Dreams of loved ones who have passed away are often reported near to the event of their passing, sometimes repeatedly and sometimes, even years later. Like all dreams, these ‘visitation’ dreams may have multiple meanings for the dreamer. They also present the question as to whether we can accept them literally. Today’s dreamer offers a poignant example of these emotional and typically comforting dreams.
Dear Carolyn,
I am a Christian and I believe what the Bible tells
me. I always try to be a good person
because I want to go to Heaven when I die.
I have been living with my uncle for quite a while. I have been on hard times and he was the only
family I had left! Then, a couple of
months ago, he got sick and sicker and died all of a sudden. I have been so worried about him because even
though he was raised to believe in God, he didn’t always do the right
thing. He was as good as he could be to
me, but he wasn’t very nice to different people. After crying about this so much and worrying
all the time about what happened to him after he died, I had this dream:
I am sleeping on my uncle’s couch, like always. Suddenly, he comes into the room with
me! I know that he’s dead, but there he
is as big as life! Anyway, he walked
right past me with a big smile on his face.
I sat up and watched him go toward the back of the house where he went
through the kitchen and out the back door, but instead of the back yard, it was
all sky, blue sky!
It felt so real and I woke up crying tears of
joy! It looked like my uncle is happy
and OK and that he went out the back door to Heaven! Can it really be true what I think it means?
Signed,
You are among the legions of dreamers who have had
just such dreams as yours – dreams of a deceased loved one who appears in a dream
and ‘seems so real.’ Dreamers report
that these dreams have a quality of truth different from normal, surreal
dreams. Even though the dreamer wants to
believe that the dearly departed actually did appear in the dream, it’s almost
too good to be true.
Dreams such as yours can be understood in many ways,
as can all dreams. We could talk about
your uncle as a representative part of yourself, for example. However, given your state of mind, Dear
Dreamer, and your deep concern over your uncle’s next life, it seems clear that
this dream arrived to comfort you. In
spite of his questionable choices in waking life, in your dream your uncle
lives with a smile on his face, just as you have hoped he could.
Indeed, he found a back door to Heaven!
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