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Two people I have known have told me about this. The second said that there was a name for it, but I don't remember what she said. Does anyone here know?
I was present with the first person to talk about it when she was actually experiencing it, so I can relate more details:
We were in a cafe that was in a crypt. The historic building above was then a branch of Boots or some high street chain. My friend was sensitive to...spirits, for want of a better word. She said most of her family were the same. She would sense things in her surroundings that most people wouldn't. Here in the crypt cafe she was very uncomfortable. She said basically that there were lots of things here with us and one was sitting on her shoulder. To me, looking around, it was only a cafe, but I respected and accepted what she said. She was tense for the rest of the day and did ask me if I thought she was mad. I said no and meant it.
I guess that if there are things around us that are used to us not noticing them, it would make sense that they would take interest in someone who did notice them. Maybe whatever it is, is directly interacting with you because it realizes that you can sense it, messing with you because you are rare. It could be trying to get a reaction from you for all the reasons you can imagine - mischief, malice, loneliness, curiosity. I guess that if ghosts exist and are the remnant forms of people, it stands to reason that you would get the same spectrum of human nature.
That first friend who was in the crypt with me never said it was ghosts. It's hard to pick words for it without pigeon-holing it in ways that feel wrong. So I wish I remembered what that second person told me years later, that the thing that comes and sits on your shoulder has been given a name. Anybody?
I was present with the first person to talk about it when she was actually experiencing it, so I can relate more details:
We were in a cafe that was in a crypt. The historic building above was then a branch of Boots or some high street chain. My friend was sensitive to...spirits, for want of a better word. She said most of her family were the same. She would sense things in her surroundings that most people wouldn't. Here in the crypt cafe she was very uncomfortable. She said basically that there were lots of things here with us and one was sitting on her shoulder. To me, looking around, it was only a cafe, but I respected and accepted what she said. She was tense for the rest of the day and did ask me if I thought she was mad. I said no and meant it.
I guess that if there are things around us that are used to us not noticing them, it would make sense that they would take interest in someone who did notice them. Maybe whatever it is, is directly interacting with you because it realizes that you can sense it, messing with you because you are rare. It could be trying to get a reaction from you for all the reasons you can imagine - mischief, malice, loneliness, curiosity. I guess that if ghosts exist and are the remnant forms of people, it stands to reason that you would get the same spectrum of human nature.
That first friend who was in the crypt with me never said it was ghosts. It's hard to pick words for it without pigeon-holing it in ways that feel wrong. So I wish I remembered what that second person told me years later, that the thing that comes and sits on your shoulder has been given a name. Anybody?
