Thanks a lot for replying. Now I can approximate a bit on what your “mind’s eye” look like. It seems like this term is very subjective, as it highly depends on the individual’s experience.

The ’sighting’ of my dead relatives was triggered by my remembrance of them in according to the Filipino custom of remembering the deceased on Nov 1 (All Saint’s Day) and Nov 2 (All Soul’s Day). Lots of Filipinos and Chinese also visit their deceased ones on Halloween (Oct 31).

The strange part is that I was able to mentally talk to my paternal grandfather (the pet lover) when I thought of him. When he was about to leave, I asked him, “Don’t you have anything to tell my dad?” He said, “Nah, your dad won’t believe you. He doesn’t believe in ghosts. For him to remember the good times we have shared together is enough for me.”

Now that you mention it, I think the things they told me may be triggered by what I remember about them. For all I know, ’seeing’ them could merely a figment of my imagination. But the panic and terror I felt at that time was still real. Two beings (ladies in white gowns floating above; they look like wingless angels) told me that my third eye (ajna or sixth chakra — supposedly responsible for people’s abilities to see ghosts) is being activated as part of facing my fears of nightmares and seeing entities.

In the Philippines, when we talk about psychics, mediums, or anyone who can see ghosts, dead people, and other entities, we say that their ‘third eye’ is open (partly or fully). Those who can’t see or feel ghosts have their third eye shut down or closed.

Using the term ‘minds eye’ is a little confusing isn’t it, but i guess i would use this term to describe ’seeing’ what i know is not ‘really there’ and also to describe any mental images i might have.

I get information easier when i have my eyes open, i have to be in a very high energy space to be able to explore or receive anything with closed eyes.

So to explain the above, the troll was more of a mental image that flashed up and superimposed itself infont of the archway, i would describe seeing it as an outline, like a picture drawn in pencil, but not coloured in. I got the colours more from a ‘feeling sense’of how he was. This image had a feeling of ‘presence’ but i was unsure if it was an ‘in the now’ presence, or an energy presence from a past time, being shown to me.

The gnome image i received was a memory of mine, i saw / remembered by son’s cuddly toy gnome, the memory was in colour. There was less of a ‘presence’ feel with this image, it was more like ‘picking up energies’ associated with gnomes, but that non were around at the time.

I have seen some things in spirit that seemed to be seen with ‘real’ sight that when looked at again were not physically real. I once saw the door of a room open and when my eyes re- set, the door was still closed, but, the door did open, though obviously not physically as it had appeared to do so. I have seen spirits, but i didn’t see them clearly in detail, if i get detail at all, it comes from a ‘feeling sense’ rather than what i can see with my physical eyes.

I think ‘dead’ people are ‘beings in spirit’ that have onced lived as humans, i think there are some examples of interactions with spirits that have once lived as humans on this website.

Hope this helps a little xx

More about ancestral spirits: the Chinese pray to them for blessings and ‘take care’ of them by burning paper money and joss sticks and offering them food. That’s to make sure they’re doing their filial duty and avoid punishment from their deceased ancestors.

I think this site doesn’t have much information about seeing dead people? Or did I miss out something?

Does being multidimensionally aware include ’seeing’ dead people in the mind’s eye?

For now, my interpretation of the mind’s eye is this: the reality I access when my eyes are closed. Sometimes this alternate reality seems like pure imagination (ex. purple crystals appearing out of nowhere in a room full of television screens — represents me reclaiming parts of my ‘power’ from past lives). Other times the reality is the same as physical reality but with slight differences in what I’m ’seeing’. (ex. Whether my eyes are open or closed I am standing in a temple and ‘praying’ or ‘contacting’ dead relatives. But that’s where the similarities end. When my eyes are closed, I can ’see’ my dead grandparents even though I don’t feel anything at all. But when I open my eyes I don’t see any physical ghosts floating around.)

The above situation happened for the FIRST time TODAY. Whether I really ’saw’ dead people or whether my imagination/subconscious has gone hyperactive (because of my fear of seeing ghosts and other supernatural entities), I don’t know. I admit however, that I had wanted to see my dead grandparents for some time but I had no idea how to do it. I was feeling panicky and scared when I finally ’saw’ them.

Also, what does Sharon’s “mind’s eye” look like?