Dark figures

When I watch tv or am doing my work, in the corner of my eye i see this movement of a dark figure, not a creepy person who is gonna stab me but like a creature on the floor, like a dog that is just passing but when i look theres nothing there. And i know its not a real animal because it just vanishes the second my eyes are on it. Is this normal?

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  • there called shadow people, and there a paranormal phenomena...look it up

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  • Mr-Time

    We are everywhere, all the time. Watching and waitng.

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  • jonny1188

    Dude... you're gonna die.

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  • hallo101

    just a sense of parinoia probably. most likely cuz theres a part of you that still believes in monsters or believe hollywood will come to life

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  • tunak

    after i got hit in the head 3 times i saw shadow people... it scared me and i see them if i look directly at them.

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  • Marius794

    Dude that happens to me all the time. I've read about it and from what i've found out is that they are spirits. Next time you notice it stop all the thoughts in your head and try talking to it...it's pretty wild

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  • tori

    I believe that's it the paranormal. It happens to me all the time. My doc says it's the floaters in my eyes. I have floaters but I still don't believe him.

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  • scratchnsniff13

    that happens to me when im comming off a pain pill benge i have spells where i get high for a week or so at night when i get off work on pain pills maybe once a month or so but after that week i see shadows in corners but who knows if your not on drugs i dont know what to tell u

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  • Chillie_chippie

    i find it to be supernatural, actually, it happens to me all the time, especially when something or someone has just died.. its freakishly annoying, and i find myself to be weird :/ sometimes they seem as if they want me to go with them, or to look at something , i just say to my self f**k that, and hide in my room for a minute or two.. they cant do anything to u, just scare the shizz out of you :S

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  • det208

    I'm posting this, it's really late at night, and this is definitely giving me the jibblies.

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  • Gigi-chan963

    I get that way to...but if i stare at a picture it looks like its moving...I scared the shit out of me..

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  • GenX

    Not that uncommon...

    http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa022502a.htm

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  • Superwang

    That happenend to me a couple times. Turns out it was a rat.

    Eyes do some weird shit too. Like, if I stare at grass, or a wall for a couple seconds, to me it'll look like there's mini-waves in the grass and walls.

    Or, it could be the Matrix glitching out.

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  • ieatapples

    are ya lacking something in your diet or something because sounds to me like your hallucinating.

    but i get a weird feeling sometimes though that something is there...iono...odd

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  • Avant-Garde

    It could be a Shadow Person or some Other kind of spirit. I've seen Shadow People before and they always freak me out. I've seen them a few times while have Sleep Paralysis. During my last episode, I saw a Shadow in the corner of my room. It stood there and I could sense that it was staring at me. I tried desperately to move my body but couldn't while simultaneously, this Shadow Being started running at me! I got the feeling that it wanted to sexually accost me. I managed to come to before it could touch me.

    There was another time when I was going to art classes at CC and I saw a couple of them out the corner of my gathered in a corner in a hallway facing the side of my body.

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  • maslover04

    I see dark people all the time. They walk up and down the street at night and they mug people. Mostly in compton and Detroit .Sometimes i see them on tv wearing ridiculous gold chains and interrupting white girls during speeches

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  • austermag

    youre about to have a sea-sure or has had one even a small one before my gramps had one and after he did he saw a shadow walk by and sit on the couch all the time after.

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  • Weirdguypants

    It could be infrasound, or sound that your ears pick up but you don't consciously hear. They are really low-frequency sound waves that can be created in a number of ways (a faulty TV speaker, or even just heat vents can make them, they are also created naturally). If the sound wave is powerful enough (if your room acts as an amplifier) it can actually cause your eyeballs to vibrate, and that can cause all kinds of trippy things with your vision, including what you've described. The sounds can also induce unexplainable fear and panic, though they affect everyone differently.

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  • explodeyhead

    I often see things like that, shadowy, non-threatening figures in the corner of my vision, but only when I haven't been getting enough sleep. Dogs are the most common.

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  • superguy99

    i agree with the last person who commented, it is most likely spiritual activity, my brother ghost hunts for fun, and was even in TAPS at one time, (TAPS is the name of the society on "ghost hunters") and has taught me a lot of stuff about the paranormal, i think that it is spiritual, mabe u should get a paranormal investigator to ur house, as some beleive, u could be psychic, not very rare, but still gifted

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    • physcics are bullshit

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  • 4gettit

    totally normal some low frequency sounds can induce these 'shadows'. just a phenomenon with your brain and peripheral vision. nothing supernatural or abnormal.

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  • extis

    it's a normal mistake that anyone can make it's jst you hair getting in you way of your vision and when you turn you focus goes off the hair or the hair moves so you cant see it anymore

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  • Manarutos

    It's just the dark people (For lack of a better description), somewhat like ghost, they can't do anything to you for the most part, infact, I think they just live in a different plane of existence.

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  • freeatheart

    When your eye focuses in on something, you have a blind spot in your cornea. Therefore your eyes have to roll around really fast to trick your brain into thinking there is something there all the time. Which means that when your concentrating on one particular object, you eyes dont have enough time to move and fill in the blank spaces thus creating the illusion of a dark object/ figure.
    Hope this helps:)

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  • ellenpurfield

    I have experience white and dark figures all my life. When I was a young child around 5 years old, My Great Granny came to me and told me stores about me Dad's Childhood. When i was born she told my Dad i was the chosen one. But I wasn't told this till I was 16 years after begging and crying to my Dad for an explanation for what I have experience in that 16 years.
    When I lived at home my first bedroom was the box room in the second house we lived in. I experience my first dark figure in that room I was about 12 years of age. I woke up to a figure of a hand and a sleeve pointing at my wall. I was frozen I could not move so I just close my eyes and pray.The next morning all my posters on the wall where on the floor plus my toys that were on the table were also on the floor.
    Couple years later I swap rooms with my sister. There were a full length siding mirror Cardboard in that room. For years at night I use to see dark figures at my corner of my eyes walking in and out of the mirror. Even when we got rid of the mirror I use to still see them.
    Another time was when about a month after our family dog Sally was put down I use to see a small dark Figure running around the house but it went after a while.
    When I move in With my Husband Every couple months I would see a figure walking up or down the stairs or around the house.
    I came face to face with one figure when I brought home my twin babies yet again I started to see them. One walk past the kitchen table while I was changing the twins I seen it not by my corner of my eye but with two eyes!! I knew this was not my imagination!!
    I still see them every couple of months. I'm a big believer that the dark figures are death family members or friends.

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    • acg1985

      I have seen some dark figures, but never thought much of them, However on occasion I have seen white figures too, in a dark area they appear to be of a cool shaded pearlescent appearance, when i come to think of it, the same colours are used for bouncing light in objects were invisibility over a distance needs to be formed (bouncing light), so maybe they are only visible in a dark place for that reason.

      it sure is freeky stuff - however you are normal

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  • lovetohogtiemyself

    this is scary me

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  • lalala2009

    ahah scary but i c that all the time but not an animal jst like a blob one time i cot it like travling toward my lamp scary!!

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  • magnadox

    yeah i saw that as a kid out of the corner of my eye repedely and now i see it sometimes full on and it moves and other people that come over see it too so, idk

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  • chopsam719

    The last couple of nights i've been having nightmares of dark figures. Last night was the recent i was so terrified it woke me up, i jumped out of bed and ran into my bathroom to calm down.

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  • kaiti

    It could be a hallucination, it could be something actually in the corner of your eye that floats into your field of vision, or it could be spirit energy. Nothing serious, in any case.

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  • Shadows_Of_the_mind

    Doggone is very right. It is spirit energy that everyone omits. it's hard to explain but everyone gives it off and it's more or less an imprint of others that you are giving more leeway for the spirts.

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  • galeni

    me too, is not unfrequent but could be just being tired, when i work more hours and finally get some time off, it happens more frequently.
    or as ieatapples said, something missing in the diet...
    but quite normal

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  • DarkBloodAngel

    it would be a shadow person, you should try googleing it cause you cant see it directly and even i seen one before

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  • rebel2010

    An eye to brain problem.

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  • tehschoolcounselor

    maybe you should contact an eye docter you may have something called floaters

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  • herbivore

    No its not normal. but don't hate me cause I don't believe you. I guess its possible

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  • BleuMoon

    Well, I have contacts, and the first few days I've worn them everything out of the corner of my eye seemed blurry. Maybe it's that?

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