Why do people who are dead appear in our dreams? Is it really them or a figment of our imagination?

Question

My special thanks goes out to all of you for spending time replying to my query.

I would like to share this with you---I see dead people, like the kid in the movie "The Sixth Sense." Sometimes they would pop up when I got into trouble. It wasn't scary or creepy like in the movie. Actually, it was quite the opposite. They had kind faces. They're not spooky. I see my dead relatives in dreams. Frankly, my ability to see ghost was pretty weird because they weren't family members who had died.

Answer 1

It shows that our dreams are in fact a mixture of imagination and memory.

Answer 2

Dreaming is one of the easiest ways a loved one who has passed away can come and communicate with us. We are open then and receptive to them. The dreams they come in are usually intense and sometimes filled with a happy or loved feeling(these are the result of real astral travel to see them-The place may not make sense if it's on The Other Side) Some of the dreams the loved oves are not present, but send a message from themselves.

Either way-if youfeel in your heart it was something more than the subconcious- stick with that.

Answer 3

When my father passed away I had a really hard time with it. I did have dreams where he came to see me in the dreams. I would cry when I woke up and the dream was over. I like to believe that it is actually your loved ones coming to visit with you. I think they come in dreams so as not to scare the beegeesits out of you. Could you imagine cooking dinner and a ghost come floating in to tell the you ingredient you forgot? I know I would be very wierded out. But....if in a dream my loved one came to me and told me the recipe...I would not be afraid at all. So perhaps that is why they come to us in dreams?

Answer 4

In answer to your query: Dreaming of departed loved ones is the most common way spirits communicate with those on earth. When we are in a state of sleep, our rational mind-sets are no longer in control, and cannot make judgments or criticisms as they do when we are awake. Instead they are bypassed, and the door is open to other levels of consciousness. During the sleep period your spirit body travels in the astral levels and is able to contact and communicate with your spirit family. Our brain interprets these perceptions as dreams.

Answer 5

It's hard to say, but I believe that most communication from beyond comes through in dreams. Practice watching your dreams as you fall asleep and remembering them when you wake up, if you have a loved one that has passed you may dream of them and it will be pleasant even if it is just a dream.

Answer 6

your subconciousness want to see it, therefore you see them. In chinese we have a proverb " What you think during the day, it will appear in your dreams at night"

Still, I do believe that there is a chance of an afterlife coming back to visit you but those instances are rare as compared to the brain making them up to "heal" the soul

Answer 7

We are all born with Psychic senses everyone you talk too Yes even YOU, has one or more psychic sense some people choose to enhance them others just ignore them others may just shut them down. They still use them however they don't know they are : )

Senses are

Sight: Eyes "Clairvoyance" Spiritual Body "Eye" (called the Third Eye)
Sound: Ears "Clairaudience" Spiritual Body "Ear"
Touch: Skin "Clairsentience" Spiritual Body "Skin"
Taste: Tongue/Nose "Clairlinguance" Spiritual Body "Tongue"
Smell: Nose "Clairolerance" Spiritual Body "Nose"
*Know: Brain "Claircognizance" Spiritual Body "Mind"

Clairaudience - Intuitive
This is a person who will pick up a thought and hear it. This persons mental or intellectual understanding is very important and they can make good leaders. We all know someone that we would say was a mental person, always having to understand mentally. They carefully think things through. If this person were to become enlightened they would have the ability to become a medium, someone who channels information from entities who have passed over, because their most heightened sensitivity is to hear.

Clairvoyance- Visionary
This is a person who will pick up a thought and see it. This person has the ability to transform a thought into a vision, symbol or in colour by using their mind's eye. If an artist, a decorator, a creative person, someone who mainly uses the right side of their brain were to become enlightened they would have the ability to read auras, our chakras, draw guides and this is how they would channel what they received because the ability to see images is their most heightened sensitivity.

Clairsentience - Prophetic (1)
This is a person who will pick up a thought and just knows it. This person is sensitive to precognition and has hunches, dreams and knowings and this person usually deals with the future or present and how it will affect another. If you were to meet an enlightened Prophetic you would be able to get some information about your 'line of probability', tomorrow is not set in time remember. This could be a person who has a dream about something and that dream turns out to happen in reality. They have the ability of prediction because they 'just know' and can tune into and understand their hunches.

Clairsentience - Feeler (2)
This is a person who will pick up a thought and transform it immediately into a feeling. This persons life can revolve around how it feels to them. Their sense of touch is well-developed and they have the ability to know people by feeling what they feel. After enlightenment, this is someone would have the ability to practice psychometry. The ability to put something belonging to someone in their hand and read the energy. Depending on their other gifts, they could tell the past, present or future from the energy. They have the ability to feel how others feel but only on the emotional level. They will be able to not only empathise but experience their pain, loss, grief etc. For instance, if they were to channel energy from a persons past life they would experience the pain and hurt that that soul experienced in that past lifetime.

Clairgustance - Taste
Clairgustance is being aware of tastes without putting anything physically in the mouth. To perceive the essence of a substance through taste from the spiritual or ethereal realms. The sensation of what one is tasting is often linked to a spirit on the other side.

Claircognizance - Know
The sense of knowing through our brain, even though it is not a physical sense, simply because it has a corresponding metaphysical sense known as claircognizance, or knowing without knowing how you know.

Clairolerance - Smell
The sense of Smelling different fragrances from Spirits to find that earthly connection, strong odours you can't escape and can't explain a reason for eg: Cooking odours, Perfumes, Cigars or Cigarettes, Flowers, Extra. The characteristic essence linked to a spirit on the other side.


"Using some of the senses or all of the senses you can do"
Psychometry - Touch
Psychometry is another form of psychic divination using the sense of touch to get mental impression linked to it. Psychometric impressions may come in the form of emotions, sounds, scents, tastes or images. The visions can appear is single flat images, much like a photo, or as animations. As we exist in an electromagnetic energy reality, metal objects often work best.

Aura Reader - See
Aura readings look at your spiritual energy system as represented in the seven layers of your aura. Along with colours, a reader may see memory pictures, symbolic images, spiritual beings and usually energies belonging to others--like friends and family members. Readings can help you identify and release blocks. Aura readings also help you get in touch with your own energy, so you can know your own truth and make the highest choices for yourself.

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 8

Our imagination can create our own little world of which some people believe it's real :-)

Answer 9

"To see and talk with your dead parents in your dreams, represents your fears of losing them or your way of coping with the loss. You may want that last opportunity to say your final good-byes to them.

To see your dead sibling, relative, or friend in your dream, indicates that you miss them and are trying to relive your old experiences you had with them. In trying to keep up with the pace of your daily waking life, you dreams may serve as your only outlet in coping and coming to terms with the loss of a loved one."
-dreammoods.com

I don't entirely agree with that though.. I like to think that when I dream of my father who passed away recently, it's his spirit visiting me. I never had a chance to say goodbye, (my stupid fault) and I like knowing that I can still see him, even if its just in a dream..

Answer 10

i definitely believe that our loved ones visit us in our dreams however i believe in lots of things... ghosts..... spirits.... the whole nine yards.... so yeah i think it is their way of coming back to us just to say hello and to let us know they are still around....without scaring the hell out of us... can you imagine seeing your loved one just around the corner of your bedroom... OK scary!!!!!