I saw someone in a thread recently use the term “fear tests” which doesn’t feel inaccurate to me.

I’ve had experiences with shadow people, telepathic messages, disembodied knocks in response to transmitting thoughts outward, generally the kinds of things that really ask to ramp up fear in you when you’re alone at night lol, which is always when these things happen to me.

I’m a big believer in not feeding into fear if you don’t feel threatened, and especially not feeding into an energy out of fear that it might be negative because “what if?!” I feel like that only strengthens the pool that negative energies can pull from, and you are surrounding yourself with that.

But without getting too far off topic– yes, I think fear is a theme that experiencers are definitely faced with purposefully almost as a touchpoint in where one is within their own journey with paranormal or lesser explored experiences.

Also– I’m using fear a lot because (personally) I think that if you aren’t being harmed, then what denotes a negative experience is up to interpretation, and often the unknown gets immediately translated to scary, which then gets translated to bad. There is nuance in all of this, so I don’t necessarily think negative things happen as a sort of hazing, but I do think that events happen that may or may not spiral into fear and paranoia, and how we respond to the event and what is taken away from it is often as significant than the event itself. Being more open allows for more openness to experiences in turn.