Visitation Dreams:
It's claimed 2/3 of the widowed have had dreams in which their deceased spouse visits them. (Hence the term
)These dreams differ from ordinary dreams in several ways...
They are very realistic - usually devoid of fantastic & absurd qualities.
They are very lucid - having a feeling of reality & immediacy.
They are easily remembered, and remembered for a long period of time...
more like a the memory of an actual event.
This subject came up in another venue, the CS Poetry Corner. (CSers are a talented bunch, are we not.
)The poem, "Was It Really You", by Abby1963, can be seen in the "poetry" area.
For those unfamiliar, it is a quite realistic portrayal of the phenomenon.
So...
Have any of you had such an experience?
What do you believe is the origin/cause?
What was your feeling about/response to the dream?
Have you experienced any other similar phenomena?
BTW- This is not exclusive to the widowed...
Others report such visits from parents, grandparents, siblings & such.
And, before you ask...Yes, I'm in that 2/3 group.
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Thank you, Abby!
Maybe tomorrow.
Perhaps we should expand the discussion to include the divorced.
How 'bout it?
Anyone have visitation dreams from a still extant ex?
Pleasant?
Not so much?
What about the oft reported link between twins?
Yer comin' in loud & clear, Min!
Yes...While it's happening it's at least as real as anything in the waking hours.
And things can come up...and come out.
Shortly after wife died the dreams involved anger...mine...and quite a bit of it.
Like...What the HELL were you thinking??
Didn't make much sense...It surely wasn't HER idea.
I've heard something similar from a buddy about his widowed Italian aunt...
It wasn't dreaming...she'd just flat out say it, "The only time that man did me wrong is when he died!"
Quite a compliment, I suppose. In a way.
I've not personally had the smell or other sensory experience, but I know people who've grown up in houses very pleasantly "haunted" by a grandparent.
They're take on it was essentially the same as those mentioned.
Contentment that Gramps was still rocking in his chair, enjoying a cigar, and watching over things.
And then there's Capt. Annie Green of the Delta Queen riverboat...
Back in the day, the first/only woman Captain on the river.
Crew & passengers relate stories of her benevolent...and sometimes overtly protective presence on the boat.
I can be a bit wary of stories such as that...might've been encouraged for publicity.
And bookings.
Still...the stories ARE out there.
And if someone's Granddad can keep watch over a house...
a captain watching over her boat isn't really that much of a stretch.
But yes, LFA...there is some involvement with religion...
As to their reality, and if real...their nature of and origin.
Captain MARY GreenE.
Awww!_____
Dream Well___ ____
Wrongs to right & all that, you know
Talk among yourselves...
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Go find a person & do your OWN research!
About 13 hours since Min checked in...
Should be rising soon.
Input should interesting...always is.
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Come in, Min....Come in, Min....Do you copy?
The night before my father had came to me in a dream dressed the very same way he was in that photo.He also spoke to me and told me to always treat people the way I hoped people would treat me in return.The dream was like my father was actually there talking to me.
As much as we would like our lives to have some meaning beyond the minuscule part played in evolution, inventing explanations for the unexplained doesn't further our importance.
Well, I haven´t had visits in my dreams, not from deceased people anyway.
My mother has had visits from my father - both in dreams and also when awake.
The visits I have are from my spirit guides, and they have been lucid.
DANG, MIN!!
Looking at timing of the posts...
Seems you were addressing things...
concurrent with me putting them in the previous comment.
How 'bout that?!
Or maybe in telepathy ?
Ok..what else would you like to know ? I am up at the moment.
A somewhat related question.
Perhaps the most significant I've experienced...
Late at night...driving home...as I did pretty much daily...
Once...and only once...got an urge to go around the block, past my Dad's house. No reason. Wasn't going to stop. He'd be asleep anyway.
In the time it took to drive 'round the block, a high speed chase was roaring through the village...led by a nut blasting anything he came across with a shotgun.
But for the urge to round the block...
@ LFA...That story of your granny telling you to slow down sounds very similar. I didn't hear a voice/sense a presence...just felt an urge to go 'round the block.
Perhaps if I'd ignored that urge, I'd then have heard my (deceased) Mom yelling at me?
Nobody was in sight at the time and I had to call the ambulance and do some emergency treatment while waiting.
I had other similar experiences.
There are NO coincidences Mic. Everything happens for a reason.
You can read the details by searching...
Sea Wing Disaster itinerant preacher Georgas warning.
Adding to the mystery...it has never really been determined where the gray bearded Greek preacher came from...or where he went...immediately after loudly & publicly pronouncing his warnings for 1/2 a week.
That he did so is beyond dispute...
It is acknowledged several would-be victims turned in their tickets prior to the ill-fated excursion which claimed 98 lives.
Would this conflict with assertions that all such phenomena are malevolent/demonic in origin?
It's a question posed to those who CLAIM such incidents are malevolent/demonic.
Also...The Sea Wing Disaster...
A young woman, Mary Leech, joined the excursion. Her landlady had loaned her a silver cup and umbrella for the trip.
Mary was late returning to the boat after a stop, and was upset that she had left the cup and umbrella aboard.
The cup & umbrella were lost. Mary lived to relate her story.
Coincidence?
Had she received an "urge"...which delayed her return to the boat?
Radina Olson reportedly had misgivings about going on the excursion, but did not act on them.
Her body was recovered three days later...on what was to have been her wedding day.
I know a few people who had had some kind of warnings in a way of delays or last minute cancellation prior to going on a journey as it wasn't meant to be.
They found out later on that there had been an accident on the road.
Search -
Lucky and 9-11
More than 350 people cancelled travel plans or were no-shows on the four flights involved...including Robert Redford.
The number utterly defies any explanation involving "coincidence".
"Urges"?
"Luck"?
"If your number's up, it's up. If it's not, it's not."...?
Can't add much to that, Ken, except to agree.
It had a good run, though.
Miclee my dear father passed away 39 yrs ago at the age of 43 yrs.
I have had several dreams about my father.He Was always smiling.....my last dream
my dad spoke to me.... and I saw his lovely smile again.
I woke enlightened !!!!!!!
Ref to your blog I have read about it............they sure must of been ....... Soulmates
I wondered what you were talking about!