Do you believe...regarding paranormal?

Question

...in children "sensitives"? Children who claim they can see, hear, or sense un-worldly presences? Do you have one of these children?

I have a 3 year old who has been claiming to see "butterflies" on the ceiling of her bedroom, a "monster" at the end of the hallway (who she describes as looking "dead"), and a "little girl" who sings under her bed. She has been saying these things regularly since she learned to talk. She can also tell me what I dreamed of the night before. Do you believe in this stuff?

Answer 1

It is very interesting to me to hear all the answers that everyone is giving.  I do believe that children when young enough can tell what is really there.  Like one of your responders had said, people are made to believe that anything out of the norm is not acceptable.  Many of us are told that we do not see the things that we see, nor do we hear what we thought we heard.  Have you ever been home alone watching television, and seen a shadow out of the corner of your eye?  I know many people who have had those kinds of experiences.  A friend of mine had mentioned to her doctor how she had continuously seen out of the corner of her eye a shadowy figure.  She saw it when she was doing dishes, she saw it when she was watching television, and she even saw it while folding laundry.  Her doctor wrote it off not as a phenomenon, rather as a vision problem, and sent her to a vision doctor.  When she had gone, she found out that in fact her eyes were in good shape, that she had no vision problems.  Children that young have yet to close their third eye so to speak.

Answer 2

As we get older, our brains physically change. We become "hardwired" for the world we are born into. Up to about three years old, children are growing new dendrites (brain cells) at a phenomenal rate. The ones they use, they keep. and the others die off. That's why intellectual stimulation early on makes kids smarter when they grow up.

Some of those dendrites form the abilities you mention, seeing things that are really there, but that the child has not yet learned to ignore as unacceptable.

The creature at the end of the hall is probably a part of a human spirit that is stuck in this world. It needs help to know that it has passed on, and should leave the children alone, as it is frightening them.

I have simply had a talk with them and have sometimes had success.

Answer 3

Oh yes...my 3 year old has seen things since she could talk...she has "ladies in the wall" who apparently pop their heads out at her and smile..in her bedroom....they have brown faces and headscarves as far as I can gather...she also used to see chickens in a nearby (very old) house's front yard...there were none there but she would say "Look at the chickens!" and I would look only to see a bare yard.

As for the ladies...I found out that our very modern house is built on what used to be land belonging to the local workhouse...there was a big Orchard here and I imagine that what she sees are the spirits of the women who lived in the workhouse and perhaps worked on the land...the brown faces would describe any agricultural worker..even in England they would be tanned and dirty,,,,they seem benign but freak her out...I went in there and asked them to leave as they were making her afraid and they seem to have gone....

Then there is the tree that she wont go near because "There is a devil in it"...this is on some old common land near our house....that one freaks me out a little.

Answer 4

Children can be sensitive to ghosts however children are also imaginative and grow up pretending. Children will also lead adults on if an adult gives them attention they seek. I may be 56 years old, but I do remember what I was like as a child.

BB

Answer 5

Yes, I believe in child sensitives.

I think that is really cool. Keep encouraging her so that she won't grow out of it.

Answer 6

simply:

i think everyone is born a sensitive until their parents knock what they call "sense" into the children's heads. some retain their sensitivity into adulthood.... thus mediums/psychics/etc.

good luck with your daughter.

Answer 7

Of course. Children are the most enlightened of them all. That is why they know things that we don't and they haven't even "learned" anything yet besides the human basics. How else do you explain their vivid imaginations? They are still alive in the fantasy world that is real and they are connected in a way to it that we will never again see until we live in love.

Answer 8

well no I don't have any kids and I don't wants any,

your 3 year old is gifted she is going through paranormal, have you seen the movie the 6th sense where Cole had the ability to see dead people walking around who didn't know they were dead when no one else couldn't see or hear them and it got cold whenever the ghosts made their appearance,

Answer 9

I believe that children (some and usually girls),are able to connect with un-worldly presences,in fact I witnessed it in 1981,she barricaded the both of us in a room,with furniture,that even I couldn't lift,in fact there was a tall,fully filled chest of drawers,on top of that,she gently placed a bedside table with a lamp,hand cream and jar of multivitamins,on top.She just pointed at the objects,and with a very intense look on her little face,just moved them with her mind.I guess I was a little freaked out,but mostly I was unafraid and extremely curious to look into this subject.Naturally,it has not been the most believed story I have spoken of,so I don't talk about it often,but it was a very exciting time in my life.

Also as a Nurse,I have heard some very interesting stories,from survivors of Cardiac Arrest,although the stories differ,the main common element,is that none of these survivors,are afraid of dying,and become happy go lucky,un materialistic,decisive  and positive risk takers,who know what they want out of life.Although they cannot explain what they saw,and or experienced they just know it was spectacular,and have no doubts about the existence and theories of an after life.

Answer 10

yeah i certainly do, I don't think your daughter is making any of this stuff up either. It's too complex for a 3 year olds mind to imagine those things. When i did work experience in an estate agency. A family were moving out of their house because of the things their child had been claiming of seeing. Really odd stuff, she described one person she saw and it matched the clothes exactly of a victorian.

Spooky stuff

but mighty interesting.

Answer 11

I'm kinda "iffy" on that one. no I don't have any kids yet, but I do know sometimes kids will be thinking stuff like power rangers are real. with the monster and the butterflies, I'd say that's her imagination. Kids tend to do that when they're little. But I'm not really sure about the singing girl. that might be her imagination as well.

Answer 12

i beleive this also, i have had four children, and during theyre first five years they often spoke of seeing things, my son used to talk to someone we could not see when he was sat in his high chair, he used to laugh and really interact, and showed no fear. My youngest daughter saw her deceased grandma sat stroking her older sisters hair while she was sleeping, she says that she was not scared just fascinated, this happened when she was about 3 and she still remembers it.  My oldest two daughters used to talk about waiting to be born and deciding who was going to be theyre mummy.

But they seem to stop when they reach the age of about five, this could be as they begin to go to school and dont want to appear different.

The best way to deal with it is to always listen to what your child is telling you and let them know that you belive them and never ridicule what they see by dismissing it as imagination.

From what you have said you daughter is sensitive and she has a mum that supports her.

I wish you both love and light

Answer 13

I believe this can happen. I know that things happened to me when I was little and while growing up. I really wish I had "seen" them  now..At least maybe I would have understood that there REALLY was something there..and not just my imagination.Maybe something could have been done about it. I found out recently that a boy had hung himself in the house before we bought it. It was the son of the people who sold it to us. I can't understand why nobody ever told me about it till now. I was mentioning things that happened to me and how I was scared there so much of the time. I guess that's the only reason they decided to tell me. Wish I had told my parents and sisters I was scared then.I remember being in my crib & looking out (in my mother's bedroom) & seeing a lady with long black hair combing her hair in the mirror. My mother told me she never had long hair & no one with long black hair had ever been in our house.)

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