Every night I am visited by a ghost.
Before anyone dismisses it, that statement is true … ish.
Ever since I’ve moved into this old house about nine years ago, I’ve always experienced weird sensations just as I lay down to sleep. At first, it felt like my cat was walking on the bed, but I would reach out only to pet air. Some times it felt like a hand was pushing down on the mattress; that one got me to shoot upright and rush to turn on a light more than once. The creepiest by far is when it feels like something is rubbing against my ribs. That one will cause me to freeze before I calm myself down.
Now, are these really ghosts? I don’t know, and I’m not about to insult anyone’s intelligence by pretending I know all the wonders of the universe to give a definitive answer on anything. Could ghosts exist? Sure, just like it is possible that information can travel faster than light, e.g., quantum entangled particles, or that there is undetectable matter holding galaxies together. We don’t have all the answers; if we did, all the sciences would be dead career fields as there would be nothing else to study. Scientists do keep studying and testing because we don’t know everything, so until we do, anything is possible. Failure to keep an open mind makes for a poor scientist.
With that all being said, it is likely that the sensations I feel when I lay down are just normal sensations, breathing, slight muscle spasms that are oriented differently causing my brain’s proprioception to temporarily struggle to accurately place the feeling at its proper spatial location. This would confuse my brain into believing it is sensing movement a couple of feet away from my physical location. While this explanation is reasonable it does not shake the reality that the resulting sensation is freaking weird and, at times, spooky. Okay, I’m trying to not admit I get scared. So, yes, at times it scares me.
I can see how some freeze or how brains can go off a deep end trying to solve a temporary glitch. If that glitch becomes permanent, it must be hard to go through life constantly feeling as if your internal sensations are actually located outside your body. There’s no telling how my brain might make sense of such a proprioception failure.
Then again, maybe that was all scientific hogwash to try and explain away a paranormal phenomena because admitting that a ghost or ghosts are pulling pranks on me every night will likely scare the life out of me.
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