Gumby, I don't think it is all a case of that the dead don't contact us, but, in my experience with studying this andd now working with a shaman, it is the person contacted who may not be able to tune in. Some of us come in to this life with certain skills switched on in their brains, others don't. As much as I believe in this sort of thing, I haven't had any actual face to face visitations, but, my mom has them all the time........ Terri
deceased relatives and visiting in dreams
by snarf 33 Replies latest social relationships
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lonelysheep
My question is, do you believe in visitations of relatives after death?
Yes, because of my personal experience w/a deceased woman who was like a mother to me. She woke me up to talk and give me balloons since I'd be graduating high school. She passed away the September before. I found out months later that she LOVED balloons. We talked about life, said our goodbyes and that was it. This also occurred w/a friend's loved one once. Both were very real to me, and just reconfirmed that no one alive really knows what happens after life here ends.
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FlyingHighNow
I most definitely believe the dead visit us when we are dreaming and sometimes when we are awake.
The priest at my church explained that we westerners measure and think of time in a linear fashion, laid out in a straight line. She explained that that other cultures perceive time in a circular fashion. She said that somehow our circle of time runs interlocked with the communion of saints and people, including loved ones that have passed on. She says they are with us, near us all the time. And I do get visits in my dreams.
My boss died last year. He was beloved by all that knew him. A couple of months later he came to me, very vividly, looked me straight in the eye and handed me money.The look was lingering and penetrating and the money gesture was like this: he put it in my hand and held my hand for a minute or two while he stared at me and communicated to me with feelings. The message was, "Don't worry about money." The same company closed the store I transferred to after John's. I was given a severence package. I got a big tax return. Other monies have been coming, too. John was concerned about all of us, even after his death!
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Balsam
I've lost most of my immediate family and a son. While I was a JW I tried to convince myself of people sleeping in the grave. But too many things happen that could not be explained away so easily. I've had many experiences which have convinced me that my loved ones still live. Even though people who are skeptics have told me it's baloney, I say until they have walked in my shoes they don't know. Skeptics are people who haven't experienced themselves. I feel for them, because I think they would find it comforting to know their loved ones who have died still are very much alive. The JW mentality and teachings contribute to their skeptism.
Just as we do not see the stars during the day light and only at night do the appear, so is the afterlife perspective from this fleshly body. Sometimes people have a hard time realizing that life continues on after out physical bodies are gone. Science will one day prove it I'm sure but now we will just have to wait.
Balsam
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mbn36
Talking to the dead....
The dead visiting you in your dreams...
COME ON PEOPLE!
I'm just bugging you guys, although I can say for myself I don't believe you are visited by the dead or that you talk to the them. I think your mind create these illusions and dreams to what you want to see.
I have dreams about my uncle who recently passed away. One of them was my entire family was sitting at a table and all of sudden my uncle walks in, just as though he never died, and everyone was looking at each other in disbelief. But it seemed so real, he seemed so real, it took me about 10 seconds after I had woken up to actually verify, yes hes dead, I went to his funeral, and his wife is still grieving over his death.
Anyways my two cents is in, I think the mind is a powerful thing and it creates things that we cannot explain. To me its kinda like the holy spirit, you know its there and it does unimaginable tasks, but man it seems like its way over our level of thinking.
Peace
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Momofmany
I have had two of my relatives visit me, in my life. One was my grandmother. We were always close. She didn't visit me until years after she passed. My grandfather was living with us, and she came to me and said. You have taken care of him long enough. You need to let go, and let me care for him now. He died two weeks later. My Dad has been gone for 5 years. Night before last he was in my dream. I said, I never thanked you for all you've done and taught me. He told me I had. I asked him, how I don't remember saying it. He told me by using what he taught me was thanks. That I use my hand tools and teach my children what he taught me was the best thanks ever. So it was like he is with me. Sees me, and knows that we are ok.
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Mulan
I've had several of these kinds of dreams too, and so has one of my sons.
I would LOVE to think they are visitations. Possibly they are just my love and memories of that person coming to me in a dream.
Not sure. I hope they can communicate. If they can't, the dreams really don't make much sense.
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free2beme
I would like to add, that I do think our relatives in the other realm pull away from us, and become absent more often in not. As we hurt to much when they are around and they want us to be happy in life and not want to be there to hurt us more, when they know that there is no reason too. I think of it this way, life is about living and not about dying. So do not dwell on end, while you are still writting the story.
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bebu
I have not had any dreams like that. But I don't discount them at all. I don't believe in ghosts per se, but I think we sometimes are allowed to understand thru experiences like these that we are all in God's hands, and that love really does bind us together, even after death.
bebu
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FlyingHighNow
I've had several of these kinds of dreams too, and so has one of my sons.
I would LOVE to think they are visitations. Possibly they are just my love and memories of that person coming to me in a dream.
Not sure. I hope they can communicate. If they can't, the dreams really don't make much sense.
Mulan and others that have these dreams and wonder about them: read Closer to the Light by Melvin Morse MD and then Transformed by the light. There is scienctific evidence to support NDE's and Death Bed Visions, the latter which often occur during dreams or dream like states. This is one of the best presents an XJW can give him/herself. You'll quickly learn that the WT writers misrepresent and quote on the subject. I'll give you a taste: one person who "died" floated up from her bed and around the hospital and outside, only to see a shoe on the ledge on the same floor of her doctor's office window. She told the doctor emphatically that the shoe was most certainly there. The doctor then looked out of the window, not seeing it, crawled out and along the ledge and then, around the corner, there was the shoe. The office was a few stories up. They have found which area of the brain is working during these experiences. And like I said, DBV's often come during dreams of people nearing death. They also come at times of being awake and things happen that people around them cannot refute. Like the patient who saw angels coming down the stairs and then pointed this out to relatives and med staff. They looked and of course could not see them. Then she said, "There's a jar there on the stairs, one of the angels will knock it off." Then they all saw the jar fall off and break. Read the books. They are fascinating and easy reads. You'll be glad you did.