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.
January 20th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
I had a very similar experience this morning,that is why I stumbled across your site. I’m trying to understand this event and what it might mean. My Dad passed 13 yrs ago. I’ve learned so much more about the remarkable,kind,loving man my father was in life. Some I knew and some I did not. He has been on my mind alot recently as I always went to him for serious, sound advice and he always gave me that. I know I have alot of questions to ask him. Has anyone else experienced this type of presence? I have always been very open minded and like my Nana, I have always had a sixth sense about things in life long before they occur. I’ve never learned to channel this gift. Do you think my Dad will come for another visit soon?
Thanks for any guidance you have to offer………
January 20th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Hi Cindy,
Many people have this experience, but they rarely talk about it. It seems sometimes the deceased appear in our dreams during a time of crisis or when we need guidance. What is interesting is the dead will appear as their idealized form. They won’t appear as sickly or decrepit, as they might have appeared before death. This coincides with people who had the near-death experience, where they saw themself as being young and healthy outside their body.
My guess is the deceased initiate contact. It’s up to our departed loves ones to enter our dreams, and not up to us. Of course we can always shut off any possible contact, if we have a closed mind.
Dave
February 28th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
just two nights ago i had a dream, but it was just my father’s voice no visual. i can’t seem to talk about it but was very scared when i heard his voice and immediately woke up in fear as though he was coming into my bedroom. It was a familiar saying he used to say when trying to wake me up as a kid. All he said was “come on get up we have to go” but I don’t understand. He passed on almost three years ago and i never so so scared in my life and never feared him like that when he was alive.
February 28th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Hi R,
Maybe it was not your father speaking to you, but a spirit that imitated your father. If we are visited by our deceased loved ones, it should feel good and be a positive experience. But if we are faced with terror, then it likely is a trickster spirit. Not every spirit is what we assume it is or is friendly.
Dave