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Childhood Hallucination

Hey Everyone,

I have been lurking in this group for a while now and decided to share one of my experiences from when I was a child. The story is a bit short but I hope someone can enjoy/ relate to it.

It was 1995 and I was about 3 years old. My family lived in a neighborhood in the town of Central Islip in Long Island NY. We lived in a 2 story house where I had a room on the first floor across from my parents room. My sister had a room upstairs which isn't relevant to this particular story but may be in future posts.

Anyway, I always had a long recurring (probable) hallucination where a black leather gloved hand would reach up from between my bed and the wall and start waving, almost motioning for me to grab it. I would always panic and run to my parents room to get to safety.

The creepy part about this is that I also vaguely remember this happening in the crib I had in the same room from before I had a bed (0-1.5ish years). It's weird because I have no way of knowing if I actually experienced this or if it was just me being freaked out and dreaming about when I was young enough to be in a crib.

Anyway has anyone else ever experienced this? I'm leaning more towards overactive childhood imagination but who knows.



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Reply by Officerbaconfarts

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Creepy for sure. I feel like kids are more prone to “paranormal” happenings, ie. imaginary friends, ghosts, sensing things, like monsters under the bed. 

Is it because of an imaginative brain? Or are kids more open to the Other Side? 


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Reply by Tj

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that is so freaky omg. 


Idk if I believe in ghosts but I did have a lot of strange reoccurring dreams when I was a kid. The skeptic in me just wants to think it’s a kids overactive imagination tho :>


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Reply by BrandonBurnsRed

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It's funny because I hear a lot about people seeing shadow figures in their periphery. I wonder if its a muted version of childhood halucinations.


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Reply by swag

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lmao stuff like that happened to me when i was a little younger too


i was about 5 or sumthin and would always have nightmares and hallucinations so i slept in my parents room and i would always see these puppets (like the ones u see at a puppet show) just pop up at the side of my parents bed and wave at me as if gesturing me to get closer and my parents could never see them when i woke them up

i laugh at it now lookin back at it but it was scary asf when i was younger and it would happen pretty freuquently 


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Reply by BrandonBurnsRed

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Child psychology is a fun thing I swear. I'm wondering if this is something that can be studied across cultures and borders.


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