Kids have imaginary friends right..well my niece plays with hers and when we ask her who shes playin with she says stormie (which is my brother who died && that would be her uncle) and he was a baby when he died and we took pictures of wherever she would laugh at which was (the bassinett and the bookshelf) and when she was done we showed her the pictures and said wheres stormie and she pointed to the bassinett in one picture and the book shelf in the other..but the scary part is is that when we asked her where stormie was (this was while she was playin with him) she said dead...plain as day and it kinda scared us..can kids have imaginary friends who are dead family members...my mom says that when my niece was born she seen my brothers face in the hospital delivery room..my niece was very early when she was born..the same as my brother and my mom says he watches over her..but is there a reason that its him that she plays with?? Thanks
2007-01-15 11:15:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
oh and shes only 2--but talks very well for her age
2007-01-15 11:31:55 · update #1
She plays with him because he's 'nice' to her ... including getting her LOTS of attention because her 'imaginary friend' has the same name as your now-dead brother. Go along with it and even set a place at the dinner table for him, and it will become less and less fun for her ... and be sure to 'make sure Stormie is happy, warm, comfortable' BEFORE you check on her ... eventually she'll quit playing with him, but for now it's probably doing her a LOT of good.
2007-01-15 11:25:59 · answer #1 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of this before. I suppose the explanation depends on how skeptical you are of such things. Generally the skeptical answer, and the one I lean towards, is that somewhere along the way during your nieces life she overheard a conversation about your brother and incorporated it into her imaginary friend.
Most people will swear that there is no possible way the child could know such a person (in this case your brother) existed and that nobody in the family ever talked about him/her while the child was around. Obviously that's not the case if we go with the skeptical explanation. The child could have overheard the conversation while still a baby and stored the name away and some of the details and they only later were repeated when asked about their imaginary friend. As most people know, the brain records everything it experiences but most of it is filtered out and forgotten. For whatever reason the information about the deceased relative wasn't filtered but was stored and later recalled, perhaps subconsciously, as an imaginary friend.
2007-01-15 11:26:46 · answer #2 · answered by Digital Haruspex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kids can c things like that... just watch montel on weds with silvia brown.... thats cool tho...no need to worry
2007-01-15 11:20:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your child has a gift. She can talk to spirits.
2007-01-16 23:44:54 · answer #4 · answered by peg42857 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋