Do young children see/sense things that we can't?

PinkTulips · 10/09/2006 12:04

i saw ghosts when i was a child and i'm convinced dd can see things sometimes... she looks into a random point in the room and smiles and waves hi as if theres something there. wouldn't worry about it, if it didn't frighten her its probably harmless enough

trinityshiftingherleatheryarse · 10/09/2006 12:07

my dads friend was a builder and did some work for my dad when I was about 2. he had a team of men working for him and one of them, I would not go near, would scream if I saw him, wanted him away from the house. I don't remember this but my mum said it was like nothing else she had ever experienced from me and I only did it with this guy (normally confident and socila. well my dads friend fired the guy, he said that if a young child reacts that feircly to someone he's probably not good in some way. he and my parents and me beleive to some extent that children can sense things we miss. A bit like being able to see the horns on intrinsically bad people

southeastastra · 10/09/2006 13:05

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Socci · 10/09/2006 13:08

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southeastastra · 10/09/2006 13:09

i always think animals can sense things too

PinkTulips · 10/09/2006 13:15

the house we lived in when i was 8-17 used to make me really uncomfortable. never felt alone, always felt like someone was watching me, used to wake up and sense a presence in the room, all sorts of crap. my cat used to chase invisable things around the house, would tear the house apart doing it.... since my parents moved she never does that.

TooTicky · 10/09/2006 13:15

Dd1 knew that I was expecting ds1 before I did. We hadn't discussed babies at all, but one day she started talking about "the baby". I asked her which baby, and she said "the baby in your tummy". She was nearly 2 at the time.

southeastastra · 10/09/2006 13:16

i'm really interested in the paranormal and really wish i could see something

PinkTulips · 10/09/2006 13:30

dd and ds have some sort of connection too, it's facinating to watch them interact as dd is 19 months and ds is 6 weeks so thay can't communicate with speech, yet they seem to understand each other and 'knew' each other since before he was born. dd also sensed i was in labour the day he was born, even though i was trying to hide it so not to scare her and hadn't even told dp yet

i saw a whole group of ghosts once when i was 5/6. woke up in the night to find them satanding all around the bed. all in their 20's, men and women, about 6 of them. one of the women was holding a baby. when i opened my eyes and looked at them one of the men said 'its ok , we won't hurt you'. i promptly dived under the covers in terror and started pinching my arm in the hope i was still asleep... i wasn't. then i heard one of the women say 'oh look, you scared her'. didn't hear anything after that and drifted off to sleep under the covers too afraid to come out... theywere gone when i woke in the morning. my mom reckons they're my gaurdians.

my cousin used to freak my aunt out in the car when he was 2 by saying 'i built that building mommy' to the same few buildings each time, when she researched it they were all designed by the same man!

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Socci · 10/09/2006 22:40

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CountTo10 · 10/09/2006 22:45

It has been said that children are more susceptible or open to this kind of activity as their sixth sense is not clouded by maturity. Your imagination is more fervent when you are younger and you simply believe what you see whereas once you start to get older you are more easily clouded by logic etc and start to turn off to that side of things.

Cassoulet · 10/09/2006 23:19

My dd used to see 'blue people', a man and a woman. They seemed to be OK - they didn't frighten her and she seemed quite happy to have them around. My cousin said that the Maori's believed that aliens from Alpha Centauri were blue (I think). If anyone can elucidate on this I'd be interested - couldn't find out anything about it at the time. DD was less than 2.5 when she stopped seeing them (or at least talking about them). I used to see ghosts when I was a child. We lived in an old Victorian which had been used as a nursing home (when the parents visited it prior to buying it, it was full of old people dieing) so I wouldn't be surprised if it was full of ghosts. I also used to see fairies in the garden, but I am more inclined to believe, now, that was an active imagination and wishful thinking!

Cassoulet · 10/09/2006 23:19

My dd used to see 'blue people', a man and a woman. They seemed to be OK - they didn't frighten her and she seemed quite happy to have them around. My cousin said that the Maori's believed that aliens from Alpha Centauri were blue (I think). If anyone can elucidate on this I'd be interested - couldn't find out anything about it at the time. DD was less than 2.5 when she stopped seeing them (or at least talking about them). I used to see ghosts when I was a child. We lived in an old Victorian which had been used as a nursing home (when the parents visited it prior to buying it, it was full of old people dieing) so I wouldn't be surprised if it was full of ghosts. I also used to see fairies in the garden, but I am more inclined to believe, now, that was an active imagination and wishful thinking!

Cassoulet · 10/09/2006 23:21

Sorry about that!

fransmom · 11/09/2006 21:41

i know that very young children can see people that are no longer with us physically - when my dd was under 6mths (i can't remember her age but i was still on mat leave at the time!), i had my back to the settee and i think i had just changed her nappy and was pulling her trousers up. she was looking over my shoulder and laughing and i had the definite sense that someone from my family was pulling faces at her to make her laugh. i have also been to a spiritualist church with my dp and dd, the medium came to us last and told me that dd does see things (which i had been wondering about) and that as she grew up, she would tell me more and more about which people were visiting, it is really nice becasue sometimes i can't see them and dd can tell me quite often who it is; i once had avisit from grandad but it hought it was my dp's grandad - she said no, you. she was very clear and once she had told me she was quite happy to go back to her playing. sometimes it's like that or we can go through a whole list of people.

i do agree with the lady that says that some children move awy from things like that and the other lady who said she reacted quite badly to one of her father's employees. i remember reacting in a similar way to an insurance man when i was just under 3yo. i didn't like him one bit and i can remember the feeling to this day. my mom told me several years ago that i was right - he had done a bunk with loads of money from different people, including my mother's money. so yes, i do think that very young children can be very perceptive.

AvaLou · 13/09/2006 11:43

Tooticky I experienced similar, my DS was constantly patting and stroking my stomach when I was pregnant with DD, even in the first trimester, and he was far too young to know or understand even if we had told him.

Bramshott · 13/09/2006 11:52

My DD did the baby thing too (she's 3.8) - just when I was thinking that I should probably get a test, she said "my baby sister, who's in your tummy"! Have to wait until April to see if she's right about the sister bit!