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The child sees something in the room. The child says that he sees strange things. Causes of unusual visual images in children. What to do with vision in children

Emergence unusual visual images often found in children, but they are usually difficult to interpret due to the fact that it is difficult for a child to describe this peculiar sensation. As a rule, most of these conditions are benign and you only need to calm the child down. However, complaints of unusual vision may be more significant and indicate an underlying serious medical condition. It is very important to listen carefully to the complaints of both the child and the parents and evaluate them together. Here is a small mnemonic hint that can be helpful in such cases. OSCE (OSCE) means:
1. Optical (refraction, middle eye)
2. Sensory (visual pathways)
3. Cerebral (neurological, psychological / functional, psychiatric)
4. Efferent (motor, eg nystagmus, violation of the innervation of the superior oblique muscle or spasm of accommodation) disorders.

This checklist should help provide a comprehensive approach to problem assessment. This can usually be achieved with a thorough history and clinical examination, but additional research or referral may be required. It should be remembered that not in all cases it is possible to make a definitive diagnosis, and even symptoms that seem strange at first glance can be caused by an organic disease. Typical complaints about unusual visual images are broken down into individual visual symptoms and range from common to rare. There are excellent reviews on this subject.

This nine-year-old boy complained that he was constantly observing a colored grid in front of both eyes.
Five months later, the color grid in one eye has not changed, but in the other it has become perceived in black and white.
There are no seizures, systemic diseases or trauma in the anamnesis. This is a level-headed boy who likes school.
Results of all examinations, including ophthalmological and pediatric examinations, study of pupillary reactions,
MRI of the brain and electrodiagnostic studies (ERG, VEP, EEG) were within normal limits.

a) Entoptine phenomena as the cause of strange visual images... Entoptic phenomena are visual sensations received from signals not from the outside world, but from the eye itself. For the most part, they are rare and pose no danger. Often, adults are not aware of these sensations or do not attach importance to them, but an impressionable child can notice them. Entoptic phenomena occur under conditions of certain visibility and illumination. Most people experience them at least once in their lives. Ophthalmologists use entoptic phenomena to assess the visual function of the retina and optic nerve in the case when the view of the eye day is difficult due to the opacity of the eye media.

In addition, visually impaired children often rub and touch their eyes to stimulate entoptic phenomena.

The Scheerer phenomenon (or entoptic phenomenon of the blue field) consists in the appearance of small bright spots that move rapidly and in waves during long-term observation of a clear sky or an open snow-covered field. The reason for this phenomenon is the circulation of leukocytes in the perimacular capillaries. To assess microcirculation in retinal capillaries, blue-field entoptoscopy is used.

Many children with normal vision notice "Purkinje trees" - a reflection of the network of blood vessels in the retina of their own eye, which is a shadow of these capillaries, cast on the still unadapted photoreceptors. This phenomenon is noted when bright light passes through closed eyelids.

Among other safe entoptic phenomena, Purkinje's “blue arcs”, Gaidinger's “brushes”, diffraction of light through the eyelashes, as well as flies in front of the eyes, photopsia, and phosphenes are noted.

b) Photopsy and phosphenes as the cause of strange visual images... Photopsy and phosphenes are short-term entoptic phenomena. Phosphenes can arise from mechanical (scratching the eye or sneezing), electrical, magnetic impact on the retina or visual cortex, as well as spontaneous excitation of retinal cells. Phosphene pressure is a color and light phenomenon when the eyes are rubbed. Phosphenes-flashes occur during eye movement, especially in the case of retinal adaptation to darkness with closed eyelids. With prolonged tension of accommodation, Chermak's phosphenic accommodation occurs, which is probably caused by traction of the retinal periphery by the ciliary muscle.

In some cases, photopsy and phosphenes are abnormal. These phenomena are observed in diseases of the retina (traction, rupture, detachment, inflammation of the retina, external retinopathy), optic nerve (neuritis and edema of the papilla of the optic nerve), or the brain (usually migraine). The cause of irritation reflexes, sensitivity to bright light and dysphotopsia can be pathological changes in the anterior segment of the eye, namely, corneal diseases, cataracts, the edge effect of dislocation or scratching of the lens, opacification of the posterior capsule. Diseases threatening vision loss can be excluded only with a careful examination of the organ of vision, especially the peripheral zone of the retina.

v) Floating opacities of the vitreous humor as the cause of strange visions(destruction of the vitreous body, "flying flies"). The tertiary vitreous humor is completely transparent at birth. The destruction of the vitreous body is manifested in the appearance of floating spots. The cause of this disease is defects or abnormal deposits in the vitreous body, casting moving shadows on the retina. Such floating opacities are similar to “flying flies” (synonyms: mousches volantes - fr., Muscae volitantes-lat.) Opacities are especially clearly visible on a solid background, a bright surface, and also if the blackouts are close to the retina. Floating opacities change their position, in contrast to scotoma, which is fixed in space.

Most of these opacities do not pose a health hazard, but nevertheless they can cause discomfort, in connection with which it is necessary to reassure the patient. Normally, the cause of their occurrence is degenerative changes in the vitreous body (vitreous syneresis, incomplete posterior vitreous detachment, Weiss ring). Floating opacities are a common age-related complaint that occurs earlier in people with myopia than in emmetropes. In rare cases, the cause of this phenomenon may be stellate hyalosis or the remains of a hyaloid artery in the Cloquet canal characteristic of the persistent primary vitreous body.

However, we should be alerted to new floating opacities, especially in combination with photopsia, multiple blackheads, fainting, or visual impairment. In such cases, an ophthalmologic examination should always be performed to rule out rupture, retinal detachment, vitreous hemorrhage, or uveitis.

Visual sensations, similar to floating lens opacities, are noted with abnormalities of the precorneal tear film (dry eye, dysfunction of the meibomian glands, or in the presence of a foreign body). Such conditions can be easily distinguished by cessation after blinking, accompanying symptoms of eye irritation, and on ophthalmologic examination.

G) Benign blurred vision ("blurry") vision... Children often complain that they see "indistinctly" and "dull". The most common cause of this phenomenon is refractive error. Other common causes include intermittent or fixed strabismus, amblyopia, afterimages after glancing at bright light, entoptic events, and abnormalities in the tear film, conjunctiva, or cornea (eg, dry eyes, tear film instability, and meibomian gland dysfunction).

e) Temporary loss of vision... Temporary loss of vision of non-ischemic origin can occur as a result of migraine (against the background of nausea, headache and photopsy / ciliated cattle), during or after an epileptic seizure (sometimes against the background of motor, sensory and autonomic phenomena or automatisms), with edema of the optic nerve head ( arising against the background of symptoms of increased intracranial pressure and worsening with a change in body position and with the Valsalva experience), with optic neuritis (with concomitant pain with eye movements and a child's history of recent infections / immunizations), with Uhthoff symptom in the framework of optic neuropathy ( loss of vision with an increase in body temperature, for example, during a hot shower), with temporary post-traumatic cerebral blindness as a result of damage to the occipital lobes, as a result of gazing due to intraorbital compression of the optic nerve or orbital artery (occurs against the background of eye movement), with a temporary increase intraocular heat pressure, uncompensated diabetes, intraocular inflammation or hemorrhage.

Temporary loss of ischemic vision can be caused by an increase or decrease in blood pressure, cardiac causes (arrhythmia, septal defects), changes in arteries (wall dissection, aneurysm, vasculitis, Moyamoya's disease, vasospasm), impaired rheological properties of the blood and the coagulation system (polycythemia, leukemia ). In this case, an emergency consultation with a pediatrician is required.

e) Object movement illusions(oscillopsia or Pulfrich phenomenon). By origin, visual illusions of movement are divided into motor, sensory and cerebral. Motor causes include nystagmus, which is most often acquired, and myokymia syndrome of the superior oblique muscle of the eye. In the latter case, monocular vertical or rotational oscillopsia is observed. Confirmation of the diagnosis is the appearance of abrupt saccadic eye movements during ophthalmoscopy when looking at the patient with the use of the superior oblique muscle of the eye. Myokymia of the eyelids is an involuntary and usually safe phenomenon, which is a twitching of the eyelids. Anamnesis and examination data allow for differential diagnosis with true oscillopsia.

The Pulfrich phenomenon has a sensory origin and arises from the slowing down of the conduction of the optic nerve fiber in optic neuropathy. The stereoscopic effect occurs as a result of the discrepancy between the signals received by the retina from the two optic nerves as a result of a latent delay in the passage of an impulse along one of them. This phenomenon can be verified by observing a ball swinging from side to side in a plane perpendicular to the line of sight. Instead of swaying movements, the patient will notice the movement of the ball along an elliptical plane towards and away from himself.

Epileptic kinetopsia is an illusion of movement that occurs during a seizure of occipital epilepsy.

g) Color vision impairment (dyschromatopsia). The loss of color vision under twilight lighting conditions is explained by the relative insensitivity of the cones as compared to the rods (“in the dark, all cats are gray”). Some children describe colorful visual sensations after looking at a bright object, which persist for a while even if their eyes are closed. A careful history taking and clear explanation will reassure the child and his parents.

True dyschromatopsia is a violation of color vision. The most common cause of dyschromatopsia is congenital color blindness, deuteranomaly, which occurs in 5-8% of boys and 0.4% of girls. Often, this anomaly is noticed not by the children themselves, but by those around them, for example, when a child incorrectly names the colors of painted objects or during an eye exam at school. The causes of acquired dyschromatopsia are often changes in the ocular environment (for example, with cataracts, vitreous hemorrhage), diseases of the optic nerve (for example, neuritis), in rare cases, pathology of the retina and macular macula (for example dystrophy). According to the Kollner rule, pathology of the outer part of the retina (for example, pathology of the corpus luteum) usually leads to a defect in the perception of blue-yellow colors, and diseases of the inner part of the retina, optic nerve, or their combination are manifested in the loss of perception of red-green colors.

An early clinical sign of compression of the visual chiasm is bitemporal desaturation of red when determining the boundaries of the visual fields. A rare cause of dyschromatopsia is brain pathology (cerebral dyschromatopsia).

h) Perception of one object by multiple(monocular diplopia, triplopia and polyopia). Often, children note "double vision" not with true diplopia, but when describing blurred vision or shadows from an object. A common reason for going to a doctor is that an impressionable child notices physiological double vision in front of and behind the fixation point. The most pathological is binocular diplopia due to the wrong position of the eye. Complete bitemporal visual field loss in patients with chiasm disorders and strabismus can lead to slide phenomena, diplopia, and central visual field loss. A distinctive feature of binocular diplopia is a violation of binocular vision, which disappears when one eye is closed.

In contrast, true monocular diplopia and polyopia persist when one eye is closed. Most of the causes of monocular diplopia are refractive errors, pathologies of the precorneal tear film and cornea, cataracts, lens dislocation and polycoria. In rare cases, retinal diseases are the cause of monocular diplopia. Diplopia and polyogptya of cerebral origin are rare and are mostly accompanied by other disorders (for example, visual fields) and are described in the chapter on visual perseverations.

and) Impaired perception of the size of objects(micropsia, macropsia, telopsy, "Lilliputian vision"). Objects may appear enlarged (macropsia), farther than they actually are (telopsia), or smaller (micropsia). A patient with "Lilliputian vision" perceives the people around him as diminished. Simple benign total micropsia is a prominent complaint in children of predominantly school age. Such micropsia may appear before reading at night and resolve on its own after a few months. Micropsia of macular origin is associated with visual impairment or distortion. Among the cerebral causes of micropsia, migraine is noted, as well as, in rare cases, epilepsy and infectious diseases.

A relatively healthy child, who does not show distortion of perception of reality, hallucinations, disturbance of visual fields, in the course of orthoptic and ophthalmological examinations did not reveal any pathology, and the only complaint is micropsia, a clinical observation is shown. In all other cases, as well as if the symptoms of micropsia do not go away on their own, an examination is indicated (pediatric examination, screening for infectious diseases, neuroimaging).

To) Distorted perception(dysmetropsia, metamorphopsia and "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome). Dysmetropsia and metamorphopsia are interconnected visual illusions in which the shape of the object is distorted and straight lines become curved. For the diagnosis of metamorphopsia, it is more convenient to use the Amsler mesh. Even a small child is able to tell if the lines are straight or not, and to note that the lines are "funny." Distortions of visual perception by origin can be optical (most often), macular (sometimes occurring) and cerebral (rarely). Optical reasons are pronounced astigmatism of the cornea, lens or retina (staphiloma), pronounced ametropia, anisometry, and change of glasses. Macular causes are macular edema and choroidal neovascularization (eg, associated with Fuchs myopic maculopathy, inflammatory eye diseases, and macular dystrophy). In rare cases, the visual distortion is of cerebral origin, as in the case of Alice in Wonderland syndrome. In such cases, other neurological disorders are often observed.

If a distortion of visual perception is detected using the Amsler mesh, then it is necessary to determine the refraction, corneal topography (if a kerotoconus is suspected) and perform a thorough examination of the anterior and posterior segments of the eye in a slit lamp. If macular diseases are suspected, optical coherence tomography, fundus fluorescence angiography, and if cerebral causes are suspected, neuroimaging (MRI) can be used as studies.

The combination of metamorphopsia, micropsia, and macropsia with migraine is more common in children than in adults. In most cases, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is associated with migraine, but it can also be caused by epilepsy, drug / drug use (topiramate), chickenpox, or infectious mononucleosis.

m) Bradypsia... In rare cases, children adapt longer to changes in the degree of light and darkness and have difficulty tracking moving objects as a result of a defect in the mechanism of deactivation of photoreceptors within the photoconversion cascade. In addition to significantly delayed dark and light adaptation, children with normal color vision and the absence of pathology in the fundus may have a moderate decrease in visual acuity and a slight photophobia.

n) Visual perseverations and other rare visual impairments of cerebral origin... Palenopsia is a repetition of a visual impression after a while. With immediate palenopsia, the image is retained for several minutes after the object disappears from the field of view, and with delayed palenopsia, the image of the previously seen image appears again after several days or weeks. The image is complete and distinct from the afterimages that occur when the retina is overstimulated, for example after looking at light for a long time. With diplopia or polyopia of cerebral origin, the visual image is preserved in space, and the patient sees two or more copies of the same image at the same time.

Unlike binocular diplopia, diplopia and polyopia of cerebral origin is monocular and can be differentiated from monocular diplopia and polyopia of non-cerebral origin by determining refraction followed by ophthalmological examination to exclude corneal pathology, lens displacement, iris defects and cataract (polycoria). With diplopia and polyopia of cerebral origin, each image is perceived clearly, viewing an object through a small hole does not lead to positive changes, and the situation does not change when looking with one or two eyes. The illusory expansion of the image is characterized by the perception of an object that is large in size. Palinopsia, polyopia, and illusory magnification are often associated with other cerebral pathologies such as homonymous visual field defects.

With cerebral akinetopsia, any perception of movement is completely impaired as a result of bilateral brain damage. In the case of “visual disorientation” and “simultaneous agnosia”, the patient is able to describe certain parts of the image, but not the whole picture. These conditions are part of Balint Syndrome.

O) Visual disturbances due to migraine... Migraine headaches in children can be accompanied by a variety of visual impairments. Typically, visual hallucinations occur in the form of increasing scintillating cattle (teichopsia) or shapeless flashes of light (cerebral photopsia). A well-known complication is loss of visual fields (eg hemianopsia). Migraine can cause visual illusions (micropsia, macropsia, metomorphopsia, Alice in Wonderland syndrome). Palinopsia and polyopsy have also been described in migraine headaches. In rare cases, complex visual hallucinations associated with the appearance of images of people or animals (zoopsy) are noted. Sometimes the patient sees himself from the outside (autoscopic hallucination). Other rare disorders include complete achromatopsia (loss of color perception of cerebral origin), prosopagnosia (impaired face recognition) and visual agnosia (impaired recognition of objects).

P) Hallucinations... Hallucinations are sensory sensations that are unique and generated by the brain without external stimuli. Illusions are errors of perception or distortion of an existing external signal.

R) Hallucinations in darkness and isolation... Irregular background noise in the form of light and dark dots occurs with closed eyes or in complete darkness (hallucinations and visualization of "closed eyes"). "Eigengrau" (translated from German: "inner gray") or "Eigenlicht" ("inner light") - the gray or light color that we see in absolute darkness, arises from its own basic electrical activity of the retina. The Ganzfeld effect is visual hallucinations that occur when staring at a completely empty field of vision or color field for a long time. Prolonged sensory deprivation in the dark (for example, at night or in a dark room) can stimulate the appearance of hallucinations in the form of light spots of a certain shape or even the figures of people.

With) Charles Bonnet syndrome... Visual hallucinations in people with vision loss who are mentally healthy and aware of the unreality of their hallucinations are called Charles Bonnet syndrome. They can occur after simultaneous or sequential, not necessarily complete bilateral vision loss as a result of any visual pathology (cataracts, diseases of the macula, optic nerve, cortical diseases, after enucleation). Typically, these hallucinations are vivid, complex, complex (often human and stage-like), and fill the blind spot. Hallucinations are strictly visual (for example, people do not speak in them). The reason for these hallucinations is the cessation of stimulation of the cortex after loss of vision. Such hallucinations are potentially reversible (for example, after cataract surgery). Many patients are reluctant to admit to the presence of hallucinations, and, as a rule, they are reassured by the explanation of the true origin of this phenomenon.

T) Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations... Visual hallucinations that occur on falling asleep (hypnagogic) and on awakening (hypnopompic) may be normal. However, if hypnagogic hallucinations in a child with somnolence are associated with daytime sleepiness, catalepsy, or sleep paralysis, then research should be done to rule out narcolepsy.

y) Occipital and temporal lobe epilepsy... Another common cause of hallucinations is occipital, temporal, and, in rare cases, parietal epilepsy. In occipital epilepsy, simple visual hallucinations are observed (photopsia, white phosphenes, persistent colored lights), and in temporal epilepsy, more complex ones (faces, people). Visual epileptic seizures are often accompanied by other seizure symptoms such as focal seizures, automatisms (eg pursing lips, chewing), sensory disturbances (eg olfactory hallucinations), and autonomic disorders (eg pupil changes, salivation, urinary incontinence). Occipital epilepsy with visual hallucinations is difficult to distinguish only from acephalgic migraine with visual aura.

Benign childhood epilepsy is a syndrome of idiopathic occipital epilepsy in school-aged children that resolves on its own during adolescence. Epileptic seizures are accompanied by simple or complex visual hallucinations (or temporary loss of vision), and may progress to motor or complex partial seizures. After an attack, a migraine-like headache may occur. EEG is used for diagnosis, and pharmacotherapy is used for treatment.

f) Peduncular hallucinosis... In this rare disease, the patient develops bright, colorful, kaleidoscopically changing images, geometric shapes, detailed pictures of landscapes, flowers, animals and even people. Peduncular hallucinosis is usually associated with damage to the midbrain and may be accompanied by other pathologies such as sleep disorders and cognitive impairments.

X) Drug-induced hallucinations... Visual hallucinations can be caused by medication (eg steroids, lamotrigine, cyclosporine, digoxin, sildenafil (for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension), ganciclovir, vincristine, lidocaine, itraconazole, lithium salts, levodopa), drug withdrawal (eg barbiturates in children with epilepsy , baclofen), pain relievers (ketamine), eye drops (idiosyncrasy for atropine and cy-clopentolate), as well as alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs (LSD, phencyclidine, cocaine, marijuana)

c) Psychogenic ("functional") vision loss... Psychogenic ("functional") vision loss often occurs in children (approximate prevalence - 1.4 / 1000, mainly prepubertal and pubertal adolescence, girls are more often sick). This disease should be suspected if the subjective complaints of vision loss do not correspond to the data of objective research. Psychogenic vision loss is a diagnosis of exclusion. In some cases, children with signs of psychogenic vision loss eventually reveal an organic pathology underlying the disease. Psychogenic vision loss can manifest in a variety of ways, from imaginary vision loss to unusual visual sensations. Sure, some children are pretending, but most of them are really sick. Brodsky proposed a classification into four groups:
Group 1: visually anxious children;
Group 2: children with conversion disorders;
Group 3: children with possible twilight clouding of consciousness;
Group 4: psychogenic loss of vision against the background of a true organic disease.

h) Associated medical conditions... Visual hallucinations can occur in some medical conditions such as febrile, encephalitis, and metabolic encephalopathy. In such cases, urgent medical attention is required.

w) Psychiatric illnesses... Hallucinations, in which there is a complete lack of understanding of the falsity of visual images, are part of psychosis - a profound disturbance in thinking, in which a person loses control over the sense of reality. The patient hears and sees the non-existent. The often frightening visual and acoustic (voices) hallucinations in this devastating mental disorder are accompanied by delusions, extravagant behavior, and cessation of self-care. It is usually not difficult to recognize an advanced psychosis in a teenager, which often occurs while taking illicit substances. If there is a significant risk of harm by the patient to himself and others, it is necessary to call a psychiatric team.

Visual impairments can also occur in psychiatric patients. In this regard, it is necessary to listen to the patient's persistent and persistent complaints after the stabilization of the mental state. The author of this article recalls being once asked to examine a young psychiatric patient who complained that he could not read up close and see people at a distance. His psychiatrist doubted the organic nature of the disease and sent him for examination. It turned out that the patient had severe keratoconus!


A 14-year-old boy diagnosed with type 1 neurofibromatosis,
glioma of the left optic nerve and chiasm (A) complained of
that he sees flickering spots in the left and sometimes in both eyes (B, C).
... A nine-year-old girl complained of decreased visual acuity in both eyes, reduction and distortion of objects on the left.
(A) The white area, located temporally in relation to the optic nerve head, indicates edema of the nerve fiber and sweating of fluid through the vessels, spreading to the foveolar zone.
(B) Due to the increase in retinal edema, spreading to the macula, visual acuity decreased to 6/36 and micropsia disappeared.
This drawing depicts a right-handed child with fatal metastatic carcinoma of the right parietal lobe of the brain.
The symptom of the disease was an uncontrolled sudden visual sensation of the image of a kitchen window.
in a different environment several hours after the initial stimulus. The illness of this boy with Mobius-like syndrome manifested itself at the age of 18 in the form of shapeless hallucinations on the right side of the visual field and was accompanied by nausea and, subsequently, insomnia.
There were no epileptic seizures. On MRI: a zone of dysplastic ectopic gray matter in the left posterior parieto-occipital lobe (arrow).
(A, B) The fundus of a boy with intact intellect, a patient with neuroretinitis, which has arisen with widespread encephalopathy.
(B) MRI: foci of inflammation of the white matter of the brain.
(D) At this stage, four weeks after the onset of the first symptoms: drawing of the visual image that the patient saw,
when he “counted his fingers” (he drew the pictures he saw after partial restoration of vision).

Children perceive the world in a special way, sometimes they demonstrate such amazing abilities and skills that it causes amazement and the question - how can they know this? At birth, up to five years old, sometimes even older, children retain an invisible connection with the astral world, they have the ability to see and hear what adults do not see.



Parents of babies are often faced with the fact that the baby can look with interest at a certain place in the room, smile there, and tell something. Older children, who already know how to speak, point to an empty space in the house and inform their parents that "there is an uncle" or "aunt". Naturally, this behavior of children worries dads and moms, and they worry - is everything okay with their baby? But this happens to almost all children.



According to the beliefs of the ancient Slavs, the brownie, the invisible spirit of the dwelling, lives side by side with people. If he likes the owners, then he will help look after the children, soothe and entertain them. Our ancestors believed that the brownie can fly, and usually be on the ceiling or under the threshold. This looks quite plausible, considering that most often young children "talk" to something that is on the ceiling and laugh when looking there.

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Elderly people in such cases say that it is angels who entertain children, but angels are also spirits, and it turns out that children still see creatures from the subtle world, in contrast to adults who have lost this ability. Children from the age of two often make invisible friends for themselves, talk to them. These "invisibles" can tell the kids their name, often quite unusual, and even play with them.



When asked by adults about what such a “friend” looks like, children give a description of little boys or girls, but sometimes invisible friends take the form of an animal, often not quite ordinary. Experts - psychologists believe that a similar situation arises when a child is deprived of attention, but "invisibles" appear in friends and in very sociable and contact children, and the children do not hide their mysterious friends, but on the contrary, try to show them to their parents and introduce them ...

Not always only such creatures behave harmlessly - it happens that babies cry, due to the fact that some entities, unfriendly, scare them. And now mothers often face such a situation when the child starts crying, and nothing can be reassured, in such cases, and in our enlightened time, the baby is referred to as a healer, and with the help of conspiracies and special rituals, children fall asleep calmly.


Recent research by scientists has found that babies can perceive many more frequencies, and they hear sounds that are not available to adults. Therefore, when a child “walks” and laughs at something, it is quite possible that he is communicating with creatures invisible to us.

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A researcher of anomalous phenomena from the United States, Jason Offut wrote a number of books, where he set out real stories that are very similar to fairy tales. (site)

But, according to Jason, this is by no means fiction, but, if I may say so, an outrageous reality. Moreover, all the stories to the scientist were told by the residents of Missouri, his home state, and how much such information is found all over the world! .. By the way, it is even more interesting to get acquainted with these "fairy tales from life" than with the invented, albeit the most exciting ones. After all, fiction is one thing, but life, incredible in its mysterious manifestations, is quite another ...

Boy in pince-nez

Six-year-old Elaine Latrum hated her own bedroom door at night. As an adult, the woman said that she simply could not sleep facing her and therefore turned her back to the door. Elaine felt like someone or something was constantly watching her from there.

At the time, the family lived in Kansas City, in their own home. Being in her room during the day, the girl felt quite comfortable, but with the onset of night everything changed.

One day Elaine woke up feeling terrified. She was afraid to look at the door, but something made her do it. In the doorway she saw a boy, about her age. The boy had dark hair and, for some reason, an antique pince-nez. He stared at Elaine from the doorway, then walked over and sat on the edge of her bed.

Elaine was so terrified that she didn't even remember if the night visitor spoke to her. She instinctively turned to the wall, after which she either fell asleep, or lost consciousness.

The next day Elaine told her mother about what she had seen, and she suggested that her grandfather had come to see the girl. However, Elaine believes that she saw someone else, and very real - not like seeing a ghost or an imaginary friend ...

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In general, small is something that is inaccessible to the eyes of adults. Observing a child, you can, for example, notice how he looks at an empty space with such lively interest, as if he is seeing something real. What exactly is unknown, because it is difficult for children to tell about such things. Growing up, they simply forget about them and lose the ability to see the subtle world.

Dark figure and little girl

Diana Davis spent her childhood in Pennsylvania. Once the girl was visiting her aunt and in the evening, playing in the yard, she noticed something strange next to her that looked like a human shadow. This creature watched Diana play with curiosity.

All the adults at that time were in the house, the girl was alone in the yard. The dark figure drew closer to her, and then Diana looked at her intently. As if frightened by this look, the creature moved to the side, and the girl exclaimed: “Wait, who are you? Maybe you want to play with me? "

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Diana rushed after the shadow, and she quickly moved away from her. Finally, a dark figure slipped over the fence between two trees and disappeared. Perhaps it was a ghost or a creature from another dimension, says Diana.

The ghosts of the house told the boy to kill his mother

At the turn of the millennium, Mike and Kim Smithmeyer got jobs at a Ford Motor plant and bought a house in the nearby town of Liberty. In 2003. the couple had twins, Randy and Dan. The life of the family proceeded calmly and happily - until something terrible entered into it ... This is what Kim Smithmeyer told about it.

This happened for the first time in 2006 when the boys were three years old. Kim stood on the second floor, holding Dan in her arms. Then the child looked at the stairs leading down and asked: "Mom, who is going down there?" Kim looked at the stairs: it was empty. “There’s no one there,” the woman said, and became wary. - And who do you see? What does he look like?"

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Dan was silent and only continued to gaze in one direction, his eyes clearly following someone who was moving. Finally, turning to the mother, the baby said, "They are gone."

This incident was almost forgotten, since for the next four years nothing of the kind happened. And then one day, seven-year-old Dan confessed to his mother that he was tired of hearing voices telling him to do bad things. "What are you talking about?" Kim asked. “I don’t want to repeat it because it’s very, very bad,” Dan replied quietly, lowering his eyes.

“You can tell me,” Kim said softly. - I will try to help you". And then a seven-year-old child uttered quite clearly: "The voices are saying that I should kill you." Kim was shocked, “Killed me ?! What else did they say? " Dan nodded, “Yes. So that I hurt our cat, and then my brother. "

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The next day, Kim took the child to a psychiatrist. After examining Dan, the doctor said that if his condition worsened, he might need medication. However, after taking it, the boy behaved calmly all day. On weekends, he visited his grandmother, where everything was fine with him too. However, as soon as Dan returned home, everything changed for the worse again. The boy could not be alone in the room, became nervous and asked his mother to take him to her bed.

In desperation, Kim began to talk to the house: she persuaded and begged its invisible inhabitants to leave the family alone and especially not to frighten the children. It seemed to work, because the attacks on Dan stopped and the house was calm again ...

I am a psychologist, I work a lot with children. More and more often I come across stories when a child feels the presence of the otherworldly in the apartment, is afraid, worries. It is important to analyze the situation as a whole. Is the baby healthy, what are the relationships in the family, what is the history of the place in which he lives? Unfortunately, to help effectively, you need to gather a lot of information first. If something incomprehensible happens, everyone looks there. And you need to look around, feel deeper about yourself and the space around, then the problem will be solved faster. Voltage can come from several points:

  1. The images are created by the very psyche of the child. A good psychiatrist's advice is needed.
  2. Space creates tension. The "bad apartment" phenomenon. Rare special cases, but there are.
  3. The child meets with everything difficult that his parents carry.

It's hard to tell everything in one article. Let's take a closer look at the most common example. Children are like supersensitive antennas, they are amazingly capable of capturing all the fears and anxieties, all the tensions and prejudices of adults. In most cases, when a child sees something frightening and strange, the reason should be sought in the emotional state of loved ones, in their relationships, in their fears, anger and pain. (This does not apply to the age of 5 years, when the presence of fears and frightening fantasies is the age norm) Therefore, I always ask people who have encountered mysticism about their life. But they rarely answer me, because it is there that it is truly scary and hopeless. Here is a real story, it will help you to understand a lot. Read all of your mom's posts and try to see the big picture.

Recently my daughter gets up in the morning and says that at night a black man approached her sofa, she saw only his legs. At the same time, she could not move, and could not call me, as if someone was holding her. Once she got up, asked my dad to go to her sofa, she moved over to me (we have a one-room apartment, we sleep, the sofas are side by side), and after that she fell asleep. I, too, that night was somehow uneasy, but I did not see anyone. From the notes I read earlier, I think it was a brownie, but how we angered him and what he wanted to say to the child, I just don't understand. We were always friendly with him. Maybe someone knows more about this, if you share, I will be very grateful.

Today my daughter (she is 15 years old) woke up in the morning and says that in the morning something black was sitting by her sofa and holding her hands. Kept so that she could not move. She sleeps on her couch for the second night. And before she was afraid to sleep alone at night, and my husband and I decided that let her sleep with me. But having arrived on vacation, we went to a woman who heals with prayers. I told her about my daughter. The woman wrote out the prayers, ordered her to carry two pieces of paper on herself (I sewed them into a piece of cloth). She ordered one piece of paper with prayers to be burned over her bed. I did so. The first night my daughter was very afraid to go to bed alone, I jumped up all night and looked. But in the morning she said that she slept like a dead woman. And this morning I told about this black. I don't even know what to think. Maybe some kind of negativity leaves her? I am not strong in these matters. Maybe someone will tell you?

Little will change if those dark clouds of anger, pain, despair and hopelessness that you hide in your soul don't go anywhere. And the space will respond - with knocks, visions, nightmares. If your child sees, feels the presence of the otherworldly, first of all, you need to exclude organic brain pathology (intoxication, trauma), the presence of an endogenous mental disorder (childhood schizophrenia), congenital constitutional features of the mental structure (nervous excitability, increased impressionability, extremely developed imagination). This is very important, because mental illness of the schizophrenic spectrum is recorded in 1 in 100.

After these serious reasons are denied, then ask yourself questions about how the 9 points apply to you. All the moments noted in this list create significant psycho-emotional stress, chronic stress, which leads to the appearance of frightening encounters with the otherworldly. If you ignore your pain, your fears for a long time, they themselves come to us or to our children.

As for the case with the girl, the other posts of the mother, in which she talks about her life, are very interesting and clarify a lot. Here's what she writes:

About daughter

My daughter is 13 years old, a transitional age, and our problem is that she is not very confident in herself, her classmates only use her when they need something. And if it is not necessary, then they can send obscene words. Yesterday she comes home from school, roars, says: classmates called her a fool and swore at her. She is small, thin, fragile. Afraid of any showdown.

Today I beat my daughter with a belt. The gingerbreads are over, only the whip remains. Comes from school in some black sneakers. She went there in sneakers, which we bought for her for three thousand rubles. It turns out that a friend asked to give her sneakers for physical education and went home in them. This is not the first time this has happened. I was already tired of this, and I took hold of the belt. Maybe now he will understand that money does not fall from the sky. I really hope that it will come to her that the belt told her. Although I am surprised, I myself was like that in childhood, if they told me yes, then I must answer - no. Yes, I still have this feeling of contradiction.

My daughter cried for a dead hamster for three days, she was 4 years old, and then our cat died at eleven (my daughter was just eleven, they were the same age), so she put his photo in a frame, and this photo is on the most prominent location.

My daughter has atopic dermatitis since she was three years old. Than just not treated, it is impossible to cure to the end. Now she is at a transitional age, she realized how ugly it is when under the knees, in the bends of her arms, sores and itch. A bunch of complexes, of course. He always dresses everything closed, the teachers got to make comments about the appearance.

In this case, to prevent nightmares from tormenting the child, you need to create a warm, supportive atmosphere. Help in word and deed during a difficult period of growing up, try to understand, not criticize. Without your love, attention and care, it will be difficult for him to feel strong and confident. A helpless, anxious person will not be able to resist fears.

About husband

I feel like no one needs an old crone. Yesterday my husband sent me to all sorts of places, I already went. This is how he congratulated me on my birthday.

I know that I myself am to blame. She was young, stupid, she always refused. And then a woman woke up in me, but he already refused me. And so it happened that now none of us need sex. At first it really bothered me. But now I take it more or less calmly. I loaded myself with work so that by nightfall, just to get to bed and sleep-sleep. The only bad thing is, indeed, the lack of sex has a detrimental effect on health. I understood that for sure.

My hubby began to build my daughter and me, to get us. Then she began to dissolve her hands, thank God, only with me. Daughter did not touch. As a result, I was under forty years old, I was beaten and who, my own husband. I walk in bruises, I can't raise my hands, everything hurts.

It seems to be how my husband and I made up. But still, it’s not that. I cannot put on a mask of benevolence, he also does not want to do this. In every word, in every gesture, irritability and discontent are visible in both. I don’t know how long it will last for me and him. We stayed in the same apartment only because he would have nowhere to live. I understand this and understood immediately in a conversation with him. It turns out that he will use my services, I will use his services. I understood all this when I agreed to this scam, but I thought that as a business woman I would survive everything. But it’s not that simple. All day I communicate with clients at work, that is, all day I am in a "mask". But in the evening, at home, I want to take it off. But it doesn’t work, a certain “mask” is also needed here. She doesn't want to dress in any way. What to do? I ask myself this question a hundred times a day. I don’t know the answer.

About deceased parents

Mom died a year and a half ago, dad died three and a half years ago. So they left one after another. The feeling of guilt still does not let go. In recent years, she lived very far from them, my mother was sick all the time, and my father was the first to leave. After his death, my mother did not want to live, so she drove herself into the grave. It hurts very much and will probably hurt for a very long time.

I am sure that before her death all the relatives came for our mother from there (and we already have a lot of them there, unfortunately). After the mother was given to us and we brought her home from the hospital, for two days she periodically raised her left hand in a welcoming gesture. It's very scary to watch this. Our elder relative told us that our relatives were coming for her, waiting for her.

The day before yesterday I dreamed about how our mother was dying, all in detail, as it really was. Woke up in the middle of the night, scary, horror. And why I was afraid, I don’t understand.

Soon it will be two years since my mother is gone. Since she died, I have constantly had dreams - about her, with her, when how. I used to be scared too, I thought, why should I dream of her? Now I have calmed down. It seems to me that during the day I live my life, and at night - with my mother. Maybe you often think about your mother, so she is dreaming.

In families with otherworldly phenomena, there is always a difficult story, a person's craving for death. After all, there are those who loved and supported him. And here he is all alone.

About depression

For a long time I did not want to admit to myself that a black streak had come. Probably, it should be so, it was too long for me to be white. The problems with my husband are practically gone. I have a lot of work, but my beloved depressive attacks me on the sly. More and more often I want to lie on the sofa, cover my head with a blanket, and cry, cry, cry. I remember my condition, it was a hundred years ago. Didn't think I'd come back to this.

I'm terribly depressed. Or inhuman fatigue. I don’t know what to call this condition. I do everything through I don’t want to, I can’t. But if I'm still doing something, and not lying on the couch with tears in my eyes, then everything is not so bad. But the tears are already there - this is bad. This is the beginning of something bad. And I have a lot of work, a lot of obligations, I cannot afford to become limp. She got sick of her husband with claims that it does not help much, he does not deal with his family, one job is on his mind. I understand that I am talking nonsense, but I need somewhere, on someone to pour out everything that is accumulating in my soul.

I sat on sick leave, treated osteochondrosis, the neuropathologist got tired of the fact that I would not be cured in any way, and he sent me to a psychotherapist. It turns out that this was what I needed, and not injections for osteochondrosis. I even sat on antipsychotics, now I only drink afobazole, and then only out of habit. I couldn't even smile, I lay on the sofa and cried, and no strength could lift me out of there.

About fears

After sitting in the internet in search of information about the end of the world in 2012, I went a week myself, not myself, I kept thinking, why live, why work, anyway, in two years everything will be over. It is very bad to live without hope for the future. I'm probably just very impressionable, this information is not for me. Just wait two years and everything will be known. And if this is true, then let everything happen instantly, and not go on for long days, as they write in some articles.

Each case is different. Perhaps your situation is completely different. But the general rule is one: the more kind, accepting, loving relationships around the baby, the easier it is for him to cope.