I raise my energy real high with the fire visualization technique at the base of the spine, and breathe in the fire element from all around me. Eventually I begin to sense a presence come suddenly out of nowhere when I am thinking of something else. Just minding my own business and suddenly it or they are there.
I sense them come to my right side and put a hand on my right arm. Some times I sense it come in front of me, and then behind me.
The other day, after raising my energy high, I sensed a female voice inside my head say "hi clayton'. Then I fell asleep. I dreamed of a lady offering to have sex with me. She began stroking my throat, and I felt a tickling sensation on each vocal cord at the base of the neck.
I started to say she could have me, then a 9 year old (or near that age ) boy came up behind her, on her right side. So I kept silent. (did not want to talk that way around a kid,,,, even in dreams).
Then I woke up,
(Maybe the boy was saving from a foolish choice.)
I Also notice if I get an energy attacking me, a resistance, and this takes on the face of a person I have seen, I push the energy / entity away, throw some psychic stone, or death energy at it, and similar actions.
A group I am involved in online says that they sense disciples being attacked by "their own thought forms" and attacking the leaders, ( not intentionally, in my case ). The leaders said the disciples think that the leaders are attacking them. ( I know this is not the case )
The point being that If a thought form of our own creation ( or another entity ) attacks us, while appearing as someone we know,,, and we attack that thought form in return... it would seem that the form and face of the attacker may have the actual energy of the person it takes the face and form of .
For example, if a parasite attacks you, using the face and form of Obama, then if you attack the parasite directly, the form and face of Obama gets hit and the actual Obama feels the impact ( not intentionally ) But, like a gunman taking someone hostage. If you shoot, you hit the hostage, NOT the gunman.
I am speaking from experience here, and not theory.
So,, back on topic,,,.
When I raise my energy high, I too begin to sense and almost see, in VERY BRIEF GLIMPSES, a presence and entity. They sometimes come in front of me and around me and behind me, above me etc.
And this is when I am doing something else entirely. My mind is on something else entirely.
AND,,,, I do NOT take drugs. Not drinking.
Maybe excess soda / caffeine. But nothing very high, even then.
I also notice that when I bring White / Gold light from the top of my head into my body, that my ''subconscious" mind starts to open up and I see images. A mountain, a car, people talking, a lake, etc. These are only my own images coming to my conscious mind.
I am also hearing the Could It Be Magic song with the group Take That,,, running through my head now.
The point being that my subconscious mind brings these visual AND auditory memories to my conscious mind.
ESPECIALLY WHEN I RAISE MY ENERGIES ! That is when I really begin to notice this stuff.
As you said about seeing the images of things,,, when I sense the presence of things coming suddenly around me,,, I cannot be sure if it is my personal energy moving around my "head and shoulders" ( shampoo ?? ) or if there is something else coming around me.
Am I projecting my subconscious impressions of someone putting a hand on my right arm ( or left sometimes ) or is there really someone there.
I am still working on this.
But,,,, I know my personal energies are involved in AT LEAST sensing these occurrences.
Hopefully this is on topic enough to make sense.
AND,,,,,, how do you take out the thought form / parasite without hurting the people that get their face / image and their energy stolen by the parasite / thought form WITHOUT HURTING THE ACTUAL PERSON / VICTIM ?