Children And Heightened Awareness Of Spirits

[MajorTal]

Okay I was just wondering if any other parents had noticed their kids talking to and interacting with things that are unperceivable to the closed mind of the adult? My daughter has since birth interacted with air, but not in the imaginary friend way because I've asked her who she is talking to. Like if I ask her if she is talking to Papa (mydad who was killed when I was a kid) or Booger Amy (my Mum's younger sister) or Alison (my Mum's youngest sister) depending on who it is asked about she will look at me and smile or laugh. Now I can go through all three names and not get a smile from her, and that makes me wonder WHO she is talking to sometimes when it isn't what I'm deeming the spirits of passed family members.

Well I was just wondering if anybody else on here could share same experiences!

CHeers!
***Tal***

[amunakht]

I don't have such experiences but I have heard of a certain myth that when children are born with their feet out first, they can see ghosts.

[Bluewillow]

I have three nephews. The two eldest, while living in my mom's house before my sister moved into her apartment, swore that they saw an angel in their bedroom every night as they went to sleep. The youngest after he was born would occasionally look as though he was looking at something that "wasn't" there quite frequently. But then a lot of really trippy things seemed to go on in my mom's house, and numberous people felt, saw and hear strange things. I always thought it was a trip about the angel, though! :D

[MajorTal]

I don't have such experiences but I have heard of a certain myth that when children are born with their feet out first, they can see ghosts.
Well Anya and I are both, to quote Shakespear, "NOt of woman born" :D KNow what I mean? And any child born feet first, well....most don't like so I guess they would see ghosts....ack,bad me!!!!

Cheers!
***Tal***

[angle kitsune]

Mother tells me that I did that. according to my greatgrandmother's journal I had told her I was talkin to greatgramps (who dided befor I was born) and even gave her his name. she wrote that she believed he had vome back to be my angel...I don't see him or talk to him in the same ways I did as a kid but I believe who ever he is,or greatgramps if it is him,he is still with me,one of my shadows that I often see for no reason.

[Amethyst Rose]

Yeah, my son did/does that. When he was just a baby and had learned to wave, and then say 'hi' (his first word), he would wave, or say hi to empty air. Even now he'll stop playing to look and something 'not there' or have a one sided conversation. It's hard to explain, but it creeps my husband out. :) I've always been very careful to encourage it, and ask him who's there or who he's talking to, instead of telling him there's nothing there.

[Lunacie]

I think a lot of children are able to sense ghosts and spirits and such, mostly because they haven't been indoctrinated yet to believe that those things are only their imagination. However, children do have marvelous imaginations and it can be really hard to sort out which is which, sometimes there is a blending of pretend and reality which they aren't sophisticated enough to sort out themselfes.

[GalenaFaolan]

My youngest daughter, who is now 12, had a couple of things happen when she was a wee one.

We lived in an old apartment building on the 3rd floor. We all really like it there. One day she was carrying on a conversation with, well the air! I listened and chuckled. Sometimes something would be spilled or knocked over and she would get on Honey for doing it. Now hubby and I certainly thought she was blaming an imaginary friend until one day when he was at work, something was knocked over I think. Hard to remember what it was exactly but she said "Honey, stop that!" She was not near enough to have done what was done. I did something I rarely do and opened myself to the apartment. It was then I knew this friend wasn't imaginary at all. There was a little ghost girl who was my daughter's friend. They even had spats and wouldn't talk to each other for a day or two. :) We all lived together quite happily though and I even found myself talking to Honey as well though I never heard her speak.

Fast forward from 1997 into about March 1998. We had to move out as they were going to do some major renovation. My daughter was a bit upset because Honey didn't move with us. It was a couple of months later that we happened to drive by the building where we used to live. It was just a shell as they had ripped out everything and were actually going to demolish both buildings. Just as we drew even with the building, my daughter was looking over at it and then just began yelling and crying hysterically. We pulled over to the side of the road and got out of the car. I'm holding her and asking what the heck is wrong! I thought maybe a bug stung her or who knows what! So, she finally gets calm, looks back down the road and tell us that Honey is lonely and wants her to come back and be with her. Honey evidently had a extremely strong pull and really called out as we went past. We did go back to the building and talked to Honey, explaining to her why we couldn't come back and we missed her to but this had to be goodbye. It was emotionally wrenching for us all. Lots of tears shed that day as we all felt Honey's despair.

My daughter's other encounter was with an Angel. It was in March of '97 and she fell out of her bedroom window, on that 3rd floor. Over the next week after that we were able to talk to other people and put things together. I'll never forget that day seeing no screen on the window, walking over, putting my hand through where the screen should have been, looking down and seeing my 3 year old little girl lying flat on her face in the dirt. I started screaming Help me as I literally flew down 3 flights of stairs out to the front and into the courtyard. Amazingly she only broke her ankle and we didn't even know that until 9:30 that night. They never x-rayed her legs the first time.

She told us about "the pretty lady with long blond hair and a really pretty, flowing dress" who helped her down to the ground. The hair on the back of my neck stood up at those words. She said the pretty lady helped her down and she also saw a dove flying nearby as she fell. There were no doves where we lived nor had there ever been a dove around. A neighbor who lived on the other side of the courtyard said he happened to look out the window and at first he thought it was a leaf drifting to the ground. He did a double take and realized it was a child. He told us she was floating down, like a leaf, going a bit back and forth very gently as she was falling. I am every so grateful that she didn't die that day and that I have her still with me, a young lady, healthy in every way and with not much of a memory about that day.

I've always held the belief that children can see and hear things when they are so young. Their minds are wide open and they really do believe in magic and fairies. The older you get, the more jaded and close minded though you don't realize it's happening. The best thing I've done for my daughter, at least I think so, is to keep her belief in all things mystical alive. The Fey, Dragons, Unicorns, etc. all of them are quite alive in our house. We do have several resident Fey that move with us wherever we go and always make our house into a home along with me.

[HorseCrow]

Okay I was just wondering if any other parents had noticed their kids talking to and interacting with things that are unperceivable to the closed mind of the adult?

I think you are 100% correct in the fact that children can see/sense things that most adults cannot. I believe it is because the young ones have not yet been taught that "there is no such thing".

Aila is still very young, but my SO and I definetely believe that she sees more "people" than just us. Often when she is looking/communicating with us, she will suddenly look to the right/left of us, as if something has caught her attention and the way she looks is the same way she looks at people talking to her, not the way she looks at objects. Our guess is that she is seeing our spirit guides standing next to us.

[MajorTal]

yes, "the age of not believing" seems to come too fast these days for children.
Cheers!
***Tal***

[RubyRose]

Both Rhyce and I have witnessed our son, interact with either the Dragon statue that Rhyce calls "Goddess" or the picture of Rhyce and his cousins. We are not sure which. The interesting thing with the photography is, that Rhyce's biological dad Grant is deceased, has been for over 10 years. We both believe that it's Xander's way of connecting to Grant. It may be a little far fetched, but he was focusing intently on that particular area. And just so you know, Xander was on the floor, and these articles, were on the highest shelve of our tv unit.