Do you believe it's at all possible for dead loves ones to communicate with us?

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Title? And do you have experiences with this? Do you think it's possible. Death may not be the complete end when two people have loved each other devotedly in life.
So yes, I do believe this. Mostly the communication is a vivid dream helping me to solve a problem or someone touching me awake because it's important for me to wake up.

Have you ever been in contact with a dead loved one? if so what was it about? Can you share? Thanks. I know many vehemently don't believe in this, while many do.
 

I know, tho cannot 'prove' to satisfaction of others. I've also perceived the spirits of people unknown to me in some places, including my current home. I've shared elsewhere about the two most significant ADCs (after death communications) one set with first husband and the other with my Dad so short versions here.

Dean acted kinda poltergeistish (knocking pictures off wall) on first visit. I knew immediately from what pictures were targeted that it was him. Said i'd be ok with talking to him, realized he was angry because i was right there IS an afterlife. I mentioned that his love for our sons is probably why he was aware of it so soon (tho time different there) as only a couple of months had passed for us.

Also stated he should not come back till calmer because i would not tolerate him scaring the boys, bad enough what his temper had put one of them thru (they were 3 1/2yrs and one living with each of us at time of his death). It was some 10 months before he approached calmly and we had talks that if he'd been capable of having while alive would have made everything different.

My Dad came in dream first, as many spirits do realizing it is easier for some to accept that way. I told him that wasn't necessary. Next time the house filled with the aroma of his favorite pipe tobacco the morning daughter and i were leaving Laramie for Denver to visit newborn grandson. After checking for any other source for the smell (i always check for mundane causes) i said 'Dad?' I heard him loud and clear "Wait till you see him, he's beautiful."

Dad also visited on our last hike at our favorite Wyoming hiking spot.
 
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I'm probably one of the non-believers to whom you refer. To me, when one dies (depending on how fast you decompose) most atoms forming you go find other places to be and no longer form you. No one has ever been able to demonstrate that there is something tangible which constitutes a spirit that somehow exists outside the laws of nature.

That said, I respect you and your belief in the spiritual. It does me no harm and seems to give you comfort so to me it is a live and let live situation.

Depending on the success of my cancer treatment, to loosely paraphrase what Tolstoy wrote in "War and Peace": I may die and learn the answer, or it will cease to matter. PAX
 

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Despite all the claims of "after death communication," despite all the web sites and books I have seen discussing communications with the dead, I have never seen any real evidence. It has all been personal anecdotes and unusual but easily explained events which grieving people interpret as something meaningful.

For example, I know someone from another forum who lost a very close friend. He described driving through some woods on a calm day when one tree started waving back and forth as if there were high winds. He was absolutely certain that this was his dead friend trying to communicate with him. But I had the same experience in my own back yard where there are several trees along the property line. Suddenly, one afternoon, one of those trees started shaking around like it was in a hurricane. But then the tree stopped waving around and three squirrels ran out of it along a large cable, and the next tree started shaking around just like the first one had been doing.
 
Llynn said:
I'm probably one of the non-believers to whom you refer. To me, when one dies (depending on how fast you decompose) most atoms forming you go find other places to be and no longer form you. No one has ever been able to demonstrate that there is something tangible which constitutes a spirit that somehow exists outside the laws of nature.

That said, I respect you and your belief in the spiritual. It does me no harm and seems to give you comfort so to me it is a live and let live situation.
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My first husband thought that there was nothing after death too! Only he would argue vehemently against it.
 
Llynn said:
I'm probably one of the non-believers to whom you refer. To me, when one dies (depending on how fast you decompose) most atoms forming you go find other places to be and no longer form you. No one has ever been able to demonstrate that there is something tangible which constitutes a spirit that somehow exists outside the laws of nature.

That said, I respect you and your belief in the spiritual. It does me no harm and seems to give you comfort so to me it is a live and let live situation.

Depending on the success of my cancer treatment, to loosely paraphrase what Tolstoy wrote in "War and Peace": I may die and learn the answer, or it will cease to matter. PAX
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I loved War and Peace. So many meaningful quotes came out of that book.
 
Yes, definitely. After my father died, he spoke to me and told me things about the family which I had known nothing about. However, you do need to have a receptive mind which is open to communication. The dead can't contact you if you put up a barrier.
 
No, I think it is just wishful thinking. I'd imagine someone who was raised believing in reincarnation would wishfully believe their pet cat is their grandfather, and people raised with religions of signs and omens would wishfully believe they were seeing signs/omens of communications with dead relatives. People who have watched a lot of modern movies would frame their beliefs on the behavior of dead spirits in fictional movies.

I think it is kind of creepy when people believe themselves about it, to me it feels like they don't have good control over their own brains.
 
No. One n done.

Maybe some of our brain waves at sub atomic particles do the dance in the universes out there.
Maybe they become / reside in some brain in some alternate reality. Maybe animal instincts?
Maybe those random particles become a idle thought, a root instinct of something cause it has happened before. Maybe its why I seldom hit a sparrow on the road anymore, when years ago I
hit em in the grill all the time: fewer and fewer squirrel or rabbits stand in the center of the road,
but of course Coon and Possum still do. They are Anti brains.
 
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Llynn said:
I'm probably one of the non-believers to whom you refer. To me, when one dies (depending on how fast you decompose) most atoms forming you go find other places to be and no longer form you. No one has ever been able to demonstrate that there is something tangible which constitutes a spirit that somehow exists outside the laws of nature.
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I think you mean No one has proven it to you. You have seen no evidence of it.

I'm an atheist. I don't believe there is a supreme being of any kind who made rules for us to live by, whose angels or whatever watch over us, and who judges us after we die, and sentences us accordingly for eternity. But a couple of experiences have just about convinced me that *some part of us* survives the death of our physical bodies. Or that, at least, that isn't impossible.

Maybe I imagined these two experiences. But maybe I didn't. They didn't seem imagined.

Maybe there is a part of us that exists eternally. I believe that's possible, especially after reading that genetic and molecular scientists have only identified the function of 3% of our DNA, or something like that. Might have been 7%, but in any case, these scientists are asking, what does the other 90-some percent do? Is it energy-producing DNA? Is it living? If so, what supports it and when is it no longer living?
 
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I think you mean No one has proven it to you. You have seen no evidence of it.
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No, with respect, I mean exactly what I said. There have been many experiments (some flakey and others completely scientific) over the years trying to detect any physical manifestation of a spirit or soul at the time of death. Dying people have been put on sensitive scales, rf and other electrical energies have been tracked, etc. Nobody has been able to provide repeatable evidence proving any transition at death.

Of course some have claimed such evidence but their results have not stood up to challenge. Faith and hopeful belief are not proof. Believe me, I wish departed spirits were floating around somewhere outside accepted reality. I still have a few apologies that I would like to give my Mother, and a few choice remarks for my SOB sperm donor.

I'm done with this topic. My intent was to be fair, open and accepting of other viewpoints. I hope I succeeded but probably didn't.
 
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Llynn said:
No, with respect, I mean exactly what I said. There have been many experiments (some flakey and others completely scientific) over the years trying to detect any physical manifestation of a spirit or soul at the time of death. Dying people have been put on sensitive scales, rf and other electrical energies have been tracked, etc. Nobody has been able to provide repeatable evidence proving any transition at death.

Of course some have claimed such evidence but their results have not stood up to challenge. Faith and hopeful belief are not proof. Believe me, I wish departed spirits were floating around somewhere outside accepted reality. I still have a few apologies that I would like to give my Mother, and a few choice remarks for my SOB sperm donor.

I'm done with this topic. My intent was to be fair, open and accepting of other viewpoints. I hope I succeeded but probably didn't.
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I didn't see where you were unfair or unaccepting. And I'm not disputing your opinion. I agree there's no evidence that proves the existence of spirits, and I don't believe it could be gathered with ghost-gadgets, anyway. That's malarkey.

But I'm not actually talking about ghosts...or spirits. I think there might be something else, though. What, idk.
 
Llynn said:
No, with respect, I mean exactly what I said. There have been many experiments (some flakey and others completely scientific) over the years trying to detect any physical manifestation of a spirit or soul at the time of death. Dying people have been put on sensitive scales, rf and other electrical energies have been tracked, etc. Nobody has been able to provide repeatable evidence proving any transition at death.

Of course some have claimed such evidence but their results have not stood up to challenge. Faith and hopeful belief are not proof. Believe me, I wish departed spirits were floating around somewhere outside accepted reality. I still have a few apologies that I would like to give my Mother, and a few choice remarks for my SOB sperm donor.

I'm done with this topic. My intent was to be fair, open and accepting of other viewpoints. I hope I succeeded but probably didn't.
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I still have apologies I'd like to give my mother, too, but in order for me to be able to apologize to my mother she would have to be here in some way, and for me, the idea of someone dying and then having to spend time hovering around their loved ones, "watching over them," is not what I would wish for them.

I do believe in an afterlife for the soul, but not in any way that medical machines could detect. I imagine it would be far away from earthly concerns. Mothers like mine would no longer be worried about their children and only feelings of peace and love would remain. If she remembered me at all, her mind would be expanded enough to understand and forgive anything that happened, so no apology would be needed.

I picture my mother walking through an impossibly gorgeous garden, singing with her beautiful voice perfected.

As for other people who have died, the thought of spirits having to spend eternity in an old empty house sounds like a tortuous existence.

My religion speaks of angels, but only as messengers, not as guardians of children and not as former humans, but a completely different life form. We don't "become" angels after we die. It says we will either be with God or separated from him. That's about as far as my belief goes.
 
Trying to be objective, I have read various pro and con articles on "near death" experiences, stories of "hauntings" and unexplained phenomena. It is obvious that there are an awful lot of "unknowns" out there.

I find it interesting that many folks having near death experiences share similar stories - of walking towards a bright light and being greeted by a long departed loved one. And some of these folks were religious, others were not. And maybe there is something to it (afterlife) or maybe its some behavior of our mindset. Who knows for certain, but of course we all will one day.

On "hauntings" and unexplained phenomena, there are just too many stories out there that can only be explained by the present of an invisible "something or another".

There is just an awful lot out there we don't know, and I would keep an open mind about it.
 
I'm kinda torn. I have never seen a ghost and I hope I never do... but....... I've had 2 experiences I can't explain easily

One, I was working on TV show where the star was a medium ( fake as it turned out ) , but I got interested in the possibility of being able to contact dead loved ones.

I;d never had closure from my mothers; death, because she died suddenly no warning, no illness... so I read a famous medium who said that among other things, you had to be receptive and she explained if you do these certain things, and ask for a sign from your loved one they are there; then you will likely have made contact.

I did precisely what she described..in an empty livingroom.. just me there .very, very quiet late at night .. and asked ''Mum Show a sign if you are here..''.. and the Cylinder vacuum which was in the corner of the room...fell over.. :eek:

I nearly jumped out of my skin, there was no way that could fall by itself....
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the second was when I was asleep.... I;d had no contact with my father who was Alive... or anyone who knew him ( siblings had no contact either)...and I had what seemed to be a real occurrence...yet I was supposedly asleep.

I don't watch horror films or anything like that.. but I was awoken with what seemed to be his head just there in the room.. like a Hologram.. just there head..nothing else.. it was so clear... he just was there for what seemed like a few seconds..in the dark room and then gone..

I was pretty freaked out by this because prior to this I'd been having sleep paralysis, like someone was sitting on my legs when I was in bed, and I couldn't move..


Anyway when this happened I made some enquiries and found that my father had died and had been in hospital suffering from strokes and Pneumonia!!
 
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Lavinia said:
Yes, definitely. After my father died, he spoke to me and told me things about the family which I had known nothing about. However, you do need to have a receptive mind which is open to communication. The dead can't contact you if you put up a barrier.
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That's a very good point and thank you for making it. A person has to be receptive to the possibility of communicating with departed loved ones or nothing may happen in this regard.
 
OK, let me ask this. Has anyone had a death experience? One in which medical professionals believed you to be dead because you exhibited all the signs of death but you lived? Can you discuss this if it ever happened to you?? Thanks. :unsure:
 
No. One n done.
Maybe there is an attachment spread across all the unlimited Universes and conjoined parallels. No conscious individual in death. Maybe it is part of the instinct life may be born with.

No manifestation of an individual. Sure imagination run amuck too. Sure there tricksters and slo motion dreams. One hates all kinds of dreams. Bright lights. The doc has plenty. .Need a butt probed.
 
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Yes absolutely. No one can tell me that it wasn’t real. In the quiet of the night, halfway between being awake and asleep my loved ones have come back to me in my dreams. Clear memorable dreams like no others. My brother has come back 3 times. Last time was a month ago. He’s been gone about 14 years.
 
May I add......
I believe there are a good number of folks out there (and even on this Forum) who have had similar experiences to what has been described, but are afraid to tell anyone for fear of being labeled as a nut.
 

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