My mother died half a year ago and shortly after her death our family experienced some curious events which I’ve written about. Since then my father’s home has been quiet. If mom lingered around home for a few days after her passing, it seemed she had passed beyond to her final rest. That the deceased remain for a short time after their passing is a widespread belief in many cultures and it appears there may be some truth to the idea.
However, my father recently told me an unsettling story. It was a Friday night and dad was asleep in his bed. Around midnight something stirred him. He heard voices. In his bedroom. Half asleep, half awake, he was alarmed thinking these voices were someone in his house.
In the dark of his room he listened. There were many voices but he could not make out any words. It was something like a murmur. They were not talking to him but to each other. And he recognized these voices. He heard mom’s voice. And the voice of his sister’s husband who had died a couple of years ago. He heard the voice of his long since past mother and father and deceased aunts and uncles.
I asked dad if he heard the voices of anybody living. No, he only heard the voices of the dead. As he fully awakened the voices faded away. Dad wondered about the meaning of this. It was eerie. Of course it could’ve been just a dream, but does anyone recall having a dream which was only audible and not visual?
Dad recognized these voices could have been a trick of the mind, recalling memories past. Yet, our subconscious is open to contact with other realities, maybe only in our mind or maybe not, perhaps making a connection with the realm of premonitions, revelations and contact with spirits.
I wonder what this means. I imagine my father is sensitive to this higher reality, which he seems to be. He had a few paranormal experiences in his lifetime, which is more then most people ever have. If the dead were talking, they were not in his room, for the chance of all his family being ghosts hanging around his bed is not possible. Instead, in his subconscious he may have traveled to where they were in the afterlife. He was there where they were, and not the other way around.
One thing I don’t want to consider is his dead family were calling to him, that they expect father to join them shortly. In that was the situation I’d much prefer this was simply a dream. I don’t like these omens.
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