Why do only certain people have experiences with the paranormal?

Question

... and others can go through their whole life without one abnormal experience?

I have had one, only once.

Answer 1

A great many of the paranormal experience that people report have to do with the death of someone in the family or a major life-threatening crisis.   Something like this may not happen until later in life, and if people do not have really close emotional ties, it may not happen at all.

Answer 2

well its like catching a particular radio programme on a certain frequency----well a very few people have vibrations as such to match with those who are there on other dimensions--the so called dead or ghosts or spirits.

Answer 3

Well, this is just my unprofessional opinion but I think most people have had one or two paranormal experiences but they deny them and just blow it off as something else.

I had a hard core skeptic tell me once that if given enough evidence he would believe but people like James Randi would not believe if a ghost suddenly appeared before him and kicked him in the behind.

I think that is the way most of us think. I know I always just blew things I could not explain off as either my imagination, or something but when I did see and hear that ghost I am always talking about that forced me to believe, I went many years trying to figure out what could have happened. i refused to believe I actually saw a ghost, then I finally had to wake up and admit I did.

There are two extremes, the people who see paranormal in everything is one extreme and they people who will not admit something is paranormal even if they experience it.

The average person has been conditioned to believe there is nothing more than what we see on a everyday basis and have been conditioned to not believe in paranormal events. so they may experience things, but refuse to accept it unless the paranormal event is so strong that they are forced into believing like I was.

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Answer 4

No one knows for sure.  My theory is that some people perceive paranormal events more than others because they are primed for it.  Some people have what is called a fantasy-prone personality.  They are more likely to find fanciful or magical explanations for things.  Add to this the fact that, due to cultural socialization, some people believe in the paranormal without any reason to do so.  So they're ready to see things as paranormal without too much convincing.  Furthermore, there is a significant portion of the population that just plain doesn't understand how certain things work.  Add all this together and you have a person who is more likely to jump to a conclusion that something they can't immediately understand must have a paranormal explanation.

Answer 5

luck, I guess.

Who knows.

Answer 6

I'd like to know, myself. Ask me when I was 20 if there are ghosts--no way. At 25 I knew something was going on that defies normal science, and my mental health was sound. As the years went by the events got stranger, but few and far between. At 52 I've experienced 10 paranormal things that cannot be swept under the rug. Objects moved, removed, levitated; ghosts, noises and conversations. Nothing scary, just bizarre. This planet has more going on it than they teach in school. No, I don't take drugs, legal or otherwise. Keep your eyes open and report honestly what you may see. If nothing happens, go ahead and scoff--but I know I'm sane and these things happen to a degree that I feel I should find out about, if only to protect my sanity. My friends know I'm honest.

  OK, now tell us yours!

Answer 7

Those of us who see spirits all the time are what is known as Old Souls, that is we are born old. That simply means we have lived many lives and have learned many things and the veil that separates the normal from paranormal  is thin for us

Answer 8

We don't always "see" or "hear" the same things for some reason.    One example I have happened in a house I lived in.  I had been out buying groceries and my sister was helping me carry them inside.   She carried her bags to the kitchen, she was walking ahead of me.   As I was walking through the dining room I saw something in one of the chairs that looked kind of like heat waves coming off a car when it's hot.  They were just coming up out of the chair.   At that second my sister let out a loud scream.   She said that she had set her bags down and turned around and saw a man in overalls sitting in that chair.  I hadn't told her what I saw, hadn't even had time to say anything.   We both saw different things at the same time.   So I think it all depends on the person, some can see some can't.

Answer 9

Quoting a paranormal website (I'm sorry, but I dont have the name of the site) : Its like you are with 3 friends and you all have 3 radios.  You are all trying to tune into a small radio station outside of town.

Friend #: What it would equal to Psychic: Example

Friend 1: Average person: Has a cheap radio and can tune into an incredibly static filled station with the smallest amount of signal.

Friend 2: Slight Paranormal (someone who sees 1 or 2 ghosts in a lifetime): Has a normal radio and can tune into a static filled station but can still hear a semi-clear tune.

Friend 3: Psychic: Has an expensive radio and can easily tune in without static.

**Before you say that its not like that or give me criticism, I am a highly experienced psychic who has contacted many different souls and even taught some people how to pick up on souls.

***If you have any questions for me feel free to email me them.  I will be happy to help you in any way or to answer any questions and, unlike almost every other psychic, I will never ask for any payment.  I do this out of the kindness of my heart.