Tracing back the connection to early childhood memories

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Hi everyone,

I’m new to the forum and wanted to ask a question, but I need to give a bit of background first.

While trying to understand how telepathy seems to work within our connection, often through images that I feel are sent to me, something from my very early childhood came back to me. For the first time, with what I’ve learned recently, I feel like I can understand it in a new way.

When I was very young, maybe three or four years old, I once woke up at night and saw something like a “Sandman” figure. I’ve never forgotten that moment. I was absolutely sure I was awake, but I could never explain or place the experience, especially since, back then, I had no concept of any kind of connection or telepathy.

Over the past few years, as I’ve come to understand that images can sometimes be exchanged on an energetic level, it suddenly occurred to me that this image might not have been random. It felt as if it could have come from him, not consciously, of course. He’s six years older than me, so he would have been around nine or ten at the time. I imagine it might even have been connected to something he drew or imagined himself, somehow reaching me subconsciously.

Thinking back, I was a very quiet, inward-focused child and had an imaginary mirror friend. I now remember that this imaginary friend had an older brother and today I can’t help but wonder if that was already me sensing his energy back then. That might also explain why this connection feels so familiar.

My question is: has anyone else experienced something similar? Have you ever had realizations later in life that seemed to trace the connection all the way back to early childhood?

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During this realization, a few other childhood images came up as well, a scene from a vacation where I was in the sea, pulled under by a wave and spun around underwater. I remember seeing the scene almost from above, as an observer. It wasn’t panic-filled, more calm and disorienting, and I surfaced quickly because I was wearing a swim ring. Since this image appeared together with the “Sandman” memory, it feels meaningful for the connection, though I can’t yet fully understand why.

I’d really love to hear if any of you have experienced similar childhood memories or later insights that made you realize the connection may have been present much earlier than you first thought?

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The telepathic images lines up with what many twins experience. The telepathy often comes through as sudden flashes of imagery connected to your twin, sometimes showing their surroundings or what they’re doing at that moment. You felt certain you were awake, and that’s common - these are receptive moments where the energetic channel is unusually clear.

Twin flame telepathy usually begins long before we physically meet. We’re just not aware of it until we start actively working on understanding the connection but Spirit seems to use it as a tool to guide us toward our 3D selves. So, a nine or ten-year-old boy’s imagination, creating a strong image, could have reached you on that level, especially during the vulnerability of nighttime sleep cycles. Early research on imaginary companions described them as ‘supernatural creatures and spirits thought to connect people with their past lives.’ Children with imaginary companions often show stronger abilities to represent what others are thinking, which is… basically telepathic receptivity.

The connection feeling so familiar probably comes from your soul recognizing something it already knew. Homecoming sensation even in your first conscious meeting. What you’re describing is that same recognition traced back to early childhood when you were more open to it.

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Ok, so the underwater memory caught my attention more than anything else you wrote.

That out-of-body perspective you describe, seeing yourself from above while pulled under by a wave, is actually a documented thing. Near-death experiences and moments of severe physical stress, like near-drowning, often trigger what’s called peritraumatic dissociation. Usually includes depersonalization, out-of-body experiences, and altered time perception… basically the body’s natural response to protect itself.

From a twin flame perspective, research shows NDEs share features with dissociation, where a person’s self-identity becomes detached from bodily sensation. People who’ve had these experiences report more dissociative symptoms generally. The pattern is ‘consistent with a non-pathological dissociative response to stress.’

So why would this memory surface alongside the Sandman memory? I think during moments of physical crisis (like being tumbled by that wave), we become more permeable energetically. The ego takes a backseat. Whatever normally separates us from the collective unconscious or our twin’s energy field gets thinner.

You said it wasn’t panic-filled, more calm and disorienting. That tracks. The fact that both memories came up together suggests your psyche is connecting them. They might both be moments when your usual defenses were down and you were more open to receiving or sensing something beyond the physical.

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Kids create imaginary friends for all kinds of reasons, not just to fill a gap. They interact with these imaginary companions in similar ways to how they interact with real people. The friend feels autonomous to them, sometimes saying it’s too busy to play, having its own personality. Studies suggest having an imaginary companion ‘provides the child with greater opportunities to practise representing what others are potentially thinking.’

Basically training telepathic reception without knowing it. Pretty cool.

There was a study I read about imaginary companions in India vs the US. Adults in India told researchers their children didn’t have imaginary friends the western way - instead, kids engaged in conversations with ‘real but unseen companions’ attributed to either spiritual world connections or the child’s memories from a previous life. Same phenomenon, different cultural interpretation.

You being quiet and inward-focused as a child makes sense. These kids need unstructured time alone to develop these connections - ‘only children, oldest children, and children who don’t watch much television are more likely to create an imaginary friend’. Having the opportunity and space matters.

Twin flames are literally called mirror souls. If your developing psyche was already sensing that mirroring energy at three or four, it would make complete sense to create a friend that reflected that dynamic. An older brother figure to your imaginary friend might have been your subconscious way of making sense of the masculine energy you were already perceiving from him.

Anyway, trust what came through for you back then.

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Your memories feel very rich but rather than trying to decode every symbol, you might sit in quiet presence and notice what emotion arises in your body when you recall the Sandman or the wave - curiosity, safety, longing, fear - and let that feeling be your guide in this moment.

From there, you can ask: ‘What does my present-day self need, knowing that this connection may have been with me since childhood?’ and allow whatever support, grounding practice, or communication with your twin that wants to happen now. You don’t have to chase a perfect explanation of the past.

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Your imaginary friend having an older brother mirrors something I’ve experienced too. As a kid I had an imaginary friend whose characteristics I now recognize as weirdly similar to my twin flame. Through shadow work and integration I’ve come to see it as my soul already sensing that energetic connection long before we ever met in person.

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Yes, this resonates with me! Since recognizing my twin flame connection, I’ve also had this flood of childhood memories coming back - even the most mundane ones I’d completely forgotten. I think our souls have been connected and preparing for reunion since the very beginning.

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The six year age gap between you two is interesting because that maps onto developmental stages. When you were 3-4 seeing the Sandman, he was 9-10 - right at the edge of losing that childhood openness to the unseen.

Our childhood patterns become the exact triggers in the connection later. My twin had abandonment wounds from age 5, and guess what behavior I unconsciously mirrored back to him repeatedly before I understood what was happening? Disappearing when things got intense. The mirroring pulls forward the exact unhealed childhood moments, not just personality traits. Your underwater memory might be important because of how he responds to feeling overwhelmed now. Does he shut down? Go silent? That could be the adult version of what your child-self sensed about how he processes being pulled under by life’s waves.