Good morning Bob and happy holidays to you and yours! Thank you so much for your cool article about dream visitation.
I am in the "dud" category for this...as I don't get dream visitations from my loved ones in spirit, however, I do get absolute confirmation of their presence and jokester nature.
Last year, I visited my gifted medium friend who asked me if "I got the joke" as soon as I walked in the door. I said, "what joke?" She said the one "where your brother pulled your hair...." I thought for a second and then started immediately laughing hysterically because I just remembered the night before I was lying in bed reading and all the sudden I felt my hair move and I thought there was a freaking monster bug that was crawling around in my hair and I totally freaked out, jumped up, screaming and using both my hands to try to throw out what I thought to be mammoth bug hoping that it wouldn't get stuck in my hair!
"Nope, that was just your brother...and he's laughing hysterically right now!"
I said "you little stinker!!!" You just wait until I'm in spirit...have I got plans for you!!!
It was a funny exchange....and now I am VERY aware of what is happening in case any imaginary mammoth bugs try to get stuck in my hair again!
Happiest and safest of holidays to you, Melissa, your family and to all of your dear readers!
Hi Leasa, thank you for this great example of alternative ways our loved ones in spirit say hello. I can confirm that most people coming through in readings have a great sense of humor, and your brother seems like he loves the tease. Thank goodness it wasn't a mammoth bug! I appreciate the story. Happy holidays from Melissa and me.
I recently wrote a comment about the passing of my son, Ben, to suicide in 2002. The prior year, he had spiraled into a menacing mental illness that included hearing voices and having violent thoughts. It was traumatic for me, as his mother, because he had always been a gentle, funny soul with loads of friends. With that said, I had my first dream visit from Ben about 6 weeks after he passed. I remember it vividly. He told me he was alright. In the dream state, I panicked “It didn’t happen!” I cried - there was still time to “save” him. Ben was radiantly healthy in this visit, sitting cross-legged (which he wasn’t limber enough to do when here in the flesh). His eyes were loving and gentle as he said, “Mom, it DID happen...but I need you to know that I’m okay!!” It was short and sweet. It also helped me think of him, in the afterlife, as whole and healthy - not the shattered, struggling and ill teen OR how I’d found him. In another dream, months later, he responded to my sorrowful question of whether I was a good mother? He appeared long enough to hug me and say, “Mom, you were the air in my tires!” - which was hilarious and typical Ben humor. I woke up laughing with my arms circled in the air, forming a hug. Ben has helped me along in my spiritual growth. I have grown in ways I doubt would have happened otherwise. Thank you for your articles.
Mary Lynn, this is a wonderful example of a true dream visitation. Brief and to the point, yet the visual is as meaningful and comforting as the words spoken. And you go the hug. Considering the struggles Ben had while alive, this is quite a blessing to see he's at peace and now whole and healthy. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Hi Kathleen, I'm so sorry to hear about your loneliness. I know there's nothing I can say to take your loneliness away, but I do want to reassure you that our loved ones only know love after they cross over to the spiritual dimension. They are not who they were when alive. As spiritual beings, they recognize their shortcomings as human beings. This means that while they may not have been able to show you love while they were here, they certainly love you now from the spirit world. In fact, they are incapable of feeling anything but love for you. For this reason, for whatever it is worth, I'm sure they are a sending you love and trying to lift your feelings of loneliness upward. Ask for a sign that this is true and then keep your awareness alert for the signs. I sincerely hope that you feel better soon.
I've never had a dream visitation that I can recall even though I set my intention to recall such a visitation if it happens. I don't typically recall my dreams so think my departed loved ones know to visit me in other ways and they do (leaving objects in my path, sending birds and dragonflies and hummingbirds my way, playing songs that remind me of them exactly when I am thinking about them, turning on and off battery-operated flickering candles, etc.). Sometimes, my mom visits me when I meditate. So thankful that consciousness survives death and we can communicate with our departed loved ones!!!
We could start a group for people who don't remember their dreams ;-) These are great examples of other ways our loved ones in spirit say hello and remind us that they're around. Thank you, Karen. I'm glad you're so aware of them, as are your deceased loved ones, I'm sure.
Good morning Bob and happy holidays to you and yours! Thank you so much for your cool article about dream visitation.
I am in the "dud" category for this...as I don't get dream visitations from my loved ones in spirit, however, I do get absolute confirmation of their presence and jokester nature.
Last year, I visited my gifted medium friend who asked me if "I got the joke" as soon as I walked in the door. I said, "what joke?" She said the one "where your brother pulled your hair...." I thought for a second and then started immediately laughing hysterically because I just remembered the night before I was lying in bed reading and all the sudden I felt my hair move and I thought there was a freaking monster bug that was crawling around in my hair and I totally freaked out, jumped up, screaming and using both my hands to try to throw out what I thought to be mammoth bug hoping that it wouldn't get stuck in my hair!
"Nope, that was just your brother...and he's laughing hysterically right now!"
I said "you little stinker!!!" You just wait until I'm in spirit...have I got plans for you!!!
It was a funny exchange....and now I am VERY aware of what is happening in case any imaginary mammoth bugs try to get stuck in my hair again!
Happiest and safest of holidays to you, Melissa, your family and to all of your dear readers!
In deep gratitude,
Leasa
Hi Leasa, thank you for this great example of alternative ways our loved ones in spirit say hello. I can confirm that most people coming through in readings have a great sense of humor, and your brother seems like he loves the tease. Thank goodness it wasn't a mammoth bug! I appreciate the story. Happy holidays from Melissa and me.
I recently wrote a comment about the passing of my son, Ben, to suicide in 2002. The prior year, he had spiraled into a menacing mental illness that included hearing voices and having violent thoughts. It was traumatic for me, as his mother, because he had always been a gentle, funny soul with loads of friends. With that said, I had my first dream visit from Ben about 6 weeks after he passed. I remember it vividly. He told me he was alright. In the dream state, I panicked “It didn’t happen!” I cried - there was still time to “save” him. Ben was radiantly healthy in this visit, sitting cross-legged (which he wasn’t limber enough to do when here in the flesh). His eyes were loving and gentle as he said, “Mom, it DID happen...but I need you to know that I’m okay!!” It was short and sweet. It also helped me think of him, in the afterlife, as whole and healthy - not the shattered, struggling and ill teen OR how I’d found him. In another dream, months later, he responded to my sorrowful question of whether I was a good mother? He appeared long enough to hug me and say, “Mom, you were the air in my tires!” - which was hilarious and typical Ben humor. I woke up laughing with my arms circled in the air, forming a hug. Ben has helped me along in my spiritual growth. I have grown in ways I doubt would have happened otherwise. Thank you for your articles.
Mary Lynn, this is a wonderful example of a true dream visitation. Brief and to the point, yet the visual is as meaningful and comforting as the words spoken. And you go the hug. Considering the struggles Ben had while alive, this is quite a blessing to see he's at peace and now whole and healthy. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I'm just so lonely. They didn't love me when they were here.
Hi Kathleen, I'm so sorry to hear about your loneliness. I know there's nothing I can say to take your loneliness away, but I do want to reassure you that our loved ones only know love after they cross over to the spiritual dimension. They are not who they were when alive. As spiritual beings, they recognize their shortcomings as human beings. This means that while they may not have been able to show you love while they were here, they certainly love you now from the spirit world. In fact, they are incapable of feeling anything but love for you. For this reason, for whatever it is worth, I'm sure they are a sending you love and trying to lift your feelings of loneliness upward. Ask for a sign that this is true and then keep your awareness alert for the signs. I sincerely hope that you feel better soon.
I've never had a dream visitation that I can recall even though I set my intention to recall such a visitation if it happens. I don't typically recall my dreams so think my departed loved ones know to visit me in other ways and they do (leaving objects in my path, sending birds and dragonflies and hummingbirds my way, playing songs that remind me of them exactly when I am thinking about them, turning on and off battery-operated flickering candles, etc.). Sometimes, my mom visits me when I meditate. So thankful that consciousness survives death and we can communicate with our departed loved ones!!!
We could start a group for people who don't remember their dreams ;-) These are great examples of other ways our loved ones in spirit say hello and remind us that they're around. Thank you, Karen. I'm glad you're so aware of them, as are your deceased loved ones, I'm sure.