do you think children can see spirits?

[buffythenappyslayer]

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

Absolutely!

My gran's brother used to see a man standing at their fireplace all the time, and speak to him, when he was a lad. He didn't see him after he was about 9.

After they moved from the house, my gran's mother told her two men had dueled out in the house's large yard, and a man who shot. He was brought into the house, where he expired.

When I was a child, I didn't see spirits. Instead, I had dreams that came true. They frightened me very greatly, so when I was 12, my dad's mother got rid of them. I don't know how, b/c she did not tell me.

In my late 20s, however, things started to change and I began to sense things.

Quite recently, I have been able to sense things and then they come to pass, and last week I dreamed something, which makes me terribly uncomfortable and which I do not like.

I think some people are born w/a propensity to see or sense some things others do not.

I refuse point blank to read for friends at all buffy. Just tell them you are too close and can't be objective.

I have NO control over what I will sense or see, so often I can be caught off guard or frightened.

I wish there were some way to learn more about it.

So do you see the spirits as solid formations or more ghostly, ignore if you wish, just interested

expat - I so wish you lived near me, I know people who could help you settle and focus only when you want to.

Water
I have seen three which were VERY solid indeed.

I have sensed two that I never saw except in my own mind, if that makes any sense.

I have seen 3 that had a bit of a shimmer and faded away before me.

Wow, I wish had the gift.............I think

I wish I did, too, SG. B/c tbh the most recent experience REALLY rattled me.

i see them in my minds eye.ive tried to explain to dh how i see them,i see thembut not like i see everyone else.i see them in my head,i can say where they are standing and what they are wearing.when they speak i dont hear it as i hear everyone else,i see their lips move and i know what they are saying.thats the best way i can explain it.

I think some can.

Water
I was 28 when I first saw a spirit. And I didn't believe that it was until a year later that I was forced to accept that it was.

Oh right, so peole are'nt necessary born with the ability then.

Minds eye for me too - so difficult to explain if you haven't experienced it.

expat - email me if you want to chat.

Oh, buffy! I know how you see. B/c this has happened to me.

I thought I was crazy at first. But then DH could feel something himself.

Not a person, energy.

ive seen some that shimmer aswell.i dont know why though expat.i saw my granny right in front of me as if she was there,then she dissappeared and the next day i got told she had died.so dont know if that was why she shimmered.i also saw glittery shimmery lights above ds1's bed one night.he had been waking during the night saying the lady with the white hair kept waking him.i stayed awake and watched him all night and say these lights around him soon before he woke up screaming at her to leave him alone.he was only 5 at the time.i dont know who she was.
also when i was little i used to get woken up by a lady at 3am (it wasnt the same house or even in the smae country!)and i got told taht the lady who had lived in the hosue beofre us had got up at 3 am and fell down the stairs and died.the neighbour that told me said i was special for being able to see her and that she wouldnt hurt me,she was just curious as to who i was in her house!(i saw her as a solid form)

water - seeing spirit isn't everything though.

I believe we are all born with the gift to a varying level, how and when it manifests is as unique as the person.

The ones I 'saw' most powerfully in my mind where first a son, then his mother.

The son was easy to move on. He had been only about 5 when he died, or some sort of respiratory ailment. He did not understand he was dead and was quite sad.

The mother, however, was a different matter. She was at first quite angry. It took me months to move her on.

we went to look at a house that was empty with the possibilty of buying it.

i went upto the windows and had a nosey in,dh was talking to the neighbour,and teh estate agent was late getting there.

i went upto a window at the front of the house and saw a man in a bed with an oxygen mask on and he couldnt breathe.my chest tightened and i was wheezing.i ran from the window and upto dh,i got in the acr and he was asking what was wrong.i couldnt even speak!!

he got in the car and wouldnt drive away until i told him what i had seen.he went white and said the neighbour ahd told him that the man that lived there died,he had lung cancer.

i couldnt even go in the house to have a look,it scared me taht much!ive never had anything like taht happen to me,and im reluctant to gawp into windows now!!

Phew, I say again I am so lucky for an understanding mum. At least I never really got spooked because I understood from a young age.

Thanks mum

this is why i dont want to start telling dd she cant see this honey!i want her to accept it and not be afraid of this gift she has.

my other kids think she is amazing!!!

competition even!duh!

Heehee.

I went to visit a friend in her house in Pennsylvania.

It was on a disused rail line, dated from about 1850.

Nice clapboard house.

I went upstairs to use the loo, and I really didn't like one part of the hall.

I came downstairs VERY fast.

Her Irish husband saw me jump turning down those stairs and grinned.

Later he asked why I ran, so I told him, w/'you probably think I'm crazy.'

He told me the first day they'd moved in, the kitchen door blew open despite being locked and a still day, so he knew there were spirits there - first time I'd heard that.

It was the old couple who used to live there, but they liked them b/c one night, the furnace caught fire in the basement.

And the door to the basement started banging loudly till my pal and her husband woke up.

So they felt these spirits were friendly.

Scared the f*ck outta me, though.

it wouldve scared me shitless too!!

weve had so amny things happen in this house,ive talked about them on here before.

my next door but one neighbour came round the other day and we were talking about it.she was terrified!she asked if the ghosts in my house can walk through the walls and get to her house!!

Are all the spirits restless and needed to go to the other side, or are some contended to be here ..........as it were?

Some are just a reflection of any event that occurred there, water.

Two of the very solid spirits I saw where this. They do the same thing over and over.

The two I only saw in my mind, however, well, one was a boy who didn't know he was dead. He was looking for his mother and was scared and sad.

The other was his mother, looking for him. She was fiercely protective of him and his loss had affected her greatly, for all she was a young woman who had other children and knew that it was normal to lose a child to illness.

It took a while to get it through to her that no one wanted to harm her child and that he had been moved on to find her.