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LuvNewcastle

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46. There are many, many examples of 'friendly' hauntings,

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 12:52 PM

Feb 2014

you just don't hear much about them because they aren't sensational like malevolent ghost stories are. I believe in the reality of spirits, although I'm not quite sure what they are. I won't go into any detail about my experiences with spirits on this board, but my experiences have been much more positive than negative.

One possibility I've considered is that spirit encounters are energy manifestations from other dimensions. They definitely, in my mind, are some form of energy. The brain processes the information given to it by the senses and interprets that info by way of how it's related. Whatever we're encountering might be totally different than how we perceive it, our brains are just limited by what our senses can pick up. That's my favorite theory, anyway, but it certainly doesn't explain all experiences like the one you had.

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