Is it typical for children to get up in the middle of the night

Yeah yeah you are an snowflake.

>>17091450

Lol, what? I wasn't posting this to be a 'special snowflake', I was seriously wondering if this usual for children and if so, if there is a reason children are so odd.

So fuck right on off, faggot. It's a genuine inquiry with some background.

I'm pretty sure children are more prone to night terrors and possibly sleepwalking as well. This is the most likely explanation, though it is weird that it stopped once you moved. How long did you live in the first house and how old were you when you moved?

>>17091462

Maybe a year, give or take. I was around five or six years old. Maybe seven. Didn't experience night terrors, though I have been told that I tend to sleep walk.

When I was a kid there was a room I would avoid at all costs during the night. It was a guest bedroom that we just kept boxes, and stuff in, but whenever I'd go in there I'd get chills, and Id feel very intense dread. Id have nightmares about being forced to go in that room, and just being surrounded by pitch black darkness. But that's sort of the opposite of what you had OP.

I guess ive always found bathrooms to be comforting.

>>17091450
Go back to /b/ you swine

>>17091478
Don't give them attention, just ignore them.

>>17091476

Does sound like the opposite. Thing is, I was scared of the dark, but since this was so long ago I couldn't tell you at what point that actually started happening. If it was before I lived in that house, or if it was something that sparked up after the fact. Obviously not while living in that house though. The spot I frequented in the middle of the night was in a pitch black basement.

>>17091455
Idk really if you believe in the whole "Demons are real" thing then that's what it was. I mean, demons everywhere (in movies, tv, books, whatever) have been known to target children because children are innocent, children haven't done anything filthy yet and they are not evil, they don't think about hurting others blablabla kids are better people than grown ups because kids have "bigger hearts".

TL;DR Kids ain't pieces of shit like adults.

>>17091489
That's certainly odd. I was scared of the dark far past the typical age. In fact it wasn't until I was around 17 that I could function alone in the dark. But the basement thing is odd, maybe the temperature down there was nice? Or maybe there was some subconscious fear of disasters? (Basements are a safe place to be, typically)

>>17091556
>TL;DR Kids ain't pieces of shit like adults.

This crap about children being all magically pure and innocent whereas adults are all cynical and blind to the world around them gets old, anon. And you've obviously never been around small children who behave in ways that we would call selfish or even cruel, though it's because they simply haven't learned any better yet. Who helps teach them this concept? Adults.

>>17091556

Hmm, I don't know a lot about demons, but if it had actually been one, wouldn't there have been some perceptibly 'evil' things to happen? I don't personally remember anything bad going on during that time. I wouldn't know if my parents were experiencing anything out of the ordinary either, but if I had to guess, my physically moving to hole up in a dark basement in the middle of the night, every night, was probably creepy within itself.

Apologize for my naivety, I don't get wrapped up in paranormal topics often, and visiting /x/ is rare. What would have been the end game with a demon?

>>17091574

Makes sense, doing it for some subconscious reason. Never went through anything disastrous though, and my parents were always very chill whenever there was a potential threat. Didn't want to 'freak out the kids' and all of that. So I don't recall every feeling in panic even if the possibilities were there.

>>17091597
Sorry didn't mean to strike a nerve. Kids can obviously be shit because of how adults behave around them and kids CAN be selfish and CRUEL, but as you said that's because of adults around them. They don't mean to be cruel or selfish, that's the point I was making.

>>17091603
Maybe the fact that you moved didn't give the demon enough time to do evil shit with you, I don't know man, I'm no expert on that, no one on /x/ is, but from what I've read, all the fanfic and ye olde books sounds like it to me. The end game with a demon, just like most times is to hurt someone, to make someone suffer so that the demon can have their keks. Also could be a deal struck with a demon IE selling one's soul in exchange for the soul of the firstborn or some shit like that. Any other weird shit happened to your family since you or the firstborn in your household was born?

>>17091684
I wasn't clear. To be more specific, it seems that by 'default' kids will act in ways that seem selfish and cruel until adults teach them better. Or yes, the opposite could be true and if they have rotten parents or caregivers, they will likely become rotten adults.

>>17091707
I guess all children I've been around (my two cousins, best mate's little brother) none of them have been selfish, they'd always want to share their food and shit like that until a certain point when they start realising how adults around them act and then they start doing the same shit. That's from my point of view though.

>>17091732
Well-behaved children? Now THAT'S paranormal!

Kidding, anon. Sorry, sounds like you have some lousy people in your family. Just keep your fingers crossed that the apples will roll far, far away from the trees.

>>17091684

>Any other weird shit happened to your family since you or the firstborn in your household was born?

I could speculate on so many things. This wasn't the weirdest part, but certainly the earliest, but at that point it strays from the original post, and probably start seeming like roleplay(Literally every thread in /x/ I've clicked since posting my own here, has been really discouraging, as most threads seem to be shit on rather than any real discussion going on). SO. Think I'll keep most of it to myself.

I don't think demons, though. Nothing bad ever happened while there, and as I said we lived there for months(Around a year maybe).

>>17091752
I rarely post and I mostly post in dream threads/creepy story threads but yours did seem really interesting for some reason. Anyway if you don't wanna post then don't.
Side note, demons can haunt a house, a person, an object so if something creepy happened after you moved away it could be in something/someone in the family. But if you think it's not a demon then I don't know what else to say. Hope some other anon comes up with something.

>>17091775

Well, it wasn't until years later, but I had found out that my dad was involved in a cult. Moving was because of supposed plans to sacrifice me and my brother, or some shit. Eerie, but the side of the family I ended up on was pretty crazy, imo. I believe them to have made up all kinds of stuff to purposefully slander our father. Besides, it sounded more like he'd been writing a story with no actual ties to family. How I perceived it anyway, as the whole thing developed over the course of many years. Seemed like fearmongering on my mother's side.

That aside, other weird things that have happened over the years(I am 25 now);

>See silhouette of a man at friends house
>Weird shit and a series of bad luck followed
>Strange things around house begin
>Always get a strong, almost sickly sweet smell to nose at least once every week for a while

It stopped once I moved away from there, and for the most part remained that way until I was old enough to move out. While living at an apartment;

>Begin see things from corner of vision frequently
>See large silhouette one time
>Always feel like something is hovering about and watching
>Begin to have violent and twisted nightmares
>See a person staring into window at least twice during this period of time

Among other things and living in other places, with varying degrees of weird or outright disturbing... all of which sound outlandish, I'm sure. I have been to a professional before though, all for unrelated reasons, but these things did come up. Not in extreme detail, but the psychologist didn't think it was anything to be worried about. Said it could all have been stress related.

I've never been on medication and actually, none of these things have happened in quite some time, so there's that too. Any and all 'weird' shit seems completely sporadic and spaced out.

>>17091455
Children aren't odd people just prescribe patterns and behaviours to them that fit their imaginations. It's normal for children to wonder and be 'drawn' to things. As adults we don't have time to fixate or wonder. We also have more sense as an adult and aren't perplexed as easily. Sorry but you're not unique in this.

>>17091478
Did you tip your fedora whilst saying that. Seriously get over yourself, x isn't here to pander fantasies if you want to do that go to reddit /r/nosleep and pretend everything written is real.

It's very normal for children to get enough of a melatonin drop in the middle of the night that it wakes them up and they seek security.

Usually this means their parents but since OPs parents were neglectful he developed this habit as a self-coping mechanism.

Don't feel bad though, being neglectful in this way is the currently accepted parenting standard.

>>17091995

Not sure why people think I'm looking to be labeled unique/special/whatever. Thanks for the response though. Literally all I've been looking for- answers to children behaving oddly.

>>17091982
Okay that's REALLY interesting, I mean, I am sorry that those made you feel bad and I am sorry that you had to go through that, but it's really really interesting. Okay that does sound like either one or many demons or ghosts (again idk much, I'm going on what I've read). The whole smell thing is interesting for me because back in the day when spoopy stuff was happening around my household I would also get a strong smell at certain times and it was a smell that I had never gotten before. Anywho, this ain't about me + I don't wanna talk about me.
Demons is a reasonable assumption as many people describe demons as shadow people ( silhouettes ) and accompanied by a strong smell.
As for cults, I am not familiar with how those work so I couldn't tell you anything, but I don't think they had something to do with you crawling into a basement.
And here is a wild guess: Guardian Angels. They are said to give you the feeling that they're hovering about and watching you. They could make you sick, just with their presence. But you did mention a lot of bad luck so I really doubt that.
And all that of course is assuming that you DO believe in demons and don't just think that it was bad childhood.

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>>17091442
I think it is pretty common. My brother turned 12 last year, and suggested he sleeps upstairs. I agreed, taking his room downstairs. I slept on the couch, and it was really fucking uncomfortable, probably why I did bad in high school. It was fine for a few months, but now recently he's been coming down to sleep with me. I feel really uncomfortable spooning my brother since my parents won't get a bigger bed for more space. I asked him why he's sleeping with me and he told me he hears and even occasionally sees things at night. Is it possible when you get older you start being immune to shit like this? I never had trouble sleeping upstairs, but I do occasionally leave the T.V on if I read a spooky creepypasta or something like that.

Can anyone relate, or give me a solution? I can't help him since I don't notice it but it's embarrassing because he's in 7th grade.

>>17091982
>>17092092

Holy fuck, cut this role-play bullshit out. You had a decent topic and fucked it all up with your fedora tipping garbage. This god damn board.

i can remember being about 4-6 and getting up in the middle of the night and just. hanging out behind the couch my mom was sitting on. she wouldn't even notice i was there for at least an hour.

>>17092122

No suggestions, but it is weird. He is too old for that. Not sure why he's going back downstairs if sleeping down there was the problem to begin with... Sounds like he's still scared of the dark/being alone or something. Gotta correct that.


>>17092092

If ghosts were really a thing, and it's not my mind playing tricks, I'd go with that over demons. I don't believe in angels, so that'd basically cast out believing in demons, far as I'm aware. I have also heard about strange smells coming from demons, although I've also heard the same for ghosts. Then there's the possibility of olfactory hallucinations, or some shit like that anyway. Either way, back when it was happening more often, the scents were especially strong.


>>17092147

Man, if you don't like it, fuck off outta this thread and quit trying to derail/trash mine. Even if it has strayed from the original post. Point in case though, some faggot crying 'roleplay' on a paranormal board.

>>17092180

Lmao, creepy. I used to do something similar though.

>>17092337
Hmm could be smell from ghosts if those are in fact ghosts. Might as well be hallucinating due to lack of sleep or something completely different for all I know. I was just having random ideas pop into my head of what this might have been. Have the spooky stuff stopped completely now or is there still some weird crap happening?

>>17091442
>>17092122
demons are real.

>>17092389

I getcha.

It comes and goes at complete random. No real pattern, and despite being told it might be linked to stress, when I first moved to that apartment I was actually extremely elated, and started to see things that could be equated to just 'seeing things', and nothing more. Likewise though, when down, same thing can happen. So it's not necessarily based on mood. Still, the things I have mentioned are still tame to some of the bigger stuff. But it has all but stopped entirely. Not a weird thing in sight for 6+ months now.

Last thing to happen was my dog acting weird about the basement. Kept going to the door and acting skittish about it. Opened it for him, he went halfway down, fur stood on end, growled and bolted back upstairs. I quickly flipped on the light and went to inspect, but nope. Nothing. And that really didn't have anything to do with me specifically so.

I'd be interested in hearing more on your end, btw.

>>17092337
No, he wasn't afraid of sleeping downstairs, in fact, I'm pretty comfy in there except for the small bed, Idk why he would abandon it. I tried sitting up in the room he sleeps in, in complete silence to see if I heard anything, but drew blanks. The only scary encounter I've had in the house is when my parents came home early and I was blasting porn really loud. I think it maybe because he doesn't get that much sleep. He told me he goes to sleep around 12 each night, sometimes at 1. Could that be it?

>>17091556
>children are innocent, children haven't done anything filthy yet and they are not evil, they don't think about hurting others blablabla kids are better people than grown ups because kids have "bigger hearts".
>TL;DR Kids ain't pieces of shit like adults.
Anyone who believes this shit doesn't remember what it was like to be a child.

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>>17091999
>x isn't here to pander fantasies

>>17092725
Okay wow sorry for the late response, went to sleep cos nighttime here.
Maybe there is something in the basement of places where you live, given that you would crawl into basements as a kid and now your dog is acting all weird around your basement but I wouldn't count on it being ghosts. If a ghost is haunting a place in a house (like the basement of that first house where you crawled in the dark in the middle of night) then that ghost is just gonna haunt that one house/room not you and then follow you into a new house to haunt the basement there. Of course if it's ghosts there's always the possibility that you moved into a house with a completely different ghost in it LOL. But to be honest could be nothing, my cat would a lot of times act all weird and creepy, most of the time around 2:30-3:00 am and would sometimes wake me up but I have just decided not to pay that much attention to spoops happening around me especially because of where I grew up, was a little fucked up town with a shitton of spooky stories and the fact that I was living near the cemetery AND the morgue didn't help LOL.

Anyway if you wanna hear spoopy stories I guess I can make a thread bout the shitty town I grew up in and share many stories about that.

>>17092838
Kids lack the capacity for high-grade empathy.
There's a reason you can't be diagnosed as a psychopath until you're 18 and it's because the little bastards are heartless.

>>17095121
You can't let the pendulum swing too far either way, anon. You can't say that all children are heartless anymore than that one anon can say all adults are pieces of shit. At the risk of sounding like a PBS special, every human being at every age is different, some are more intuitive and empathic, others must be taught this, and some never learn. However, there is credence to the theory that kids who don't get held and loved often enough in their early years are the ones who will grow up to have a harder time relating to others, and thus pose more of a risk of becoming a sociopath.

bamp

>>17091478
*rancid swine

>>17095105

>Anyway if you wanna hear spoopy stories I guess I can make a thread bout the shitty town I grew up in and share many stories about that.

Go for it. I'm interested. If this thread is still up by the time you do, link me!

>>17098028
I have started a thread really have no idea how to share it thought >>17099421 like this maybe? idk hope it works

bamp

>>17092122
>Not fucking your brother