May 24 and the “Children of the Sun”: a belief in a collective awakening, and why it draws people in

Insomnia, heart palpitations, inner heat, vivid dreams, and the sense that time has come unmoored. On social media, these symptoms appear in accounts from thousands of people in the days before May 24. For the spiritual teachers who promote the idea, it is no coincidence: it would mark the beginning of the “awakening of the Children of the Sun.”

The idea does not come from a documented ancient tradition or from any study. It circulates mainly on YouTube, in videos that blend spirituality, energetic language, and mythological narrative. Understanding what it claims, what science says about it, and why so many people recognize themselves in it helps make sense of a kind of belief that recurs online every year.

Who the Children of the Sun are said to be

In the most widespread version, the Children of the Sun are people with a natural energetic sensitivity, carrying a dormant spiritual memory and a mission: to radiate light, truth, and consciousness into a fragmented world. Many, it is said, never fit comfortably into social norms.

Now, proponents say, they are undergoing an intense energetic reconfiguration. The signs cited range from the physical to the emotional: heat waves, tightness in the chest, forehead, or neck, crying spells with no apparent cause, swings between sadness and euphoria, poor sleep, persistent fatigue, and sudden aversion to certain places and relationships.

The cause would be “solar fire,” which the videos define as an energetic frequency rather than literal heat. It supposedly penetrates human energy fields to dissolve outdated patterns and activate latent gifts. One of the most widely shared videos adds that the portal would awaken information hidden in DNA.

What is expected of the date

The process is described as gradual, but May 24 would be a planetary turning point: an “energetic rift” in which the sun's frequency aligns with the plane of human consciousness and accelerates a collective awakening.

No external physical event is predicted. The phenomenon is said to be internal, made up of subtle sensations, dream visions, and synchronicities — coincidences a person reads as meaningful. For believers, the change is silent and irreversible: emotional clarity, heightened intuition, a break from destructive patterns. “You won't see lights turning on outside. You'll feel fire within,” says the narration of the video that served as the starting point for this piece.

What science recognizes

No scientific organization recognizes or studies this phenomenon. Transpersonal psychology, a marginal field within academia, tends to associate similar experiences with identity crises, mystical episodes, or processes of individuation, a concept described by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung for the maturing of personality.

The accounts, in any case, are abundant. Forums, social networks, and spiritual circles offer nearly identical descriptions of shifting perception and a “collective spiritual awakening.” There is no way to measure how many people actually experience them.

Why the idea draws people in

Specialists in contemporary behavior link the popularity of such phenomena to the search for meaning, dissatisfaction with social structures, and disillusionment with traditional institutions. A holistic therapist, who asked not to be identified, summed it up: “Whether symbolic or energetic, May 24 has become a point of convergence for people who want to break out of autopilot.”

Believers see in this the beginning of a more connected way of being in the world. For everyone else, it is a date like any other. The video promises no lights in the sky, only a fire that each person would have to feel on their own — and that only they could attest to.