There are spirits around me all the time. I've seen them cluster around me in the thousands. With some incense it's relatively easy to see sylphs. I can feel dryads and nymphs, but never once have I seen or felt a gnome. I was also haunted by a ghost for awhile who attacked me quite physically. I finally woke up one night as he was about to begin and ordered him to leave. I told him he was dead, dead, dead and that I was alive and therefore more powerful. He/she obeyed.
They have been around all my life. Started when I was 5 or 6. Most of my experence with them have been different than everything I read or see in movies. I have never been harmed by one or scared by one. Only thing I know for certain is I have never seen one with feet. When I was a veil walker, I had to learn to live with the shadow people, a funny lot of entities. But got to dangerous so I had to stop. Car wreck type of danger and not harm. Life would not be as much fun without them. Last note, they are hard on relationships. Women do not like to stay over at my place until they know everything is OK.