Theories: A Child’s Version of Haunted
- March 28th, 2010
- Posted in Theories on the Supernatural
- By Seline
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As I wander through my past memories of the first paranormal events in my life I am fascinated not by just the events themselves, but the way a child takes in such experiences and separates them from the scary ghost stories that are a regular part of childhood. I felt that it was important to address this issue again in theory because I believe it is such a vital part of the beginning of human life.
One might assume that a child would be frightened by encounters with beings that are not a usual part of their world; that real hauntings might disturb the fragile mind of one so small. On the contrary, it has been my experience that children usually adapt well to the paranormal and it is only when they have been taught to fear what they do not understand that they begin to be frightened by these events.
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My own parents accepted that I was able to see and hear things that they did not. I know that they never made assumptions about what I was experiencing, but they did not teach me to fear it either, only to be cautious as I would in any other area of life.
As a small child I was not told that ghosts did not exist, but that I might not need to feel afraid just because something was unusual. I found this way of thinking to be incredibly valuable in many areas of life and I am eternally grateful to my parents for teaching this to me.
Why is it that children can accept what many societies have difficulty understanding? I believe there are several factors that contribute to this.
One of the reasons might be, as I have already said, that many children have not yet learned to feel afraid of these out of the ordinary experiences. They remain open for interpretation based on how the paranormal being interacts with the child. Just as some people might not liked or disliked, so goes it with these beings that drift in and out of a child’s life.
Another reason that I believe contributes to children’s acceptance of the paranormal is that they have more to time to learn about and contemplate their surroundings. The young are expected to form their own ideas within the world that they live in and through these interactions in may seem as out of the ordinary to see paranormal beings as it is a plane in the sky.
Yet another reason which may cause children to be more open to experiences with the supernatural is they seem to be visited more often by such beings. Many theories exist about why the paranormal seem so often to be drawn to youth. It becomes a bit like the chicken and the egg though: do children see spirits because they are more open to it, or do spirits go to children because they know they have a better chance of being seen?
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In the end, many children have at least a few experiences that come about in their early years that can not quite be explained. Many of these are chalked up to wild imaginations and naivety about the world in general. It may be an important stage in early life that gets too often overlooked and may even hold some important information about the unseen worlds around us.
To a child who is still learning about the world as they know it the appearance of a ghost or other paranormal being might not be such a strange idea as it will often be in later years. The important thing to note is that with advancement of life and the structure of a society that banishes these events from a realistic point of view, what are so many people losing touch with and what might be the effects of those losses? Perhaps few can say, for now.
Goodbye for now, another end.
Until a time we meet again.
-Seline






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