More common disorders
Here are two more conditions you need to be aware of if you believe you may be haunted.
First, a visual phenomena called Pareidolia. This is a psychological condition where vague visual impressions are perceived as significant. This is probably what’s really bothering people who think they see the face of Jesus in a tortilla, the Virgin Mary in wood panelling, rocks on Mars having faces, or even animal shapes in clouds or human gestures in punctuation =D.
Pareidolia is also the reason why Rorschach inkblot tests work. In a Rorschach test the person projects whatever is going on in his head onto the cards, which have been designed to not represent anything at all.
Secondly, are you being visited while you are sleeping?
If weird things are happening while you are in bed, the cause may be a form of sleep paralysis. Let’s say that you’ve been sleeping in a nice, deep, happy REM sleep. Sounds great! But, please know that your body does not wake up all at the same time. The brain can wake up from sleep before the rest of the body does. This leaves the door wide open for hallucinations, dream-like states with people in the room, and often an acute sense of danger. Some researchers believe that sleep paralysis explains many of the abduction stories we hear about in the UFO literature. It is just as easy to have ‘visits’ from Aunt Margaret, your guardian angel, or somebody far more sinister.
The flip side, obviously, is that if your guardian angel were to visit you, it might be most easily done when you are in a state of sleep paralysis. Whether it is a psychological cause or a psychological effect is a discussion point since science has no way to determine if there is anything truly paranormal going on around us anyway. Just realize that your own mind can play tricks on you!
