Do you believe our dearly departed visit us?

Ruthanne

Ruthanne

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I believe they visit me in my dreams. I was laying on the couch halfway asleep this afternoon. I got up and put an envelope part way under my front door for the manager to take. I layed back down on the couch and was dozing off and on and I heard a voice near my door say "Ruthanne, it's Jean". No one in real life calls me Ruthanne even though that is my full first name. The only people that call me that are here on SF and my mom. My mom's name is Jean. She's been gone for 13 years. I believe that was her visiting me this afternoon. I was sort of startled by it. I had asked my mom a long time ago if I could call her Jean and she said no. Maybe that is why I was startled by it. Go on call me kooky now.
 

There is no way to know for sure. I have never had the departed visit me, except in a dream, which I don't consider a visit, although some people might. In fact, I would rather no one that has departed ever visit me, since I have no way of knowing if the departed would be feeling kindly towards me or otherwise. Too spooky for me.
 
Cookie said:
There is no way to know for sure. I have never had the departed visit me, except in a dream, which I don't consider a visit, although some people might. In fact, I would rather no one that has departed ever visit me, since I have no way of knowing if the departed would be feeling kindly towards me or otherwise. Too spooky for me.
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I will believe what I want and have welcomed all of my departed family in my dreams many times. :)
 

Ruthanne said:
I will believe what I want and have welcomed all of my departed family in my dreams many times. :)
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Ruthanne, of course you are free to believe what you want, everyone is, and I'm in no way saying you shouldn't. I have a friend who is into that big time, although she hasn't mentioned any significant experiences, she just likes the idea. No harm in that, if it makes her happy. However, I've mentioned to her many times that I pretty much don't know anything about it, so I can't partake in conversations about it with her, other than to listen. All good.
 
As long as my memory holds I carry my dear oldies in my heart and think of them often. They continue to influence my actions for the better as they did when I was younger. It is an internal process as far as I am concerned.
 
Yes definitely...in dreams I catch up with my Mom quite often. Even my dear Levon, just a few weeks ago, in the dream I could have reached out and touched him just before I woke up.
 
I did have one vivid dream in which my late husband came knocking at the door, furious because I had given all his clothes to the Salvation Army about six months after he died. It was a very "convincing" dream.....I'm not sure what it meant. He was a great supporter of the Salvation Army, so I don't think he was mad about that part. Was he mad at me for not keeping his clothes forever? I guess I'll never know, unless he shows up at the door again or we meet up in the afterlife.
 
jujube said:
I did have one vivid dream in which my late husband came knocking at the door, furious because I had given all his clothes to the Salvation Army about six months after he died. It was a very "convincing" dream.....I'm not sure what it meant. He was a great supporter of the Salvation Army, so I don't think he was mad about that part. Was he mad at me for not keeping his clothes forever? I guess I'll never know, unless he shows up at the door again or we meet up in the afterlife.
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Funny, but I had a VERY similar dream, only it was my mother at the door. It was incredibly vivid. I tried to figure out what it meant for along time (since our dreams are created by us in our own minds, I think somewhere down deep we know exactly what they mean). The only thing I could come up that made any sense to me was that perhaps I was feeling guilty for "letting her go" so easily -- I mean by getting rid of many of the trappings of her life so quickly. I still am not sure what it meant, but it was a quite powerful dream, and I still remember it so clearly after 35 years after her death.
 
I am open minded about it. I occasionally dream about my mother and grandmother and in the dream we all know they are actually dead but we are meeting somewhere 'in between'.
 
Ahh Ava, the Barefoot Contessa. Yes, she also visits me on occasion, and I am expecting Marilyn any night now...
 
I also,had a similar re-occurring dream after my first husband died. He was knocking at the door and he came in and during the period of lapsed time I had remarried. I was so upset trying to figure out how I was going to tell him. My first husband was killed in a plane crash and I never got to have any closure. I had many of this exact dream (nightmare).
 
Sweetpea said:
I also,had a similar re-occurring dream after my first husband died. He was knocking at the door and he came in and during the period of lapsed time I had remarried. I was so upset trying to figure out how I was going to tell him. My first husband was killed in a plane crash and I never got to have any closure. I had many of this exact dream (nightmare).
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I, too, have a recurring dream about my first husband.
 
We are always seeing or hearing the spirits of former pets in both my daughters old house and our new one.
Once when I was poorly and Caroline (daughter) had to call the 24Hr emergency doctor round. He said that he saw a cat in the front hallway. (We didn't have a cat then)
The ones in our new house must have belonged to someone else. As we didn't take any cats with us.
 
I do not think our dreams come from anywhere outside our own brains. But dreaming about departed loved ones (also beloved pets) is very common. My husband has been gone for 6 years now, and I still dream about him nearly every night. Very often, we're running to catch a plane or train, and he's usually a shadowy figure nearby.

Maybe that's why, in the old days, they used to call ghosts shadows or shades?
 
Goldfynche said:
We are always seeing or hearing the spirits of former pets in both my daughters old house and our new one.
Once when I was poorly and Caroline (daughter) had to call the 24Hr emergency doctor round. He said that he saw a cat in the front hallway. (We didn't have a cat then)
The ones in our new house must have belonged to someone else. As we didn't take any cats with us.
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I believe it. Our pets have spirits, too.
 
Sunny said:
I do not think our dreams come from anywhere outside our own brains. But dreaming about departed loved ones (also beloved pets) is very common. My husband has been gone for 6 years now, and I still dream about him nearly every night. Very often, we're running to catch a plane or train, and he's usually a shadowy figure nearby.

Maybe that's why, in the old days, they used to call ghosts shadows or shades?
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Interesting indeed.
 
Each year from about Thanksgiving to New Years Eve I get together with all of the dear departed souls that have been a part of my life. We hash over old times, moan about how things have changed and contemplate the future. It used to make me sad, now I look forward to it.

I'm not sure if they really come to see me. It could be the pitcher of Manhattans that I serve when we get together or maybe they enjoy listening to Peggy Lee singing softly in the background. "If that's all there is my friends, Then let's keep dancing, Let's break out the booze and have a ball, If that's all there is ..."
 
Aunt Bea said:
Each year from about Thanksgiving to New Years Eve I get together with all of the dear departed souls that have been a part of my life. We hash over old times, moan about how things have changed and contemplate the future. It used to make me sad, now I look forward to it.

I'm not sure if they really come to see me. It could be the pitcher of Manhattans that I serve when we get together or maybe they enjoy listening to Peggy Lee singing softly in the background. "If that's all there is my friends, Then let's keep dancing, Let's break out the booze and have a ball, If that's all there is ..."
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Sounds like a real good time!:love_heart:
 

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