To think children may see things we can’t?

[Opal93]

My son is autistic and his language is disordered so it’s very hard to ask him what he actually means when he tells us something, but lately there have been a few instances where he has said things that have spooked us out a bit! Tonight he was at my mums, and he said “goodnight nana Marlene” (my mums mum who died when he was one) and started singing her favourite Doris Day song, word for word which he has never heard before and I didn’t know of the song until my mum told me today he started singing it and she has no idea how he knew it. My dad died when I was 16 and my son knows his photo. We were in a park the other week and my son pointed behind me and said “it’s grandad Stephen!” And I looked behind me thinking he probably saw a man that looked like the photo but there was nobody there. Another time, he started talking to my husbands dad about “nanny Margaret.” I didn’t realise he even had a nanny Margaret but apparently it was my husbands dads mums name. Then he said nanny Margaret has a big belly, and my FIL looked freaked out then and said she had a massive hernia that ruptured and killed her. I wouldn’t say I’m a believer in ghosts or life after death but it does make me wonder. Any other experiences of kids sensing things?

Yes.
When I was a small child, around 4 years old, there was an elderly lady who used to sit on my bed every night, I used to chatter away to her.
I can still see her to this day.
My parents were freaked out when I described her....my father's grandmother who had died years before I was born. I'd never seen so much as a photo of her.
One night she just wasn't there any more, and I can't remember questioning why.
So yes, I believe children can see things / people that we, as adults can't.
I can't explain it.

This is such a strange commonly held belief to me. Adult brains are so demonstrably more powerful than those of children and yet everyone is so keen to believe that children have some untapped power. Shame they don't use it to converse properly or not shit themselves five times a day.

My mum used to pop out of the room and hear me chattering away as if I was playing with someone else. Apparently when asked, I said it was the Grey Lady. I have no memory of this!
I also used to talk about "when I was here before " a lot as a small child...

I don't think they have some untapped power @Pedalpushers it's not something that every child experiences.
I don't know why some children can see what adults can't.
I can only go off my own experience.
Nowadays my brain struggles with recalling what I had for breakfast, much less summoning someone up from before I landed in the world.

When I was little, I said to my mother "I didn't realise ghosts have no toes".
When she asked how I knew, I said "Well that one doesnt have any". As I pointed at an empty corner of the room.
I can't remember any of it.

When my son was around 2 or 3 if I gave out to him he would say he was going to tell his other mother. She wore a grass skirt lol
Another time we were talking about someone who died and he said don't worry they'll just go and be a baby again. So freaky

My daughter can see things I can't, but then her eyesight is much better than mine.

Mine definitely can. This current pair of varifocals is awful.

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Have a look and a read about indigo children. Sounds like your son is one of them x

My dd used to have an imaginary friend when she was a toddler. First it was fine, she seemed to have fun but one day she said "I'm afraid of the boy". It freaked me out

Not long after my dad passed my ds aged 3 was sat playing with his toys and burst out laughing and wriggling when asked what you laughing at he said grandad keeps tickling me.

@Pedalpushers

This is such a strange commonly held belief to me. Adult brains are so demonstrably more powerful than those of children and yet everyone is so keen to believe that children have some untapped power. Shame they don't use it to converse properly or not shit themselves five times a day.

My Grannie died when my son was 2 and a half, his behaviour around her funeral and for quite a few months after convinced me that children see more than we think

No, sorry, it's all unfounded woo nonsense and if is most definitely children's imaginations running wild the way they're supposed to

I don't think so

Sadly I think once we are dead then that's it, we are gone. There's nothing.

Children have good imaginations though. And adults are good at thinking up supernatural reasons for said imaginations!

@Pedalpushers

This is such a strange commonly held belief to me. Adult brains are so demonstrably more powerful than those of children and yet everyone is so keen to believe that children have some untapped power. Shame they don't use it to converse properly or not shit themselves five times a day.

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Very true.

My child plays with unicorns and fairies on a fairly regular basis and chats away to all her teddies.
I don't think that's proof they're actually really though...

I'm actually very religious but I don't believe this, sorry.

Sorry they are probably just imagining things with all the ghost incidents. And people always claim children recite or say something they’ve never heard before. Unless your child has never been out of your site then you cannot possible know what they’ve heard and children do listen to adult conversations even if you think they aren’t paying attention.

@Pedalpushers

This is such a strange commonly held belief to me. Adult brains are so demonstrably more powerful than those of children and yet everyone is so keen to believe that children have some untapped power. Shame they don't use it to converse properly or not shit themselves five times a day.

I agree. There seems to be a theme when it comes to who can apparently see ghosts and stuff. Generally babies, disabled/mute children, the elderly and animals. So basically any living thing that is incapable of actually saying ‘no of course I can’t see ghosts, stop talking shit’.

So basically any living thing that is incapable of actually saying ‘no of course I can’t see ghosts, stop talking shit’.

And, at the inevitable accusation of being mean, I think it is really unfair to dump this hocus pocus crap on autistic children.

My son is autistic and he has an amazing memory for details. Is it possible your son has overheard you, many years ago, talking and has randomly repeated what he heard?

No, it's just people choosing to believe something that brings them comfort about mortality.

Easier to do if you project onto people who either have communication differences or restrictions, as pp have pointed out. But it does add an uncomfortable underlying current.