imaginary friends

When I was a little girl, I had an imaginary friend named Gogo. Gogo came with me everywhere and was my playmate. Gogo disappeared around the time I realized that she was imaginary.
My daughter had an imaginary friend as well. This friend was always around. The problem that he was not a nice friend. Being that she was only 3, my daughter could not verbalize what he was doing, only that he scared her. A lot.
I got to the point where I had to lock this ‘friend’ in the closet in the playroom and tell him he was unwelcome. (He scared me too).
All taken care of right?

My daughter’s next imaginary friend was Shadow and Shadow was okay. Shadow came everywhere we went and played with my daughter until she realized that Shadow was imaginary. Shadow went the way of Gogo.

When my daughter was around 5 or 6, we switched the rooms around in our house and the old playroom became my daughter’s bedroom.

That’s when the nightmares started.

She was used to being in her own room, but this room gave her so much trouble.
I tried ‘monster spray” (food coloring in water to spray away monsters under the bed) I swept the monsters out with a broom.
Nothing helped.

Around this time my older child began to have nightmares and strange experiences. The worst was that he was lying in bed and something somehow grabbed his ankles and pulled him down the bed. I never saw him scared like that before or since. He slept in the living room for a while after that.

I remembered the old imaginary friend we’d locked away and I began to get scared again.
I started reading and doing some research.

I salted the corners of all the rooms in the house.
I don’t like the smell of sage, so I walked thru the house with sandalwood incense.
I helped my daughter make a dreamcatcher and we hung it over the bed.
I changed the angle of the bed to correct the feng shui and I hung a windchime near her door (another thing I learned somewhere for feng shui).
I asked the archangels to post guardians in our house and to watch over the kids special.

And finally, finally, the dreams stopped.

Things have been fine here since then, and that was almost 10 years ago.

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  1. The story you just supplyed is amazing. I dont know wether to think of it real or fake. When i was around 8 I had similar fantasys. And it is interesting to see i am not alone.

  2. I can assure you it is 100% real. And very scary while going through it!
    You are not alone. I think the younger we are, the closer we are to the Source and the better ability we have to see things that others cannot. My daughter at 3 was more in tune with the unknown given her age (and the family psychic trait!)
    You at 8 were probably also in tune with things.
    But yes, its all real.


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