seablue:
The elephant description sounds like a highly imaginative imagination which has been linked to gifted children at a much earlier age than most. My DD is very much like this with invisible objects and animals and babies and etc.
Cute story: We were in a sandwich shop and she saw another little girl with a cookie which of course set her off with mine syndrome. 'I want a cookie mommy.' 'It's mine.' etc. So as she got louder and pointing up in the air I decided to reach up and pluck the cookie out of the sky and hand it to her. The look on her face was priceless. It was a complete realization that her imaginary game had turned to bite her in the a**.
So yes imaginary items are very common in little gifted kiddos. As for the visions: You will get a lot of skeptics and I have been one for many years but my grandmother (who passed away in Jan. of this year) was not. DD was still a little thing (8 or 9 mths) and dazed off into the kitchen questioning Mama Mama? when I was sitting on the couch. We kept getting her attention and saying I was over here and she would look but back into the daze. I never thought anything of it but later found out how much it freak my DG b/c she had a Priest come in to bless the house (She wasn't even Catholic) The Priest was sure she was seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. Not much later she would refuse to go into the back room where she slept. Would have complete meltdowns. (The room was next to the kitchen.) Did she 'see' things? Who knows but it was weird.
And in recent times she tells us that her Nana (my DG who passed) came to see her or is there in the room. For me, the skeptic, if anything is possible in that arena I fully believe that my DG would try to be with her since DD was the love of her life.
She also has weird timing with the phone and talking to daddy right before he calls.
So I get what you are saying but I just roll with it and not question it. It is yet another part of DD that makes her the unique precious kid that she is.
