A 'shadow person' might reside in our left temporoparietal junction. Credit: Wikipedia
SYDNEY: Ever feel as though you’re being followed? As if someone is behind you, shadowing your every move? It might be your ‘shadow person’, created by unusual activity in a specific brain region, a new study shows.
The paper, published in the British journal Nature, describes the case of a 22-year-old woman with no history of psychiatric problems who was being evaluated for treatment of epilepsy. When a region of her brain called the left temporoparietal junction was electrically stimulated, the woman described encounters with a ‘shadow person’ who mimicked her bodily movements.
“Electrical stimulation repeatedly produced a feeling of the presence of another person in her extra-personal space,” said Olaf Blanke, co-author of the study conducted by a team of researchers from University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland.
When the patient was lying down, stimulation of this brain region caused her to feel that someone was behind her. She described the person as young, of indeterminate sex, “a shadow who did not speak or move, and whose position beneath her back was identical to her own”, according to the researchers.
When the patient sat up, leaned forward and clasped her knees, she felt that the figure was also sitting, embracing her in its arms – a feeling she described as “unpleasant”.
During a language task, in which the seated patient held a card in her right hand, she described the person sitting next to her and trying to interfere with the task. “He wants to take the card … he doesn’t want me to read,” she said.
Because it was possible to induce the sensation repeatedly, and because the ‘shadow person’ closely mimicked the patient’s posture and movements, the researchers conclude that the patient was experiencing a perception of her own body.
“The strange sensation that somebody is nearby when no one is actually present has been described by psychiatric and neurological patients, as well as by healthy subjects,” said Blanke. Until now, however, it was not understood how the illusion was triggered in the brain.
The temporoparietal junction is known to be involved in creating the concept of ‘self’, and the distinction between ‘self’ and ‘other’. According to the researchers, stimulation of this region interfered with the patient’s ability to integrate information about her own body, leading to her experience of a ‘shadow person’.
Although the woman was aware of the similarity between her own movements and those of her doppelganger, she didn’t recognise the experience as an illusion of her own body.
Similar shadowy encounters have been described by people with schizophrenia, as well as by healthy subjects, leading the researchers to believe that: “Our findings may be a step towards understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control.”
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Hi,
I was very interested in this subject, because I have seen photos of “Shadow People “. If they are caused by the brain functions at all why would they show on film if they aren’t really there?
Photos? Where? Are they proven – or fakes?
What if we’re actually only telepresences inside a MMPORG, and messing with the temporoparietal junction is messing with the place where we jack in… and the “shadow selves” are actually our “real selves” in some metauniverse outside of everything?
*cue twilite zome musik*
If we exist as avatar’s of actual identities playing a game, and our consciousness is an artificial projection or simulation of a “real conscious entity,” then we can make several conjectures. One is that the universe in which the game is created is infinitely more complex than ours, and like our contemporary video games employ simplified physics to create a simple simulation of reality, the physical laws of their universe would be at least as much more complex as the ratio of our own simulations to our reality.
As entities with limited consciousnesses, guided by an external source, it’s naive to think of those external entities as our “real selves” since their thought processes and motives would be external to our own (which must, if those playing the game were involved in its creation, be infinitely-seeming more complex than our own meager intellectual ability). As such, the ability for the avatar to become aware of the hand that manipulates it would be either be a bug in the program, or a tacky, self reflective and indulgent choice on the part of the game’s staff.
Congratulations, we’re living in an MMO created by hacks.
My dog was first aware of the “shadow person” in my room last night. Heres my story…
I experienced a shadow person last night. At about 3:30am, my dog barks, even though she’s a pit mix, she’s very accepting of people and animals that she doesnt feel threatened by, but this time, she leaps off the bed almost instantly, spreading her front legs while her back legs were planted firmly, i’ve never seen her so ready to attack, and she was doing this constant growl thing, she kept running towards this thing while staying in attack-mode. I woke up and looked, and seen a male figure, about 6′5″, blacker than black, shoulders and all were apparent, at first I thought someone had broken in, as the dog neared closer to the figure, in almost a 2-step frame animation, I could see it turn and lean forward with one leg lifted up as though “running” away into my kitchen. I ran after it, my first instinct, to kill whoever it was before they killed me, when I made it out to the kitchen and clicked on the lights and screamed “WHO THE F*@(#) IS IN MY HOUSE?!?!” I realized, no one was there. The dog had stopped growling now, and began looking around confused. Thinking that the person was hiding, I went to each room individually, holding a battery in my hand as to use it for a fist-hardener, since I had no weapons. After moving to every room, checking for the burglar, I suddenly realized this wasnt human. It was impossible for anything to get out that quickly, as all my doors were locked and the house isnt big enough to lose someone in. I went back into my room, and realized it was about 85 degrees in there, I went back out to the kitchen, the rest of the house was 62 according to the thermostat, the air was set to stay at 72 degrees and it was 76 outside that night (Cape Coral, FL). After going back to bed, my asthma began acting up, I continually woke up because I couldnt breathe and was choking on my own saliva, upon waking up each time, I just continually went back to bed because it was so hot (again, about 85) in my room, I was sweating uncontrollably and so fatigued, I couldnt wake up, I didnt wake up until about 3pm and had to force myself to get up. Last night was the same thing when I was trying to sleep, I had the girl I am dating stay the night with me, and we were both woken up at the same time from the heat increasing in my bedroom, checking the thermostat, it was still set at 72. The dog at one point had barked and ran into the closet, and stayed back there, when we went into the closet, we noticed there was the attic, there, although I doubt it has any significance, I thought i’d post that anyways. I’ve been having a lot of really bad dreams, and even worse thoughts, and have been crying and affected by this uncontrollably. As strong of a man as I am, theres just something about this I cant shake and I feel helpless. I had just moved into this house a month ago, living in another house a month before that, and another a month before that. The 2nd house I lived in was very german-gothic style, all the appliances original to the 1950’s, a girl I am dating told me two months ago that had seen an entitiy in that house, she said it was a man, 6 foot tall, wrapped in burlap and badly burnt, she didnt want to tell me because she didnt want to frighten me, when I told her what I had seen, she told me she had seen the same thing in my new house, but had not wanted to tell me because she knows I dont believe in it and didnt want to frighten me. She’s insisting that it’s following me…
Well I have never written about this but I will now. When I was about 15 a friend and I were at the beach one night smoking a J, now this was nothing new and we were not that messed up. The strange thing was as we sat there our vision began to vastly improve we could see miles across the water with crystal clearity. So with this new found sight we decided to venture along the beach to see what great things we could find with this new sight. Now I will mention here that all along we had heard this strange erry laughing but has payed it no heed. At the moment we stood up to go for a walk no more than 50 feet away from us sat 3 women as we rose up they did as well and began chanting and dancing in a circle. Well you can believe that we ran out of that beach faster than you can imagine, we were so frightened, we ran to the top of the stairs and unlocked our bikes, we road away so quickly. Once we had parted ways I went to the park by my house to cool down and have a smoke. Thats when it started, there i was sitting on the bench smoking a cigarette when this shadow appeared. It moved so quickly, then would stay still and move again, it did this all around my bench, I was stuned I couldn’t believe this was happening, When I finally went home the nightmares began and for 2 years this was want happened it seemed that almost every time I cut through that park at night the shadow was there, then there were 3, I began seeing them in other places and my friends began seeing them around me as well. and just as suddenly as it began it stopped.
I can’t explain this, the women had a bad energy around them but the shadow had no negative or postive energy to it. I have read about the flying shadows that occur when there is a solar eclipse but that doesn’t explain what happened to me. I don’t know what got me to write this today, but here it is.
last night about 3A.M. I woke up, having a feeling someone was in my room I looked around and saw a shadow person rise out of the floor from behind my computer. Just to let you know that my laptop is right next to my bed, about a foot away on a small stool. After it had stood up fully it dove into me. Needless to say I was scared. I’ve had other experiences with this kind of thing before. I’ve been pulled off of my bed. I’ve been paralyzed, unable to move with something standing next to me growling, once it even said my name right next to my ear. Last night was the first time I have ever seen a shadow person and I saw it clearly. It was a perfect human shape, very thin about 3 1/2 – 4 1/2 feet tall, the color was black and seemed to have a slight pearl effect. It took a step through my PC and stool and dove head first into my chest. After this I was unable to speak clearly and and then collapsed back on the bed and passed out/fell asleep. This is true.
Did you guys read the article carefully enough? Shadow people are illusions created by your brain. If you’re really experiencing what you say you are, you really should look into a house blessing or something. You could very well be haunted. Or you could try something yourself at least: light some incense or some dried sage and take it through every room in your house. As you do this imagine all of the bad dark things melting away and leaving each of the rooms. If it helps any, you can say something like, “All of the evil in the house is dissolving into nothingness and going away forever!” I won’t explain how this works, but I hope you’ll be surprised by the results.
… or Shadow Spirits, as I have been calling them since 1960 when I was 17 yrs, old and first encountered one. Back then paranormal research and investigation was still in it’s infancy and people associated with it were considered to be living in a wierd sub-culture. That single incident spurred my imagination and drive to find answers as to what & how many different entities occupy this world along with us. How and if we are able to locate and communicate with then, varify their existence, determine what they are, why they are here, etc., etc., etc. Since that time I’ve widened my search to include several different countries in Europe, Britian, Asia, Africa (North & South), North, Central and South America as well as the West Indies. While living Jamaica I attained my Doctoral degree in Paranormal Psychology at the University of the West Indies @ the University of Kingston in 1991. Shadow Spirits are to me, as to many people, extremely fascinating and desirous of capture on camera. I’ve caught several through the years, but these were few and often in-distinct, not being very impressive to the general public. I do, however, possess one capture specifically which makes up for the lack of composition in the others. I captured this one in a very rural cemetery alongside the bank of the Mississippi River east of New Orleans. I have examined the photo, taken on 35mm film with a Nikon camera, in every possible fashion as have many others including photographic specialists. And no one had any doubts as to its’ authenticity. I firmly believe that I have captured a Shadow Spirit/Person emerging from a Trans-Dimentional Portal overhead of several tombs. The photo graces the web page of my site @ < http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ghosthuntersneworleans/>. You’re more than welcome to check it out for yourself. There are some other very interesting photos in the photos section, too, under “spookchasers’ pix” which you might enjoy. This goes out especially to skeptics and non-believers. –Rod
I’m 39 now, and have had my own experience with a shadow person. Or should I say four of us, all of us at the time where not high, drowsy from sleep, or drunk, and of an age to know that what we were seeing and experiencing was a real event. It terrified, and taunted us for an entire evening, until dawn broke. That’s all I wish to comment on the matters, as even now as an adult I don’t like to talk about it.
But what I will say is you should start looking into the African culture! Having travelled there myself, I was amazed at what I found out about shadow people from this culture.
My god, you people are idiots. Science finds evidence that a certain kind of false impression can be induced by artificially stimulating the brain, and you folks all start writing public comments about seeing ghosts. As if this research doesn’t indicate that your ghosts aren’t symptoms of physical problems in your brain…
A shadow person and doppelganger are two VERY different things. This “Scientific” study suggests no new evidence for the Shadow Person phenomena. From personal research and investigations that I have done, Shadow People don’t “mimic” one’s own body movement. They are a mere negative presence that looms over an individual causing intense dread and terror and VERY rarely actually cause physical harm. There are, of course many other possibilities that I must rule out before categorizing a person to be having Shadow Person activity (like, Hypnogogia and Pareidolia, et al); however, to suggest what this “study” has means nothing to those of us in the paranormal field that know better.
Hi there,
Please send me the URL of the website of ‘Spookchaser2″
Thank you, Hartmut
hi I JUST SAW A SHADOW PERSON AROUND 3:30 -340 AM.. I SEE THEM ALOT ..LAST NIGHT I THOUGHT I HEARD MY DOOR OPEN AND IT CLOSES REALLY TIGHT AND THERE IS CHILD PROOF HANDLES ON THERE. i DEDCIDED I WAS GOING TO ROLL OVER JUST A LIL BIT TO PEAK OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE AND I SAW A SHADOW PERSON.i ROLLED COMPLETELY OVER AND HE DISAPPEARED.I GOT SO SCARED I CLOSED MY EYES AND BEGIN PRAYING AND AFTER I WAS DONE PRAYING I LEFT MY EYES CLOSED BC I FELT I WAS BEING WATCHED, LIKE SOMETHING WAS RIGHT IN MY FACE, SUDDENLY I FELT LIKE SOME TOLD ME IT WAS OK TO OPEN MY EYES AND I DID AND IT WAS EXACTLY 4 AM (WHICH WEIRD COMSIDERING 3AM IS THE HOUR OF SATAN) ANYWAYS i SAT IN BED WATING FOR MY HUSBAND TO GET UP FOR WORK AT 5 AM AND WHEN HE GOT UP , I GOT UP AND I CHECKED THE DOOR AND IT WAS CRACKED OPEN WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE BC IT WAS COMPLETELY CLOSED AND ITS A VERY GOOD DOOR AND ONLY SOMEONE CAN OPEN IT. i NOTICE WHEN i DO SEE A SHADOW PERSON IT IS AROUND 3:30 AM AND I NOTICE MY 2 YEAR OLD SON IS UP AT THAT HOUR AND SOMETIMES I HEAR HIM TALKING TO SOMEONE. i ALSO hAVE VERY LUCID DREAMS AND ALOT OF MY DREAMS HAVE HAPPENED..i WAS ONCE TOLD I HAVE A GIFT BUT IF I DO I CERTAINLY DONT WANT IT.
Tim, In comment to what you wrote there, if it bothers you what people write, then don’t respond. There is a lot of proof out there that spirits and stuff exist. This includes shadow people. They are not idiots. Sure some people have seen shadow people, UFOs, whatever through brain stimulations. However, what about those who have never done drugs in their life, go for an evening walk and come across a shadow person? Is that person suddenly insane? Or an idiot with a degree? This particular person has never done drugs, lives a good life, is loved by many, has never had their intergrity questioned, has been proven to be honest to a dangerous degree as far as having the crap knocked out of them because they told the truth, believes in God but is not a fanatic about it, is a college student with a major in psychology. This person is not an idiot but was surrounded by shadow people that totally surround the person and enclosed them within a two foot circle with witnesses that help that person get away. This person is still stable, but has chosen not to share their experience until more research is done. So why would you just say an unkind thing like that? Everyone is entitled to their opinion and you have obviously expressed yours. So allow them to say theirs without ramifications from you. Thank you.
…maybe, just maybe, you’re talking about something completely different?
These scientists are describing a real phenomenon involving the way the brain functions, allowing us to perceive our own bodies in a way that is abnormal due to an unusual means of stimulating brain function. They are not talking about paranormal encounters with actual alien or extra-dimensional creatures, or beings from a “greater universe.” They simply used the term “shadow person” to describe the results of their studies of a specific patient’s perceptions… much more accurately, I might add, than in those instances where people are using it to describe a paranormal experience, as a general rule. They are not saying that your paranormal experiences are real, or that they are unreal; they aren’t talking about anything like that at all, to begin with. This has nothing to do with ghosts and goblins and other things that go bump in the night which MUST be real because your dog “who is normally friendly” barked at them. If you want to run off about that sort of thing, why don’t you find a paranormal research magazine, and not derail the discussion about a legitimate scientific phenomenon that apparently is not at all bizarre or inexplicable enough to interest you in and of itself?
Did you even read the article?
i was sitting in my living room playing my guitar in the dark cause i was trying not to look at the keys, and the cat was laying on the automan beside my feet. the room was not completly dark because of th whene street lights so my eyes ajusted to the lighting, when suddenly i get this shiver down my spine its this shiver i get when something invades my space, but all of the suddden, the cat turns its head in the direction of of this black spiraly cloud, & this very large shadow darker then the surroundings appeared, it was about 6’5″ with really broad shoulders, it showed itself purposely to me, i stopped playing the guitar & all of the sudden, i left the living room & left. i didn’t feel any fear from this being. Just to let you guys know that this was a time i was started to go into severe depression,(for reasons i rather not disclose) from that day on things hot rock bottom for me spiritualy, psyhcologicly, i turned into a very negative being, and this shadow thing just hung around, These things feed off negativity, they catch you off gaurd when your not looking, They are wraiths from past mythology!i’ve talked to a buhdist monk, & he told me was all in my head, how was it all in my head when another aware life form was aware of it too(the cat)(obviously no help) then one day i started praying, cause i was just soooooo sick of coping with this, amongst other things, just asked for dear help from a higher power,(a bright light so to speak)& in the end i felt these things come around me! (help so to speak) i guess i’ll call em my soldier of angels! This shadow was tormenting me! for about 2 years, hard to function in a world when everyone thinks your crazy for telling em these things exist! But anyways i guess that higher power i was praying to, kinda helped me out, when i asked fro help i kinda got sent to the right place to get help, a friend saw this psychic and told me to see her, so i did, i told her about my problem, and she sayed these things usually hang around the homles people, this lady is actually a first nations elder, she did this cleansing & whatever was haunting me got exorcised from my body, these things are like spiritual leeches,ever since i never got bugged by it again other than in a dream, wher it was being sneaky like those creepy things are alway like, hopes this helps some of you who are looking for help with this, if you would like to talk more about this contact me at deathbyemotions@hotmail.com
First off, this article was about a newly discovered brain phenomena. It highlights a potential source for brain malfunctions like paranoia and other such mental illnesses. The article had nothing to do with shadow people in the paranormal sence. As others have already said before me, if your going to respond, respond about the article, not paranormal events which this article was most definitly NOT about.
However, since many of you insist on bringing up the subject of the paranormal, I am skeptical and convinced that a high percentage of paranormal events are fake and can be explained. Though I do acknowledge not all are fake. The so called “spirits” or shadow people , as they have said feed off of negative energy. earlier it was mentioned they seek out negative emotions, and in somecases make people even more depressed. These so called ” negative spirits” are actually demons. And yes demons are malicios. As one person posted she prayed and it went away. Me , being a christian (and yes im not afraid to admit it) I know these “spirits” for what they actually are. They are satan’s minions , and as such they are evil and do try to bring misery to the world. As a christian though, a born again believer who has been washed and cleansed by the blood of my savior, they have no power over me and can not effect me in anyway because my Lord is stronger then they ever could be. As one man posted earlir, the one that said he had been playing guitar, he mentioned that after he prayed he felt he had people protecting him. God does have angels and if you ask for help he will answer. God sent him angels to protect him. However his move of going to a psychic was a bad choice. psychics themselves call on the power of the devil (though they deny it). Going to a demonic power source to get rid of demons is decidedly silly. You do hear of christians that commit exorcism and stuff…Me being a christian though i know some are fake. There are fake christians and you do have to watch out for them. But the best thing to do is go to some christian church and ask for help. Though make sure you get a real God loving church though , not some fake “we will just say we love God church” . Try a baptist church or grace. Of the ones I’ve had the pleasure of attending they were great. Well I hope this helps people who have been having problems with demons.
But I do believe all the people all you paranormals scolded about wanting to get back to conversation about the article were right.
Everyone should get back to the conversation about the brain because
that was what this forum was originally (and still is) for. So paranormal followers there are posts for paranormal conversations, THIS JUST IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
I applaud you Visitor, for your comment. E me nv “Amen” and so it is gi na li i {my friend} I believe, I know, it has happened to me, still does, and I don’t care what anyone on this earthly plane has to say about this subject, because it’s true, they exist, as well as other entities. Take heed in what you say Tim…
Wado {thank you} once again Visitor. Your a good and receiving soul my friend.
Dohiyi {peace}
FreeSpiritRunning…
I am sure many have heard of the marching soldiers of Gettysburg, I have heard of so many sightings there. I do believe there can be energies that remain, energies from very traumatic events. “Rumor” had it that a woman was beheaded on the property where my parents first home was built. Many sightings in that home, many unexplained sounds, and as someone mentioned, the electricity or temp flux in the air. All sightings were in shadow, describing the same menacing male figure, save one. I had a female shadow follow me for most of my life, maybe the murdered woman? I never felt danger from the shadow, but it frightened me at first, and she always brought a floral scent. Has anyone detected a scent of any kind? She appeared when I was under extreme stress, I came to feel she was trying to comfort me. She stopped appearing for so many years when I adopted a very defensive cat. She came back immediately following his death. I was so distressed at her reappearance I told her “I don’t need you anymore, you can’t help me” and that was the last I saw or felt or even smelled anything of her.
I don’t believe in ghosts, or spirits that can cause physical harm, but that is just me. My brother did crash through my bedroom door when I was 16, screaming “what the he*% is going on in here!” I was sleeping, no radio or T.V. in the room. He wanted to know who was there and where did he go, what was he doing to me. He saw a large figure standing over me with arms raised, something indescribable in his hands. He wouldn’t allow me to sleep with my door closed again. I saw nothing other than a dark red light behind my brother.
Maybe I am wrong, maybe they can harm? Or just scare the bejesus out of us!
this perception might also be connected somehow with what is usually called “the observer.” I wonder if the ‘shadow person’ ever has something positive to add or if having the ‘shadow person’ around could be perceived as comforting and/or positive instead of negative…… (always wondering ???)…..
This article is NOT only about paranoia and mental illness, it speaks of healthy subjects as well. Obviously, the people who have responded believe their encounters may have been with shadow people, and they have every right to comment on those encounters, as much right as YOU have, visitor, to go off the subject and discuss religion. Divine intervention by God’s heavenly angels is not brain power, it is God’s power, from the hand of God.
Stop being so judgmental and self righteous, people. Allow others to share their experiences, this is not the second grade and no one has to follow the unwelcome restrictions of another here.
So… previously undetected dark entities have been following our every move undetected… do we all have one?
After all… previously undetected matter and energy are now identified as making up the larger portion of the universe… that we just hadn’t happened to look for before… in spite of reports since 1933 that it could easily exist and in all scientific probability actually did. Then we found it.
Laugh if you must, but there are sufficient ‘crazy’ stories of hints of extra sensory connections, anomalous activities, pseudo-science etc etc to leave us unable to dismiss the faint possibility that we do ‘not’ actually know everything, even about that which most closely surrounds us…
dadeedada-dadeedada-dadeedada…
Plausibly, we may easily have been ignoring something for so long that we have evolved (in the true sense of the word) the inability to know what is near us, until such time (as now, perhaps) that we invent the need to discover and demystify the unknown and begin to use the tools we have to stumble upon it. Curiouser and curiouser. Don’t ya just luv it?
hey i do feel sumtimes that sum1s behind me and they r actually there so i dont hav such problms and i do beliv they can b overcum
Some mountaineers have reported that they “feel” somebody behind them,wonder if this is the same phenomena?
This is the sort of thinking that allows us ordinary mortals the opportunity to think outside the box,great more of it
They don’t show on film and they aren’t really there.
The article is saying there are people who get this unexplainable feeling as if there’s somebody behind them.
There are no “photos of shadow people”. Unless you mean a photo of somebody’s shadow.
That’s completely different.
I would not take it so far as being in the same category as psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control. But who knows!
I think that one of the problems we are having is if a scientist comes up with an explanation of one kind of phenomenon, others rush to it in order to explain all other similar phenomenon. I this particularly true with atheists. Even if a scientist is in no way using the experiment to explain everything, those who want it to mean that it explains everything are saying, “See! I knew it all along, it’s all in everyone’s head.”
I have seen “shadow people” myself. That’s what I call it, but it was at night and there was no shadow to be had; I was in bed. It didn’t look like me, it wasn’t fully formed yet, and I was not hoping for it, or even thinking about it (so I wasn’t scaring myself into having a hallucination).
Any of these mind experiments do not explain the anomaly fully, or perhaps at all. When I see a scientific study, I try to look at it for what it is saying, not what people who wont believe in anything supernatural even if it bit them say.
LOL I totally get your explaination and it sounded similar to the game Star Ocean 3 when the characters actually go into a 4th dimension and find out (spoiler) that they are actually programs (SHOCK!) Only in this case, it’s the other way around with the shadow person is in our dimension and interacting with us. I don’t know if that makes sense but there are a lot of weird things yet to be explained.
ok this is an all encompassing concept deal. light illuminates objects. shadow is the lack of this illumination. we are 3 dimensional beings bathed in an all pervasive electromagnetic spectrum. moving thru a seething subquantum sea. which gives us a perception of a 4th dimension, time. ok well shadow people are also 3 dimensional beings in this same sea but only sharing 2 of our dimensions. so like a picture they are 2 dimensional.but they move and are not “projected ” but exist free spatially. kinda like a hologram. but no depth to them just length and width. and if they “turn sideways ” they are a like a line or a point and dissappear to our 3 dimensional fixated perception. as far as i can tell they are harmless and if u ask your closest family or friends they will confide that they also “see” or have seen these phenomena. like the “flashes” of cosmic rays in the astronauts eyes after a while they did not “recognize” them or “see ” them. they filtered them our as are all or perceptions are filtered by our consciousness . we see but do not see unless it is out of the “corner” of our eyes. where movement but no detail is processed (survival instinct).
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Nothing is evil by its cover, don’t judge by looks or group a whole race by a individuals actions, if it was ok to judge by looks or by a few bad apples ,then lets classify all humans evil due to Hitler and the Nazism attitude towards things different and misunderstood or directed by mass conditional beliefs ,
As a example for a whole race , lets say a alien species example of what a human is was the war of gangs,the deaths of innocent children the rapes the stealing and such that goes on in every town cities and country if any race is demonic in action as a whole the only one that can be studied is that of the human race!
So look in the mirror before you judge something you have no clue about the only demonic acts i’ve seen with blood and lives is from human hands turn on the TV watch the news the facts are there so take a deep look inwards , before you call all shadow people demons, or negative, thats true prejudice!!!
humans are not the only conscious emotional beings with feelings in the universe , did you ever think that shadow people may be trying to warn you or help you maybe even cleanse you from your own destructive behaviors? how many other beings have to be scared away from visiting how long is this attitude of difference going to keep the worlds divided , think about the children of the shadow people and other races that have to hear stories about how people think there evil and negative and good for nothings , maybe they think the same of the human race , humans are not gods they are flesh and bone and according to the bible sinned and where casted out of the garden of eden for being sinful creatures, no wonder so many seem to wish to point a finger towards something else
look on the subject of shadow people i have a strong belief that there are some things in this world that should be left alone. btw does you liek mudkipz?
Why does it have to mean that the universe in which the game is created is more complex? Maybe it is simplistic and composed of “nothing.” I mean, think about this world and its complexities. What makes something complex? The universe and all things in it are basically systems composed of other subsystems that act as an interconnected web with logical and hierarchical paths and dependencies (ie cause and effect). All things are relative in value and nothing can exist on its own without being a part of something else. That is to say that nothing is simply one single absolute thing — everything is actually something more, both “above” and “below” in scope.
Perhaps, if there is a “greater” reality that is more “real” than ours, it is composed of no parts and is not a system at all — rather, it just is.
How about those stupid scientists try it on themselves too so they could understand what was it that the test subject was feeling, that way they would know for sure what to conclude.
Most intellectual people refrain from using “stupid” in their commentary.
are they even real?
Sorry, but there’s no “supernatural”.
An old BF had an experience once when in a dangerous situation. He was motorcross racing and flew off the front of his motorcycle. He said he felt he had a type of “OBE” where he was looking back at himself as he tumbled through the air, but was not inside himself. He felt he was a short distance separated from his actually body. Perhaps this is a mechanism the brain can use to disassociate itself from disatrous scenarios. It seems to be the common explanation for multiple personality, usually believed to be caused by trauma. The brain is capable of disassociation as an act of preservation. (BF came out of it without injury) Another friend and I used to jokingly say “may your spirit leave your body before it feels the sharks bite”.
I believe shadow people are entirely different and don’t fit in with this article. They are a psychic or paranormal phenomena. And I have seen the observer, or as I call him “the hat man” one time in childhood. I learned many years later that others experienced the exact same phenomena in exact detail. Are our brains somehow programmed to have similar or near exact experiences under certain situations?
I personally think this article describes something different than what is traditionally thought of as shadow people. There might be some cases of shadow beings which resemble the article’s description. This could describe those instances. However, in traditional shadow being cases, folks see them, not just sense them. Also, the article describes people’s shadows as mimicking their movements and thus being an extension of self awareness, but traditional shadow people do not usually mimic people’s movements. They move indpendantly of the individual and in different manners. They aren’t even always humanoid. Some are. Those that are, are often much shorter or taller than a normal human, sometimes deformed, etc. Others are animals, and some are even blobs.
~ShadowQueen
I find this very general an misleading, the fact is they exist, so what about those who don’t do drugs, who don’t have mental problems? who don’t see just one an feel its an “extension” mirroring what they do but rather intelligent darker than night figures seen in groups? I see them like that, groups all independent moving around each other actually turning to get by one another..so whats your explanation for that?
^this
Very true. They are real and not a figmant. How can two people see the same shadow person. I have a number of people that can atest to seeing the shadow people at the same time.
I seen a cat
What this article seems to suggest to me is, that the left temeral junction and is stimulation is more along the lines of being the key to asteral projection. The similarities that the subject experianced to the effecxts of asteral projection are more than that too shadow people. asteral projection aims to create an asteral, or light duplicate of your self, that is a mirror of the physical body that the consiousnes can be transfered too. in the study mentioned the fact that the so called “shadow person” replicated the subects movements would suggest some kind of partial transference of consiousness. That’s the direction any further studies on the matter should go in my opinion.
I beleive the left temperal junction mentioned in the study in question is more the key to asteral projection than understandin shaddows and shadow people. The aim of asteral projection is to create and project and asteral, or light/shaddow duplicate of the physical body that the consiousness can be tranfared to. The subjects expriance being of an entity paralel to her own body and mimicking her actions would suggest that in this case asteal projection with a limited transferance of consiouness is happening. as if the asteral was seperated but the consiouness remained mostly in the phsyical, theelement of the study that talked about the entity trying to take the card the subject was to read and it not wanting her to, could have been two things, firstly confusion as the consiouness is split both the subject and projection could both try to read and one not want the other too. a little like split personality. the second possibility is that the subconsios had an effect upon the proction or entity without the subject knowing. there is no other evidence that sleep parallasys and shaddows are related other than what this study claims to support. there is how ever evindence from other studies that have proven that the body has an aura of light around it on a spectrum invisble to the naked eye. This aura is widely beleived to be from the sole, which a practioners of asteral projection beleive is what is seperated in the procces. what im getting at is that theres more evedence of asteral proction being possible that this study could prove than it has evidence of sleep parallasys or the left temeperal junction being related to shaddow people.
Just because that is true for you does not mean everything has to think similar to you!
yeah i just thought of that im feeling the same way
This manifestation correlates to quantum physics. The inability to distinguish between one’s own presence and another’s is altogether possible, but a view of many of these shadows along edges of forests? Certainly one could not misinterpret their own presence for many of these presences.
A number of years ago i awoke in a chair in a dimly lit room to fimd someone stood over me. In an instant i was shook to my core, the person was over 7ft tall, thickset and made of shadow…the hairs on my body shot up and i jumped up with a cry of aagh!, clean through the person stood over me.
The entity dissapeared/dematerialised and i was left standing there with a sense of my persanal space having been invaded. It was as if the entity was somehow examining me or observing something in me, looking deep into me.
I dont know who or what it was. Maybe one day ill find out.
There is a case of a very large shadow person seen very regularly in the vicinity of Britains largest telecommunications transmitter in northern England.
The sheer bulk of reports of this male like pitch black
8 foot tall person sparked official investigations into the
sightings.
Two television programme investigators actually saw the figure
which they described as being exactly what people had been seeing, cross a woodland path in front of them.
They stated that the figure was so black that it had no
features to it.
I think the vicinity of the sightings says it all, there
must be huge amounts of microwave radiation in the area due
to the transmitter which has an effect on the brain.
But you never know that may be what attracts the figure in the first place.
Its called photoshop buddy
Anybody who posted and honestly tried to say that this is misleading nd cannot account for their personal or mass sightings, including the people who either spent an hour with a thesaurus to make their comments so overly complex, or honestly believe their points regarding universe and its secrets hold any water, need a wake up call. What this article shows is that we might have the answer for some questions and problems we have had in history. Fact is if they changed frequency, location, or intensity of the probes maybe the shadow people would convert to illusions of the enemy or stranger’s, rather than ones self. Another point is that one does not need to be on drugs or need to have mental issues to see these shadow people, that is the point people. We all have this wired into our brain. Multiple sightings by more than one person? The same magnetic interference could easily effect more than one person, why couldent it. They were using technology to trigger this which we use for many things all over the world! And this is not to mention a strange affliction humans frequently have, and that is where groups of people experience the same thing at once. Coming people, what makes more sense. Infact, the fact you people believe in shadow people over science IS kind of crazy, and now that I think about it, maybe you guys ARE the ones who are NUTS! LOL FOR REAL!
Drugs and having mental problems have nothing to do with it. The experiment was replicated and intact created in healthy subject. The idea is this is a part of EVERYBODY and their reality. They way it can manifest may be different in the eye of the observer. Intact, this was a test on one area of the brain, who’s to say another area of the brain would not create a manifestation of a preditor, or even a higher power? What is magnetic radiation initiated the same response in a group of people? Group sightings? And people are notorious for group experiences of a spiritual matter, what makes this any different. Fact of the matter this is a smoking gun, and as usual the ghost chaser’s have detailed another perfectly good topic, and on top of that, picture this: mankind is hard to change, but over the years, it happens, we learn the truth, usually whether we like it or not. I have much more faith that maybe this dosent explain exactly why we see shadow people, but that we are on the right track, rather than shadow people from another dimension watch me play with me self. People are so far gone its hilarious. Almost sad.
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