My goodness, that's the best thread ever - is there a way of saving it before it gets deleted? I'm reading it after midnight in my DD's dark bedroom - DH and three DC are fast asleep, and I'm not sure how I'll make it to my bedroom.
I do believe there's something to it. It's interesting that most of the spooky stories come from children aged about 2-5. It is a known fact that until they are about 5, kids remember everything that ever happened to them (my DD1 at the age of 4 once accurately described in detail a blanket she was covered with when she had her first ice-cream ever, at the age of 1). At the age of about 5, children's brains go through an enormous change - a sort of memory-wiping wave that means that they start to forget, supposedly to make space for new memories and learning experiences. That pre-5 brain has always fascinated me, and it wouldn't suprise me if along with the loss of memories (including those of previous lives?) the 5-year olds were losing some other brain capabilities - such as seeing what older kids and grown-ups are incapable of seeing.
When my DD1, now 11, was about 2, she used to stare beyond me at a particular point in the room, and smile - like some other children mentioned in this thread. When I asked what she was smiling at, she said 'Indigo people'. I still don't know where she'd learnt the word indigo!
While on the topic of memory and on a less spooky note, my DS, who is 5.5 made me sob the other day. He looked at his old baby shoes which I had kept, and said 'Mummy, these booties bring back so many memories! I would like to keep all my memories, but I can't because they keep running away from my brain!' And then he started crying. 😥 And I did too. And then we looked at his baby photos.
Just shows how precious and fragile the baby and toddler memories are, and how blessed we are that we can so easily record and keep them these days.