Creepy

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      Have you ever been alone somewhere and suddenly felt a strange sensation move across your skin while the hair on your arms (possibly legs if you're a guy) stands up?  Maybe it was at your house or apartment. It probably wasn't at your workplace (don't quote me on that).  Either way it probably felt creepy.

   Before the word "ghosts" enters your thoughts there's another cause worth considering.

   You might have a neighbor behaving most un-neighborly.

   Don't jump to any conclusions about which nearby neighbor it could be.  The term neighbor is being used loosely here.  There's an entire city of people here and all of them are technically neighbors.  The only thing separating us is some distance.

   Assuming you stopped yourself from pointing fingers... you might be wondering what could cause that sensation.

   There's more than one thing that could and none require a supernatural explanation.  Everyone's different in what they perceive from their senses and what they don't.  What things they ultimately become consciously aware of it due to the unconscious part of the mind.

   Your unconscious (it's that part because it was drawn towards awareness when you're mind was first developing) primary role is making the conscious (which was drawn towards consciousness when you're mind was developing) aware of anything that seems important.  

   That's all done through perception.

   After what you might have read on this blog you're probably seeing how it all fits together now.

   The unconscious is capable of providing much more perception than we typically have day to day.  Not just a little more...  Significantly more perception.  

   You might be wondering why that doesn't happen.

   Well, it does happen and happens often.

   The unconscious can make us aware of things it doesn't normally when it senses a need to.  Otherwise a whole range of inputs from our senses get filtered out before they become perceptions.  Does that sound backwards?  Well, it shouldn't.

   Without that filtering the perception overload that might occur could drive a person insane.  But more likely just a little crazy.

   Now that your impatient for an answer to why there aren't "ghosts"...

   The root cause is something we can't live without so we can't ever turn it off (electricity).  But that's an indirect answer.

   The direct cause might be AC magnetic fields (hopefully you don't have one below your floor) and RF (radio frequencies that are generated by magnetic fields).  I'd mention infrasound but that's been covered here before.

   So as long as a nearby neighbor doesn't bear a grudge you should be fine.