When I was 13, I went through a terrible stage. I battled Anorexia, Depression/suicidal thoughts and insomnia. I used to be very outgoing (though at times shy) and cheerful, but as November passed by, so did my happy moods.
I became depressed, and felt as though life was not worth living anymore. I became very dark and suicidal, wrote suicide notes and poetry, and avoided contact with anyone, if possible. I began to isolate myself, and as time went on, I began to create things for myself in my own world, I would talk to myself sometimes, and try to make “my world” seem much better, by making my self seem “much better”. Well this didn’t work.
I went through an insomniac stage, as I was having trouble in school, with friends, and family. I would take 3-4 Tylenol pills each day, just because I liked the queasy feeling I could get from those pills, and I thought they were harmless. At night, I would stare at the ceiling. All that I ignored during the day, would come back during the night and suffocate me. Literally. I found myself choking for breath every night. I felt everything was too much to take, I felt like maybe I was “crazy” and I felt as though something, somewhere, was causing me to be that way. Something…
Was I crazy? Imagining it?
One cold, winter night, I found myself able to fall asleep. I usually fell asleep with my door closed, as I felt this would help me sleep better and give me some “alone” and “quiet” time (even though I was very anti-social anyways). Well, I woke up in the middle of the night, it was around 2-3 am, and I awoke with a shake, a jolt, as if someone had shaken me away from my sleep and awoken me. I could barely move for a few minutes as I was wondering what just happened. I couldn’t think straight. I couldn’t scream for help. I couldn’t even breathe!
Then, the most unusual thing happened, just down the hall from my room, I could hear footsteps coming close to my room, approaching me. It sounded as though the person was wearing splash pants, and with each step they would take, it sounded as though it were coming closer and CLOSER, until the sound would fade, as though the person was in the doorway to my room and just standing there, no longer moving. It would start up again and again, that same shuffling noise.
I was terrified. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t breathe. I found myself staring down the dark hall, and within seconds, I was pulled back into my sleep. It was over. I awoke the next day, living the same life as the day before- dark and depressed.
I’m not trying to say that this mishap was due to the fact that I was Ill- anorexic, and paranoid, or delusional. I’m saying, maybe something in that house, caused me to become that way. I just need some guidance and advice. I need to know what went on that night. I haven’t got a clue. Thanks.
Written by Tabby, Copyright 2008 True Ghost Tales
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I can’t say what that means. I don’t know. I was a witness to an event where some engineers used a white disc spinning at high speed, having alternating black and white spaces. The test is more about how our brains interpret what we are watching.
The color red became visible at a particular speed. How do you get red from a black and white spinning disk. We know there is no color red on the disk, anywhere.
We can watch an old black and white television and see this effect when someone is wearing something like a tie, that has closely spaced lines of black and white. As the image is scanned by a television camera, we see the illusion of movement, and the color red sometimes.
I’ve seen this happen on a Color TV (CRT), where television cameras have scan patterns that give rise to the appearance of other colors not actually in the object being scanned. I’ve seen purple fluctuations time to time and again.
The spinning disc I mentioned above was specifically black and white. It is our brain that creates the illusion of the color red…, it exists only in our brain.
A red shadow? I could only guess, and most likely I’d be wrong.
jeff
Hi Gloria
There might be a logical explanation, rather than a spooky one, but in the meantime, I need more information.
What did the shadow look like? Did it move? How long did it stay for? Was there anything in the street to create a reflection? What time of day was it?
I think that will do to start with
Love & Peace
Ama Nazra
If you read literture about space and astrology the red colour can actually be used to measure time of something once there like a planet or a star millions of light years ago..We also use only a fraction of our brain so who can really identify the logical and rational answers. Dont drive yourself crazy trying to find the answer!
Red Shadow? Since when you see it? Just several times ago or did it stay in your front door since you lives in that house? If it stay in a place for a very long time, without causing any trouble, then it’s just a guardian spirit of that place. As long as you don’t make it angry, it is harmless. But, if you see it newly at some days ago, and troubles began to spread in your house…. Call a priest or exorcist.
Hi Adhinferno,
I know its a part of your society, but I always have to wonder at ‘guardian spirits’ who are just fine ‘unless you make them angry’ .. after that you are in trouble. Why call them guardians at all, or trust them.
Just my opinion,
Love & Peace
Ama
I don’t what a red shadow means. But I have seen red smoke by a door when I woke up from a very distinctive dream years ago. I dreamed two old, wise female Native American Indians led me to a room where they sat on a couch, one on each end of the couch. I sat on the ground before them. They told me that someone had put a curse on me, and they drew from a pipe, blew smoke on me and said, ” This is for courage …” they said something else too, but I can’t remember what it was. When I woke up in the morning I saw red smoke by the door, and smelled a strong scent that smelled like frankincense- the scent that Church smells like for Easter Mass. I believe truly that these Native Americans are good and wanting to help. I worry not about curses. I believe in God and Angels.
Red is the color for War, Victory, or the Blood of Christ (or just blood in general). A door is the pathway to another room or place. So, it might mean that there’s an area in your life that is unopen and that it will cause you great pain. You will bleed through this time in your life, but you will be victorious.
Then again, if you do not have Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, it might mean that it’s time to make Him your Lord and Savior becasue you’re fixing to go through a major war in your life and you might die (whether spiritually or physically, I don’t know).
Either way, you’re going to need help.
Hi Texture,
The lady saw a red shadow in front of her door, she wasn’t dreaming it .. or she would have said so.
It’s lovely that you are a true believer, but please read the question carefully before answering. We try not to frighten people around here.
Love & Peace
Ama
Ama,
I wasn’t trying to scare her and I’m sorry that you assumed that I did not read her question in a thorough manner. I did not say or mention that it was a dream and I was simply stating what I thought it was, was THAT not one of the many questions in her stand-alone question?
Hi Texture,
It makes me wonder where you got your symbolism from, that a red ‘shadow’ in front of a door can have the meaning you ascribe to it, when we actually have no real idea of what it was she saw, or how it was created. My first instinct is to define the ‘site’ of the situation and get more information about it .. which is why I asked the questions before jumping in with any sort of answer.
Love & Peace
Ama
i see red shadows too!..they’re above me when i”m lying down in bed and sometimes i see black and white ones too. what are they?
Hi Jennifer,
Have you checked your room for any sources of red light, including those coming in from the window? And what do the shadows do, and do you see them when you are half asleep, or just after you open your eyes when you are drowsy? Do you hear anything unusual when you see them?
Love & Peace
Ama