Do you think little children can see angels?

No.
Do you have invisible friends and monsters under your bed as well?

I don’t think so. But freakishly interesting story!

Um, no.

I hope so. :-)

When I was a child I never saw any ghosts or angels.

Hmmm, I do know that when a baby is very young it doesn’t distinguish fine details so much as the contrast between dark and light, which is why they look more at the top of your head rather than into your eyes – they are looking at your aura (at least that’s what my Mum’s always said)... Not quite the same as what you’re saying though, but thought it was interesting nonetheless!

Can kids have a great imagination? Yes. They necessarily have to. Can they see things that nobody has even shown to exist? No.

Ummm – no.

Imaginary friends exist for them!

My sister thinks so.

No more than a cat can. They will stare, entranced, at something invisible for ages.

Perhaps young children can see some things more clearly at times, perhaps because they aren’t yet burdened with the sets of preconcieved notions we call “culture.”

Hmmm, I think there are more children who are more sensitive to such things than others, although I wouldn’t say they see angels as I don’t believe they exist, but my eldest son up until he was about 7 used to tell me a lady followed him about and always sat on his bed until he went to sleep. When he described her to myself and my mother, my mother said in passing that it sounded like her grandmother, but couldn’t be for obvious reasons. I am sceptical because he had never met her, neither did he know her name, but he called her ‘Licia’ and her name was ‘Alicia’. Again how would he know this? It only ever happened to him and he has never discussed it since he has gotten older.

Relatedly, it’s a common trope in TV shows describing supposed ghost encounters for kids to be the only ones to “see” the ghost.

I personally don’t believe kids have any special ability to see either (ghosts or angels).

I don’t believe that the children who say they see these things are lying. That is to say that I believe that they see them. But that doesn’t mean the things they see exist. We are quite capable of seeing certain things that are not true. Perception is not always reality.

My mum told me before that when I was 2 years old, I used to look at the ceiling and laugh just as @Tbag ‘s cousin. Honestly, I do believe angels exist.
When I was 14, I saw the ghost of my mother’s grandmother (who was dead when I was 11) in the living room, it was so clear that I knew it was not just my imagination

Yes of course children can see angels, because children see all sorts of made up things… it doesn’t make them the least bit real though.

Interesting answers!

They see fantasy, innocence & ickle fwuffy puddy tats in de clouds. Angels? You’re havin a larf aintcha!?! ;¬}

No.

Yes.

Not believing in anything, I’d have to say no. But I do most certainly think that a child’s sense of perception and imagination isn’t anything like ours. Yall remember when you were kids?

I’m not sure, but I’ve got an interesting story.
I used to have an imaginary friend, like others kids when I was like 3 or 4. I got older and just forgot about her. Then a few years ago, I was looking through the yearbooks from the elementary school I used to go to, that were from 2 years before I started school (I was visiting old teachers) and saw here picture. I showed my brother- who would’ve been around that girl’s age- and he said that she had died in a car crash a few blocks from where we lived the summer after the picture was taken.

In the case of your cousin, I do not know. But a childs imagination can feel extremely real to them. I still remember one horrible experience I had as a child that I never told anyone. Nope not even the people on fluther. But it felt so extremely real when it was happening. I didn’t tell my mother because I was afraid she would be angry at me for making up a story. No it wasn’t abuse or anything like that but I do remember that the moment I decided I wasn’t going to be scared than it all vanished and I never had anything like that happen again. I was home alone when it happened. Needless to say I was terrified of being home alone and I let my imagination get away. I think intense feeling for children can make their imagination soar because they haven’t learned how to exactly block unreal from real and how to sort what they are feeling.
I think it did help when I begged my mom not to leave me home alone because it was too scary.
She could see how upset I was and didn’t leave me home alone again till I was ready.

No, they don’t. Only people suffering from psychosis do. Kids like to play the imagination game, but underneath they know it’s a game. Dreams can scare them but when they wake up they realize they are in bed.

@mattbrowne You obviously never seen a kid wake terrified after a nightmare. They will swear it was all very real to them. Doesn’t mean they are looney.

@Pandora Doesn’t mean it’s real, either.

@Pandora – I had my share of this experience having raised two children. While dreaming it seems real. When they wake up they realize that they woke up. And they talk to their parents. Kids are capable of self-reflection.