Does your child see sparkles?
I get so many great questions, either while lecturing and conducting workshops, or through phone conversations and emails. They are so important to everyone, that I’ve decided to start posting some of them that I thought would be of benefit to my readers.
The following is the answer to a question send to me from a woman searching the internet for information about what her young daughter was seeing: Sparkles.
I thought this blog would be a great way for many people to gain from one person’s question. By presenting the email to you along with the answer I provided, I have chosen to change names and some circumstances just to keep anonymity. The woman who contacted me, “Karen” has given permission to share this information with you. And I send my heartfelt thanks and best wishes to her and her sweet family.
EMAIL:
Subject: Hello!
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:11:18 +0000
Hi there!
I hope you don’t mind my sending this email to you. I found your name on Google while trying to research “sparkles” that my 7 year old sees.
She has been seeing “sparkles” since she first told me about them when she was only 2. She was trying to catch them…jumping up, etc. with her hand opening and closing.
I have asked her for a few years now various questions regarding these sparkles.
She sees thousands of them…all different colors….all the time. Day, night, light, dark, etc. All the time.
She is amazed that I cannot see them. She assumed for a few years that everyone could. Her siblings are teenagers and she doesn’t talk about them as freely with them, since they are skeptical about her seeing the sparkles.
She answers all my questions, freely. I did have her eyes/vision tested and they were fine. I asked her pediatrician and he said she was playing. Kind of an imaginary friend.
If I hold my open hand out, she said they go on my hand. There aren’t any “bad” ones, except she doesn’t seem to like the small black one she sometimes sees. She said they are just round and look like sparkles. They don’t talk, they aren’t “people”.
Can you help explain to me, PLEASE, what she could be seeing. Is this good or bad for her? Are they auras? They seem to be in rooms, but not “on” people, so that puzzles me. Not stronger or lighter on people, just around…everywhere.
My husband is also a skeptic, so I’m not sure what to do. I certainly don’t want to tell her anything to scare her, so PLEASE let me know if you can help me out here with what you think may be happening.
Thank you sooooo much for your time!
Karen
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ANSWER:
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 20:04:18 -0400
Hi Karen~
Thank you so much for connecting with me. I certainly hope I can bring some resolve to you.
First of all, I feel you are very blessed to have a daughter who is open and sharing with the things she sees or witnesses. I know she is eight now, but as a two year old, she could not possibly make up something like that. Her natural responses to the phenomena is proof enough to me that it is real.
But besides that, I have known other children who see or hear or feel things other than the normal physical things we are comfortable experiencing. It is important to realize that we are all spirits. We are spirits who are really living in a physical body, experiencing the earth plane, or third dimension. Then you start to open to other possibilites. We actually are limited in many ways by our physical bodies!
Have you ever tried to walk through an open door, only to bump into the side of the frame with your hip or shoulder? That is because the true self (spirit being) saw no limitation. But the physical body really is limited by the physical doorway.
Your daughter is not seeing limitation. She sees things of a spiritual-realm nature. It is natural and normal. It exists, whether we see with our physically limited eyes or not. There is a story about the time when there were only natives living in the Americas…long before it was United States. There were men from Europe who were searching for other lands in their ships. They came to the eastern coast of America. The Indians who lived there did not see the ships because there mind had never witnessed anything that represented such a thing. It was totally foreign to them. The brain could not register the vision of the ships.
Several days passed and the leader started to notice ripples in the water…slowly then began to see what had always been there~~the ships.
Our children these days are coming into the world totally aware of the spirit realm. They see no limitation. We must be alright with that, because it shows how wonderfully our human race is evolving!
My daughter was born in 1974. She was raised in an openly spiritual environment. We taught her about communication with angels, spirit guides and loved ones who have passed away. When she was about 30 years old she reminded me that she could see things in the dark atmosphere of night. She described it as looking at a television set when the network picture was not on…gray fuzzy stuff. Only she saw it anytime at night, not when she was looking at television.
When she focused on it, the fuzz started to move and change, then take form. It would shift into animals and scenes that she recognized. Sometimes it was fearful to see, because she didn’t understand some of the things visible to her. They looked scary, like monsters.
It took a long time for me to understand what in the world she was talking about. Even when she explained it in terms I could understand, I still didn’t get it. (and I’m a spiritual medium! ) So for your husband and other older children to question the validity of the experiences, I totally understand. They just don’t “get it”.
But that’s okay. It isn’t important for them to understand. Your daughter knows you believe it, and that is enough.
I believe she is seeing ethereal energy. It is not people’s auras per se, but the same stuff that they are made of. It is just an unorganized form of that energy: pure and simple. Quite a blessing.
As she grows, she may begin to see it change and take form too. I hope she is able to continue to describe these sparkles to you, expecially as they take form. She may be the one to write the book on these experiences.
I hope I have settled some things in your mind. If you have other thoughts or questions, please feel free to write to me again.
I would love to edit your question (to change the identity) and answer to add to my blog. There are many parents with these types of questions, that I’d like to share with…but only with your permission. Is that alright with you? I will not use your names or email.
Many blessings to you and your family…
Peace! Melissa Leath http://www.PsychicIntegrity.com
My daughter is ten years old and she has seen these all her life also. She calls them dots and they are different colors. I don’t typically see color, but I have seen the sparkles from time to time, when I are extremely tired or if I wake up in the middle of the night. I have to have an altered state of consciousness, unlike my daughter. She sees th form shapes of people, and she usually sees them start ad orbs and then form into faces and bodies. I don’t see the bodies as well when I am awake unless it is dark. Spirits manifest in the infrared spectrum and children can see more easily into this spectrum because their eyes are not as mature .
I am surprised everyday at my daughter’s amazing ability. Being a psychic, I know a number of psychics and my daughter’s ability to see ghosts exceeds all others I have met (and myself by far) because she can see energies which are very weak, as well as those which are strong, and she does so with her eyes, rather than her mind’s eye as I do when I can’t physically see them.
I am sure my daughter would be happy to talk with your daughter or email her if you like. She has helped many other children because she so readily embraces her gift and wants others to do so. When I was a child I was told I was ” imaginative” and I vowed I would help my children with their gift by not allowing the media to shape and grow their fears. Instead, I shaped their perspective so they enjoy spirits. They are just folks without bodies, and my kids think it is really interesting to learn about what happened in the past. However, I only let them do so if I am present. If your daughter would like to email my daughter, you may contact me at laine@lainecrosby.com or 1 866 297 0742.
Thanks so much for your thoughts and experiences. I’m sure Karen’s daughter would benefit from connecting with your daughter. We’ll see if we can make that happen.
Also, I’ll be checking in on your blog from time to time…we may be able to do something together some time! Take care and thanks again.
Hello, I am hoping you can explain something to me. When I was around 33 or 34, I saw a psychic. As she did my reading, she asked that I give her my hands. As I presented them to her, she got all excited and asked if I’d seen the stars in my hands, like sparkles. I hadn’t, then she asked if I knew what that meant. I’d explained that I’d read that seeing stars was the presence of angels. She acknowledged this as true, but there was something else to it. She didn’t say that, but I sensed it by her reaction, as though she couldn’t tell me unless I asked. I wanted to, but for whatever reason, fear likely, I didn`t. Do you know what this might have meant?
Thank You!
Loanna.
Hi Loanna~ I apologize for the length of time it took to answer your question.
Thank you so much for bringing me this question. I hope I am able to answer to your satisfaction. First, I must tell you that each psychic has a set of personal symbols that they work with. These are things that are shared with them by their guides and angels as a way to impart information (each psychic understands one symbol in a very personal way, specific only to that one psychic). Sometimes one symbol can expand to mean many things and have a wealth of information in it. So for me to tell you what she meant, that would be impossible.
That being said: there are two or three other answers to this question.
1) Universal Symbols- these are symbols that have hundreds, or even thousands of years of well-established meanings that many people can understand, in general. If this is the case and way your psychic was interpreting, the star would probably mean renewed hope and inspiration, even discovery. It could be a breakthrough if used in a certain context.
2) My Personal Symbols- as used in my own spiritual and personal interpretation (the way my guides give me information), stars would mean loved ones who have passed away are visiting. So she could have been witnessing some one from Spirit around you (or even the impending passing of someone close). At times, depending on the circumstance and clients, it could mean that the one I am working with is able to see energy fields (auras) around others and perhaps etherically see other unembodied spirit entites.
3) Then of course the third answer could be she didn’t really know what it meant and was relying on you to answer it for her!
However, Loanna, since you did not ask, you will probably never know exactly what she meant. The next time you have a reading, be sure to follow up on everything that is being given to you. The reading is for your knowledge and edification alone (not for your reader), so it is important to always ask for more information and explanation. If things are said to you that you do not understand, or need clarity on, always ask for more details.
Getting a reading can be very empowering. But only as empowering as you allow it to be.
Many blessings to you and your family!
Thanks so much for your comment Emily. It’s great to know that what I have to offer here is beneficial. You know, the more I hear about the sparkles, I continue to have differing opinions about them. (all of them good, but different takes on what they are.) In the end, I have to go with what my guides are giving me concerning sparkles: that they are positive energy entities. Some experience them as angels, others feel like they are guides, still others think they are other-world beings. But they are all positive.
But, if your daughter is upset with them being around, then we should deal with that. She (even though she is still very young), because she is able to witness them and verbalize to you about them, has control over her situation. If she still continues to feel uncomfortable with them being around, you can help her tell them to leave, or just not be visible. I feel they are there for her protection/ benefit, but her high sensitivities makes it possible to see them. So perhaps allowing them to be around, only invisible, might be just the thing that works. But she needs to tell them it is uncomfortable for her, always in a loving way. (you may want to watch a great movie called “Heart and Souls” with Robert Downey Jr.) It deals with a young boy who sees spirits of people who died when he was born, and their relationship. Very good movie.
If I have any other thoughts, I’ll share them with you… or post a new blog about it. Thanks again…M.
Thank you for this blog article. I have been having the same “issue” with my 4 1/2 year old daughter. I only call it an issue because it makes her anxious and keeps her from going to sleep at night. She’ll often sleep with a wet washcloth or an eye mask on to avoid seeing the “sparkles”. The other night we were making 3 wishes with an Aladdin story and her first wish was for the sparkles to go away. While she has an incredible imagination, I know that she is not making this up by the way she describes it – so matter of fact and with such innocence. She told me that she used to have “floating people” in her room (so innocent b/c she doesn’t even know that adults would refer to them as spirits or ghosts) but when the clear sparkles and blue lines came to her room, the floating people didn’t come back to HER room (they are in other rooms though). She also knows who is calling and little things that are going to happen and is clearly gifted in this realm. She said that she thinks the sparkles protect her but she still wishes they would go away or that she wouldn’t see them. She says that they only come to our home and are not outside the house – even on our deck. Anyway, I am so happy to see this article because Dr. Google has me worried about small seizures and all kinds of things. Her eyesight tested fine and she was dx with an active imagination! Since I see energy myself I knew better. While it makes her uncomfortable, she seems to think it’s a positive energy.
The way I have handled this and the “floating people” is that I do not show any doubt or disbelief to her but also do not encourage her because I don’t want to make her more anxious than she already is. She wonders if I can see them too and is so confused that I don’t see the sparkles. Is there anything else I can be doing to make her feel more at ease with this gift?
Thanks again – very reassuring to find this article.
Emily
My daughter also sees “sparkles”. That is her word for them too. She started telling me about them almost 2 years ago. She’s 5 now. She only sees them in the dark. She said they start on the ceiling and float down. They come in every color of the rainbow. They land all over her body and go under the blankets. She catches them and tries to show them to me. She says they tickles when they land on her.
For almost 2 years she needed a light on in order to sleep. The “sparkles” scared her because she didn’t know what they were. Just recently, she told me that the “sparkles” are fairies. On her own, she decided to sleep with the light off because she likes to see them now. She is also sleeping better at night. She used to wake up at least once a night crying. She is a sensitive girl and is tuned in to the spiritual realm. I think the hardest part for me too, was that I couldn’t really see them all the time. I wanted to be honest with her about what I saw while I also let her know that I believed her. I occasionally see a sparkle here or there, but not the same amount or intensity. Thanks for writing this article and it’s good to hear other people’s stories!
Thanks Jess so much for sharing your story! It sounds like you are doing all the right things. I realize how difficult it is to reassure your child about something you can’t even relate to. Your story will be an inspiration to others. Especially because your daughter came to her own resolution. Blessings! …M
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First I want to thank the host of this wall, I he searched many times on this topic an not much information/shared exeperience avail.
I have being seeing sparkles since I was 15yrs (31 right now) not everyday, but time to time. The thing is that they are “Gold” always “Gold”
It seems that other ppl can see them around me sometimes, something good always happens after they visit………I dont know what to think only…..of angel protection.
with light,
Monique
Monique~ Glad you responded to the post. Interesting that you only see gold sparkles! That’s really great. (I love the song, “I’m living my life like it’s Golden”) And I agree with you, angels protection and hearlding that good events are around for you. Blessings, and I hope my articles continue to inspire.
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Please respond!
I am eleven years old,. I have seen sparkles since I was five years old. But lately, it’s seemed to have gotten worse. I see them, all the time. In the day, at night, when I close my eyes, when my eyes are open. Everywhere, 24/7. It’s gotten so annoying I haven’t been able to sleep. Last night, when I closed my eyes, I started seeing words… They were hard to make out, and I felt my brain beating. I mostly see it in the dark. I also see patterns when I close my eyes, (sometimes I see patterns with my eyes opened), (mostly colors of -Red, Purple, Pink, Yellow, and Blue)
that look like “spirals” that comes closer to me and then disapear, then it repeats, it keeps coming towards me, then it ‘leaves’, it’s just very annoying and it makes it hard to sleep. When my eye’s are open, I see sparkles everywhere, they don’t glow or anything, they just float. On occasions, I see black ones, not all the time. They don’t form into anything, though. They just fly around. Also, sometimes I see white lights around people, or things. I do see flashes of light at times. I am literally driving my mother insane, and she doesn’t know what I am seeing. She says it could be, energy, or angels, or something like that. I want to make sure it’s not my vision, or my brain. I want to talk to someone about it (besides my mom), but my friends will think I’m crazy
Thanks…
~Deanna
Hi Deanna Lynn~
Thanks so much for contacting me about the sparkles. It’s really interesting to hear different people’s experiences with them. I have to say that I feel like your experiences are not unusual. Many youth see such things. (But most of them do not mention it, or think everyone sees it) Many stop seeing them as they grow older. But it is hard to judge how many there are.
Ask your guardian angels and spiritual guides to help you with this. Tell them nicely that you don’t want to see the sparkles all the time. Then plan a special time that you could see them, only when you want to. Being empowered with this beautiful gift is important. After all, you are in charge of what you want to have around you. Also, if it just gets too much at a certain time (say, at bed time) ask the sparkle energies to stop showing themselves to you then. Be nice and polite, but firm.)
If this does not work, or you continue to be worried about your eye and brain health, it might be important for you to be checked out by an eye doctor. It will make you feel more at ease.
I wish you blessings in this endeavor, let me know how things work out…M
i am amazed to read this because I have just searched the internet to find children seeing sparkles as my daughter has seen them since she was 3 now she is 7 completely scared of going to sleep in the dark and says they show her ghosts I have been sceptical but it has nagged at me because she mentioned them when she was so young and sparkles was among one of her first words, Can you clarify what they are and are they dangerous or scary I just don’t know how to talk about it with her do you know any books she loves reading and being read to
thank you
HI Cathy~
You have just read one of my old articles. If you go to the newest one, I think you will get an extended understanding. Here is the link: http://thegobetween.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-truth-about-seeing-spirited-sparkles/
I don’t know of any books about it, and I seem to be the only one writing about it on the internet. But I feel the new article will make you feel at ease. Always talk to your child about it. You may not understand it, but they do in some way, and that needs to be re-enforced. The child needs your support, so seh knows you believe her.
Let me know what you think of the new article. Much love to you …
Thank you so much for your quick response,
Are you saying the sparkles she sees showing her ghosts are angels have I got this right?
Also could she and her brother who is 3 be crystal children! is that what you mean, her brother was a late talker and could communicate very well without speaking and is very loving, affectionate and sunny character although both have tantrums, my daughter has always struck me as having the most beautiful eyes they are wonderfully light, bright blue green unusual especially for our family she is very interested in fossils, crystals loves animals – dolphins we gave her, her own cat when she was 4 as she wanted one, I of course think she is special them both… I became very ill post natal with both my children could that be why..she has always especially been to me unusual and bright I was told she had the best speech of any 5 year old, I will stop now as want to know your thoughts
Thank you so much i am just amazed to find your blog today
just wanted to add my daughter today has described to me very similar to the above experiences it has been so helpful for me to read all this, I have commented again because i am just worried these ghost figures with wings seem to have been acting nastily towards her opening and closing theor mouths she says tryibg to bite her and saying they hate her, from the exoeriences above I thought it was a positive experience, these sound scary, Thank you for your comment from yesterday. Cathy
Hi Cathy~
Wow, this is getting interesting. I have just published another article, and I hope I have delt with some of your concerns. You can view it at: http://thegobetween.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/kids-seeing-sparkles-questions-and-answers-on-fear/
Thanks so much for your questions and comments…M