As I said in a previous post it is quite natural to sense the previous occupant of a room …
I would assume someone who didn’t had very little imagination.
For me, buildings hold memories, you get a sense of love or foreboding
Ghosts that have been seen repeating an event over and over are just the memories replayed
Yet again I agree Mike 
and we are all of course very susceptible to the games our minds can play on us if we allow them to.
Memories and things we have been told which may lurk in our subconscious can also play a part in creating ‘experiences’ as can the adrenaline caused by fear .
Meg, as I have said many times on this forum and probably on this thread, that I believe and I have never ever scoffed at those that don’t.
I know there is life after death in some form, I have had proof but can’t prove it on a forum, because those that don’t believe scoff at me.
I believe and been a practising Spiritualist for 40 + years, and if when I die I am wrong then it won’t matter, but if when those that don’t believe die ???
I dont suppose it will be too long before I find out, at 77 and not in good health, but I will soldier on when my times comes I shall face it with dignity.
I have already picked my plot where my wife and I will be buried, and my two daughters are having the plot next to ours.
About a week after my Doreen passed away i got up one night to go to the toilet and as i walked down the hallway there was a very strong smell of her favourite perfume Chanel.
Once or twice a year I have this experience relating to my Nan
Smells are often a way to be contacted Doc, try saying hello to her next time.
They just like you to know you are being watched over.
Smells are also part of our retained memories of someone and our imagination. I can still clearly smell the scent of my husbands after 30 years if I think about him.
If you want to think bits of dead people are watching over you
Wrinkly that is your privilege :-).
Here’s a question for you Wrinkly :-). You clearly think dead people are still hanging around somewhere so maybe you have an answer.
My mother died when I was a baby, her brother my uncle also died young. My father married again to his sister in law (my mother’s brother’s widow ).The two women knew and didn’t like each other at all .
Tell me which wife my father is with in the spirit world
Not both of them I am sure .
I will give an example of the tricks the mind can play :-).
When I was a little girl we lived in a badly lit house with gas lamps and no electricity.
My older sister used to scare me by telling me there was a monster at the top of the stairs who was waiting to eat me.
I had never seen a monster of course so did not know what one might look like but I had seen a troll in a book and I actually began to think with my childish mind that I could see a monster troll at the top of the stairs and I was afraid to go up there even to the loo with the inevitable consequences for which I was punished 
It got worse, there was a walnut veneered wardrobe in the bedroom with patterns in the wood and I started to see images of the monster troll in the bedroom so couldn’t sleep and became quite ill.
The mind and imagination can play cruel games.
More is becoming clearer and the part our brains play in ‘experiences …’
Scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” one distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality. Now, University of Missouri researchers have completed research that indicates spirituality is a complex phenomenon, and multiple areas of the brain are responsible for the many aspects of spiritual experiences. Based on a previously published study that indicated spiritual transcendence is associated with decreased right parietal lobe functioning, MU researchers replicated their findings. In addition, the researchers determined that other aspects of spiritual functioning are related to increased activity in the frontal lobe.
“We have found a neuropsychological basis for spirituality, but it’s not isolated to one specific area of the brain,” said Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology in the School of Health Professions. “Spirituality is a much more dynamic concept that uses many parts of the brain. Certain parts of the brain play more predominant roles, but they all work together to facilitate individuals’ spiritual experiences.”
In the most recent study, Johnstone studied 20 people with traumatic brain injuries affecting the right parietal lobe, the area of the brain situated a few inches above the right ear. He surveyed participants on characteristics of spirituality, such as how close they felt to a higher power and if they felt their lives were part of a divine plan. He found that the participants with more significant injury to their right parietal lobe showed an increased feeling of closeness to a higher power.
“Neuropsychology researchers consistently have shown that impairment on the right side of the brain decreases one’s focus on the self,” Johnstone said. “Since our research shows that people with this impairment are more spiritual, this suggests spiritual experiences are associated with a decreased focus on the self. This is consistent with many religious texts that suggest people should concentrate on the well-being of others rather than on themselves.”
Johnstone says the right side of the brain is associated with self-orientation, whereas the left side is associated with how individuals relate to others. Although Johnstone studied people with brain injury, previous studies of Buddhist meditators and Franciscan nuns with normal brain function have shown that people can learn to minimize the functioning of the right side of their brains to increase their spiritual connections during meditation and prayer.
In addition, Johnstone measured the frequency of participants’ religious practices, such as how often they attended church or listened to religious programs. He measured activity in the frontal lobe and found a correlation between increased activity in this part of the brain and increased participation in religious practices.
“This finding indicates that spiritual experiences are likely associated with different parts of the brain,” Johnstone said.
Of course there will always be those who dismiss science , they want to believe in the paranormal .
Glad you asked that Meg, my father died when I was 6 years old and mum married again to my dad.
Now for years I had hoped my father would somehow contact us in some way.
It wasn’t till I visited for the first time a church in Huddersfield where no one knew me, and the very first visit the medium said she had my grandmother, Mum, and my Dad and father, and named them by christian name. I was gobsmacked and very elated.
It takes something like that to really believe for sure.
Now sadly folks seem to think it is just like a telephone service where you could just dial up a loved one, but it is not.
I think we have to open up our minds to the fact that those passed can get in touch, but we have to be receptive to the fact.
My mother never stopped loving my father after he was killed, why should she, equally she loved my Dad.
One thing I do believe those who believe in the afterlife will be the ones who will be able to contact loved ones later after they have passed.
This might help explain.
Wrinkly you didn’t answer my question but then I didn’t think you would.
I was asking you if the dead go into a spirit world which of his wives will by father be with. As he loved both but they hated each other will the poor man have to spend eternity with two women fighting over him with not ever the prospect of death as an escape 
It wasn’t till I visited for the first time a church in Huddersfield where no one knew me, and the very first visit the medium said she had my grandmother, Mum, and my Dad and father, and named them by christian name. I was gobsmacked and very elated.
have you seen magicians perform Wrinkly they are just as convincing as mediums but not so dangerous. I have seen how so called mediums can manipulate people and even lead to their death.
Also see my post above…
Can only speak for myself - at no time was I thinking of my Nan on those occasions
You wouldn’t need to be Patsy similar scents associated with your Nan which could emanate from a number of sources would have the power to bring her to your mind.
It is all part of our stored memories.
I can’t think of anything that would make me want to conjure up the smell of ‘snuff’ …:-p
I thought I had Meg, the fact my mother was with her first and second husband at the same time.
I can’t speak for your relatives, I don’t know whether they loved each other like my parents.
Maybe not consciously Patsy it just happens :-).
I have horrible memories if I encounter anything which smells remotely like like blackboard chalk , I don’t want to remember these things but scent has the power to unlock deep memories particularly if related to particularly good or bad experiences.
Why can smells unlock forgotten memories?
I have 2 grandaughters one aged 10 and the eldest soon to be 12, about 3 years ago at home where we were looking after both of them we heard a piercing scream, I shot to the bottom of the stairs where I found my eldest grandaughter with a look on her face I will never forget it was sheer fear and she was crying.
To this day we don’t know what happened, she cant tell us, but something frightened her and she would never sleep at my house again or go up stairs on her own.
On a different theme, I would love for my late father to come to me in some way.
Children sense these things more than adults - I think because our minds are so cluttered with so many different things going on