[NachtSorcier]

wishcat, maybe the turning on and off of lights is someone you loved who has passed letting you know that they're there.

I hate to tell a story within a story, but here goes: My family is fucked up and complicated. My great grandparents had a lot of children. Their daughter, Garnet, was my mother's mother and therefore, my grandmother. However, just after my mom was born, she was adopted by the man and woman I know as my grandparents, Dave and another of their daughters, Peg. Neither I nor my mother knew this until several years ago, so to her and I, Dave and Peg are her parents and my grandparents, and Garnet is her aunt and my great aunt. Anyway, this revelation made my mother feel much closer to Aunt Garnet and three years ago, she died. Several strange occurances happened that day: my Great Aunt Betty had a message from Garnet on her answering machine, and a nearby church was playing a song (I can't remember what it was, something about angels) that had some sort of connection to Garnet. Anyhow, my mom said that the television in her room would constantly turn on and off, and she knew it was Garnet. So don't be too scared. Most often, poltergeists are just tricksters. They think they're funny. Unless they feel that you're on their property or something, they won't try to hurt you, and if it did want to hurt you, you'd have known it. Poltergiests don't fuck around.

WolfMoon: I try not to be afraid of presences. As I said, if something wants to hurt you, it doesn't fuck around. If it wants to hurt you, you'll know it. So if it's just there or doing minor harmless things, I just try to shrug it off. Sometimes they may not even be ghosts, just thoughtforms that have taken shape. Thoughtforms are generally harmless, but they, and even ghosts sometimes, can be simply commanded to go away. But it's pretty unnecessary to do that unless it's something threatening or if it's a human spirit that can't move on.