Need help understanding early childhood memory.

I wonder if any one can help me understand an early child hood memory.

I am not sure the exact age I was (probably around 2.5-3 years old), my mother and Grand Ma put me to bed. As I lay there suddenly I was overcome with fear, the thing I remeber next is the windows flying open and a around a dozen witches flying in. I dont recall anything after that. I do not believe This was a dream.

While no expert on this subject, I considered some possible explanations from various viewpoints.

Psychoanalytical- You were mad at your mother and grandmother for putting you to bed and controlling your life in general, and after thinking before falling asleep they were wicked, you dreamed witches flying in your window.

UFO conspiracy- The witches you saw were not, in fact, witches, but were really aliens and they had come to take you up to the Mothership to be probed. After hitting you with a mind eraser beam, you remember none of the events that followed. Thankfully.

Reptilians- Your neighbors had been taken over by shapeshifting reptiles, and they shapeshifted into witches to fly into your room and inhabit your body. Are your pupils still round? Or slightly slitted?

Alternate universe- Your childhood home was on a rift in the time space continuum, and as you were falling asleep that night the entire house shifted momentarily into a universe where witches are real.

Changeling- Your mother and grandmother are not your REAL relatives, you are in fact a changeling, and the witches that flew into your room are your real relatives, coming to check on you.

ESP- you are fine, and nothing bad happened to you, but you do have psychic abilities and the witches you saw were in fact psychic visions of something that really happened, but not in the time and space that you were physically in.

Just a few possibilities.

Or it could be that you were a young child and were scared of the things that go bump in the night like any other kid.
Either that or ESP.

I had a similar experience. When I was about 5-7 I used to wake up with scratches all over my back, They stung and bled but would eventually heal. My father explained it as being witches, My fathers of mexican descent, very mystic type of things in Mexico. I dont know I was young..

I honestly think as children we see things that we forget. Alot of things.

The younger you are, the closer your connection to the spiritual realm from which you came. We are born as semi-conscious beings in the physical world, existing at the same time in the spiritual. This is why babies 'glow' and why children are capable of pure emotion etc.

As we age, this connection is lost. Anything 'fantastic' that we might have seen, heard, or remembered during our years of spiritual sensitivity is usually forgotten. Our imaginations are pinned as the cause of all our scary experiences, etc. until we stop trusting ourself and second-guessing what we see. By the time we are adults, this is second nature.

We all have really strange things in our childhood and pre-childhood memory that will never fit in with the reality we know now as adults... I sometimes wonder if after death we will be remember everything at once.

Maybe that thing that was in my room speaking to me was a guardian from a past life, and being 3 years old, I had no way to comprehend it. Or maybe it was just my imagination

Good thread.

reply to post by Illusionsaregrander


Indeed. All of the above - OR...

perhaps you WERE dreaming.


(It's nothing to be ashamed of, y'know? )

I totally agree with NWOver, After I turned seven I never had the scratching incidents happen again. Maybe when I turned seven I lost my "connection" to the spiritual realm? And I know I wasnt dreaming, they stung every time I went outdoors and played. Maybe there was another reason why I had scratches?

reply to post by SHADO13


You might also consider how people deal with tramatic experiences. I'm not a expert by any means, but don't people tend to block out bad experiences? Maybe you were abused and this was your mind hadling it... ? It's crazy but it seems that when people grow into adults they tend to begin recolecting these things from their childhood... I don't know for sure, but maybe?

Thanks everybody, I guess there is really no way to figure it out now. I m sure it wasnt a dream, I was not abused as a child, Perhaps it was a halucination.

Originally posted by OXYMORONPoFo


Thanks everybody, I guess there is really no way to figure it out now. I m sure it wasnt a dream, I was not abused as a child, Perhaps it was a halucination.

It could have been a waking-dream. Sometimes when we're little kids we would wake up from dreams and have the dream images still be in our vision, super-imposed or fading out from our view of the bedroom or ceiling or whatever we see upon awakening.

I remember when I was 6 I woke up from a dream and saw a big oven roasted turkey floating in front of my face It faded away like a 'ghost' but I knew it was a dream image. I have also had more scary waking-dream images that I don't remember so much anymore...

reply to post by HruthTurts


I was never abused, I live with both of my parents very loving and caring people. They would die for me, I know it happens in families but i know for a fact I was not abuse. But I did have an interesting theory

1. I used to have a puppy when I was young, I slept with him by my side, maybe he playfully or not knowing what he was doing scratched my back. The scratches were made by one finger over and over again. I dont think the a dog could do that. Could it?

2. My aunt babysat me when my mom worked and she used to have a cat that just hated me!! Scratched my knee and hand once. It was an indoor cat so when I took my naps it ,maybe used me to sharpen its nails? Could a cat use one nail?


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reply to post by OXYMORONPoFo


Could this event have happened around October 31 by anychance.
Perhaps a door and not a window? Do you have any brothers or sisters"