Three-year-old is really creeping me out.

[Anonymous]

I should have stopped reading ages ago but it's like a trainwreck; can't look away.

[Anonymous]

OP, I strongly suspect she just has weird sleep patterns. I've had sleep paralysis before and it's not fun, but it doesn't necesarily sound like that. WIth me, my sleep disturbances tend to come in waves that last for years (off and on). For about 10 years starting when I was about 6, I could lucid dream, which was very cool. At some points, I could dream while i was half awake, so sort of be asleep and dreaming, at the same time that I could see what was going on around me. It could be she's got something like that going on. I think she'll grow out of it.

[Anonymous]

Not sure if we’re allowed to make recommendations but there’s a great medium in Chantilly. Her fees are clearly stated on her website and in my opinion she’s the real deal. I’ve had several friends go to her and we’ve all felt that we got every penny of our moneys worth.

[Anonymous]

Interesting thread. To the OP I agree ask more specific questions and be supporting.

To the medium thank you. I went to see a lady in Lilydale that drew 4 years back 4 years forward. It was spot on but one thing is outstanding that I am still wondering about. I do want to go back. We tried a few years ago but we had my senior pug with me at the time and she was immediately hyperventilating as soon as we got into town. Maybe she too was sensitive. I did see one episode of Long Island Medium that made contact with a deceased pug. After my husbands dog passes he was so pained wondering if we did the right thing, and we found a cheerio in our bed that night. The dog loved Cheerios so we took it as a sign. After my dad died I was so upset and I swear I saw him one night standing over my newborn. I hope he comes to play! He still sleeps in our room in his own bed at 3 so maybe there just hasn’t been time. I am hopeful. I do have a question about seeing someone sick. I often see people and have the same thoughts. I agree with your TG assessment. He does not look well. It’s something about the coloring for me.

[Anonymous]

I agree that isolated sleep paralysis may be implicated in at least some of these cases—I and others have actually studied and published academic research on this topic. It also can be more frequent in people with a history of trauma/anxiety disorders. It can also be associated with hypnagogic/hypnapompic hallucinations, which can be easily misinterpreted as visions, ghosts, alien encounters, etc.

[Anonymous]

Mental disease, get it checked out

[Anonymous]

If it were me, I’d get a priest in to bless the house. Friendly experiences are one thing but this sounds demonic to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

I’m still not convinced it’s anything other than my daughters imagination. But I will say, reading the thread has me fascinated. I can’t say I believe in spirits or another paranormal dimension. DH was raised very anti-theists and I was raised very Catholic. It took me a very long time to let go of those beliefs, and sometimes they creep back. I think people want to make sense of the unexplained, the odd... I feel like if I were to burn sage I would be accepting a reality I don’t believe in...

That being said, at this point I’d love for my daughter to quit the talk about it. We now barely acknowledge her when she mentions him (usually as soon as she gets up, and before bed). We don’t want our reaction to encourage it. I feel like most three-year-olds would have dropped it by now. She’s very insistent.

This morning she told me he crawled under her bed, she knew he was there but couldn’t cry or he’d go and “bite the baby” instead. I have a 4 month old as well, who sleeps across the hall. This made me teary as DD is not a fan of her baby sister. She either openly ignored her, complains about her or at times, is mean to her. The idea that she was ok with this entity being her room so it didn’t hurt her sister made me emotional.

I am starting to wonder if she’s experiencing sleep paralysis. As an infant she’d wake up screaming a few times, and be hard to calm down (this was when we were in our old house).

I talked to my mother about it, and she is team “spirit”. She mentioned she hasn’t explained tetanus to her, but maybe her older brother did.

I know DS isn’t trying to scare her, because DS is a massive scaredy cat. He can’t handle a storyline with the tiniest bit of upheave. He’s ultra sensitive to emotions and fear, and if DD starts talking about the Rusty Man he runs away because terrifies him. Although the almost never mentions him when she’s not in bed I realized. It’s when I’m getting her up or putting her down for bed. She mentions it to our nanny during nap time.

I am fearful, but not of ghosts. Sometimes I do wonder if she has a mild onset of schizophrenia. She has exhibited some other behaviors, somewhat mild.

Maybe a ghost would be better.

OP, reading what you wrote here breaks my heart. I am imagining how your poor daughter feels, that she is talking about this horrifying experience and being ignored. Please help that little girl. Whether you believe it or not, doesn't matter. Please, please take some of the suggestions on this thread, whether saging, a blessing, heck I've heard of parents using water bottles of "monster spray" around the room at bed time. Whatever is happening is *emotionally* real - to her.

As a child I was often terrified at night and left alone to cope. It was horrible. I am so sad for you child that I was reading this thread on a phone, and when I saw your post, got out my computer, logged in and found this thread so I could respond and be able to type clearly.

Please do something for your little girl.

[Anonymous]

OP, please talk to your daughter's pediatrician about this. It could well be a sleep disorder, a neurological issue, or something else that needs to be addressed. Knowledge is power, and once you know what it is and what you need to do, you'll be able to help.

In the meantime, as you wait for appointments/a diagnosis, there is certainly no harm in saging or confronting a presence. No harm in trying some of these tips. If they work, great! If not, you did what you could, for now, as you wait to see a doctor.

[Anonymous]

It makes me really sad that you're just ignoring her

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, please talk to your daughter's pediatrician about this. It could well be a sleep disorder, a neurological issue, or something else that needs to be addressed. Knowledge is power, and once you know what it is and what you need to do, you'll be able to help.

In the meantime, as you wait for appointments/a diagnosis, there is certainly no harm in saging or confronting a presence. No harm in trying some of these tips. If they work, great! If not, you did what you could, for now, as you wait to see a doctor.

What the hell? Why would this be a neurological thing?!

[Anonymous]

OP

Look for a correlation between her behavior and the food she eats.

I posted earlier, and suggested that it might be related to food.

I had very similar experiences with waking up screaming, sleep parlysis, recurring nightmares, hallucinations and some other pretty weird reactions. I am not sure mine started as young as 3, but it definitely had my parents concerned.

And all my symptoms were related to certains foods. Once those were eliminated, the symptoms disappeared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, please talk to your daughter's pediatrician about this. It could well be a sleep disorder, a neurological issue, or something else that needs to be addressed. Knowledge is power, and once you know what it is and what you need to do, you'll be able to help.

In the meantime, as you wait for appointments/a diagnosis, there is certainly no harm in saging or confronting a presence. No harm in trying some of these tips. If they work, great! If not, you did what you could, for now, as you wait to see a doctor.

What the hell? Why would this be a neurological thing?!

You don't get that hallucinations--if that is what this is--could have a neurological basis?

Huh. I guess you skipped literally every biology or health class you ever had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So what do the spirits look like? Or do you just hear them?

I get this question a lot. I would love for other empaths and mediums to jump on and share their experiences! It's interesting how differently people can perceive the same thing. Everyone reads energy differently. Everyone sees spirits differently. Mediums use their "clairs" to "see" spirits.

Clairvoyance is clear seeing, but not necessarily with your eyes. I "see" spirits in my minds eye. They usually present themselves to me in a way that my client will recognize. For example, I might see an older lady with gray hair and a red dress for a client. The spirit isn't wearing physical clothes. But the dress probably has some significance for the client. Maybe she is holding a purple feather. It may not make sense to me, but it likely will hold meaning for a client. (That's actually a real example. The client and her great, grandmother found a bright purple feather on a beach.)

Claircognizance is clear knowing. You can't explain why you know something, you just do. I think most people have this ability. We ignore it way too often. This happened to me before 9/11 for example. I knew something awful was going to happen. In my dream, it was a terrible plane crash. I saw planes and buildings and fire. I didn't get any information that would have been useful. But I did "know" something was off. Same thing happened to me before the Las Vegas concert shootings. I dreamed something terrible happened in the desert. In my dream, I heard symphonic music. I didn't know it was going to be a shooting. I just knew something terrible was going to happen in the desert and that it involved music. Again, not enough to help anyone. But I knew.

Clairaudience is clear hearing. Sometimes I can hear a spirit talking to me. Sometimes it's words. Often it's music or tones. Religious people will often talk about the "still, small voice of God". That's clairaudience.

Clairsentience is clear feeling. You actually feel what your client feels. This is my strongest clair. I can feel pain when another person is sick or hurt. A really simple example - Trey Gowdy is sick. He may not even realize it. But I can feel it when I look at him, even on television. It's either heart or lung. It feels like it may be mostly stress and anxiety (at least I hope that's all it is). It feels like heaviness in my chest When my sister went into labor three weeks early, I knew it before she told anyone. And we were living overseas. I felt it in my abdomen. I called my mother before she did. When my son broke his arm at school, I was already in the car driving to the school when the nurse called me. I felt it in my arm. I woke up at 2am with searing pain in my ankle. We were about to head to the ER when it went away as quickly as it came. My grandmother died at 2:14am. We found out the next morning. From a blood clot in her ankle.

Some people even smell or taste things that spirits want them to know about. Perfume is super common. Most empaths use a combination of clairs, but we usually have some that are stronger than others.

Also, spirits can present themselves in different ways. It's not easy for them to manipulate things in our physical environment. Just like it's hard for us to perceive things in theirs. We have to meet them in the middle most of the time. They can look like shadows, mists, lights, orbs, outlines, sometimes you'll see a full body for just a millisecond, sometimes just a face,... Loved ones will try to appear as we remember them. Most of the time I feel a spirit before I ever see it. Keep in mind that if you are trying to contact a deceased loved one and they know you will be scared by their presence, they aren't going to pop up in front of you. They are much more likely to send you signs. Watch for anything that repeats in your environment. Watch for objects that are not in their ordinary place - maybe a feather in an apartment complex, for example. Watch for strange behavior in your electronics. Or subtle changes in temperature. My grandmother loves to send smells. And it always makes me smile.

My god. Many of these things have happened to me at one time or another. 9/11 dream - but you're right, it's terrifying but so non-specific! It's not like it actually HELPED in any way. One time had a whisper in my ear telling me to walk away from a situation before it went bad, and I did. One time I was able to see in my head that my (now ex) husband was with his AP... I could see them, I knew exactly where they were, and I told him all about it when he got home. LOL he thought I was gps tracking him. One time I was on metro and started to worry about my daughter. I was staring at my phone (it was blank/locked) when it rang in my palm and school was calling to tell me something that was pretty bad.

I also lived in a condo for 18 months that I'm pretty sure was haunted. We all had bizarre mental health issues while living there. I lost my shirt when I sold it only 18 months later but didn't care; just had to get away from whatever was there. One time I had gotten out of the shower and I was sitting in front of my vanity mirror when something scratched me down my back. It hurt. But left no marks. I think that was the moment I finally stopped writing off what was happening to us.

One time a coworker had died unexpectedly. We were not friends. Sort of adversaries. And they assigned me to her duties. Shortly thereafter she visited me in my room as I slept, staring down at me. Not in a friendly manner either. She didn't do anything but I could feel her resentment. Only happened the one time. But it was so real.

These things only happen to me once every few years but, man when they do, it's very surreal.

[Anonymous]

OP,
I don't think she has schizophrenia because she is so young and that would be super rare. I would still take her to the pediatrician who can hopefully recommend something helpful. I would maybe ask to take her to a child therapist who has the skill to figure out what is going on here. Even if its not something truly bad or dangerous its obviously distressing to your DD. I hope you get things figured out soon!