Can small children see 'spirits'?

Question

Sometimes my 15 week old baby boy breaks off from feeding and starts smiling and 'chatting' into space - it's just like someone is standing over him and he's communicating with them. Another mother told me that up to a certain age, children can see 'spirit' people around them. I'm inclined to dismiss this as complete rubbish, but does anyone out there think there's anything in it? Thanks!

Answer 1

Maybe most white people stop being able to see at a certain age but us Native Americans still can.
The baby is probably just happy.
MCR you're right , it's genetic

Answer 2

I am inclined to think so..my mom spoke of how when I was 3, I had an "imaginary" friend named Phoebe. I spent hours talking to her and playing with her..I described her to my mom when she asked. She never could figure out where I even came up with the name. Later she found some very old photos from the 1800's of her father's great grandma..and on the back of the photo was a woman's name: Phoebe. Very oddly, the picture of the woman in the photo looks almost like a photocopy of me now!
And once when my daughter was small and playing she recounted how she was running around corners in the house and tripped and when she looked up she could see a woman's dress hanging there and the feet and hands..but nothing past the upper chest..she said it was see-through like it was not really there.
My friend Kat's nephew used to see people in a field near the house "hanging by their necks" from an old tree. And people in the basement.

Answer 3

I believe young children are very perceptive .. A few years ago when one of my kids was 2 yrs old she used to go and stand in the same corner of the garden and have a conversation with someone , she`d be there for ages ! when she came back into the house i asked what she had been doing there in that corner all the time and she says shes been talking to grandad ?? she never knew my dad as he passed when she was a tiny baby .... so yes i think kids are aware of presences ...

Answer 4

Some call it a curse. Some call it a gift. I think its both. Yes, people with this ability can see them for the rest of their life. Dont be alarmed fot not all spirits are evil. Just let the baby keep doing what its doing and it will probably see them when it gets older. Keep in mind that this kind of thing is genetic like i get premonitions and my family has gotten them for ages. I see spirits like my family has before me. So ask around in your family no matter how, for lack of a better word, stupid it may sound. Ask them and they will tell you if you tell them about your baby.

Answer 5

Apparently young kids can see spirits, and its only when they get to an age where they realise that others dont, and thats its socially unacceptable to say that they do, that they stop believing, or ignoring the spirit in the hope it will go away.

The younger they are, the more suseptable they are to seeing sporits coz the spirits are welcomed by those who are more innocent.

Also teenage girls are more suseptable to seeing spirits, but can be seen by teenage boys too...

Maybe your son is just picking up on someone you cannot see?

This is especially the case if you have lost loved ones.

Answer 6

Yes, they can, and if you don't try to discourage them they will continue to see them. I'm a 50 year woman and have seen spirits twice in my life. The latest one was approximately two years ago when my husband had a massive heart attach and died at the hospital. It was the spirit of an elderly man he wrapped his arms around me and told me that it was going to be alright. Immediately after wards the doctor came out and told me that they had revived my husband, but he was in need of immediate surgery. It was a long and hard journey, but I got my husband back. You only have to believe.........

Answer 7

when i was a child about 4 o4 5 i was in the family car with all the family going to a funeral for a lady we called aunt. anyway i asked my parents Why are we going to aunt j funeral" my parents said to say goodbye. i said why go there she is sitting on the hood of the car. i still remember seeing her riding along on the hood. i belive that children are much more likely to see things that are real but we dont allow ourselfs to see or that God has made us not to see. i think children very young ones are seeing angels all the time and that they remember what it was like in heaven before they came down here to go threw life.
i wont worry about any of this and dont attempt to make a big deal out of it or even speak of if with the child . the child will forget how to see this all as he grows and its natural . its also something you should not talk about because it will cause troubles for the child.

Answer 8

hey its likley that ur kid is babbling away and making sounds listening to there own voices, but it is meant to be that young children up to a ceratin age can see spirits.

research is meant to show young infants can use a part of there brain that adults do not use, and if this part is further stimualted it can lead on to young children and adults visually seeing and communicating with the deceased, other wise they will lose the abiltity to do so.

this is just something i aquired to know through reading but it may not be the case.

Answer 9

I believe they can. I had a godson that never really cried whilst he was a baby. He was always smiling and giggling and chatting whilst no one was round him, it was the oddest thing, I can assure you. There were even times where he was fussy, and his mum would say that she wished he'd calm down and maybe take a nap and not 5 minutes later, he'd be asleep!!

Take photos when the baby's asleep and see what happens! Maybe you'll see something in the photographs.

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Answer 10

Great question ... star for you. :)

Absolutely. My grand-daughter has had this ability, since she was very young. She's 8 now, and hasn't been able to see the spirits since she turned 5 (or there a bouts). I consider myself to be a very spiritual person, so is my daughter (and my 18 y/o son) ... and my grand-daughter seems to have inherited the very same trait. Go with it, don't encourage it, but, at the same time ... don't discourage it. :)

Answer 11

Don't be so quick to dismiss the idea! - i know i feel reasured at the thought of my passed ancestors keeping an eye on my little one. I believe they have let me know on one or two ocasions that there was a problem.