Some weird occurrences that are troubling me - Part 2

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A reasonable explanation, one that I hadn't considered. Something that did occur to me is if these visions are seen physically or seen in the head. There is a pre-eminent psychiatrist with a wealth of experience in a specific area of the paranormal. I won't name as I am posting a thread on him soon. He says that paranormal manifestations seen with the eyes are due to hallucinations, often a part of mental illness, whereas the same manifestations seen with the mind are more likely to be paranormal.

I am not sure if I agree with him although a few respondents on this thread and the one I posted on ATS agree. If it is psychotic mental illness there would be other symptoms and a change in mood. I don't have any of these. I most certainly don't have delusions which often accompanies hallucinations in a mental illness context.  I covered the effect of compounded medications in Part 2.

FCD mentioned in this thread that I should consider any problems with my eyes.  I did have a posterior vitreous detachment in 2019 which happens to 70% of the population by the age of 65.  I also had surgery for a right droopy eyelid (ptosis) in 2020 with further revision surgery in 2021.  This is still ongoing with further surgery planned.  I have also suffered with very dry eyes  since 2020 which the ophthalmologist prescribed drops for during the day and some thick oil like substance for sleeping with.  This is only recent though as I was using OTC eye drops prior to this year.

Some might say this would account for the manifestations I have experienced. If this is the case then my mother along with the cats would not be seeing the same thing. My eye problems do have symptoms but they are different and more regular.

I actually prefer your explanation of these fleeting manifestations although some may call it specious.

Thanks for posting this.
 

I've experienced some of this, similar somewhat in nature to the shadow person phenomenon; often times though in my particular case I could never be absolutely certain that I actually saw something.

With respect to "fleeting" and peripheral images. I tried to understand why such occurrences can only be observed in this manner and not 'head-on'; then this proposal occurred to me:

Given that the way the human visual mechanism functions with light energy reflecting off objects to not only alter the frequency of the light as a function of color, but to also allow for any perception of an object at all, so the idea here is that the physical density of some beings/entities is not material enough to actually reflect light energy, so it just passes right through them which in effect renders them imperceptible to the visual mechanism.

So the actions of the above just results in this "fleeting" obscurity where these things are oblivious to mundane 'protocols', but still remain vaguely observable in some circumstances such as peripheral sightings even though the proper criteria for 'seeing' is apparently incomplete, i.e. there may always exist exceptions to certain rules and in this particular case it's the rules of direct versus indirect observation.