shadows and paranoia?

[mouses]

im gonna sound a complete nut, but I see shadows - sometimes they are fast blurs that scurry across the rooms, across my bed, along the walls, other times they are black shadow people. how to explain?

they are kind of like what puppeteers wear, those black suits that blend them into the background? if that makes sense?? but not at defined but blurry edges?
they poke their head around the doors, it scares shite outta me! silly I know. sometimes I just don't turn and look.

but last night I felt really agitated by them, laying down in bed the blur shadows were running up the wall and around my bed. (its not car lights creating shadows, im not scared of those ones) I was so scared I couldn't get out of bed to use the loo incase they got me! I was scared one of the people shadows was waiting for me wen I walk past the living room door

I know it sounds completely woo, I think it myself but I don't know how to make it stop. ive told my gp, psychologist and the psychiatrist abut them. was told its my imagination - well yes I kinda know as I have mh issues! im guessing its paranoia?

does any on suffer with similar? if so how to you cope until it passes?
ive seen dead people since I was a child

Its your eyes playimg tricks with you . . The thing with your eyes is light detection cells and colour detection cells are sending differnt from usual signals to your brain , or your brain is reading the signals wrong ... but as human brain is designed to "fill in the missing info " from optic signals , it creates the most likely scenario , which in your case is "shadows" .
Good news , your shadows are a normal experience , that anyone can get at anytime. I get it all the time . Some describe it as seeing or sensing something or someone from the corner of their eye .

Its always more frequent when im tired , stressed or headachy .

Best thing to do is have an eye test , drinkwater and have a calm few minutes until it passes . I like to close my eyes and listen to music ... its distracting from the "eye tricks " .

its pathetic really, I keep telling myself its trick of the eye but my brain tells me other wise though. really makes me feel uneasy.

Its not pathetic at all .

Ive scared myself silly in the past .

Totally normal imo.

Stop beating yourself up about this , life is hard enough .

Mouse I know what you mean and have experienced it, but like droves only when I was really tired or dehydrated etc.
I remember there being some research where they found that a certain frequency can cause this shadow/visual disturbance phenomena. I would certainly go for an eye test and also consider things like tiredness.
Have you moved house recently or has anything big changed that could be putting extra stress on you?
I'm sorry it's disturbing you and if you believe there is something else behind it then keep pushing at the GP etc until someone listens.

it even reads silly don't it?.. adult scared of shadows

im always stressed, anxious, raged, sad, unhappy..... so yea there is an explanation. im under gp, psychiatrist etc for diagnosis

to be honest im not really phased by the people passed dead people im not too keen on the dark so possibly why shadows make me jumpy. still doesn't explain why im in fear of them? there just shadows!

yep I know,, complete loon.
thanks for your time to reply, its nice to know some one is listening. xx

Have you tried distraction? My friend sees and feels a hand coming and crapping her toes during the night. She now makes herself to think it is just spider web touching her. If it goes too bad she tells the thing to go away.

yes I could be watching telly, cleaning or playing on my tablet and they are always around, so im already distracted really. I do my best to ignore my crazy imagination them. I do tell them to go away, I feel ridiculous and ashamed. its something id expect my son to be saying not an adult!