Like I said, I don't believe in them, although I have had instances where if I DID believe, it would have made more sense at the time. After evaluating what happened, there was a rational explanantion. Example:
My mother died around Mothers' Day in 1997. I took it pretty hard at the time and quite a while afterwards. I still have my days of not coping very well. Every once in a while, I think I see something out of the corner of my eye, like in my periphial (sp?) vision and when I turn to check it out, I think I see something moving like ducking into another room. I will go check it out and it will be nothing. Now, I know no one is here as I live alone at the present, but I find after thinking about it that I was thinking of my mother and my mind wanted to believe she was here, in one way or the other. I made myself WANT to see something that I knew wasn't there.
Life is more rational than many people believe. Sometimes it's easier to believe in something else instead of looking at it in a rational way. Rationality always makes sense and it is always constant.
Now, if anyone understands any of what I just said, please explain it to me. I think I was just having a moment of incoherency here.