Years ago in Waller, Texas I discovered our indoor/outdoor cat dead one evening. She had been hit by a car in what appeared to be a deliberate run down while waiting to cross the road from a field and get back to our house again. We had not seen her in a couple of days and her death caused me and my family much anguish.
Later that evening I am helping a family friend work on his car in our driveway. We are both drinking beer. Suddenly I hear a cat meowing and see it walking by the side of our house. It appears to be our old cat. The problem was that you could see right through her as if she was a projection or something. Then excitedly I asked Terry if he heard and saw the cat as I did. His answer was that he really did not believe what he was seeing.
Was he humoring me or did he see something? How would I really know that he saw the same thing I thought that I saw? I cannot believe that this came out of drinking beer, but for years the "pink elephant" story was popular even in cartoons. Is it possible that mental anguish created the projection is the "here but not here" cat?
Switch now to an Evangelical church scene where the minister delivered a sermon and has now declared that everyone in the building is of one mind and belief. If you are honest you know it is a lie and it also is not possible. Both of the examples here are just some of the ways people control you with religion and supernaturalism. Welcome to the spirit world.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.What I am attempting to tackle here is that when you see an apparition it is not because of energy that came from the deceased apparition. Existing evidence seems to show that the visual scene has instead come from within your own mind in some way. I have written this because on another site we had members who claimed the dead (animals and humans) do have spirits that hang around for a short time after their deaths. Some believe that a twinkly came and got them later like in the movie "Ghost" or that they just found "the light" and entered into it and went away. Leave spiritualism to the movies, but I find that many Christians believe this same thing.
In the case of my one deceased wife, both my daughter and myself heard her moving around the house for days. She was cleaning, cooking, and doing the laundry. You could hear her but never could see her. We thought we were both going crazy but when you research this you find it quite normal. It was our minds that were not ready to let go. The dead are dead but this experience happens to many people who are not ready to let go of the loved one. This is why we have many spirit and ghost stories, mostly told by religious believers, but the phenomenon affects everyone.
In the case offered here it was me myself that saw her beloved cat some 2 days after the cat was killed. In explaining my post I have now offered a second experience as well as my first.
DenoPenno
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I will add another. I have hypnogogic Hallucinations. I dream before I fall asleep. So my memories of dreams are "real". I have think about everything that has happened to me and figure out if it really happened. If I remeber seeinh a dead pet I have to disreguard a "real memory" as simply a hallucination.
@DavidLaDeau That's interesting, David. I'll have to check into it more. I had nothing like it at the time this post actually occurred. At least to my knowledge. Today however, I am plagued by constant feelings of deja vu in almost every aspect of my life. I sort this out by notes and constant papers to continue with what is really reality, but the feeling that almost everything has happened before is constantly in my mind. I make jokes about it and use the phone ringing as my example - this has happened before! 
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