Ahahaha, I'm pretty sure I know what that thing is. If it bothers you again, just tell it to leave, directly; it should go away.

ETA because lol I guess I could have given more information there eh? It sounds like the textbook definition of an energy being. They basically just hang around people, although usually only people with some sensitivity or experience with reiki and related energies can see them all the time. I also refer to them as tulpa/thoughtform seeds because they're easily molded by people's impressions or imagination...I think it's pretty likely that the thing in my closet started out as one of those. They look creepy (sometimes REALLY CREEPY, I speculate probably because whatever you're seeing is whatever the first person who 'sensed' them lurking in the dark imagined them to be) but are harmless.

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That is pretty interesting. I haven't done much research on energy beings in that direction, but have always speculated that a lot of them probably end up as 'guardians'. Especially considering the number of them that are likely to end up as some child's 'invisible friend'...children are generally IME more likely to be able to see them than adults.

Haven't been on ONTDC in awhile, honestly. Still have to catch up on the last few weeks of PE posts.

It's your choice to keep it around or not - but do keep in mind that the longer you keep it around, the more...solid? it can get, which is probably why you can see it now. I kept one around for about a year intentionally once, it was kind of fun, but towards the end it started creeping me out just because it would do things like sit on the couch next to me and other people could see it just sitting there. It can get kind of eerie. And (IMPORTANT) if there's a lot of bad 'energy' in the house - talking relationship-type energy here, like bad blood, not anything you can clear out with a cleansing - it can become a catalyst for (potentially very nasty) poltergeist activity, even if nobody in the house is 'of age'. But you should be able to get rid of it any time you want...so just keep that in mind if it starts making you uncomfortable.

It would probably also be good to keep in mind that TMK most reiki practitioners advise getting rid of them as soon as you notice them, and as you know I sometimes take stupid risks, although I try not to advise others to do the same P: but the fact is that most people (almost everybody, most likely) have a few of these hanging around their whole lives, and suffer no ill-effects, except the occasional haunted house (as they can easily take the form of a 'haunting' if you believe your house to be haunted). So I don't think it's anything to be concerned about.

In that case, it would either not be an energy being (which I suppose is a possibility, but seems unlikely) or it 'belongs' to someone else who has developed it especially to carry messages. Which is possible, but I think it would be doing something more to get your attention. Honestly, standing RIGHT BY YOUR BED and staring is what they do at night, it doesn't mean they want anything. They just like to be near people. (The last one that did this to me looked like a rotting minotaur corpse. It was a bit amdkslafmskl)

But yeah if it were to have a message for you basically we're getting out of energy being territory. And it's being really ineffective about it. You could ask someone you trust to do some kind of reading to be sure, in case it's having trouble communicating...I would volunteer to do a quick tarot reading but I haven't used my cards in awhiiile and I definitely won't be getting any accurate readings from them, they've been packed away in the basement. But yeah, a quick one-card reading on it should clarify that, if you're worried; or at least, that's how I would do it, I don't really recall how much you're into/trust tarot and other divining tools.

No problem o u o

I don't think so.

You've spent most of your youth transforming your thought processes and processing what's happened with and around you into words, and some of that is very very dark territory. It can be read that Lost Souls is being in the wrong body/wrong town, combining those with the body horror of pregnancy. Exquisite Corpse is how bad relationships can consume people, literally, and Drawing Blood has the "oh my God, do I have AIDS" fear.

Lest you think I'm going into self-serving territory of saying "you know, you need to write, and soon. Preferably Lost Souls 2 (squee) (and yes, I know it's already been written ;P)" where I'm going is, you have a fuckton of creative energy and the fact that you're painting cyclones and slenderman means to me that you've got some more dark energies you're deep down wanting to work through, and they're manifesting, not necessarily as evil beings, but evil LOOKING beings.

You've always had an outlet for some really heavy shit, and when you switched to Rickey and G-Man, there wasn't anywhere for the dark stuff to go.

I hope this makes sense.

*nods* oh, I remember.

Maybe your paintings will exorcise the ghosts you have now....

Sounds like a typical Shadow Person.

I've never seen a ghost either, even though I say to others that it'd neat to do so. I have to wonder if I actually did, I'd quickly change my mind. I have experienced sleep paralysis a number of times. I had no idea what I was experiencing. It was like I was awake, but I couldn't move my body or even open my eyes. I believed that there was a ghost in the room with me and I was terrified.

Really?! Are they friendly? Do they actually communicate with you?

i have a similar spirit who hangs around me. tells me he's my guardian. i had to have a long, stern discussion to tell him to stop freaking me out if he was supposed to be protecting me!

That sounds terrifying. I'd go broke replacing my mattress and sheets.

I'm in the camp of "I don't believe in ghosts, except I've seen them a bunch, so Iunno." Mostly in my parents' house, which is a creepy creepy place and gets more creepy (to other family members) after either a) I've been home or (more commonly) b) they've remodeled one of the rooms.

Last month, I stayed there alone to watch the dog and woke up at 5am to music coming from down the darkened hallway. Because I'm a wimp, I decided to investigate in the morning, which is when I found out that the music came from this wind-up clown doll that had been inherited from my late grandmother's collection. It had started playing despite not having been wound in years.

But I also feel like I'm doing the "special snowflake" thing when it comes up.

I think my current apartment building is slowly sliding into a JG Ballard novel now, so there's no hope for me. I think the only place I've ever lived that wasn't a horror story waiting to happen was Finland. And even then...

I'm surprised I was able to sleep despite the creepy clown music down the hall, but I think at that point, I was like "Whatever, house. If you were going to go all horror story on me, you had eleven uninterrupted years."

Well, nobody has been troubled in our haunted room for a while - maybe our uncanny tenant is visiting abroad?

While I'm here, Billy, could you just confirm you're still using the PO Box I've had for you for years? Soon I'll have a book to send you.

> ghost stopped me from being scared by patting my butt. Pervy ghost.

Ghosts got taste. ;)

It couldn't have been Howard Stern's "butt bongo"-ing ghost, he ain't dead (even bigger LOL)

AH! Now I'M creeped out!