do you think children can see spirits?

[buffythenappyslayer]

before i say why,id just like to see what peoples views are!

Possibly. Some do I would think. Children apparently are sensitive to spiritual stuff (which they take for very much for granted) until they are around seven when, if 'allowed' to (as most are), they will start to lose it.

My ds (16mths) is always smiling and waving out the window when there's no-one there. When he was tiny he would just grin up at the sky out of the blue and we always used to say he was having a laugh with a relative who had passed on

hi sj,

how young would you say then that they can see them?

yes i think they (or maybe some) can. i'm sure i saw my rabbit that had died when i was about 4

Buffy I'm not an authority on the subject at all but have read a lot. There is a strong belief that very young child see/hear/know things that we, as adults, have lost the ability to see/hear/know/define or that we just brush off as nothing. I suppose babies may well see things but wouldn't know that this was in any way anything unusual.. not be able to easily show or express what they had experienced. Toddlers and older children may behave like Tatties 16 month old and wave, smile etc (seemingly at nothing) and some 'imaginary friends' are thought to be spirits that children are aware of for quite a length of time.

Southeastatra, yes have heard a lot about pets being seen long after they are died. I think this is quite common. My ex MIL used to see her dog laying by the front door (where she used to lay when alive) for years after she lost her.

Yes. Lottie always used to look past when she was tiny like she'd seen something. She sometimes would point. My mum thought the same.

well my dd is 2 and has always watched 'nothing' go from one side of the room to the other,and smiles at 'nothing',but saturday night she sat in bed with me and dh watching tv,and looked at the doorway,got v excited and said "honeys here now" and went to end of the bed and sat talking to 'honey' and holding her hands out to her.she even kissed 'honey' and told her she loved her.she kept sayig to me and dh "look,honeys there" and pushing our facesin the right direction!

she said bye to her and said "honeys gone now,be back later"and yesterday she would tell us when 'honey' had come and when she was leaving.

im sure its not an imaginery friend (ive got 4 otehr kids so i dont really see her haiving an imaginery friend with that lot!also i think shes too young to make one up)

'honey' was the same height as her,she didnt reach up to kiss her.

In reply to the OP, absolutely they can.

Now I'll read the thread

What SJ said

I believe all kids see spirits, I strongly believe that 'imaginary' friends are spirits.

My DS2 has exactly the same friend that DS1 had despite a four year age gap and DS1 not really remembering it for himself. I have also sensed the presence of 'Daniel' on occasion for myself.

Wow SaintGeorge, that's interesting. I think it's lovely that children can see 'spirits' and just accept it. I know for a fact that I am closed off to that sort of thing myself, as I would be totally freaked out if I saw anything. But I find the thought that spirits/angels are all around us very comforting.

Again as SJ said, adults normally cannot sense or see in the same way as kids as you naturally grow out of the ability if it is not practised and accepted. Since the majority of people shrug off imaginary friends and the like, kids follow suit.

My children on the other hand are fully aware but we are a strange family

My ds has an imaginary friend, who is apparently 5 years old and goes out to work, and oddly paranormal child like behaviour happens occasionaly, like getting poked in the eye during the night and being shuffed awake.

Obviously a Victorian imaginary friend. Does the work involve chimneys by any chance?

I have asked him, he said he does;nt know, but he has said he wears grey trousers and a funny hat ds is also 5.
I often hear him upstairs talking to him.

yes defo, i have a friend whos little boy used to play with a girl called vivian. when asked about her he said she lived in the wall and even pointed to the woods where she died. my friend got a psychic in as there were other goings on in the house and the psychic said that a girl called vivian used to live there and drowned in a stream in the woods!

Age is very subjective to a kid though .

In all seriousness, you can get surprising answers if you are sneaky in how you question them. You can't be too obvious in what you ask or it becomes a game and they just play along. Just sort of subtly slide stuff into conversations.

Hmmmm, not really making sense am I?

ive seen spirits since i was really little,and i always know when thinsg are going to happen,way before they do.i got told by my mum that i was imagining things,and i became scared of the things i saw as i believed it wasnt real!

my mum now knows that she was wrong in telling me i couldnt see these people but she admitted taht it scared her,and still does when i tell her things that i have seen or like the time i saw my grandad (who died before i was born) and he said to tell my mum that he was watching queenie and also that my mum did look a tart in that orange skirt!i asked my mum who queenie was and she asked why,i just told her to tell me but she wouldnt.i told her what grandad had said and she said that grandad used to call my nanna queenie,and the last time my mum saw her dad before he died,she was wearing an orange mini skirt and he shouted at her as she was leaving their house that she looked a tart!so now whenever i tell her anything,she believes me!

i dont want to discourage dd from what she sees,i dont wnat her going through what i went through.

oh,when i saw my grandad,my nanna was dying and that was why he had been watching her

The very first person I recall seeing was my GD. He had passed in the December prior to my birth in the following Feb.

I remember running in from the backyard, when I was about 4, and telling mum about the old man who was talking to me. He was funny and spoke like Nanna (they were from Sheffield, I was used to Hull accents) and walked funny with a stick. My mum just smiled because she knew the gate was locked and no one was in the yard.

She later went through some family photos with me and was none too surprised when I found a photo of GD and exclaimed that he was the man.

i saw my nannas dead aunty when i was about 4 or 5.i told my nanna when her brother was going to die,my words were "dont worry about uncle george,he knows where hes got to go,he'll die next week and they are waiting for him" i got smacked for upsetting everyone!!

but sure enough uncle george died the folloing week.i remember walking in when they ahd just ahd the phone call and my nanna,my mum and my aunty were all sat crying.i said "told you he was going to die,and hes with them now" i got another smack!!!

Ouch.

Really glad I had a mum who understood what it was all about. At least your dd is lucky to have a mum who will understand as well.

Wow, just out of interest, do you enjoy having the gift, or would you give it up if you could?

NOW I enjoy it, during my late childhood/early adulthood I bloody hated it.

Took me a long time to accept myself for who I am. Exploring my faith helped sort out a hell of a lot of things in my life.

i used to be terrified!!i saw my cousin who had been murdered,he was crouching in the corner of my bedroom,i was 15 when i saw him and i screamed and ran out of the house!!

if i saw him now i wouldnt be afraid.i see spirits quite often,but i also get things popping into my head that i dont understand!they turn out to be messages for people,but i used to just think i was imagining things!

my friends come and ask me for readings or come with their problems thinking i will know the answer to them!(which i dont!!)