Has anyone ever heard of a spirit who sprinkles "blue dust"? My six year old niece has seen a little man wearing a suit and a nightcap several times in the last few days. She says he is the Sandman. She says he sprinkles her with "blue dust" but he hasn't sprinkled enough to put her to sleep yet. She also says he has a cat on his shoulder. She says he is afraid of her and bounces from wall to wall and corner to corner. She said he is very tired and cannot sleep. She likes him and intends to try to lure him to her bed by tempting his cat with her cat.

Anyone ever heard of a spirit sprinkling anything? Or an insomniac spirit?

I've heard it to be a myth. but anything is possible!

errr ive heard of the "sandman" who makes the eye stuff thats supposed to be sleeping sand lol but thats it really. ive never heard of what ur neice is talkin bout tho.

...have you been sleepwalking?

hey so that dry stuff thats near your eyes when you wake up, is wet sand from the sandman thats hardened over night, creepy....

There is this kids cartoon "cirus the sand man" or somthing like that that fits the description to a que. Most likely she is halucinating it, I used to halucinate trolls putting each other in a jail cell. Yes, halucinate, not dream!

*looks up*, oh dear

lol thats what they told me when i was little but isnt there a story bout an evil killer sandman? or is that the candyman? *confusion*

Children DO have an innocence that allows them to see things that, I think, as we grow older, we forget, or lose...

It's NO SECRET that kids are extraordinary people,,,their minds are SO open to SO many things,,,yet they are logical beyond belief. If you don't believe me, just try doing a magic trick in front of a child. They will tell you EXACTLY how the trick is done 90% of the time. With the same trick, you'll dumbfound most adults.

If this girl says that She is seeing something, then chances are that She is,,,I dunno what, but there's probably SOMETHING there.

I've heard of the Sandman before... He's the little guy who put's people to sleep... Although I've never heard about the cat or blue dust...

Maybe you should ask her parents or anyone close to her (friends, teacher, older sibling etc) if they have told her or if she could have found out from somewhere about The Sandman... Is she a fan of The Powerpuff Girls cartoon because one of the episodes of that features The Shandman where she could have got the idea/inspiration from...

You know, maybe her parents told her a story about a little man whose job it is to put people to sleep and she wants to beleive in it so much that she is seeing things or is dreaming this, which she has mistaken for happening in real life. I do that sometimes... dream things and, normally when I first wake up, can't remember or can't work out if it really happened...

Cos I think if she has heard a story from someone it is most likely she is dreaming this or just seeing things in her sleepy state before she finally falls asleep. If she hasn't heard the story of the Sandman from someone then I think I might tend to beleive what she is saying... Cos like the guy said above children pick up on things and see things that older people can't... I've read a few stories about children seeing ghosts of their dead relatives and stuff so maybe she really is seeing The or A Sandman.

yeah that is! theres some little song bout him i dont remember the name tho altho one line iss...
"mr. sandman bring me a dream..." lol thats all i remember

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YAY!! i found it!! good old google

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Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Give him two lips like roses and clover (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.

(scat “bung, bung, bung, bung.….)

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen
Give him the word that I'm not a rover
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.

(scat “bung, bung, bung, bung)

Mr. Sandman (male voice: “Yesss?) bring us a dream
Give him a pair of eyes with a “come-hither” gleam
Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci
And lots of wavy hair like Liberace
Mr Sandman, someone to hold (someone to hold)
Would be so peachy before we're too old
So please turn on your magic beam
Mr Sandman, bring us, please, please, please
Mr Sandman, bring us a dream.

(scat “bung, bung, bung, bung….)

its by the Chordettes
linky

"Mr. Sandman, Bring me a dream..."

I was just searching for the lyrics but you beat me to it

OH THANKS, YOU GUYS!!!

NOW THAT SONG IS GOING TO BE STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR THE REST OF THE DAY!!!!!!

SHEESH!!!

The Sandman is a story told to children. He is a man who sprinkles sand in a childs eye which makes the kid very sleepy and goes to sleep.
It's an adult explain why people sleep.

As real as a Stalk bringing babes, which is also what children believe. I had an imaginary sandman friend when i was a child too. Nothing 'psychic phenomena' about it, just a child believing in the lies that adults tell them.

weired

I heard of the sandman but never a story like this one!

burnside...why ruin the fun and as wat david said and that song ... DAMN YOU PEOPLE I GOT INTO TWUBLE FOR SINGING ITIN CLASS N THE TEACHA SED'' if u wanna sing sing out loud n i kept goin coz i couldnt get it outta my head AND I HAD TO SING IT TO THE CLASS! i hope ur happy...