A tale of ghosts and pulled muscles and the fabric

This won't turn short, I know that already, and I also know that quite a bit if not a lot of it will end misinterpreted or misunderstood by many, even though of course they will believe they have understood, but that's just another part of the problem I am trying to wrap my mind around.

When we encounter a situation, we either draw on previous experiences to make sense of what is going on, or we draw from a belief system, and sometimes the two are majorly interlinked. Yesterday for example a friend and I visited an old graveyard because I really like the peace and mystery such places emmit for me personally. I like to wander about on them, read gravestones and imagine the lives once lived by those who are now resting in the ground. I also will touch stones tenderly, just in case there is something left behind from those lives, sort of as a gentle greeting I guess. Did that many a times and never had any 'after effect'. Yesterday night though when I arrived back at my home, I felt as if something was not 'right'. It felt like something was in my home that had not been there before, and it was not a pleasant warm feeling. I didn't think upon it too much and just eneded going to sleep eventually, but when I woke and started to go upon my morning chores, I felt a strange burning pain just below my right ribs. Never felt this before, and there is nothing visible which could explain why my skin in that area has suddenly turned sensitive to even a light stroking over it, nor does the pain sit deep enough to suggest something more serious. It feels quite surface, sort of layers of the skin related, and one might could say it feels like a cut that has healed but then again not healed.

I think already at this point, some who may have ended reading this will roll their eyes and say 'oh my, next she is going to tell us she is some psychic or has made contact with some ghost trying to tell her about a murder'.. while others might at this time already vigorously nod, excited and fully convinced this is a sign I have attracted a ghost. Some readers of the rolling eye group no doubt will go further and begin to think of different explanations, and some of the nodders will possibly begin to draw connections between my experience and experiences they either have made or have been told of.

Okay, I really hope I can make this clear with this sentence: I do NOT claim to have attracted a ghost, nor am I claiming NOT to have attracted a ghost. To put it frankly - I got no bloody blooming clue!

There is however something that I do believe to be fact, and that is that if I had never heard a ghost story in my life, I would not even take such a thing into consideration, and the same goes also for the other way round: Had I only ever heard ghost stories and would I live in a society that accepts those as absolute truth, I'd not consider any other explanation in their stead. We however live in a society that is made up of some being believers in religions, some being hardcore scientists who will not accept anything beyond which can be proven in the physical world, and then again others who pick and mix and come to conclusions entirely due to their likings. The latter group to me is the one I sort of got the most 'problems' with, as they in my view end accepting or dismissing anything and everything purely based on their own personal judgement. They appear often as open minded and more tollerant on first view, compared to hardcore scientists or believers, but the thing is.. they do tend to eventually always arrive with conclusions, and the moment they do, they will turn intollerant to other options, and all this only based on their own evaluation, which in many cases is nowhere near as thorough as that of scientists, nor as excusable as that of religious believers.