Some weird occurrences that are troubling me - Part 2

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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.

There is a direct correlation between certain drugs(or combinations thereof) and paranormal manifestations, although the entire gamut of cause would be more open-ended.

Altered states of consciousness(ASC) is just one catalyst in which paranormal manifestations may occur. The various sleep states as well as abnormal mental defects/anomalies may (or may not) induce significant ASC as well.

There are also direct correlations between certain modes of consciousness and the paranormal manifestations that they may produce, so this would be like a cause-and-effect type relationship where there is a "mental" cause that manifests a "physical" effect – an observation of this "effect".

So in the case of the above there might be a single individual serving/acting as 'conduit' causing a manifestation that has substance or is 'real' in some way where other people(or animals) might pick up on this as well via their own faculties of sensing/observing.

Some of this is akin to opening portals/doorways to parallel realities causing these paranormal manifestations that may not be solely peculiar to the "conduit" themselves which is why your "mother and cats" could also be included as observers.

It seems as though certain modes of consciousness may act as a sort of biological transmitter/receiver broadcasting these tenuous 'frequencies' either into the aether, some invisible reality superimposed upon our own, or both, and this goes with the old line of thought that some obscure being/entity might develop interest or attachment if it knows that you can see it or at least be aware of it and are in some way affected by it.

This is just one single analysis more or less of a likely multi-faceted thing here, and as far as the "floaters", I notice those on occasion too if I happen to be fixed on anything with a white or light background but with the larger vitreous detachments depending on how/if/where they are moving they might also cause dark fleeting images of a specific shape/size, but it's also important to be aware that any similar "effect" may have separate unrelated "causes" which is not likely but possible.