To be really freaked out about seeing someone that wasn’t there??

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My partners mum, step-dad, brother and 2 nieces are on holiday at the seaside so to we took our little one for the a day trip to have a beach day with his cousins today.

As we were driving into where they are staying and my partner was packing I said to him ‘I didn’t know your whole family was here’ when I saw his grandma standing next to his mum. He must have assumed that I was talking about his stepdad as he didn’t respond to it in a weird way/ask what I meant.

Then when we were inside I asked where his grandma had gone and where she was sleeping as they only have 2 bedrooms. Well it turns out that she isn’t there and is at home and I couldn’t have seen her because she’s not there??

What on earth happened?? What/who did I see?? Am I crazy now? 🙈

Granny by Gaslight? 😱

I had a parrot named Lucifer, he was cruelly taken from us at 2, brain tumour. I still miss that liitle bird, even though I have 6 others. One day I was lying on my bed about a year after he died, I was feeling sad (don't remember why) and just watching tv. All of a sudden I felt and heard the unmistakeable bird flying close to my face breeze and sound, but all mine were in the cage downstairs, I do believe it was Lucifer as I had an incredible bond with that bird, he was such a special little thing and there is no other feeling like that of a bird flying past your head to land on you.

Well, probably in line with the dead family members who communicate via ‘psychics’ to tell a series of gullible people that Auntie Brenda’s lost brooch is behind the fridge in a house the family left in 1978, and that they’ve got a grandfather called something beginning with M (Matthew, no Michael?), who might possibly have died of something to do with his chest. Or in WWI.

Really need an update OP

You can see people. I know someone who regularly saw them and she thought she was losing her mind but then we realised it was this.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23234-hypnagogic-hallucinations

It was always on the point of falling asleep though. Were you drowsy on the long drive op? Had you been asleep when you arrived and was failing in and out of sleep?

This explains lucifer the bird as that poster was lying on the bed.

Memory is weird - we think that we are playing back experiences as they happened but actually we sort of construct them later. A bit like how, when you play a computer game which has characters and objects etc, if you could "see" what the computer sees, you'd just see a load of code like "Person JIFFIH interacts in FJGIDFG way with objexct DIDJODJ"

The graphics card knows what textures and 3-D shapes belong with each of those three codes and it goes and grabs them and puts it all together to create the image you see on your screen.

If you install something like a texture pack, or if the game files get messed up and swapped around, you will see a different person to someone else who has the same game installed.

Memory is a bit like that - we encode it like the computer code, and when we recall it, it's like our internal "graphics card" is finding out which images, sounds, smells etc map onto that code.

Also, there is apparently a thing where multiple people will occupy the same "role" in your mind and will be mentally swapped out easily. That is how when you have more than 2 children/pets you find yourself always calling them by the wrong name, or in a dream, when trying to recall it you realise that your sister morphed into your best friend part-way through the dream but you kept interacting with her as though she was the same person.

But actually, one thing which did come to mind @freakedoutseeingthings is can you go to a large supermarket or hardware store, and buy a carbon monoxide monitor? It's not that uncommon for holiday lets to have poorly maintained gas boilers since there are fewer regulations around holiday lets/in different countries, and because people only stay there for a week or so at a time, it's not picked up as an ongoing symptom thing. But carbon monoxide exposure can cause hallucinations, along with confusion, headaches, nausea and fatigue. I feel like there is a story in the news every year about some poor family who go on holiday and get killed by a faulty boiler in their holiday let (And that has just reminded me that I got rid of ours because we only have electric heating, but I should get one to take on holidays!)

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy".

Just because you can't or don't believe or understand something doesn't mean it didn't happen. Not everything can be explained in a scientific way. Why are people willing to believe in the existence of God or Jesus and the many visions described in the Bible and yet not in seeing someone who actually existed and they knew well.

Some people are more open and receptive than others.

I regularly saw my Dad for several years after he died and some of our pets. I find it comforting that when they are seen they are just doing the normal things they used to do. My Dad died at home, literally dropped dead at my feet, and I would see him sitting at the kitchen table or in his chair in the living room. There was nothing spooky about it. These weren't dreams and I hadn't been obsessively thinking about him, he was just there.

I have had a number of strange experiences over the years, none of which had a rational explanation. It doesn't mean that they did or didn't happen but they were very real at the time.

It was the middle of the day and I was sat up watching tv&eating snacks, not remotely sleepy.

It’s always the gullible who quote Hamlet in this context when they clearly don’t know the play.

I know someone who woke up at night to see one of their parents sitting on a chair in their room. Found out the said parent died that night.
I believe in such things.

I shouldn't, but 🤭🤭.
Now I'll feel terrible if something's actually happened.

Why are you so rude? Does it make you feel superior?
Try and be nicer to people, even if you disagree with them. Society works better that way.

Just here for OP's update

Is this going to be similar to the thread started by that woman who thought she had offended the crows, and was going to be attacked by them on her walk? She never came back to my knowledge. (Back to the thread I mean.)

Not weird at all.
Our brains are constantly filtering things out, or filling in blanks. For example, we would filter put background chatter in a cafe, if we were in there talking with a friend. When we see purple, that's our brain filling in. When we have a set routine, or see the same thing day in and day out, the brain just goes to autopilot and tells us that's the same thing, so if there usually is a clock, it'll fill that in. In the absence of ticking, the auto switch goes off and we'll end up re-checking.

It's always the narrow-minded and unimaginative who can only cope with something that is spelt out to them in words of one syllable.

Aren't you all edgy and knowledgeable and snartarse

Perhaps you just saw a doppelgänger walk past, seems the most likely explanation.

Saying that, I saw my dead granddad when my grandma was dying in hospital. He said I could let go, it would be ok, he would take care of her. I hadn’t slept more than 3-4hrs a night for a week straight and realistically knew that my grandma wasn’t making it out of the hospital so I was grieving at the same time; the chances of it being just a grief fuelled overly active imagination are high but it brought my comfort.

I wish this would happen to me. My parents have passed and I would love to be able to see then even just a glimmer.

@VeryHappyBunny "Just because you can't or don't believe or understand something doesn't mean it didn't happen. Not everything can be explained in a scientific way."
This paragraph only needs a tiny edit to make it correct.
"Not everything has been explained in a scientific way yet"
There-fixed it for you.

Definitely check on the family, particularly granny but you're not crazy.

I don't know the scientific words but basically it sounds like thought or mind projection where one person unconsciously sends messages to the brain of someone else and that person then sees or feels the image.

Some years ago hubby and I were around a friends house for dinner. It was my myself, hubby, and this middle-aged couple.

The livingroom is directly below the larger guest bedroom and the couple's bedroom is directly above the kitchen so the guest and couple's bedrooms are next to each other.

Hubby and couple were all in the livingroom as I was and I had to shoot upstairs to use the loo. They have one downstairs but it was blocked and they were waiting for the plumber. The upstairs one is opposite the 2 bedrooms. Both bedroom doors were open.

Just as I was about to go into the loo I got the impression I was in the guest bedroom even though I wasn't, then I saw the man of the house just shoot into their bedroom ... I didn't hear him come up the stairs ...

When I went back to the livingroom I asked him ''sorry to ask as it's none of my business but did you just follow me up the stairs and walk into your bedroom?'' He said no, he hadn't and his wife and my hubby both said he was still in his armchair!

They then went on to explain that several guests over the years have had the same or similar experience!

So, worry not, you're not going crazy, it's just a natural thought process!

Lovely Lucifer sounds so beautiful! He was watching over you!

And not everything will.

According to science I should be dead, but I am very much alive and the doctors and specialists couldn't explain why.