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Watching television last night, a show was on about the paranormal, which led to an interesting thought about those odd creepy, feelings we sometimes get.

There was speculation on the show claiming monsters and other entities we see, have drop in momentarily from other realities, whether meaning to or not. They are here, they are seen, and they disappear forever.

The light bulb came on and a strange idea entered my thoughts. What is going on when we get that creepy feeling that we are not alone, or we are being watched? Even though with all our normal senses we can not detect anything or anyone around us, or anything out of the ordinary?

Have one of those unknown, unidentified creatures ventured into our reality, and we simply can not seen them? I thought this may be a possibility, then another thought entered occurred to me.

What if, in the instance of few seconds we have that creeped out feeling, we are existing in two realities at once, and are only aware of our own existence in our reality?

I do not know if you are familiar with an old novel, “The Time Machine“, by H. G. Wells? Let me bore you with a short old age distorted version. An inventor created a machine that could travel back and forth through time. The inventor did indeed travel both directions in time and it was obvious wherever he went, he did not fit in with the general population for various reasons, be it his clothing, size, complexion, whatever. It has been some years since I read the book, but you get the idea.

Dropping into a parallel universe may be about the same. We would be the same, but everything around us would be a little different. People may be wearing slightly different clothing, may be taller, shorter, may or may not be speaking English as we know it, or it they do, it is a little different. Buildings may be about the same, but not quite the same. The weather may be different, or the sun light dimmer or a different color.

Now, if I am walking outside to get the mail, and in an unknown unexplained glitch I am also walking in another reality, would I know it? No doubt I would stand out from what is normal in another reality. Or everything around me would stand out as being different to me, but I can not see it.

To my senses, I am walking to the mailbox, when suddenly things feel a little strange and creepy, like I am not alone, or someone is watching me. If I were indeed inhabiting two realities at once, I imagine it would feel that way, even though I can not perceive any physical changes except an odd feeling. The mailbox is getting closer, and except for the creepy feeling everything else is the same.

To anyone in that other reality, what would I look like? Would I look like them, but not quite? Would I be a monster that suddenly appeared? A monster that looks grotesque and something only seen in pictures or descriptions of another person’s account? Perhaps I would be oblivious to them as I am here and walking to the mailbox. What are they seeing? Am I ambling along, a strange body in a strange costume, not paying any attention to anything around me? Or do they have a creepy feeling they can not explain too?

I walk another six or seven steps, and suddenly everything feels normal again. To whatever is in the other reality that saw me, I disappeared as quickly as I appeared. Was I real, did they imagine it? Perhaps, if the ground were soft and damp, snow or sand, I may have left some tracks, but that would be it. There would be nothing else there to prove my presence or appearance.

Whoever or whatever saw me in that other reality would have a decision to make. Tell someone what they saw, or keep it to themselves and try to convince themselves it was their imagination. Which solution would you take?

You decide to tell someone what you saw, and if you do, do they believe you? Or do they think either you had some kind of episode or are trying to pull a grand joke on them?

You keep what you saw to yourself, even though you ‘know’ what you saw was real. You do not want anyone to think there is something wrong with you. You go to the Internet, or if in that other reality what passes for the Internet, or perhaps a public library.

As you quietly search along, you find other accounts by others who saw the same thing you just witnessed. However, their stories sound kind of flaky and you think for whatever reason, they made their story up. Yet, there is that little nagging doubt, because what they saw and what you saw share a lot of the same dynamics and details.

Whichever path you take, tell someone(s) and chance looking like a buffoon or an outright liar, or keep it to yourself, you will always be wondering if it really happened – as it seemed so real. But it couldn’t be real, could it?

Returning to what happened on the walk to the mailbox and the strange creepy feeling you had for those few seconds, how do you explain it away? You got dizzy? Your brain slipped a cog? You ate or breathed a strange chemical combination that made you hallucinate for a few seconds? Something else?

If the above is at all possible, it does account for Monsters which have been reported and documented all over the world, but never captured or killed. It also would explain why we sometimes have this brief feeling that something has suddenly changed even though everything seems the same. Or that feeling we are being watched even though we can not see anything unusual or anyone around us.

What is most interesting is, whether you are the one walking to the mailbox, or you are the one who sees something suddenly appear and a few seconds later disappear, it can not simply be explained away, and it should not be discounted. Whatever reason you choose as an explanation, something happened. Something we can not be explain in normal terms or ideas we are familiar with. Hmm…