Sensing spirits all the time!
marcina bolan
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I'm a firm believer in the afterlife and everything spooky. I have had a lot of incidents over the past few weeks, things moving on their own, a cobweb type feeling on my face, whoohsing past my ears and smells of cigarette and pipe smoke that have no source! Anyone else had this experience? I would love to hear your stories 
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Next door was an even older public house, known as "the hauntings", because of local legends. On summer nights everyone must have felt a chill in the pub, because they preferred to sit in the garden, next to my house, drinking and smoking.
Alas, it seems that spirits are affected by modern plastics, since as soon as I had double glazing installed, they all refused to visit.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=45172849&postcount=25
Seriously, not only is this spirit stuff crackpot nonsense, but also strange smells can be a sign of brain damage or irregularities, perhaps high levels of dopamine which is seen in Schizophrenia etc. Facial skin sensations may be nerve problems, or neuropathy, which may or may not also be linked to brain problems.
^^This.
Mundane it may be, compared to contact from the netherworlds - but being as there are possible rational explanations and those explanations could involve health problems, I'd suggest you err on the side of caution and get yourself checked out, just in case.
:eek: that made me go cold reading that
Makes going to supermarkets and Off-licenses a real bitch, people tell me i'm like a blood hound
I've had a few lucid dreams in my time. You're convinced you are awake and its bloody horrible.
One, I remember, I was in my bedroom and I'd just woken up in the morning. It was kinda dark, but I could see a bulge in my curtains, as if something was behind them. Obviously, I thought it was a trick of the light, so i got up walked to the curtain and proceeded to poke the bulge, expecting nothing to be there. Instead, I felt an obvious mass and it was clearly a person hiding behind there. Now not only did I know there was a person hiding in my bedroom, but they knew I knew they were there. I tried to cscream out to alert someone, but no sound came out my mouth - and I tried really, REALLY hard to make a noise.
The effort of trying to scream woke me up for real, as I made a noise not dissimilar to a seal! Yes, it was all a dream, but it seems SO real whilst it was happening.
But that's not the worst. Try having a waking dream. That's actually being concious, but still dreaming. I once woke up and saw someone standing at the end of my bed. Again, assuming it was a trick of the light in a dim room, I shone my torch down there, expecting it to disappear. Instead, I saw a clear face. I sat in bed, terrified as they walked round to me, took my hand and started whispering into it. Freaked out, I took a swing at them and there was nothing there - they completely vanished.
I got straight up after thatm went to the toilet, went downstairs, had a drink and didn't go back to bed for half an hour. I was definitely awake the whole time. It was a dream, but I had it whilst awake. Horrible experience.
One night, I woke up and went to get a drink, as you do. I was in the kitchen drinking it when I thought I heard someone call my name... but there was noone there. I thought it was James messing around, so I went to his room, but he was obviously fast asleep.
I went back, washed the glass up, put it away... then felt a tap on my shoulder. I spun round... noone there. I freaked out and went and hid under the covers all night.
Next morning, I told my mum about it, and she just said, "Oh, yeah, that'll be the ghost!" Turned out the house was haunted by the previous owner, who had been killed in a mining accident.
You get used to sensing spirits, mind you. I've done it most of my life. The worst places are places like castles - but Sachsenhausen and Terezin concentration camps were horrible.
Don't worry about it! :-)
Science does explain away lots of experiences we refer to as spooky.
electromagnectic fields
our brain misinterpreting things
sleep disorders - bad dreams
etc etc etc the list goes on
Alas I have seen a whole body image of a ghost and cant write it off no matter how I looked at it... was it just some memory held by the building of the past, or a portal into the past that I peek into or indeed prrof that we survive after death in some way ... ????? Ive no idea .All i can say is up untill 2000 scientists where warning of a global cooling of the earth now suddenly its global warming they fear .. they dont exactly have a good track record on things historicaly, personaly Im still waiting for them to sort out this cold fusson thing,
Errmm, actually there is an answer, one that most people (outside of creationists anyway) agree on - the big bang
As for how we are here, coincidence and evolution. The conditions on the planet created by said big bang happened to slowly make something on the planet turn into something else, which turned into something else and so on and so forth until something turned into us. Highly simplified I know but thats pretty much the gist of it.
All im saying is, that it annoys me when people who dont know the answers to such huge questions have the arrogance to belittle those that just report something that happened to them that they cant explain within a scientific scope.
As a post note, if any aliens are reading this please first visit Patric Moore as im sick of the chap saying no other life exisits anywhere else but here. If that was the case where did the Clangers come from
"The end of all our exploration will be to arrive at the beginning and know the place for the first time." (TS Eliot)
That covers a lot, as I'm sure The Clangers would agree.
Sorry to laugh smith99 but I thought you were talking about the "plastic" cups pubs give drinkers who want to sit outside.
Absolutely relate to this type of experience. Had some real shockers, and wake up basically with a dry, silent scream, where part of the nightmare is the fact that my scream is silent and therefore an impotent 'alert'
Horrible stuff!
You don't have to believe in this kind of stuff, but trying to make out that the OP is suffering from a mental illness or serious brain problems is downright offensive and irresponsible.
tbh its a possibility feeling sensations on your skin and hearing and smelling things could be sign of an illness
go and see a doctor or psychologist love.
I don't subscribe to the 'there are things we don't know, thus, this must be paranormal' argument.
If someone came along here and reported hearing voices non stop, all day, and believes it to be a ghost trying to communicate with them.. what's the best advice?
It's one thing to suggest that because we can't perform an MRI scan, or a CAT scan, or a PET scan, or a CT scan, or one of the other brain/neuro scans on galaxies or the universe as whole that equates to a blank knowledge in the same way that it does to a person on terra firma.
It's scientifically understood that weird senses of smell that aren't there can be a sign of brain damage, a cancerous or benign brain tumour or other abnormalities, perhaps in levels of neurotransmitters (ie dopamine).
Face and other skin sensations and feelings; tingling, cobwebs, heat, cold, pricking etc can be a sign of neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, nerve pressure/damage somewhere, spinal cord pressure, brain neuro problems etc.
For you to suggest that there isn't a problem is totally and utterly irresponsible, even if you are offended.
And, equally, a lack of empathy can often be indicitive of sociopathic tendencies.
Perhaps you should get yourself checked out in case you're in danger of becoming a serial killer?
See how offensive that kind of thing can sound?
Gotta say, I find that the vast majority of stuff about the paranormal is utter bollocks but, given that I was in a vehicle with a bunch of other people and we ALL saw a proper, full-on "ghost" I can't dismiss the whole idea.
Trouble is that I think most believers are way too eager to accept anything and most skeptics are way too stubborn to concede anything so it's kinda hard to look at things objectively.
Believers will always want to tell you that it WAS a ghost and skeptics will always want to tell you that you're just nuts or that you have a brain tumour.
So, what if the OP DOES get a brain-scan and it turns out s/he doesn't have a tumour?
Does that mean that ghosts DO exist and s/he IS in contact with the "other side"?
A lack of empathy towards what, an illness or the paranormal?
So what if she doesn't and there is something wrong, not specifically a tumor but something else? They may do a scan and not find a tumor, but something else. They may find something else wrong- ie nose throat & ear problems instead of it being specifically being part of the brain itself. Maybe they won't find anything at all. As always they won't persist for months and months to pinpoint it if it doesn't cause distress to the patient. Therefore the exact cause may never be known and thus it will obviously be ghouls, demons and spirits.
A lack of empathy toward other people. Duh.