I've been seeing shadow people since I was sixteen. 

Every time I've seen them it's been in daylight, or in large crowds, or if it is in the dark of night, when I was completely sober.

I don't want to be a downer or dismiss the idea of shadow people being real because I do have experiences but I'm really scared of facing them and having to deal with it being real y'now? (It's almost easier to think you're out of it.)

Every encounter I've had has been the same where they just stand and stare at me. I never see their eyes or any distinctive features. They're a diffused, human-shaped, black mass that just stares at me and while I never feel like they're... malicious or demonic in any way, it's just so unsettling to be stared at. To feel like they have intentions for looking at me like they do. And it's all by different shadow people too, since they have different shapes. They're like silhouettes of different people behind a thin screen, hazy like the heat on a scorching road.

It's like, because I saw one, more and more of them just come and stand near to be seen by me. It's like they want to be noticed.

[size=100]I've gone to a psychotherapist about seeing them, thinking they're hallucinations from mental illness (I've been battling depression and other issues for a while), but as far as she's said to me, what I've been experiencing isn't something she's really heard of. She told me most hallucinations were much more violent towards the one hallucinating and often the result of sleep paralysis or some other causes. She was befuddled that I see them in daylight and with a (presumably) rational mind. And then she goes further to ask me if I had any sixth sense abilities or anyone in my family has had them. Freaking out by the fact that she was feeding into (what I thought at the time) were my hallucinations and delusions, I stopped going to see th