Child experiencing hypnogogics while mostly awake

[Kalana]

My daughter is 10 and has had occasional episodes over the last few years where she will wake up hearing voices yelling at her and of course she gets freaked out and will come to me to talk about it.  While she is talking to me she says she can still hear them and will say that while she is talking her voice sounds to her like it's "sped up" or that she will hear my voice in a distorted way.  I recognize her as being in a half-awake/ half-asleep state and it will typically take a few minutes of talking to her for it all to go away.  She also has had instances of seeing spiders and floating lights while in this state while she is still in her bed, but it's usually something auditory telling her she "can't go back to sleep" or asking her math problems  ( that's a new one as of last night!). 

Thank goodness I have had some of these experiences as well because I can fully believe her and validate her experiences, and I try to tell her that there's nothing to fear and that they will go away if she thinks "happy things" but trying to get that through to a child is not easy.  I guess I'm looking for some advice on how I can help her understand this and to not be afraid.  Thanks.

[Szaxx]

Here is a topic that may interest you. It's along the same lines with the sounds being self generated.


http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_consciousness/auditory_command-t37195.0.html

[desert-rat]

She is picking up on a part of the astral world. I think a 10 y.o. could understand some of this, if explained in the proper way. I wounder if she is on any medacation?

[Kalana]

Thank you for the replies.  She is not on any medication.  I asked her this time whose voice is she hearing - male, female - and she thought for a second and realized it was her own voice.  Seems like she is reflecting her anxieties back onto herself in this state.  She has anxiety about falling asleep (partly due to these experiences) and probably the next thing most troubling for her would be a timed math test!  It'd be interesting to see if she can release some of this fear and think of music instead because she is very creative and musical...  I'll see if I can work with her on this 

As for her visions of spiders and lights.. no doubt there some astral stuff going on there too.  She's had the falling and "buzzing" sensations to go along with those. 

[Szaxx]

She is close to having a projection.
Tell her to make friends with everything she sees. This was my turning point before the astral proper opened up. I was younger than she is when this occurred.
If she can be made to realise that although things are scarey, nothing has hurt her. They are helping her as friends and they appear to her as what she is thinking of. The spiders can be kittens if she learns how to use her thoughts.

[Positive3]

Whom u mean in "They" , Szaxx