Welcome to the PNF Corinna. I’m not going to comment first on any question regarding you specifically, but I do believe that an individual can - and in fact does - have the ability to dampen overt paranormal occurrences. I have experienced decades of uncontrolled telepathic and empathic communications with a few dozen people.
My girlfriend who I’ve lived with for almost 20 years is a complete atheist - she chooses not to believe in anything ethereal. And she’s seen evidence like letting me actually actively read her thoughts and more. But, in her physical presence, I am 100% shut off. I believe that her beliefs about how HER world operates is so strong that it intersects with and even overrides parts of my own knowledge of the world. I can be physically away from her for even just an hour and have a tiny paranormal occurrence. She comes home and the esoteric world literally no longer exists.
Therefore, I believe that you too - like my GF - may have been able to minimize the frequency or level of paranormal occurrences.