I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on. Joshilyn Jackson
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In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a book written by Hunter S. Thompson, he talks about a certain feeling he gets when he is using drugs. He calls it the “fear and loathing” feeling which is kind of like a drug that makes you feel as if you are being haunted by all the things that have happened to you in the past. This is the feeling that causes us to turn around and look even though it is nothing but a figment of our imagination.

It is a strange feeling that causes us to see what we think we do not see. Perhaps this is what happens when we stare at the darkness of the night sky. As we stare at these dark spaces, we can see things that cannot be seen by our eyes alone.

Source: The Opposite Of Everyone

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