I think the barrier between worlds is thinner for some people. I have seen a little girl in my house and thought it was a hallucination but the last 2 renters here have seen her too, same description, down too the clothes

Really morpheous?

If we are any more likely to see spirits that aren't hallucinations and I do believe in both, then I think it's only because when we are suicidal we are on the cusp. It opens a door to that world and the door might never shut for some one who's struggling to stay alive.

Just my theory on it. But what the hell do I know?

Morpheous I've seen things too. And on rare occasions other people have verified that they could see it too. What is real and what is hallucination? There's a very blurry line there isn't it?

I think I have both only because I don't think other people can hallucinate the same thing. But most of the stuff I see I tell myself it's all hallucination because I don't want it to be real.

I had a conversation about this with one of my tutors a while ago. She has a theory that some people don't have delusions, they're just seeing another world.

delusions are different from hallucinations. delusion isn't caused by something you see, it's simply a belief even though there is no evidence that what they believe is real. Like aliens are taking the bodies of the people around them. That is a delusion.

People always get those mixed up.

We have a bunch of perceptual filters and alarm systems which allow us to concentrate only on what is important, generally movement, people etc and to put the rest into background. This is built into virtually all animals. It tells you when a preditor is close or if you are a preditor that lunch has just arrived on the scene.

If you don't have filters you end up with extreme autism because you just get sensory overload permanently. You see, hear, smell everything all of the time.That's why exteme auties do the screaming and head banging.

You also have a bunch of systems that are designed to trip early and bring your attention to things like movement.

If the alarm systems are affected by any stress, ie being really hot (fever), shock (e.g bereavement), drugs (e.g LSD) or mania then the alarms keep going off and tell you something is moving that isn't. Chances are you will se people because the alarms are also set to faces.

So if you are bipolar you will see and hear things. Often people.

If you are bereaved you will see and hear things - usually your dead partner.

If you have fever you will see and hear things.

If you get really stressed you will see and hear things.

If you take hallucinagenic drugs you will see and hear things

I've experienced all of these personally and I still think there is nothing there.

it's because we use parts of the brain that the majority of the population don't , and the energies are attracted to chaos. they love it.

Regina I'm with your tutor....I reckon we are connected and able to see another world......too many pple experience seeing apparitions of those who have passed on...also, hearing voices....surely we are not all hallucinating...?

You're right accurious I don't' know if it's psychological

but you can't use that alone to discount the possibility of another realm beyond our eyes. The truth is I really don't know. (agnostic)

I tend to believe that it is they way our minds operate and perceive things. The science is there. but science doesn't always account for every thing. Some times I see stuff and I know it has nothing to do with the bi polar.. for example my sisters boyfriend and i were waling accross a bridge over running water at night. We saw a huge shdowlike beast.Just enough that it made you think "hey did I really just see that? but when my brother in law said the same thing before me and knew what I had seen tbat leads me t tink that sometign is going ont there. what it is I couldn't tell you.

I don't know if it's something in your brain, or if there is another world,. I'd like to think there could be another world. But I know when I'm either seriously depressed, or haven't slept much at all (3-4 hours a night) for a week or so, I start seeing weird stuff that I find out later wasn't there. I've had friends look at me strangely as a result.

I just cant believe how its not taken seriously by mental health professionals.....if heaps (billions) of people are reporting hearing and seeing things that others dont, then surely there must be somethin going on in spirit?

I just think that our perceptions are fucked up.

And so is the way we interpret them.

We have a different view of the world.

Some of us are probably much more attuned than your average bear.

And some of us are probably more clueless than we should be.

Yes, I have had some experiences that defy rational explanation.

Do I think that proves a paranormal and/or spiritual experience was the cause?

I'm with Hamlet!!! "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Just because we don't see a logical reason, that isn't proof that one doesn't exist.