hey, don't know if this has ever been discussed on here before..but my english teacher was telling us today about the 'Mosquito' which is a device with this high-pitched sound shop-owners are using to deter teens from standing outside their shops and hanging around shopping centres. the idea is that only people under 25 can hear it, as we lose the ability to pick up these sounds, so it only bothers the poor young'uns! but anyways, she then starting telling us about research thats being carried out on all these sounds that we lose the ability to hear, what ages and why we could hear them during that period in the first place, and scientists are now theorizing that the imaginary friends we have around the age of 3 are not actually imaginary at all, that in fact what the kids are hearing are the same voices 'psychics' hear, a frequency that as we get older we lose the ability to hear, like the 'Mosquito'.

it makes sense...kids are convinced that what they're hearing and seeing is really there. perhaps we all start out as 'psychics'

any thoughts??

Hey I belive we ALL strarted out as 'psychics' xD

could be. my parents tell me that i used to see people floating in the kitchen. cant realy remember though. and they said that i used to tell them that they talked to me.

maybe its just that at that age, kids have just begun to start socialising and becasue its all new to them, they want to get involved and so imagine and pretend that soemone is there.

not sure though. im open to all possibilites.

could be. my parents tell me that i used to see people floating in the kitchen. cant realy remember though. and they said that i used to tell them that they talked to me.

maybe its just that at that age, kids have just begun to start socialising and becasue its all new to them, they want to get involved and so imagine and pretend that soemone is there.

not sure though. im open to all possibilites.

i do believe in psychic phenomenon, and this could be true, however it could be not true, just so very very hard to know, cause there is evidence to support it so i will give it some thought. . . while religion has NO evidence, anyway cant start this into a skeptic convo. . . now people in antient times survived without barely anything, i believe that they had psychic abilities, and that it could be true that children have them too, however noone knows because you lose the voices when you get older, i did not have an imaginary friend, well i think. i can do great things wit my imagination, but no real voices come through. . . i am really puzzled about this. this is very very interesting indeed. . . .

i keep rambling on, i should really stop right here, anyway, i am hopeful that these kids are psychic, and if so then we may be able to get back through and be psychic again.

Yes.

My ex-boyfriends daughter used to tell us ALL the time that she could hear people talking in the other rooms at night. We let her sleep with the tv on because she said that's why she liked it on all night so she couldn't hear them and it wouldn't scare her. We both believe in paranormal phenomenon and abilities. We couldn't tell her that because it would scare her. So we told her what all parents tell their children to alay their fears.

Well, I had to leave them due to my boyfriend's drug addiction. She told me on the phone that she wished she could leave with me because, "It's like daddy isn't daddy anymore, because he doesn't act the same. It's like a ghost got inside him and is making him do bad things."

She knew NOTHING of his problems. I always wondered if maybe she knew something we didn't or if it was just the drugs and that was how she saw him. She was 6 when I first came into the picture and she maintained the voices story right up until the day I left and at that time she was 9.

While talking about this subejct it came to my mind why not all children have imaginary friends, I for one never had an imaginary friend and i have a high level of imagination... you should see what my mind is capable of imagining!

I think that there may be a small glimmer of truth in it but I don't think we should start labeling children as hearing voices of the dead. Psychologists know a lot of children create their own imaginary friends out of stress at times due to various life events. Bordem, loneliness, environmental issues.
But I think a lot of children understand their imaginary friend isn't real that they know it is them making up a tall tale about a friend.
A friend once had an imaginary friend called squirrel she only used when she was in trouble the same old explanation "squirrel did it" to get out of trouble. She told us how she knew he wasn't real just pretended he was to use him as a scape goat.
My brother and I shared a imaginary friend comms, comms was the wind and we would even hold him birthday parties n ring him on the phone and even convince our family to come over for cake for his birthday. We both knew comms wasn't real, just a pretend friend we talked about as though he where in real life situations.
If you ever study a child of a young age you'll see how their brain is constantly rattling on. My nephew who is 3 wanderings around constantly chattering to him self when hes all alone. He makes noises playing with his toy cars and talks about everything he is doing at the time simply talking to him self and yammering on and making up pretend situations he is in. His favorite one is being a dinosaur hunter at present time he will walk round by him self talking about how hes a dinosaur hunter.

Children find anything to ammuse them selves so quickly and so easily and imaginary friends are a great one. I used to pretend i was talking to people or doing things with people as a child just cause thats how it was. If i was playing I would imagine adventures I was on with other people fightng off pirates n the like.

I think imaginary friend keeps to its name "imaginary" from the imagination.

I think most children understand these are things they themselves have made up and understand they are in no way real.

I do also though believe there is a small minority of children out there who would be able to hear things we shouldn't I believe there are small amounts of people out there of all age ranges that hear and see things we shouldn't.

But you must keep in mind there is also infant psychosis which is indeed uncommon. There are theories on white and black noise, but there is no evidence to back up your teachers claims that mediums hear things on a higher frequency.

I think that labeling children's imaginary friends as sounds on a higher frequency would remain purely a theory of hers.

Although an interesting concept I feel there would need to be a lot of evidence to back it up.

A lot of us can recall our imaginary friends and I somewhat feel the tug that most of these people know they never actually heard or saw them.

If they did then I think they too would understand there's a greater problem with that one. All in all a interesting concept but I think it shall remain a concept until more evidence is provided.

Maybe if she can tell us where she got this information from for more research purposes.

^^indeed, i agree with everything you've said. but don't get me wrong, i wasn't trying to say that all imaginary friends are actually spirits or real voices, more the reason for my post was to put out the possibility of some, and the more intriguing cases (where the imaginary friend would appear to be real to others, poltergeist activity, children unexplainedly knowing things they shouldn't/couldn't, etc.) could be explained this way. my teacher was just telling us about the research she had read up on, the research is being done right now. one thing they're thinking of trying is putting the child and a 'medium' in a room together, and seeing if they're both hearing the same 'voices'. there is of course many exceptions to the losing ability to hear certain sounds thing, there are adults who don't lose this ability at all, some, though over 25, can hear the 'Mosquito', along with the irritated teens this would also explain why some people are 'mediums', but the vast majority of us are not

of course this is all merely theorizing on something we have yet to fully understand...in the meantime, it's interesting to explore the possibilities. (lol)

ah yes, i shall inquire tuesday after class (we've monday off, all-ireland football final on sunday..i love that my country is sooo sport obsessed ) if she can direct me towards more info on the researh, and who's doing it.

I can understand exploring all possiblilities, as there are people who have been physic from a young age...Imagination is such an important aspect of a toddler and young child, putting them in their own little world...My daughter had an imaginary brother, George.
She would take him everywhere with her, talk to him, play games with him, and even answer questions that he was supposingly asking her...George disappeared after my second daughter was born, so I attributed it to her being an only child and George was her companion...As far as being physic, well that was the furthest thing from my mind...This is an interesting read...thanks...