by Kylie Holmes
Who on earth is that imaginary friend your child talks about? And talks to? Their own creation? A figment of a creative and fertile imagination? But what if? What if this friend is something we don’t yet have a word for. A ghost? A Spirit Guide? An ancestor wanting to reach out to this sensitive and receptive child? And what about those dreams? Those images your child conjures from nowhere? Ones that no one could possibly ‘dream up’? And what about the invisible friends who come to dinner? Recent research indicates that there is a strong possibility that imaginary friends could be a relative who passed away before the child was born. When Jade, my daughter was 3 years old, she always defiantly asserted that ‘Sammy’ was her brother. Could this be the child I lost in a miscarriage years ago?Some people dismiss the spirit world as jiggery-pokery. Others wait in the firm belief that loved ones who have passed over will be in contact. It seems that children up to the age of eight, are receptive to spirit contact. After this time the tangible, concrete world of logical strategies and mathematical equations sets in. As the child is challenging what they know, start to perceive and test boundaries, question their parents and, importantly, absorbs their peers’ perspectives and opinions, some faculties may get lost. Or hidden away. Mediums, sensitives and their clients have evidence that the door to spirit contact can sometimes remain open into adulthood.
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I did not have an imaginary friend, but I know that I have talked to ancestors since then.
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Indeed, I had a few childhood “imaginary friends”. I know now that they were my guides and most likely an ancestor. I would love to see my own children keep their “imaginary friends” throughout their lives (well, when I eventually have kids
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As a child, in the mid-50s, I had a recurring dream of my “best friend.” He was a boy about my age…we played, laughed and walked together. At the end of the dream he would give me a bouquet of wildflowers before he departed. I don’t recall he had a name, but ours was a joyful loving friendship.
One day, exploring my grandmother’s photo album, I found a picture of my friend. I told her he was my dream friend and asked her who he was.
She explained he was her eldest son who had died at the age of 12, some 20 years previously. She told me his story and related that one of his habits was to gather bouquets of wildflowers to give to people he cared about.
I never dreamed of him again after that…until my grandmother passed over about 10 years later. In that final dream, she stood in a beautiful flower garden with Uncle Bruce, holding his hand as they both waved to me.
I begged to join them, but she said it was not time for me to go with them just yet….but we would be together again some day in the future.
I consider myself fortunate to have been born to a family who believed in and supported spirit communication as a perfectly natural and desireable ability.
I think it’s tragic that this skill denied, ridiculed, eroded or eradicated by socialization.