A few minutes ago I had a strange experience involving a night eye shade, the one shown below, about as wide as my head:
After years of use, the back strap of the eye shade was no longer working well, and I decided to order a replacement. After eating breakfast on the sofa of a living room (without noticing the eye shade in the living room where I can never remember putting it), I went from a living room to a bedroom to retrieve the eye shade, so I could check whether it had a particular feature. I could not find the eye shade where I normally keep it, on the bed in the bedroom. Returning to the living room, I retrieved from one end of the living room a paper folder with my Amazon.com password, and went to sit on the sofa. From there I ordered a replacement for the eye shade. I then got up, returned the paper folder to its position in my files, and went back to sit on the sofa. I did some typing on my laptop for a few minutes, and soon I was surprised to see the missing eye shade. It was in about the most noticeable position it could be: four inches to the left of my body, on the sofa I was sitting, very plainly visible. I asked myself: how could I previously have failed to notice the eye shade in the two previous times I sat on the sofa, within the past few minutes? I also asked myself: how could it possibly have got to that position, since I never bring the night eye shade into the living room? What I observed was suggestive of an object being mysteriously teleported. An alternate explanation would require the idea of forgetfulness, the idea of unprecedented placement behavior, and ideas such as that I am such a clumsy observer that I don't notice things I am looking for, twice on the same morning when I sit right next to such things. I may reach such a state of inattention one day, but I don't think I have reached it yet. To read of a previous experience I had suggestive of an object being teleported, read here. Just after writing the above paragraph, I noticed a pink rubber band on the floor to the left of the coffee table just in front of me, one I had not noticed previously while sitting for hours just in front of such a coffee table. I can't account for the rubber band appearing at that spot, which was the exact same little spot where I have been surprised to notice rubber bands on three previous occasions, as I previously reported here. I always immediately clean up items such as coins, pens or rubber bands off the floor of my living quarters, as soon as I notice such things.
After writing the paragraph above, I realized there may be some symbolic significance to the spooky event involving the eye shade. "Shade" was a term used in nineteenth century English to mean "ghost or disembodied spirit." And in the English language "eye" sounds just like "I." So an eye shade may symbolize the phrase "I shade," which may be equivalent to "I ghost" or "I disembodied spirit" or "I am a ghost" or "I am a disembodied spirit."
Below we see how the Merriam-Webster dictionary has "a disembodied spirit: ghost" as one of its definitions of "shade."
Postscript: The day after writing this post I saw something else that seemed spooky. An air freshener I had on top of a toilet (inches away from the edge) mysteriously fell to the ground. I looked at the object to see whether I could find anything that it might symbolize. On the back I found the words "Transport yourself to a tropical paradise." Could this be some hint regarding an afterlife destination that I might reach before long?
I continue to have mystifying observations in which I notice on the floor one or more rubber bands, with me having no explanation for how they got there, something I have seen well over 12 times this year (see here and here for about a dozen examples). I noticed this soon after waking up on August 16, 2025. I checked a photo I had taken of the area just before going to bed and it showed no rubber band on the floor. In one of those posts I speculate about a possible symbolic meaning of such occurrences.
On August 18, 2025 in the morning I picked up from a TV stand a large pen to make a mark on a calendar. After walking a few steps towards the calendar, I was surprised to see a rubber band surrounding two of my fingers, as shown below. There was a rubber band near the spot where I had picked up the pen. But it seems all-but-impossible that picking up a pen near a rubber band would result in the rubber band accidentally surrounding two fingers.
Just after writing the paragraph above, and adding it to this post, on August 18, I noticed in the middle of the wooden floor a pink rubber band, the appearance of which I cannot account for. I had taken the photo above at the same spot a few minutes earlier, when the floor did not have any rubber bands on it. I have had similar spooky-seeming observation experiences involving rubber bands well over 13 times.
Later in the same day there was another event like the one described above, when I was surprised to see a pink rubber band surrounding my finger when I picked up a smartphone lying near a rubber band. Maybe I should call this spooky day "the day of the finger-seeking rubber bands."
Post-postscript: On September 3 there were 3 other anomalies involving the seemingly inexplicable observations of a rubber band on the floor. I have now seen this type of spooky-seeming event occur well over 16 times.
Post-Post-postscript: On October 21, 2025 there was another rubber band anomaly. After replacing a toilet paper roll on a toilet paper dispenser, I was surprised to see there was now a rubber band surrounding the four fingers of my left hand. I can't recall doing anything to cause that. A conceivable explanation is that the toilet paper roll had a rubber band around it, which I put around the fingers of my left hand, while forgetting about the trivial event. But I can't explain why a toilet paper roll would ever have started out with a rubber band around it. I buy toilet paper rolls from a nearby store, and they sure don't have rubber bands around them when I buy them.
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