Hi Denise and Steve,
I'm exceptionally sceptical when it comes to paranormal matters...... but I must admit that I frequently experience the same sort of things that you're discussing here and simply cannot explain such things away rationally.....
I do personally suffer with a particular (and seriously recognised) complaint where you can be looking at a particular thing, but do not recognise it for what it is. This usually occurs at times when I'm looking for (say) the scissors or a roll of sellotape in the kitchen drawer. I'm standing there, red as a beetroot, screaming 'for ***** sake, where has the ****** Sellotape gone again!?!?!?' My partner (patiently) strolls into the kitchen and - frequently without looking - puts her hand on the top-most object in the drawer and..... lo and behold.... well, you guessed it!!
Seriously though, this is a genuine problem for a lot of people at times..... though I'm blowed if I can recall the proper name for the condition at present!?! (Can anyone enlighten me possibly?)
Having said all of the above, I admit that it cannot possibly explain all of the instances where personal objects of mine have simply 'vanished' and either returned at a later date, or never been seen again!!! For instance - I once put a brand new pair of jeans on a shelf in the wardrobe and, on going to get them a couple of days later, they had totally vanished!!! I tore the wardrobe apart..... and so did my partner...... but they were nowhere to be found!?!? Literally one month later, they re-appeared just where I had previously put them......!!!! I cannot for the life of me explain whay occured here.
On another occasion, I put a belt away on a hook in a cupboard and it vanished without trace..... That was about 8 years ago and I've never seen it again to this day!!!
Perhaps most bizarrely, I have had to purchase the CD 'Crest Of A Knave' (by Jethro Tull) some five times now, as it keeps disappearing..... The box is always left behind, but the CD out of it has gone without trace.... I have about 20 CD's by Tull, but it is only this one that vanishes(?)
Re. 'asking things to stop' - this is apparently a tried and tested method (allegedly, in some cases). In the past, a lot of researchers - in helping people to calm their hauntings - have suggested that the 'victims' address the 'whatever-it-is' and ask it to cease!!! Personally speaking, I have always been reticent to give such advice - even experimentally - as I personally think that you are (perhaps wrongly) investing something with a personality in carrying out such directions.... and this can possibly lead to further complications somewhere along the lines, etc.
Regards,
Nick
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