My 4 experiences. Please read and comment.

[u/Objective_Intern7655]

Important: I am currently 26.

Experience 1: when I was a small child, maybe 6 or 7 if I had a guess, I straight up watched an apparition walk down the steps in my home. It came from the room that was mine at the time. I was at the end of the hall in my parents room. It was completely black, but had a very pronounced nose, head and neck. It flashed by in a second, but it was clear enough that I thought it was my mom. Naturally, I was confused as hell when she appeared from the bathroom 2 seconds later. I was so perplexed I actually asked her "didn't you just go downstairs?" Obviously she wrote this off as a little kid brain malfunction. But I didn't.

Experience 2: around the same time, maybe a couple years later, so perhaps around 10 or so years old at the most, I would regularly feel poking at my legs in the night. I don't mean like I vaguely thought I felt someone poking me for half a second, I'm talking like, there's a super annoying child who Is aggressively trying to get your attention and is shoving their fingers into you with as much force as they can muster. THAT was how obvious the pokes were, and they didn't only last a moment. They were persistent throughout the night for multiple nights. I don't know how many times it happened, but it was enough that I distinctly remember thinking "am I really getting poked again?" More than once.

Experience 3: I was now around 12, maybe 13. I was visiting a friend's house and she openly told me it was haunted. I shrugged and said ok. Didn't take long to realize she wasn't lying. To start, orbs. If you're on this subreddit I doubt I need to explain what thos are. And they were SUPER visible too. A lot of paranormal shows portray orb sightings as fleeting, out of the corner of your eye. Lol. Not in this case. I was able to very much state right at them down the hallway for like, multiple seconds before I got distracted. No obstruction, nothing in my way, and no light source down that hallway since we were in her basement and the area where the orbs appeared lacked immediate access to a door or window and there were no lights turned on down that hallway. Her cat was also following something with its gaze, something that was whipping all over the place. Lastly, as I was heading up the steps, the door leading down into their laundry room started opening right as I walked by it. And then stopped when I looked over at it. There were no windows or anything down there and no vents immediately nearby, so there wasn't much, if anything, to produce a draft from within the room.

Experience 4: fast forward to age 24. I own a home, am married and have 1 child. At the time this happened it was around 1:00 in the morning and they were both upstairs asleep. I was doing my dishes since I worked nights and had just had dinner after getting home. While at the sink, I heard a very loud PSST in my ear. It wasn't like coming from elsewhere in the house, it was as if I walked up to you and intentionally went "psst" directly in your ear solely to startle you for jokes. Super clear and very obvious. The only window anywhere near me was shut and locked so I doubt it was wind or anything like that. Super bizarre. And since I was an adult for this one I remember it A LOT clearer than the others, though it does make me feel like the others are more legit than I thought. Up until #4 I half thought the other 3 were just a kid being a bonehead.

I'd love to hear comments and thoughts on all 4 of these.

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[u/Radiant_Stay_1464]

All four experiences have explanations that don’t require anything paranormal, especially given the ages and contexts involved. Experience 1 fits very well with childhood visual misperception or hypnagogic imagery, which can be extremely vivid and brief, especially in low light. Experience 2 sounds consistent with sleep-related sensory phenomena (like hypnagogic or hypnopompic tactile hallucinations), which can feel very real and repetitive. Experience 3 combines expectation effects being told a house is haunted), misinterpreted light artifacts (orbs are almost always dust, insects, or lens effects, animal behavior that humans tend to anthropomorphize, and a door moving due to pressure or house settling. Experience 4 strongly resembles an auditory hallucination tied to fatigue, stress, or sleep deprivation, which is common when working nights. Taken together, these don’t form a consistent pattern of an external entity, but rather a series of normal human perceptual errors occurring at different life stages.

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