Zen Garden > Strange Experiences - Things that Go "BUMP" in the Night

Have you ever felt when you are alone that you are NOT alone? Ever had that spooky feeling that you were being watched by someone, or something? Maybe you are having a "paranormal" experience.

I'll be the first to admit that there is much that we do not know and cannot explain.

A favorite technique used by the owners and operators of old hotels and culturally important locations is for somebody to claim that a certain room is haunted. That is an old ploy to get people to visit these places. People go there in the hope that they will experience, or even see, a ghost.

Whilst I cannot personally claim that I have actually "seen" a ghost, I have experienced some rather strange phenomena, mostly when I was much younger.

On many occasions I have experienced "deja-vu" where I have known EXACTLY what was going to happen, who would be involved and even the exact words that various people would use. It used to un-nerve me until I learned to cope with it.

On other occasions I have felt and even detected the presence of other things. Let's just call them "entities." Usually this took the form of a particular odor or a change in the general feel of my surroundings. The most dramatic example of this was during a time of grieving over the loss of a person who I greatly admired and who had been a trusted friend for many years. This was particularly sad as the person in question died suddenly and without any real reason at a fairly young age.

Perhaps we experience these things during periods of heightened emotion or awareness. During other times when we are so tied up with the demands of life maybe we just ignore them or pass them off without even realizing them.

Although I have never experienced anything even remotely like the events depicted in the movie "The Exorcist" I know people who swear that they have. These are people who I trust so I do not doubt their sincerity.

During the recounting of one of these events my friend, who was a priest, was so visibly shaken that he simply could not go on and relate all the details. It was disturbing to say the least.

Whether there are spirits or not I cannot say with any sureness but there are certainly things that defy normal logic.

So, next time you experience something "strange" or something goes "bump" in the night, realize that it may be just that you are in a state of increased awareness or emotional distress. You are not going insane. It happens to a lot of people. In fact it is possibly happening a lot more than we think but we are just not normally attuned to it.

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