Do you see anything in this?


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The story behind it is...A couple of weeks ago, I went into my bedroom at night and plopped down a bag with my yarn work in it on a hamper. Later, I looked in that direction from across the room and was stunned to see a hatted figure comprised of the shapes made from my bag, etc. It was so realistic that I gasped.

I got my camera and took some photos of it. I was a little bit tense because I could feel his presence. At one point as I aimed the camera, I became startled and I jerked as I took the photo. That is where the hazy photo came from, but it is so haunting and seems to show more than the "stable" photos.





Man and Wolf - a typical theme that I find.


I feel this figure is part of the cluster of male figures I call "the father". He wears many hats and has somewhat varying facial features. I've called these specific males Mulligan, Green Man, Shaman, amongst other things, and even at first thought he was Merlin. Whoever he is, for years he's been showing up in my photos, my dreams, and sometimes appearing in the shapes around me.

In fact, my belief is that when a presence/spirit is around, their structure is reflected in the layering of physical objects around (for those that will see it).

In the night when I am altered and I have interactions with spirit, as I come to full waking consciousness, I see the spirit overlaid in correspondence with the shapes around me for a while until the spirit's image fades all the way back into ordinary objects (as if melting back in). For example, my bathrobe hanging next to my bed can form all or part of a spirit I see. A traditional belief is that the person/brain will try to see something in nothing (pareidolia). But for me, it is something there that allows me to see it through ordinary shapes in my physical world.