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paranormal stuff in kids
It is said for people to believe in the paranormal (Oh God it sounds so stupid to me when I say "for the ones who believe" like there is a chance it is not true and some people dont believe....because for me it is not a question of believing but knowing but oh well...) that kids are more aware of the other world than anyone until the age of three years old when they start opening to this world and leaving the other world of perception, and they can talk and interact with others...but until then they oftenly have "imaginary friends" who are not always what adults think, they can oftenly see things adults cant, and even understand things in their way far beyond adult's comprehension about paranormal.
Do you have any anecdote? I could tell you mine but I would prefer to read some first n_n |
By paranormal do you mean like ghosts and spirits only? I have a broad definition of paranormal, and religious deities are included in it.
I see a lot of adults that still believe in a god/gods, but I don't know very many that believe in ghosts. I think it's kind of lame when people treat those who believe in ghosts like they're crazy, but believe in a deity themselves. I did read a book about this kind of thing. It had to do with past lives and it claimed that children often indicate that they remember being someone else, but that it usually goes away as they get older. |
well the topic was oriented to what people normally call paranormal, ghosts and etc but yeah your point is valid I have never thought about that but it is completely true!!!
Uhmm yeah I know about that too, when we are young we are more likely to remember about our past lives...we forget with the time because it would interfere with our present life experience |
I don't recall hearing about any experience that I had myself, but my mom did tell me that my brother claimed to see my grandmother when he was very little.
Apparently there was a carved elephant that she used to like and one day my brother decided that he wanted to sit on it as if to ride it. My mom told him not to and he asked here why grandma was allowed to do it and he wasn't. I also heard from my Anatomy teacher that his twin daughters once complained of a man in their room when they were younger. I think children are connected to the paranormal world. When they are still at the age where they haven't been told that being able to see these things is wrong or that ghosts don't exist. Once they get older they probably convince themselves that they don't see these things and then they don't notice it anymore. |
yeah i had an "imaginary friend" when i was 1 or 2. I can't remember what it looked like though. Every once and a while i hear things... and every once in a while i see something that makes my heart beat fast. Which means i did see it or else me heart wouldn't feel like it was going to explode. Its scary DX. One time i saw... myself... not in a mirror or anything... just standing there. That was the freakiest thing EVER!!! I hid under my covers ( yes i really did ) for like a half an hour. T^T
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Every time we drive by a certain church, my little sister (about 4) says "That's the place we sleep" or "that's the sleeping place". It's creepy as Hell. But also really cool. My step-mom is convinced she was is channeling a past life of someone who died or had a funeral there.
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Both my sister and I had imaginary friends when we were little, my mother is convinced that my sisters was a spirit and says that everyone is "paranormally sensitive" on her side of the family. I have a supernatural story from when I was older though. My mother and I went to the Whaley house in old town San
Diego a few years ago, now if you don't know, the Whaley house is on the U.S. registrar as the most haunted house in the country, it has a very sad and gruesome history. We wandered around after the short tour and when we were up stairs looking through a plexi-glass pane at one of the bedrooms my mom and I noticed a curtain gently blowing back and forth and thought it a little weird that they plexied off a room but had a window open. Thought, well maybe a maintenance person left it open. So after a while we went down the stairs and on the way out we told the women at the front desk about the window, she then proceeded to tell us that that would be impossible since that window had long ago been sealed shut. |
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Yay people start posting their stories !!!! I think I'll post some of mine though I'm kinda scared.....I dont know if I should
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Go ahead, I'm behind you for support. I'm interested in any stories you have.
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I've had experiences in the past present and probably into the future. I'm 18 but still very much a loving child heart and soul. I never really got out of the habit of having "imaginary friends" cause they are not really as imaginary as some would assume. I don't mind hearing people tell me I'm insane, I've thought it for a long time. Although it's more common to have a child speak about their best friend who is imaginary, it's not so far off as to believe it IS a stray spirit, or their guardian angel come to keep them company. Children, especially single children, are extremely susseptable because they feel no one quite understands them, so an "imaginary friend" comes along and makes them feel better because they have someone to sit with and talk with whenever they need someone. We may not see them, but to them they're just as real and living as you and myself. I haven't seen MY "imaginary friend" since I moved out of my house of childhood 10 years ago, but I will admit I have the occassional scare of new "imaginary friends". It's sad really when a parent forces a child to "grow up" and ignore the only "person" that ever really understood them. They sometimes can't always get out of it (like myself) I've been caught talking to myself, when infact I know I'm not, but no one else would know that. And if they do, they're embarrassed by the ability to see and or hear and interact with a spirit. |
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@ Violet That's fun! I love making people feel awkward around me! Like I sometimes have personal paranormal experiences and then other tiems I'm really just talking to myself xD |
That's me too, the paranormal part, that is. I don't like to make people around me feel awkward, you know, I'm just a typical teenager who wants to fit in all the time.
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@Violet But making people feel awkward is fun... I'm typically the type to be insane, maybe my apparitions are just in my head xD I am schizophrenic...>_> |
Yeah, it can be fun, especially if it's someone you don't like much.
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Hmm... dunno much about paranormal stuff... My girlfriend knows about ghosts and such though...
Only unexplainable experience I've ever had was once I was on the computer (in the dark so it wasn't a shadow) and I saw a dark figure behind a box, like the back of a wolf's back o.o scared the heck out of me... because all the cats were upstairs sleeping. |
The closest Ive ever gotton to paranormal is da ja vu dreams I have, I hate it when it happens though because they sometimes sets me off to have one of my epileptic fits :(. so I try to ignore them and forget my dreams.
but thats about it, everyone had da ja vu dreams so im nout special kid :( lol |
I've never had anything to do with the paranormal or supernatural, really. But I understand that "supernatural" only refers to anything that is beyond the realm of our understanding.
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I have two "paranormal" type things from when I was young. Unfortunately, I don't remember either of these happening, I only know what my mom's told me. So I couldn't tell you if I had just been making it up for shits and giggles or if I was being sincere.
Apparently I talked about "the farm" a lot when I was very little. My mom would tell me something, like to pick up my toys or something, and I would say "well, that's not how it was on the farm!" We lived nowhere near any farms and I hadn't been to any. My mom gently asked me about "the farm," and I said I used to live there. One day she we were talking and she asked me if I did whatever it was on the farm, and I had no clue what she was talking about. That thing I could have been making up. I had a really nonsensical sense of humor like that when I was very young. The other one is harder to explain... Also when I was very young, I needed a nightlight when I slept. If it went out while I was still awake, I'd start screaming until my mom came in and replaced the bulb. One morning, my mother came in to wake me up and she noticed that the nightlight's bulb was out. She asked me if I knew about this, and I said I did. She asked me why I wasn't afraid, and I said it was because Ninny (what I called my great-grandmother) was there. My Ninny had died either earlier that year, or the year before. I believe another morning I had told my mom that Ninny was there. Anyway, my mom figured I was just dreaming or making it up. But when she asked about Ninny, I described a pair of glasses that she was wearing. Black cat-eye glasses. Ninny had cat eye glasses and had worn them for much of my mother's life, but I had never seen her with those glasses. So that made my mom think that maybe it was a ghost or something. Of course, since it was so long ago, I can't recall if maybe I had seen a picture of her with those glasses or not. I can't recall any of this. But my mom wouldn't lie to me about this. Make of this what you will. |
When I was little I had an "imaginary friend" (who now that I think about it might of been a ghost) named Little who was, a little boy. He was quite the trouble maker too. I used to use his as excuses for some of the things I did, but i think e did things too.
Later when I entered elementary school after Little had disappeared I had Marla who I believe to be my spirit guide. I also saw unicorns. One time when i was young I heard someone call my name but everyone in the house said that it wasn't them. I'm still not sure "who" it was but I'm pretty sure that they were something spiritual/supernatural. I've also had multiple cases of deja vu, and prophetic dreams. My family is quite spiritual, although we have been going to church rather sporadically since we have moved, switching between Catholic and Metaphysical churches (which are Christian churches that believe in the paranormal). I also have some friends that are Wiccan. Now that I'm older I'm scared of ghost though. I talked to Marla a lot when I was younger, I still talk to her occasionally, and talk to myself all the time. I enjoy being odd. |
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