Posted 1/19/2006 05:20:00 PM by Douglas

The next time you see a kid flipping out and throwing a 3-alarm fit in public, relax. The kid's not a spoiled brat. He may just have a blue aura.

Dina Melendez was taken aback when her 4-year-old started talking about his past lives, describing brothers, sisters, two dogs and a cat.

"And then he told me he died when he was 6 and that he waited before being born again - waited for me so I could be his mommy," Melendez recalls.

But it's what Matthew says about the future that really rattles this young mother, and leads her to conclude that he is one of the so-called Indigo children - believed to be a new generation of high-energy, sometimes difficult youngsters who have psychic abilities and a deep-blue aura.

Wow. There's a reason adults don't listen to children. But doesn't this description apply to all children?

Carroll and Tober define Indigos as "restless, fearless" individuals who "believe in themselves ... have difficulty with absolute authority," and "often see better ways of doing things, at home and in school." They are in every country, on every continent, the authors say, and only a clairvoyant can see their auras.

Of course, wiki's got the full story. Creepy.