Psychic Children - While Children Sleep

Taken from the book Psychic Children by Sylvia Browne

Dream Category #1 : Astral Travel

We all know as a fact, not a theory, that our spirits can and do function separately from our bodies. If that weren’t true, we wouldn’t survive death and live eternally as we know we do, just as God promised. And that fact is the core of the very common phenomenon of astral travel.

Astral travel is nothing more than our spirits taking a break from these earthly bodies they’re temporarily housed in and taking off to visit whomever or where we want. It’s our normal mode of transportation when we’re on the gravity-free dimension of Home. It brought us here from the Other Side when we entered the fetus to be born and it will take us Home again when our bodies give out.

Astral travel is responsible for some of our most vivid and memorable dreams, taking us to meet loved ones from this life and past lives and to visit places we miss – most especially the Other Side, for which we’re all Homesick from the moment we leave. In fact, adults astrally travel to the Other Side on an average of two or three times a week while we sleep. For children, who’ve so recently come from there, the average is more like five or six times a week. The story of my son Chris that started this chapter is a typical example of a child’s spirit taking a quick, joyful trip Home while the physical body and conscious mind are conveniently sleeping. And I do mean typical. Whether or not they’re able to verbalise it or define exactly where they were, your children are on those same journeys while they sleep, very real journeys that aren’t actually dreams at all.

There are a couple of simple ways to tell a child’s dream (or yours) from an astral trip:

If your child dreams they’re flying without benefit of an airplane or other external means, it’s not a dream. They’re astrally travelling. And not all astral trips disguised as dreams involve flying. Astral travelling to the Other Side comes so naturally to children (and us) that they can instantaneously get there without needing the added sensations of the trip at all.
Astral travel experiences, unlike dreams, unfold in a logical sequence of events, just as waking experiences do, rather than in a haphazard jumble of images, people and locations.

Once children have left their bodies, they have three speeds of astral travel to choose from. The first speed is the least disorienting – their spirits move at the same pace their bodies do here on earth. The intermediate speed is fast enough to create the illusion that they’re standing still while everything around them is flying past them from front to back. Intermediate speed is often accompanied by the sensation of moving against a roaring wind, which is actually not wind at all but their own rapid forward movement instead. At supernormal speed, their spirits can travel incomprehensible distances faster than the conscious, finite mind can imagine, to the point where they might remember where they went and what they did while we visited, but they have no awareness at all of how they got there and how they got back. If your child ever has an uncannily realistic dream of exploring a distant planet or touring a newly discovered galaxy halfway across the universe, you can bet they’re not making it up and that they’ve experienced astral travel at supernormal speed.

One of the most common astral travel experiences children enjoy while they sleep is getting together with the spirit of a deceased loved one – or, in the case of Melina’s four-year-old-daughter, Lydia, a loved one who’s newly free from their body and headed Home. “My ninety-four-year-old father was living with us in a downstairs den we’d converted into a hospital room for him. We all adored him, but my daughter Lydia was the apple of her ‘gampy’s’ eye and she took it upon herself to ‘read’ to him every night before she went to bed, which in her case meant sitting beside him and flipping through the pages of her favourite picture books and making up stories as she went along. Early one morning I went downstairs to check on him and discovered sadly that he’d passed away during the night. While my husband dealt with everything that needed to be done, I went to Lydia’s room and sat down next to her on her bed. She woke up immediately and looked at me and said ‘Gampy’s gone to heaven, Mamma.’ I was shocked that she told me before I had the chance to say a word and I asked her how she knew. She said ‘Because we were flying in the night and he said so. We saw you and Daddy sleeping with the TV.” My husband and I have talked about this a hundred times and we’re 100% sure there’s no way Lydia could have known that on that one night and only that one night, my husband forgot to set our TV’s sleep timer and the television was on all night, but the volume was set so low that we slept through it. If it was too quiet to keep us awake, my daughter couldn’t possibly have heard it all the way down the hall with her door and ours both closed. When she added that ‘Gampy says he’ll come see us all the time, so don’t be said,’ I knew in the bottom of my heart that every word she was saying was true. It brings me more comfort than I have words to express that he really will be around and that our precious Lydia will probably be the one to tell us all about it.’