It looked like a ghost... but the person is alive?

Question

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: My husband and I have had full custody of his now 18 year old son for 5 years now because his mother moved and left him behind. Long story short, his Mom has tried to regain custody a couple of times over the last 3 years but has failed. I know this causes her grief... as it would anyone...
ABOUT THE DREAM: I was having a very heated arguement with my step-son (of whom I love as if he were my own). I startled awake from the dream (AND HERE'S WHERE IT GETS WEIRD). When I awoke a GHOST LIKE figure that looked like a MUCH younger version of his mother (my husband's ex-wife) was standing next to my side of the bed with her hands at her sides, and just looking down at me. I have only known this woman for the past 6 years... so I wouldn't invision her in my mind as such a young person... I was frozen long enough to take in everything she was wearing and the style of her hair before I rolled over turning my back to her... I WAS AWAKE...what was this??

if it matters at all... I live in the house she use to own with my husband and I saw EVERYTHING in color as if it were day-light. the room was blue. when I told my husband the details he recalled that his ex-wife had painted the room blue when THEY first bought the house 16 years ago (LONG BEFORE my time here)...

Answer 1

A doppelgänger is the ghostly double of a living person, a sinister form of bilocation.
In the vernacular, "Doppelgänger" has come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person—most commonly an "evil twin".
The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection.
They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death. In Norse mythology, a vardøgr is a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen performing their actions in advance.

The doppelgängers of folklore cast no shadow, and have no reflection in a mirror or in water. They are supposed to provide advice to the person they shadow, but this advice can be misleading or malicious. They can also, in rare instances, plant ideas in their victim's mind or appear before friends and relatives, causing confusion. In many cases once someone has viewed his own doppelgänger he is doomed to be haunted by images of his ghostly counterpart.
Other folklore says that when a person's doppelgänger is seen, the person him/herself will die shortly. It is considered unwise to try to communicate with a doppelgänger. It is not confirmed that seeing ones doppelganger is a sign of certain death. That is a myth, yet to be determined.

Famous recorded sightings

•Emilie Sagée was a 19th-century schoolteacher whose doppelgänger's public appearances were recorded by Robert Dale Owen after having been reported to him by Julie von Güldenstubbe[1]. (The story is described in more detail below.)
•Guy de Maupassant recorded his own doppelgänger experiences in his story, Lui (The light continent).
•It is sometimes claimed that Percy Bysshe Shelley, English atheist and poet, met his doppelgänger, an event presaging his own death. Shelley, however, met this "doppelgänger" in a dream[2], not in real life.
•John Donne, the English metaphysical poet, is also said to have met his wife's doppelgänger in 1612 while staying at Amiens, on the same night as the stillbirth of his daughter. Again, this may a garbled account of a dream.[citations needed]
•Abraham Lincoln told his wife that, soon after he was elected president, he saw two faces of himself in a mirror, one deathly pale. His wife believed this to mean that he would be elected to a second term but would not survive it (Sandburg, 195).
Rosalyn Greene claims that the doppelgänger phenomenon, via bilocation, is responsible for reports of werewolves and other shapeshifters

Answer 2

From what I understand there are different hauntings.

1. where the ghosts don't realize the living and go about their affairs.

2. Where the ghosts do see/hear the living and try to interact

3. The "ghosts" are recordings. Energy that gets replayed at odd moments. No actual hauntings, just a big VCR.

It could have easily have been #3. which would explain the blue room.

Answer 3

It would be known as a doppelganger, German for "double person." The mythology behind this paranormal event is that a doppelganger shows up when there is a serious event about to happen or when that person is close to dying.

Answer 4

a very real dream- I think no matter how sleepy I was-if I woke up with a ghost looking at me-I wouldnt turn my back on it. I looked at some of your other questions- your pregnant-that will give you very trippy dreams as for knowing the room was blue maybe you saw a picture or he mentioned it.

Answer 5

Sounds to me like it could have been an occurance of either spontaneous bi-location, or uncontrolled astral projection.

Answer 6

now that's scary!! I think you've been stressed out lately about alot about these things so that maybe causing you to imagine related objects about it. idkkk this one is a toughy

Answer 7

wow!! very weird dream but it happens. did you have any idea where's d mom of your step-son maybe something wrong with her & thats her soul!!

Answer 8

It was a deffinate Doppelganger!