Shadow People

[Guy Threepwood]

Curious if anybody has any experience with the phenomenon/entities where an all black featureless person, save for eyes at times, is seen and possibly interacted with?

I've heard some about it before and know somebody who has recently started to describe experiencing it/them without having access to others' accounts.

That caught my eye- my wife and I were once both the sort of people who dismissed anything 'supernatural' went out of our way to ridicule it, we'd never heard of 'shadow people' until she became very shaken one day about an experience of what she described as two 'black shadow figures' who appeared and disappeared, in a location you would never expect to see anybody- especially in mid winter. She was so disturbed by it that I never told her of what I read in the local paper just a few days later, involving two people dying in an unusual accident in that location the same day- there is absolutely no way she could have known- delusion and coincidence? perhaps, but the older I get, the more difficult it is to write all these things off.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I get flitters of shadows time to time, but that is in my peripheral vision. I really don't place too much stock into them as there is no real substance other than a visual phenomina.

I suppose It would be different if there was a true interaction insofar as an objective occurance that defies explanation. I haven't come across any in my experiences other than an occasional movement picked up by my eyes. I regard it as mayko.

Its interesting though.

 

[DreadFish]

I saw one in the doorway to the kitchen a few years back. Nothing happened because of it though and I was not scared of it at the time I saw it. I saw the one called The Hat Man in a dream though. That one scared me and gave me a feeling of dread.

That's interesting, I decided to read about the hat man. Besides some appearing to be malignant, I read about some hat men as appearing to be curious, and wanted to make a joke about the Observers from Fringe

 

[Gambit]

I have encountered shadow people during hypnagogia/sleep paralysis. They appear to thrive on negative emotions. They also appear to be afraid of light.

 

[George-ananda]

I have encountered shadow people during hypnagogia/sleep paralysis. They appear to thrive on negative emotions. They also appear to be afraid of light.

Any speculation as to what they are?

 

[Gambit]

Any speculation as to what they are?

Denizens of the collective unconscious. Or, perhaps, I should say "machinations" of our (collective) subconscious mind.

 

[George-ananda]

Denizens of the collective unconscious. Or, perhaps, I should say "machinations" of our (collective) subconscious mind.

Interesting. Would you consider them conscious?

 

[Gambit]

Interesting. Would you consider them conscious?

Well, they definitely appear to be conscious, but so do the characters in my dream life.

 

[Mitch M]

I HAVE SEEN A FEW SUPERNATURAL THINGS THROUGH OUT MY LIFE.

Dreams, Visions, Occasional unknown Voices of warning - of an oncoming situation and I have had premonitions and even visions. A lot of Dreams of the future.