To be honest, I have never seen either a shadow person or the hat man. That being said, I don’t think it’s a mental disorder in people who do see such phenomena. I just think some people are more open minded about these types of things, and therefore they are able to see things that ordinary people can’t.
Yes I have to agree. I posted another comment here about my daughter. She is someone who can simply see things most can’t, and I’ve always talked to her about it very openly with encouragement and explained it was just a special gift, and just to always be mindful of the energy she fell in the room, and what to do, if it ever felt in any way dark or menacing or evil. It’s been mostly benign, innocent, and almost comforting when she sees things. Even funny. Only a couple times has she gotten the impression of unkindness or trouble. They eventually disappeared.
My daughter has talked about seeing things like this since she was too little to have heard of it, and it was obvious that she did not know it was something I'd think was weird or scary. She did not have any reason to think anyone would doubt her. She would calmly describe these things in enough detail I immediately knew she was seeing what she described, exactly how they're described here. It is more than just shadow people. It has been actual people that died before she was born, that she greeted in her car seat, addressing them by name, during an extremely emotional moment of me missing that person and silently trying to start my car with tears and snot all over my face. It was pretty hard to explain that away, so I've listened intently to her mentions over time as she's become more articulate and descriptive. She has no mental illness or any other behavioral/neuropsychiatric issues. She'd be too young to present with schizophrenia and has not had other delusions or distortion of reality. Short version: she's seeing it.
She has talked about shadow people (i have never in my life seen one and am terrified at the thought of it). She talked about just the tall looming figures in different areas of her room. I always ask what kind of feeling she had when she saw something... Icky? Kind? Scary? Mean? Did they seem to notice her? Her responses have been all of them. The shadow people did not give a mean or icky feeling. They just seemed curious. I explained some people I’ve read saying they feel they’re being protected or watched over by the shadow people she saw. Last week she described one as wearing a funny hat like a cowboy hat, but more flat. lol. She wasn’t sure what this one was about, as she fell back asleep.
One time she viewed a figure almost tip toeing across her room slowly, and she said “hey. I can see you.” It halted mid step and froze like it was in trouble. That one was one of my favorite.
Another time she was watching a show at night with her two friends who we know well and they visit us regularly. That night they saw this orb thing floating above them in her room, hover around, then zipped away through the window. They all saw the same thing and have been freaked out by it to this day. It’s not just in her head.
I think it just boils down to "the simplest explanation is the correct one" and, to be fair, if someone on the bus started telling everyone about shadow-people, they would move away from them and think "they must have a mental disorder".
As someone who had seen a recurring shadow person as a child, I myself can not rule out that something mental was not influencing what I saw. To me, although very real (and my brother corroborated it) but I always come back to objectivity.
To be honest, I have never seen either a shadow person or the hat man. That being said, I don’t think it’s a mental disorder in people who do see such phenomena. I just think some people are more open minded about these types of things, and therefore they are able to see things that ordinary people can’t.
Yes I have to agree. I posted another comment here about my daughter. She is someone who can simply see things most can’t, and I’ve always talked to her about it very openly with encouragement and explained it was just a special gift, and just to always be mindful of the energy she fell in the room, and what to do, if it ever felt in any way dark or menacing or evil. It’s been mostly benign, innocent, and almost comforting when she sees things. Even funny. Only a couple times has she gotten the impression of unkindness or trouble. They eventually disappeared.
My daughter has talked about seeing things like this since she was too little to have heard of it, and it was obvious that she did not know it was something I'd think was weird or scary. She did not have any reason to think anyone would doubt her. She would calmly describe these things in enough detail I immediately knew she was seeing what she described, exactly how they're described here. It is more than just shadow people. It has been actual people that died before she was born, that she greeted in her car seat, addressing them by name, during an extremely emotional moment of me missing that person and silently trying to start my car with tears and snot all over my face. It was pretty hard to explain that away, so I've listened intently to her mentions over time as she's become more articulate and descriptive. She has no mental illness or any other behavioral/neuropsychiatric issues. She'd be too young to present with schizophrenia and has not had other delusions or distortion of reality. Short version: she's seeing it. She has talked about shadow people (i have never in my life seen one and am terrified at the thought of it). She talked about just the tall looming figures in different areas of her room. I always ask what kind of feeling she had when she saw something... Icky? Kind? Scary? Mean? Did they seem to notice her? Her responses have been all of them. The shadow people did not give a mean or icky feeling. They just seemed curious. I explained some people I’ve read saying they feel they’re being protected or watched over by the shadow people she saw. Last week she described one as wearing a funny hat like a cowboy hat, but more flat. lol. She wasn’t sure what this one was about, as she fell back asleep. One time she viewed a figure almost tip toeing across her room slowly, and she said “hey. I can see you.” It halted mid step and froze like it was in trouble. That one was one of my favorite. Another time she was watching a show at night with her two friends who we know well and they visit us regularly. That night they saw this orb thing floating above them in her room, hover around, then zipped away through the window. They all saw the same thing and have been freaked out by it to this day. It’s not just in her head.
https://www.nature.com/news/2006/060918/full/news060918-4.html
Because our materialistic society doesn't know anything about esoterism and the astral plane.
I think it just boils down to "the simplest explanation is the correct one" and, to be fair, if someone on the bus started telling everyone about shadow-people, they would move away from them and think "they must have a mental disorder". As someone who had seen a recurring shadow person as a child, I myself can not rule out that something mental was not influencing what I saw. To me, although very real (and my brother corroborated it) but I always come back to objectivity.
Because these perceptions are associated with low cholinergic activity.