You saw and felt what you did, it was real. When my father died in a hospital 20 miles away from me, I *felt* a presence, HIS presence in the kitchen where I was cleaning up alone after dinner. This was immediately followed by his spirit/soul/whatever you want to call it, bonking into my right temple and bouncing off the inside of my skull on the left, saying ‘WHEE, THIS IS FUN!!! Guess he was really enjoying himself after several days in a coma. I got a call a few minutes later from my brother who was up at the hospital, telling me Dad had just died (at that exact moment, minutes earlier). I said ‘I know’ but my real reaction was ‘nope, he’s right here in my head!’
He spent several weeks inside there, as a second personality alongside my own, even went to his own funeral ‘I always wanted to do this, just like Tom Sawyer!’ before he just sort of faded out.
I spent a long time questioning it, was I insane, was I in shock, was it wishful thinking? Nope, nope, nope. It really happened. Just because we can’t yet explain it scientifically or metaphysically, just because *I* can’t explain it, doesn’t make it less real. Trust your experiences, they’re REAL. What I finally had to realize was, he had given me one helluva going away present – clear proof that we survive physical death and continue on in some other form. The most striking aspect of this truly striking experience is that his spirit had MASS. It hit me with the force of a small marble, but still went right thru my skull without resistance. I had a ‘burn’ mark on my temple where he hit for years afterwards, looking a lot like a radiation burn. Interesting… isn’t it?