Dark Figures Running/Darting Past Me?

Question

I don't exactly remember when it started, but at the most random times I will see a dark figure dart past through my peripheral vision. I always dismiss it as just my imagination. Until one day my mother actually saw one the same time as I did. She then told me how she always sees them but she never says anything because she also thinks she's imagining it. The reason I decided to come to the web about it is because I no longer think it is just my imagination, especially because about an hour ago, I saw a dark figure again, but this time I was looking straight ahead & something darted past in broad daylight. I can never make out the shape of the figure, probably because I never see it while it is at a standstill. If anyone out there can give some sort of explanation into why I am seeing these things, I would be forever grateful.

PS, my mother & grandmother told me that as a child I used to see & talk to spirits. My mother would hear me in my room talking aloud to what she thought was me talking to myself, but when she would ask me who I was talking to, I would tell her it was "the lady with the red hat".

Answer 1

It could be 'The Shadow People'.

"A shadow person (also known as a shadow figure, shadow being or black mass) is an alleged paranormal entity. It is believed by skeptics to be a type of hallucination where the subject perceives a patch of shadow in their peripheral vision to be a living, humanoid figure. However, paranormal researcher Heidi Hollis has expressed the belief that shadow people are malevolent supernatural entities."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person

Answer 2

I don't know about the "lady in the hat" and I am certainly not trying to dismiss this as anything normal, but just trying to offer you a natural possibility.

Could be insects flying by or mice running past on the carpet. The peripheral vision is weird in that is mostly just picks up motion and no detail. Then your visual cortex, which is capable of making stuff up for you to see, tries to complete the image. The image may or may not be accurate. So a fly going by in the peripheral, might show up in your brain as a person running by.

A lot of people say "I never hallucinate." But interestingly enough, our eyes and brains get much of their information from filling in between the blanks, which is to say hallucinating. Most times, this is a pretty good system. Sometimes our brains make mistakes, and cause us to see things that aren't there. How often? Nobody really knows for sure. For example. You were walking down the street and someone was walking in the other direction on the other side of the street. Do you know if that person was a hallucination or not? No, you just accepted that they were there and kept walking without question. Although its possible that that person was not there.



Anyway, good luck.

Answer 3

Trousers of reality.



No, that wasn't a random collection of words designed to kill braincells, that's just a side effect.



essentially an phenomenon is situated around yourself in which two parallel dimensions are extremely close together....[If you're still reading this, you have an over active imagination or are incredibly trusting and not a skeptic... or you're easily entertained] where, to put it in gentle layman's terms, you exist in two universes at the same time. they look the same, they sound the same, they smell the same, except that occasionally you'll talk to people that aren't there, bump into walls that aren't there [which sucks if you ever decide to board an airplane... things get a bit.... juicy] and... well, yeah, it's sort of a mess, trans-dimensionally speaking.



how you solve it? buggered if I know. did you swallow an alien FTL? have you been reading from any dark tomes regarding 'elder gods' or 'old ones'? did you poke something that you really, really, really shouldn't have poked?



it was that last one, right? right?







If not....hell if I know.



Maybe it's demons.















possible conclusive advice? professionally provided medicine and self controlled ignorance to the subject through therapy is fantastic in this day and age.

The world of the 'weird' is not for everyone. medications and a strong course of telling yourself "it's not real" can make the world seem entirely normal again quickly....





heh heh.... 'normal'. that would be funny.

Answer 4

I had that same experience before I knew Jesus and was dealing with the I Ching which is a most accurate book of divination. I'd see the things dart pass me in the corner of my eyes and there were times that I could feel the hair on my neck stand up. This book open a window to let these thing into my life but when I accepted JC I threw that book away and have never been bother again. Whats happening with you I have no idea.

Answer 5

If you live in the inner city, these are referred to as "neighbors" you should be very leery though, especially if you have a job because when you are at work they are having a cookout probably and will try to steal all your stuff.

Answer 6

If that happened to me I'd get my eyes checked by a competent optometrist, explaining the phenomena so they know what to look for.

Answer 7

Explanation: mental illness. Get professional help.

Answer 8

Eye floaters. Get your eyes checked

Answer 9

Racist....