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I saw this on another forum and thought it might be a good topic for discussing.

Psychic Imprints:

A Psychic Imprint is not a Spirit but a form of energy. However, usually it requires a Professional to discern between the two because for all intent and purposes a Psychic Imprint can exhibit the same "symptoms" as a Haunting. In its most simplified definition - whenever an event transpires that arouses strong emotions such as a death, the residency in which this event occurred can create a psychic photograph or recording which may "loop" indefinitely.

For example, let's say that a wife is caught being unfaithful to her husband, and subsequently he murders her in the bedroom. Years later guests in the dwelling might be awoken by the frightening vision of a woman screaming and running about in an effort to escape from that same area of the home. This type of manifestation may repeat itself over and over at the same time on the same evening or date that the actual incident took place. Her Spirit is not truly there, just an imprint of her energy or memory.

What are your thoughts on this? Has any similar expieriences?

Yeah. Am sort of thinking like the original post said, is it possible to caprute a memory there and like certain times the memory is re-lived. Sort of like flash backs of an event.

I'm not sure this will be what your looking for but as far as I'm concerned a psychic imprint is when an extreme situation occurs such as a violent death. The energy created by the act that took the life or lives is embedded in the land, or object the person touched last. An example would be Gettysburg battlefield.

Yes thats pretty much what I'm getting at but couldn't get the words for it.

Yes, I believe in such a thing as Psychic Imprinting, I mean why not?

Every time an event happens it will leave a mark. Take for instance saint Agnes psychicatric award. It is full of negative energy because of all the bad things that happened while it was still a hospital.

My experience with this was a place where I used to have my horses stabled. everytime you went into a certain box the air was heavy, kinda like it squeezed you together and it was hard to breathe. That was where the strongest energy was but you could feel this heavy energy all over the place.

I've touched objects and felt such emotion and a vision - they were so strong that it left an imprint on the object itself. Like this topic and feel very strongly about it as well...certain buildings, fields, even vehicles, planes, and objects can be imprinted.

I read that there is usually a heavy deposit of quartz in the land where the happinings occur, quartz is a great conductor of energy also ,and so it seems to hold the energy( good or bad ) and replays the events like a tape recorder .. anyway its a theory.

I beleive it's possible. I have not experienced it myself, but I do beleive it.

hmmm.....I stand with my belief that all ghosts sightings and such are mentally brought on my deviations of energy.

how do you distinguish between a ghost an an imprint tho....
is it just that the scene is on repeat..whereas a ghost is more interactive?

This is just my opinion:

An imprint would be conducted from and object or certain area and perhaps triggered by a certain time. The event would stay the same each time.
Where as a ghost would roam over wherever it felt and would not always be re-living the memory of it's death or whatever.

Yeah, its one of the most common theories about hauntings there is. Its also fairly likely in my books... It makes a lot of sense to me.

I have always looked at the idea of hauntings from a scientific perspective, and believe that at least soem of the hauntings experienced can be explained this way. Like viewing a TV program.

ah, quite familiar with this theory. What happens since the death was really quick, it doesn't give the soul a chance to realize what's going on. So of course its gonna repeat over and over until whatever the soul was trying to do finally completes its task. And yeah its kinda true about using an expert, but it also depends on what gift can help solve the situation. In this case, Clairaudience and Clairsentince would be the proper answers because Clairaudience allows the bearer to hear things others can't while clairsentinence explains what went on in this spot and what the person was trying to do. Hope this helps clear some things up.

Morigetsu - tahst some good info there. Never heard of Clairaudience or Clairsentience before, interesting stuff.

I have heard about this and do believe in imprinting, the loop of a point in time because of some sort of traumatic event and then the playing of the event in the present I find fascinating to me. I have lived in haunted houses and apartment and have never experience this event before. This is a great topic that I will keep an eye on.

I've heard rumours that death doesnt just leave an imprint. happy moment are also recorded down just the same as a dramatic ones.

interesting subject. but how can you tell the difference between a haunting and an imprint?

Call Peter Venkman and Ray Stantz?

Egon Spengler? Anyone?

As a ghost hunter, I come across these all the time. And as a ghost hunter, they are great, as a medium, they are as annoying as shit.

I have had several such experiances... ONe happened to be in the house I was living in when I was... 12 or so... like 7 or 8 years ago....

I'll never forget it, because it was the first time anything like that had ever happened, and it scared the living daylights out of me....

I have only had one experience of this nature. I am unsure as to why it happened or how. I will be interested to see how this thread finishes.

I believe that what some call "spiritual energy" is capable of leaving "footprints" on all things.. living and objects alike. It takes on many forms... some bad and some good everyone is capable of sensing some of it...but rarely is someone able to fully understand it. I am not talking about "seeing" dead people. I mean actually understanding the message left behind in time. It is a gift tha can drive it's possesor mad...at least that is my belief. It is a dangerous gift, not to be taken lightly.

I have had several Psychic Imprinting experiances one of which happened at the estate I used to live in. But its a long sory so I wont tell it here.
I have heard of people imprintig others in a similar way.

When I used to live with my parents, I remember that every night at around 2 am weaking up hearing a baby cry and like 2 persons running frantically. Also in the sitting room, there was a presence of some kind of spirits.

when i did a small research of the house, i found out that the house was destroyed during WW2 and the spirit of the family remained trapped there.

After about a month, we never heard any more manifestations

i experienced an interesting case once. i was helping a friend renovae an old house i was working evenings, and someone else was doing mornings. each night i would switch off the ligts and switch off the power at the isolation point. i was told that each morning, all the lights were on. one evening, after finishing work, i decided to watch football on the TV that was still there. suddenly, it seemed as if the lightbulb was too dim, and that the room i was in was a tiny oasis in an ocean of darkness. i was suddenly absolutely petrified of the dark. it took all my will to leave the room, switch on the stair lights, and flee the building. although it was far darker outside than in - my fear of the dark vanished as soon as i got outside. i am not a person who fears the dark.

Some people believe that psychic imprinting explains hauntings, so a ghost isn't a spirit just an imprint

I believe in ghosts as spirits, so I guess I can't believe in psychic imprinting

I hope that makes sense !

I've never experienced anything exactly like that...But, I have heard stories and have friends and acquaintances who have had experiences like that...Interesting stuff.

Having had no interactive experience with a ghost (they seam to run like a son of a bitch from me, Talking boards stop working etc), I have always concidered ghosts to be Psychic imprints... i have called them thus since I was about 10, some 1/4 of a century ago.

Furthermore, I have believed since I was about 10, that imprints are not nessesarily linear in a chronological sence. That an imprint/ghost is like a wave in time from the event that initially rippled the timestream, and thus can go forward, backward, or in some other pattern unknown to us move through time.

Perhaps that I do not differentiate between ghosts and an imprint is ignorance... however my opinion is that it is more likely that interaction with an imprint affects the imprint wave in a way that would explain vriations in the wave.
Well it seams more likely to me than a spirit giving a flying F. about an attachment to this plane. For example: a mother may remember what it was liek to carry her child in her womb, It is very unf'n-likely that the child spends a lot of time thinking about their mothers womb, let alone trying to affect it (you Oedipus freaks can shut the F. up right now *grin*)

Great post!
Reading through the replies it comes to mind that there is much that needs to be said regarding this subject. There is a difference between the subject at hand and a haunting.

The subject at hand is delt with in the science of psychometry. The ability to probe into the present or past of an object. The ability to read these objects has to do with a persons development in the astral senses, such as: clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience.
This can be accmplished in all objects living or non-sentient. It is a simple proceedure whereby a person places themselves into a trace (goes into the akasha) and and uses their astral senses. Also, one can use a magically charged mirror to see, hear, or feel. To discover all events connected to that object from begining to end. There also existed the possibility to contact any individual that has come into contact with said object. Because the object is the connecting link between the physical body and soul and spirit of the looker and the subject.

Now how does all this tie in with the subject at hand. The energy of the event through excited psychic activity is given enough power to condense to such a dragree that it has physical force and therefore can be seen, heard, and felt by those that are undeveloped astrally.

These can become so condensed they even can become sentient and devolop a sense of self-preservation gaining nourishment from the excited pychic activity of those it scares.

This is a very interesting topic. I have never heard of this before, so it was nice to read.

A question came to me when I was reading all of the posts. Can a person be imprinted? I am sorry if that sounds ignorant, but I am a little new at all of this...and a little old.

Well as to people being imprinted, since we are able to communicate with each other we don't need this.

We call it memory.

If you are talking about a haunting/poltergeist situation then that is a totally different situation.

I think we psychic imprint with every thing that we come in contact with, especially if there is strong emotions involved. There are times where what we touch we connect with, even if it’s an emotion that is not related to what we are holding/doing we imprint just a bit on that object.

I think this is why many people get travel sick. They go places with our faster forms of travel (trains/planes) and feel “off” or “left behind” for a day or so, as they are waiting for their energies to “catch up”. The difference is the energy catches up and the person feels better rather quickly from this. With the imprint it is left on the item, good or bad.

That is a good point Liebe, it would explain why the deceased are not suposed to be moved (to tie into another thread) more than two hours travel away from their location of death... perhaps the energy flow (lay of the land) can only stay connected to the body only so far before it alters the connection to the soul as a temple.

While alive most people can adapt to the local imprints quickly (tides/currents etc), however when you travel not everyone can ride the wave as effectively.

It would also go a long way to explain stress: if one were to concider that stress was the inability to cope with a predicted advancing situation, and that situations of the future project imprint waves.

Exactly Kglitterous, there are even some cultures that associate different parts of the soul to the body, the body’s constitution which is where some get the idea of not moving a body far. As you want those aspects of the soul to remain with the body until is dissipates.

There are also diets that take this into account and actually encourage people to only eat foods grown and raised within a certain area of where they live. The idea is that much of our current imbalances come from that we are not connected with the land we live on. Previously in our history we lived and ate only within small distances of our home. The food was all local and well- cars just weren’t as available. This is no longer the case so the idea is that we have lost our Psychic imprint on ourselves from the land we live on. Should we reconnect the idea is our energies will be stronger and our abilities to imprint other items grows from that.

I actually had a conversation about this with a friend the other day.

I do believe there are such things are psychic imprints. As far as being caused by bad situations or certain amount of bad juju, I think it can occur with both good and bad. It can depend on the amount of energy in general in that certain place.

For instance my mother was very silent about the gifts she had. I believe she was frightened of it. The one time she did actually speak of a experience it was psychic imprinting.

It was in the middle of the day. She traveled this road all the time. Atleast two times per day. She suddenly come across what seem to be a large group of people in older style clothes crossing the street like in a herd. They never looked up at her. When she passed though it she said that she just got wierd 'feelings' like it was real but, not in the present time.

When she looked in her review mirror nothing was there.

To my knowledge nothing that has been traumatic has happened in that spot. Of course it could have happened in a time when nothing was recorded.

It was a really neat and rare occurance. I still wonder if anyone else has had the same thing happen to them in that spot.

CountessMoon:

That is a wonderful example. I do not believe that all pychic imprinting, has to come from a bad occurance.

It is an imprint of a very strong emotion, either good or bad, that is left in the area or object, at the time of the emotion.

I have never seen a ghost, but I have experienced a few psychic imprints. I am a very impathic person, and imprints are usually very strongly emotional. I haven't felt cold spots, or seen visions, but have just become so increadably overwhelmed with emotion that it has, in some instances, made me unable to do anything but sob and gasp for breath. These feelings would only overtake me during certain times and did repeat, some nightly some anually.

i feel strongly about both spiritual imprinting and hauning as i feel i have experienced both but am not willing o share them! as they are not very pleasent

I am glad to know, that you do know the difference, dear.

There are many who still think that a psychic imprinting is a haunting.

It is not.

hmmm, Psychic Imprinting represents the accretion of strong feelings into certain objects and places... Has anyone ever felt the emphatic pressure of an ancient house, for example? It's like some different sort of heat, the fret in the air. More sensible people feel a certain weakness... like, I'm learning inside a 200 years old high school and I experience these sensations daily. Anyway, I believe psychic imprinting is strongly connected to haunting, cause powerful feelings drag spirits to earth.

Imprinting can be easily achieved when one decides to carve into the perception of another's state of being.

i have to agree with this.sometimes something so tragic can occur that years later u still can feel the effects of it.

Idbeholda:

I do not understand. Could you, please, explain further what you mean.

Regardless of the initial onset, anything can be transmuted, regardless of whether it is a being, or a system. Perception and states thereof are just as easily malleable as time itself. Thus, imprinting can easily be achieved through manipulation and control of outside events.

Idbeholda:

In essence, you are saying that it is not an uncontrolable event, necessarily.

That anyone with the knowledge and capablity, could make a Psychic Imprint on whatever or where ever they choose?

Precisely

In saying that, do you believe that a lot of the imprinting, that we have heard about , might have been done with a purpose?

It's quite likely. In fact, I'm willing to bet money on it.

That is not a very restful answer. I have taken a long to reply to this. I didn't know how to put this, For what reason would someone want to replay some of the most horrific things that can happen to a person?

Some of the psychic imprinting has been very horrible.

If that scenerio is the case, then whats any different from her spirit being there? Isnt your spirit a form of energy? I call bullshit. Phsycic imprint couldnt possibly be anything other than the presence of a spirt. Being as a spirit is a form of psychological energy..then what makes the two any different?

@ Mistress: People do things for a reason. Sometimes, that reason may not be apparent at first, but it's always there.

@Diablo: Minus the calling bullshit part, there is very little difference, as most things are simply a matter of perception.

This sounds a lot like the theory of the 'stone tape' - certain substances are more receptive to psychic energy than others, for example quarried stone as opposed to plastic. The theory is that the 'vibrations' within the objext match the psychic resonance or signature of the human mind and acts like a recording medium to save the sensation/event/sound for replay at a later date.

The problem is, it requires a 'sensitive' - someone with a compatable resonance - to unlock the recording. There are quite a few documented cases of 'time loops' or recurring ghosts that fit the profile for the phenomenon. Some of the best examples are around battlefields or military sites: try looking up the 'ghosts of Ghettysburg' or the Bath Roman road...

Legend:

There seems to be a bit of a debate.

You have just added a new twist. Could they all be the same thing?

Let me explain:

As I understand it, a time loop is a Phenomenon where spirits or energy fromthe past relive a certain moment in time.

Haunting is a spirit or energy, for lack of a better term, that lingers in one place.

Psychic Imprinting is just energy left after an emtional event. Though in this thread it has been said that it is the same as a haunting.

Could all three be a different type of the same thing?

So are they connected?

Well, they all seem to involve the storage (or trapping) and release of energy in some form. Is it possible that spectral/spirit/psychic energy is just another form of energy that we don't yet understand?

I mean, many 'haunted' sites exhibit anomalous energy readings (emf or heat/cold effects are the most common), could it be possible that - if we understood the phenomena more fully - we might be able to record and identify the type of 'x' energy field and maybe even analyse the type of event. It would certainly revolutionise the way we look at ghosts and hauntings. And I can think of quite a few 'debunkers' who would be a lot less smug if it parasychology could be reformed into a legitamate (sp?) science!

Legend:

It would set the science community on its collective ear, I think.

Regardless, I think that parapsychology is a real science. Not to mention a viable one. There is just to many things that can't be explained any other way.

I have a theory. Psychic Imprints, Ghosts, Haunts, Spirits, Apparations - all of these, with the exception of the Apparitions that appear to a person at the time of the death of a loved one, are usually from a lifetime or longer ago. Does anyone disagree with me on this? I am only basing this on what I personally know and have encountered. My theory is this: They are not all left behind by something, some are a memory from a past life. I'm not saying all of them are, just some of them. Which is why it would make sense they loop; you are simply getting an instant replay of one of the more memorable - though not nessicarilly pleasant - events that occured in your life; just not this one.

Thank you. I think it makes sense, you know? Like some people who are more perceptive to Ghosts and such or that see the same Apparition in more than one place are probably remembering past lives, because otherwise how do you explain the same appearance in a different location? Or the fact that they see more than most people?

I think you might have a point - certainly the traditional definition of the typical ghost/shade/revenant that appears to someone UNCONNECTED TO THE APPARITION is of a person in old or antique dress, often in a location no longer in use for its original purpose.

I have not experienced this but I believe that anything is possible

All I can tell you is that I believe and I know it`s possible but I cant explain it so Ill just leave it at that, and Im sorry I cant explain it!!!