Is There An Unseen Presence In My House?

[Anonymous]

OK, I don't know if i'm making something out of nothing, but some strange things have been happening. These things aren't too major, but they just kinda give me a creepy feeling.

Well, it all started about a week ago. I was lying in bed one morning, staring at my window blinds when I noticed that there was a shadow moving around on them, sorta as if a tree was blowing by my window outside and blocking the light. It really was moving around a lot, so I figured it was probably just really windy out and a tree was blowing in the wind. So then I sorta turned away for a few minutes (I was still waking up) and then I got up to see if it was windy, but it wasn't—I mean not even a breeze. That kinda felt weird to me, but I went on with my life and until last night everything has going just fine.

Anyway, last night at around 11:00 p.m. I went to take a shower. Well, I got in the shower and just relaxed, but it felt as if someone was in the room with me. For one moment I thought my mom had come in, but I looked and there was no one there, so I started to shampoo my hair and...

Well, do you know the feeling how if you are in the sun and have your eyes closed, the sunlight shows through your eyelids so it's still kinda bright even with your eyes closed? Well, in our bathroom we have a very bright light and while I was shampooing my hair I had to close my eyes to make sure I didn't get anything in them. While my eyes were closed, I was facing this bright light, so my eyelids were still lit up a bit. Then, all of the sudden, it seemed like something went right by my face really fast and blocked the light for a second and then kept moving. I opened my eyes really fast and looked—but nothing. So, anyway, i just got done with my shower and went to bed. No matter what I did, I felt so creeped out all night. It was strange: I kept on seeing things and got that same feeling again: I had my eyes closed, but my lava-lamp was on (so it was still sorta light), but then it just got dark and light again like in the shower. Again, I opened my eyes real fast and found nothing. Well, this morning everything seems fine, but last night really creeped me out.

I dunno if I just over reacted about it all or what, but I thought I'd share.

 

[Aben_Zin]

Hmmm.... Possibly a good thing that you hadn't just been watching Psycho...
Actually, I'm not a doctor or anything, but could it have been something to do with blood-pressure or something?


Az

 

[Anonymous]

I dunno... maybe I was probably just over reacting.

 

[Anonymous]

Lava lamps have a habit of creating patterns of light and darkness.

 

[Anonymous]

weird blind shadows

Maybe there where clouds outside which temporarily created a shadow.

Or a bird? Bear in mind that before you got up from your bed you though it might have been the wind......wind on it's own doesn't cast a shadow....therefore there must be something that would get blown by the wind such as a tree or something.

Perhaps the wind just stopped when you looked out of your window.

or maybe a case of to much dope!

 

[Anonymous]

No, I thought the wind might have been blowing a tree around.

And I don't think it was a bird, cause it was moving around a lot like very sharply. It wasn't going in one direction, it was going all sorts of directions... Sorta like a UFO.

Anyway, it might have just been my imagination.

 

[Anonymous]

now this is true,since seing that haunted picture strange things are happing in my house,like running up the stairs when i am downstairs but their is nobody upstairs

 

[Snook25]

Really this is nothing to worry about, you just have to learn to live with it. Wierd stuuf just seems to go whereever i do, whether its at uni. or at home, after a while you just accept the strangeness for what it is. It is wierd however, that there seems to be a flurry of activity with you, in the last week or so. You'll be ok.

Take care

Flower

 

[Anonymous]

You probably are over-reacting. When something a little bit strange happens, you get sensitive and start noticing other slightly strange things that you would probably wouldn't have noticed before. That's how a lot of 'haunted house' stories start - one weird thing happens, then everybody gets hyped up and start noticing how that door sometimes closes by itself, or that kettle got switched on when nobody can remember switiching it on.... etc.
That intitial shadow on the blinds could have been lots of things - a piece of rubbish blowing by, or maybe somebody creeping around outside the window, a kite blocking the sunlight. When you're fightened or anxious, your senses get 'hyped', you're more aware of everything happening, you're startled more easily. Anxiety could have caused the feeling of somebody being in the bathroom with you; the 'shadow' passing your closed eyes then could have been a moth in front of the light.
And anyway, like Flower said, wierd things do happen. But weird does not equal bad!

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah... that's probably just what it was... well thanks guys.

 

[Yithian]

Original post restored and repaired.

A few thoughts:

• It seems that the environmental triggers for fight-or-flight responses are often buried deep in the unconscious mind and that 'false positives' are relatively common.
• Once such a response is triggered and one enters a heightened state of alert, one's perceptions are immediately dialed up to maximum, which increases the chance of further 'false positives' markedly: survival dictates it's better to jump at shadows than to risk being eaten.
• Several vulnerable conditions demand immediate responses to potential threats even more urgently. Examples: being asleep, alone, tired, immobilised, in an unfamiliar environment, having one's eyes closed or having one's other senses similarly dulled.

Here we have an initial false positive produced by the moving shadows of the branches. That may be coincidental to the shower experience, but I might speculate that something brought that reaction to forefront again: walking the same hall to the bathroom? Hearing—even unconsciously—a sound that the OP heard shortly before the shadow experience? A door-click, a bird, feeling a breeze on one's skin or smelling the laundry? Any perception that caused his incredible pattern-recognition apparatus to link the two moments in his mind and bring his hackles/defences/hypersensitivity back up. Millions of years ago, say, there was once a snake when your ancestor heard leaves rustle after having seen grey rocks; now the rustle of a plastic bag and the grey of your boxer shorts lying on the bedroom floor make your eyes open wide for a moment...

So next the OP moves to a private room with only a single entrance/exit and strips naked—likely while tired at the end of the day: vulnerability.

Any slight flicker of the light is now even more likely to trigger an eye-opening adrenaline response that will take some time to wind down from; the lava-lamp with a randomly rolling stimuli won't have helped, I'm sure.

Speculation, but I'd say more likely than an unseen presence in the house.

 

[Shady]

The wind, the clouds and the sun can create weird shadows on the curtains and blinds, they dont always have to be in your yard, also cars and their lights, or maybe the nieghbours or those across the street have security lights that annoyingly flash on and off if a gnat farts near them. Ok im all outta things, call @Swifty, he may help