I believe in premonitions, have since a young age, think it was pasted on from my grandmother who was a gifted person. Both my husband Steve and my best girlfriend call me a Witch affectionally of course, hehe! 

I asked if your home was new when you shifted in or someone else's because there  could be  a restless presence that for whatever reason couldn't or wouldn't leave,  still dwells in the house and maybe this is what your son is seeing and to someone so young this sort of experience can be very scary.

Do you know much about  the family would lived there before you? Your son must have a very sensitive soul to pick these up,  what is he like sleeping in other rooms???

Lachlan sleeps in the same room as charlotte and they have been in that same room since we moved in nearly 4 years ago.  he is a sensitive soul. 

The previous family were irish with adult children, and they moved because the kids were moving out and the place is too big for 2 people.

There have been intermittent strange happenings- last night I got home form work and my ex, who was looking after the kids, said that a balloon just exploded on its own.  a few nights ago one of imogens toys started up in the middle of the night, flashing and making noise,  the remote control went missing then appeared on its own standing on the couch like it had been "propped" up, a photo of my nan fell over on its own at the same time she ended up in hospital unwell, strange things happening with the kids (I wont say what I saw  in case people start to think I am crazy).......things like that.

I am going to do a ritual cleansing of the house (it was more to rid the house of the negative energy left behind from the ex, but I think it may have the double effect of clearing out the other presence).

I can imagine you as a white witch! xx

 Would never think you were crazy Josie. It does sound like this presence is very unsettled and restless, not happy about something. It  feels to me like an old presence something must have happened to someone living in that house, it needs to be released, not sure how you would about doing that.

Did these things happen when the X was living there or did they just start to happen since he left??

Both.

I don't sense a negative presence.  I feel its more like a child playing tricks, or something like that.  I don't feel uncomfortable or threatened in any way (you know, sometimes you just get that feeling that a place doesn't feel right, well my house is not like that).

I actually saw a psychic a couple of years ago and she felt that what I had experienced with the kids were their angels, protecting them from the negativity they were exposed to.  As that got better, those experiences stopped.  I am mildly sensitive to these things, but I tend to block a lot of it out of fear of the unknown.

Maybe their angels have come back to help them through the break up? I understand about the blocking out part I ended up doing it for years. It has only been in the last couple of weeks that I've been brave enough to stop blocking it. Been pretty clear that I still refuse to see things, they can come through the other 4 senses thanks LOL can still pick up mental images which are much less scary than the real thing.

Our home is about 18 years old and there was one family who lived in it before we did (the previous family before us built it).

Well, I am glad you listened to your instincts and you are still here with us!!!!

Thats amazing. :)

I swear Lachlan sees "spirits" in the middle of the night, but he gets terrified and inconsolable- he has night terrors on occassions as well.  But it freaks me out when he points to a spot in the room and shakes and cries.  i would prefer if he just talked to a nice one!

Actually there's a couple I don't mind sharing publically, I'll throw myself in the deep end and prepare to be judged.

These kinds of things have happened to me as young as I can possibly remember...

I think I would have been about 3 or 4 years old when there was a knock at the door. I saw a mental image of lots of glass and a lady who had hurt herself. I ran and got my mum a box of tissues - the ambulance was at the door, a lady was in a car crash just down the street. She wasn't injured too badly she had cut her lip open. So I handed the box of tissues to the man at the door who looked at me quite strangly.

When I was in kindy I saw a mental image of an opal key and I just knew where it was. It was late at night, everyone was asleep and I crawled in to my parents room, opened my mum's jewellery box, pulled out this little brown velvet bag with gold ribbon around it and inside was the key I saw. I took it to kindy with me and lost it - got in to a lot of trouble as I found out it was actually the key to my birth bracelet.

Once when I was in grade 3 we were singing songs at school. The teacher (Mr Sparvel) had black pants and brown leather vest, was sitting and playing his guitar. He started to sing "Salt water" and I started to shake and cry. I knew I needed to go home to my brother. I pretended to be sick, mum came and got me and when we got home I ran in to my little brother's room and he had stopped breathing. He had a severe asthma attack and was taken to hospital via ambulance.

When I was 10 (I have no idea if this was real or just a dream) but I saw my grandfather at the end of my bed tapping my feet. I ran downstairs to tell my parents who both said to go back to bed as they had just spoken to him on the phone and he was fine. A few minutes later the phone rang, it was my grandmother on the phone saying our grandfather had passed away from instant heart attack.

Just to name a few...

 Thats so cool, do you get any now? I wish we could learn how to keep these abilitys it would be awsome :)

Yes, I still have these abilities. What you say about "you don't use it - you lose it" is very true. I wish I could learn when to turn it on but I can't. Some people come up to me and ask for readings and I have to be honest with them and let them know "sorry but I can't get anything from you at the moment". Other times I'll be just speaking to someone (even on here) and I'm being drawn to show this person x,y or z. This has happened recently with emmie and singlemumma (sp?).

Last weekend I had booked a 1 on 1 reading with a lovely medium by the name of Terri, she was very surprised for our session to take the turn that it did. As I was gazing in to her eyes I had a feeling come over me and all this information just came pouring out as well as this feeling that was saying "say this, say this, you need to do it NOOOOWW!" My reading actually turned in to a reading for her!! I was highly embarrassed asking her if she could validate something so this feeling would go away. I picked up that she had cancer, I told her that her husband's name was Greg and she met him at her local beach (she actually isn't married but the guy who wants to marry her is called Greg and they did meet at their local beach).

So no, I'm not 100% accurate but it is sometimes difficult to comprehend the information being thrown at you, it's up to the other person to validate it. Turns out she was too scared to get married as she had cancer and didn't want to place any burden on the man. And so her brother decided to come through and get me to tell her that she deserves happiness in life, to go get married and that her cancer would take a sudden turn (for the better), that she would live happily to an old age. I actually have her e-mail address as she wants to keep in touch. She even had previous work experience with her mediumship with the police force.

What it feels like & how it comes to me:

*Dreams - some dreams are just dreams, others are warnings (go with your intuition) if you wake and say "oh what a funny dream" then it was nothing. If you wake and don't feel so good, listen to your gut. I have recieved many messages through dream such as seeing my nanna's face (but she was much younger about in her 40's) and she asked me to come and see her. The next morning my mum came to me in tears as she had passed away. I've also predicted my mum's car accident (I warned her but you can't mess with free will), my pregnancy and a few others.

*Gut feelings - When I am in danger, I feel this energy around me that feels like I am stuck in a box. My mind becomes a clutter (it says "get out of here now, get out of here now, get out of here now). I feel heat that goes through from my toes up to my cheeks. I feel tight in my chest. Some people say "oh that is just anxiety!" but it's not. I can tell anxiety and the danger feeling apart. This works for other people too, as an example my friend Elsie and I went out to a bar and she was flirting with one of the barmen. Instant gut feeling, I didn't like him. He then kept coming near us and making frantic attempts at getting noticed (to the point where he was intentionally smashing glasses on the ground to get her attention) I warned her that we needed to leave (once again you can't mess with free will). We ended up staying until they closed. We hopped on the train and about 5 stops away from her station I got this feeling that I describe above and I just grabbed her arm and said, we need to get out of here right now, ring your mum, tell her to meet you at the station. Elsie just kept asking me questions and asking me why I was acting weird, I just kept giving her the instructions "You need to change carriage now, there is a security guard in the last one, we'll sit next to him and you need to ring your mother and ask her to meet you at the station." She finally listened to me, as I looked back to check out the carriage I saw the gentleman from the bar a couple of seats behind us. Sure enough, we found a security guard in the last carriage just like I was instructed and her mother greeted her at the station. As I looked out the window, the man had gotten off the train, attempted to follow her, then got back on the train when he saw someone was there to pick her up.

*Mental images - out of nowhere I'll just see this image - and so whenever they come up I speak of it. This helps me describe a situation. I'm also drawn to certain people I know, experiences I've had etc. As an example, I may meet someone for the very first time and I'll be drawn to someone I know. Which means the person I meet, has a similar personality and similar traits/morals. Or someone will ask me a question and I'll be taken back to a certain part of my life, and I'll be able to answer their question with the experience I'm being drawn to.

I have a message for you right now, it's nothing special but it's meant for you at this particular moment, to this particular question: You do have the ability. It's been there, it hasn't gone anywhere. The problem is you shrug it off and so you don't acknowledge it. You can't progress in something you want to expand when you don't acknowledge it. You may get this sudden feeling and go "oh I'm just being silly".

I'll give you an example... when I was at the fair on the Saturday (without my partner) I was drawn to a crystal skull - something told me Brent would like it. Now I just shook this feeling away casually because I assumed. I assumed that my partner wouldn't want anything to do with this silly crystal skull in the display case. I just couldn't see it being his thing. The next day I went back again but Brent came with me and we were sitting in this seminar about some lady who did orb photography. Anyway, she mentioned something about collecting crystal skulls. At the end of the seminar, I asked Brent whether he was going to talk to her and he looked at me blankly and said "no...." So we grabbed a couple of coffees then he decided to tell me he wanted to go back and speak to the woman, so we go back to her stall and he decides that he wants to talk to her about crystal skulls. My first thought is... "you've got to be kidding me....." but nope, we went all the way back to the front of the expo to take a look at the same crystal skull I was drawn to. Here he was now standing holding the same bloody skull, I had just decided to shrug off because I assumed and thought it was nothing.

I know you've had times like this and the key is to pay attention to it. Validate it. When it comes to someone else you'll never be wrong. You might be a bit off (refer back to when I said the lady was already married) but you'll never be wrong. If you validate these things, you will open yourself up and everything will come back to you.

I do free readings too but it seems minti is too shy on this kind of topic and nobody has come to see me yet.

WOW!  I  find the whole topic of psychic ability fascinating.  I am not shy about the topic.....you could do a reading for me if you like.   :)

The reason for asking this question was that I always felt that my son was spiritually and emotionally sensitive, but the other morning my eldest daughter said to me out of the blue "Grandads going to take us fishing, on a boat and camping in tents".  I wondered where this had come from and asked gran and "grandad" if anyone had said anything about fishing and camping.  They said no but grandad admitted that he had dreamt about the very same thing the previous night and was thinking about taking the kids fishing and camping one day as a result.  So wondered if there was some sort of telepathic link happening there.

I myself have "psychic moments".  nothing that might save anyones life....usually insignificant pieces of information like thinking about the power going out a few nights ago (I checked where the torch was just in case) and at 4am it did, having flashes of what ward I will be working on when driving to work, thinking that someone in particular is going to ring, getting the phone handy and then 2 minutes later that person rings etc etc.  I always go with my gut instincts and I can sense people's emotions well. (somethiing that was also confirmed by a psychic after an aura photo reading).  I would like to do a WEA course on developing this ability.....although part of me is afraid of it, so I think I am subconsciously blocking my potential.

But the kids intrigue me- some of the things they say and see give me goosebumps.  I just wondered if all children did this at one stage or another. 

P.S I told my fiance' 3 days ago that he had tonsilitus and would need to go to hospital and he just looked at me. He didn't have any symptoms, turns out he just came home from the doctor's (about 5 minutes ago) with glands swallen the size of golf balls. He got a penisilin shot in the bum and was told if it's not better by Monday he's being booked in to have his tonstils out. I just told him to pack his night bag because he'll be going in tonight.

I saw a documentary on that.

Apparently there is a huge percentage of the brain that we don't use.  Makes you wonder what the function of that un-used part really is!