I am starting to become very confused on what exactly is going on with me.
Since I was a young child around the age of 3 I have been talking to people I can give full descriptions of that no one else could see or hear. I am now going on 22 and it seems things are becoming stronger.
Over the years I have seen spirits, heard spirits, had things moved on me, and I have been physically touched. I have had dreams of the departed and of occurrences that later happen.
When my mother moved into her home the first visit I took there I told her that the storage space under the stairs had a lot of spiritual activity. I told her full descriptions of a native woman and her daughter and a man that comes in the form of a dark shadowy mass that I believed to be the little girl's father. He was angry but had no intentions of harming anyone. This little girl was killed and had a symbol drawn on her chest due to her mother and father being from different tribes. Later on I found out after careful historical research the area we live in is old native ritual sites and burial grounds. And when tribes had children with different tribes they would draw a symbol on the child's chest and sacrifice them.
After my grandfather passed away for several months both myself, my mother, and my mothers best friend would see him, or hear him. I had vivid dreams of him talking to me saying he was proud of me for coming so far in life and tell my grandmother he loves her. I never thought anything of it as I thought I was just dreaming of him because I missed him so much. It was not until my mothers friend received a phone call from my house while no one was home and heard a man speak the words " why won't you listen to me?". After this we called my grandmother to say we felt my grandfather has a message for her and we have to tell her he is very much around and I told her of my dream where he asked me to tell her he loves her. After that we never had any experiences involving my grandfather again.
The newest occurrences that have been happening over the last month or so are in my apartment. My doors shut, lights turn on, we hear walking, my boyfriend who previously had never had any experiences up until meeting me has heard a woman talk to him. Both times he thought it was me until he turned around and saw me sleeping but could still hear the whispers. I have heard a man speak to me. We both have been touched. We have noticed that since communicating to them through sayings like " were going out please leave the lights off we have left one on for you" or " please keep the banging to a minimum" that things have gotten more active. For the last 2 nights we have not been able to sleep. We are being woken up by the voices or by the spare bed creeking as if someone is climbing in it. We constantly are woken and our first instinct is to stare at the hall way. Actually as I write this story right now I can hear banging in the other room and it is the middle of the day. The experiences use to be only at night until recently. I have done some minor evp work where I leave a recorded on while I go out and have gotten heavy breathing on it and the sounds of my doors slamming when all windows are shut but never talking. I refuse to use a Ouija board as I feel sometimes you let more bad in then good.
It seems that no matter where I live or where I go I am always experience spiritual activity. I can always hear them or see them. And I can always sense or give full descriptions of a person who has passed on.
Am I going crazy? Am I a medium? Or am I just being haunted?
I would suggest against trying to question/communicate with the entities physically manifesting in your apartment at this point. It seems that communicating is making it worse.
One question is, this happened only at this apartment (the physical manifestations), or have they happened at other places you lived?
My suggestion, if it only happens at this apartment, is to move away.
The place is haunted, and not you. At least, not yet.
Often times, if a spirit inhabits a place, they have no interest in leaving the place. That is not 100% true in all cases. But many times, it is.
Another question... When you asked them to leave the lights off, did they leave the lights off as you had asked?
As far as voices go, I want to add a source to anima's post...
Telepathic. Human beings, when they think, can not help but to give off brain waves.
People that don't balance their emotions, and have overwhelmingly selfish thoughts, impose their thoughts on others, many times in the form of voices.
99% of the time, they don't even realize they are doing it. 70% of the times, the people around them don't even notice.
It still comes down to the same thing... Getting the energy to align.
One thing to remember... If you want to prove someone or something wrong, then you must be ready to be proven wrong yourself.
The approach that works best for me personally is satisfaction, and negotiation... An example being...
"[myself]So, voice, you think the world is a bad place. What would you do to fix it? [voice] burn it [myself] there is nothing you enjoy of the world? [voice]no...kittens...[myself] haha, yes, kittens are cuddly! [voice] nothing is right... Except cuddly kittens... Try not to burn those... [myself] sure enough, but then we'd need cats, and something for them to eat. Plus, someone or something to clean them, they get dirty when feral, and aren't cuddly [voice] I forgot kittens... Turned to cats... Let me think... A bit more..."
Just a rough example, and it doesn't just happen overnight. Each voice has its own personality. Some are close enough that working with one is like working with another.
Others are feral... For me, I had to devote a portain of my sub concious to them to let them run free.
Trying to reason with them or control them made them rage, as a tiger in a cage would.
A 3rd possible source of the haunting... Before I get into this one, I want to be very clear that this source is EXCEEDLY rare, and almost never happens...
There are living, breathing people that have the ability to walk around in the spirit, and affect the world while in the spirit, and to possess people, while in the spirit.
No real advice for that one, the people that can do that break the rules that spirits tend to follow.
In any case, hope that helps, and God bless.