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LucyP
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 2:47pm \| IP Logged

My little girl (23 mo) has often seemed to "see things". She did a lot of turning her head and smiling at thin air as a baby, and now she does it too. Today she really freaked me out. She was looking attentively into the garden as she often does, and I asked absently what she was looking at. She said a man. She was acting 100% the same way she would if say her dada was in the garden, moving her eyes and head as if she was actually looking at something. She said he wouldn't say his name. I asked her to make the sign of the cross and tell him to go away if he wasn't a friend with Jesus. Because of her background (severely mentally ill mother and drug exposure in utero) this sort of thing freaks me out. Especially as she does it often.

Is this what other people's children do too? Can I talk to a priest about it? A doctor? Just drink some camomile tea?

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Posted: March 03 2009 at 2:58pm \| IP Logged

I've never had it happen with one who could talk, but my little guy will look into the air at mass and smile--and it will be away from the pretty windows into an area that there isn't anything much to look at. Since it was mass, I just assumed it was the angels there participating if it wasn't just indigestion

I might talk to a particular priest about it, but I would be choosy about which one.

I would ask a pediatrician, too, about the symptoms regarding the drug use in utero. If that isn't a possibility, I would imagine the ped would brush it off as insignificant. I probably wouldn't mention to the ped the possibility of its being an apparition of some sort.

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Posted: March 04 2009 at 12:00pm \| IP Logged

My youngest does this. We will be cuddling in bed and he will start giggling and staring at a place in the room. I ask him what is so funny and he smiles and points to the spot. There is nothing there. I ask him if he sees anything and he looks at me like I am insane and says "yes, that person right there". I always do what you said you did and pray that if there is someone there that he/she will leave if they are not from God.

I don't know what else to do. He once told me that he was scared because there was a very bad man standing beside the bed. He said the man told him that he was going to eat his heart. My little guy was terrified. I don't know if it was imagination or what but he kept pointing and staring at the exact same spot in the room. I prayed very loudly with my hands on my son's head that the Lord would please clear this home of any evil presences. My son immediately calmed down and said that the man was gone.

I don't know what he sees or why he sees it. It could be his imagination running wild..I just don't know. I treat it as if he is seeing something because he believes it. I can tell he really does believe something is there.

I feel for you. It is freaky.

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Posted: March 06 2009 at 10:43am \| IP Logged

My son has been doing things like this off and on since he was a baby - I always attributed it to angels and such (for my own ease of mind!).

Several months ago, he started talking about a white bird. It would come into the window of our van sometimes. At first I thought it was a trick of the light, but after a while, I really became convinced he was seeing a white bird. One day, he said a black bird was trying to get in and the white bird came and flapped its wings and made the black bird go away (mostly his own words in the previous sentence). I was totally floored. Where would this come from?

I try to accept it, but not encourage it necessarily - to see where it is going.... He still sometimes speaks of his white bird. And last week in the CGS atrium, we had a new piece of artwork - with the dove and the flames in the same image as the symbol of the Holy Spirit - out of the blue he said that "his" bird was like this one, but the picture was wrong.

So, I don't know... This is the first I've shared this with anyone accept a very holy seminarian friend of ours. Perhaps there IS something to the idea that little ones CAN see their angels and other spiritual beings... Some saints have said things along these lines... when one is truly and fully and completely in a state of grace....

Just ideas?

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Posted: March 06 2009 at 10:45am \| IP Logged

Also, I will add that children I know who have truly been entirely protected from images of monsters, dinosaurs and anything scary, still have scary "visions" of monsters in their closet or under their bed - they might use different terminology, but the end image in the adult's mind is the same....

I love LucyP's response - to make the sign of the cross and tell it to leave if it's not a friend of Jesus' - perfect training!

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