜

You know @ParkheadParadise smothering your post in emojis doesnt make the sentiment any less unpleasant or more helpful.

‘I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.’

To be fair though the op has over paid, those sell for about fifty sixty quid normally. Most folks can’t give them away.

Op, clearly you’re very big into “woo” even though you said you weren’t,. If it makes you feel better do all the stuff suggested on here.

Good luck.

No I don’t think so. I think your mind is just in over drive and it’s making you think about it more and in turn it’s causing the nightmares etc. Your mind can play tricks on you! I’m a complete skeptic (can you tell 🤣) but if I was to read or watch something scary I’ll start imagining all sorts of normal noises as something else!

I suspect it's not the sage itself; it's the psychological "intention" you invest in the gesture. A bit like a medicine having a placebo effect

I work in a very science based field. My entire day job is reason , logic, maths and numbers and cold hard evidence. But I bloody love a bit of woo on my day off. For this exact reason.

Ok it's an ugly wardrobe!

I used to be reasonably good at upcycling and enjoyed turning ugly furniture into something more aesthetically pleasing. I haven't done anything like that in quite some years as I just don't have the space to do it where I live now (that and the fact I have small children who would get in the way)

However I am tempted now..

The thing is, if I change the colour of the wardrobe I'll have to do the same with my dressing table as they match which was half the reason I chose that wardrobe in the first place

I'm not sure they "saw me coming" though. Before the most recent lockdown I was looking in the British Heart Foundation for wardrobes and one similar to this was going for £180 plus delivery costs.

It's a solid wardrobe and will last for years to come whereas some of the newer ones I saw online look as though the kids could knock them over, flimsy.

It’s big, dark, orangey pine and has loads of knots that look like eyes a d it was delivered by people who made hon feel I easy. And now you feel stuck with it. I can see why it would feel oppressive and it’s the kind of situation that would play on my mind too. I would give it a week or so and then see how you feel.

I can see how you might be linking your uneasiness to the wardrobe. Years ago a friend went to Hong Kong and I asked him if he could bring me back a Chinese lantern as a souvenir. What I meant was one of those lovely painted paper lanterns, what he brought back was a gruesome black and orange fabric lantern. Within a few weeks of said lantern entering my life I went through a traumatic event that resulted in depression. I decided in my poor mental state that the lantern was to blame and I got rid of it.

I realise now that obviously it had nothing whatsoever to do with the lantern but at the time I needed to blame something.

Also (as I've just refreshed the thread) they don't go for next to nothing round here, trust me I've been looking!

Maybe up north where I'm from originally, but everything is inflated in London, even in the second hand shops.

made you feel uneasy