Post by Alan Vende on Mar 4, 2015 19:54:08 GMT -5
Why do our deceased loved ones visit us in dreams?
During our sleep we enter an altered state of consciousness and we are much more relaxed and open to contact from the spirit world and not only that but visiting us during a dream or on the astral planes gives the biggest impact.
Our deceased loved ones and pets are able to give us messages and show us that they are okay and fine with a visual image. Our deceased loved ones or pets will visit us to help us see that they are still in fact very much alive and well and that they are okay now which they can show us with a visual image and they will try to use this opportunity to ease our grief and worries about how they are, where they are, if they made the transition to the other side okay and for some who have doubts about the afterlife, to show them that it does exist and that they are there right now. They may visit during times of stress in our lives, if we are grieving or if they have an urgent message to give us. They will also visit us to just simply hang out with us and do regular things such as chilling out, going for walks, chatting at a pub or other favourite locations or going to parties and many more pastimes. Our spirit guides and loved ones from the spirit world communicate with our higher self during our sleep and during the day too. The higher self is the real you, your spirit self. It holds all of the knowledge that you have learnt from the moment you was created and all of the knowledge you have gained from your past lives and of the spirit world is locked within this higher self. Your higher self is coexisting within you, your lower self which is the you that you are consciously aware of right now and your higher self is running parallel at the exact same time with your lower self so you have two levels of consciousness working simultaneously together but for many one of these levels of consciousness, the higher self is not so noticeable during waking hours but believe me it is certainly there. During our sleep we are able to communicate with our spirit guides and loved ones but once awake we may not remember these conversations or what we have done with them. There is so much that we do during our sleep that we are unaware of. Not only are we communicating and meeting up with our spirit guides and deceased loved ones but we also go on little adventures too. We are interacting with the spirit world during our sleep and we are completely oblivious to this once awake. We very rarely have any recollections of our other life during sleep but some people may remember snippets of conversations or the odd dream every now and again but a lot of it just gets dismissed as nothing including genuine dream visitations. Our loved ones including our spirit guides will either visit us during a dream or meet up with us on the astral planes. If they choose to visit us with the intention of us remembering that visit then we should recall something on waking in the form of a dream. Often we meet up with our loved ones and spirit guides on the astral planes and we will enjoy each other’s company like we did when they were here but we won’t always remember what we have done because what we remember may affect our life plan that we had chosen before coming to Earth. A lot of these meetings are pre-arranged with the loved one or guides through our higher self but we won’t always recall this consciously. To meet on the astral planes we will have to have an out of body experience (OBE). Astral projecting is the same thing as an out of body experience and we astral project most nights. Flying dreams are a sign of astral projection but if you don’t recall having any flying dreams it does not mean you are not astral projecting.
Afterlife visitation dreams are very different to ordinary dreams and often the dreamer will notice this either during the dream itself or on waking up. These types of dreams can be very real like and the dreamer is usually lucid with more awareness than they normally would have in a dream. Often the dreamer becomes lucid on seeing their loved one, spirit guide or pet and their awareness will suddenly heighten at that point. Lucidity and awareness can vary from dream to dream and in some you may have more awareness and be more lucid than in others but you should still notice that the dream is different to other normal dreams even with mild awareness and lucidity. Often the dream scene will be very real like and coherent and not like the common dreams where you will have a mish mash of subconscious stemmed nonsense and illogical dream scenes that are easily forgotten once awake, however even these dreams should be took note of because the communication heard in these types of dreams may still be afterlife connected and may include genuine conversations that you are having on the astral planes during your sleep with loved ones. During a dream visitation the dreamers touch sense may be very heightened and sensitive too than normal and you may be able to feel the actual touch of a loved one or pet that will feel just as real as in waking life. Touching their skin, clothes or an object in a dream visitation can feel incredibly real and you may even feel amazed by this during the dream when it happens. Your eyesight may also be much clearer and you may even be able to zoom in on an object or a person during the dream. Communication during dream visitations is often done through telepathy either with actual words or through thoughts and feelings. Sometimes dream visitations can be so real like when the dreamer does wakes up they may even be surprised because they may have felt they were already awake during the dream and would realize on waking that they were in fact asleep. Visitation dreams also do not typically last very long either certainly if the dreamer’s awareness is very high because with their high awareness their emotional levels are also very high more than normal for a dream and once the dreamer sees their loved one in the dream they may experience strong emotions such as elation, happiness, sadness or confusion and these strong emotions can actually end a dream visitation quite quickly. Dream visitations can last anything from 1-5 minutes but they tend to be more at the lower end of the time scale at an average of 1-3 minutes. Some people may have experienced the odd visitation dreams that has lasted longer than 5 minutes but for the majority of people they will last between 1-5 minutes.
How to get dream visitations from a loved one
To get a dream visitation from a deceased loved one, spirit guide or pet just simply ask them and if they can they will visit you in your dream as soon as they are able to. They will try their very best to visit you as soon as they can but you may have to be patient. If you feel uncomfortable asking your loved one out loud or in your mind to visit you then you can write them a letter asking them to visit you in a dream. I know that writing a letter works because it has worked for me three times now and I got a dream visitation within two weeks of writing the letters.
Sometimes a deceased loved one can’t visit us in our dreams; this is not because they don’t want to visit us but usually because there is some other reason preventing them from visiting us in our dreams. Some of these reasons could be because they are unable to get in to our dreams, some deceased loved ones find some relatives easier to contact through dreams than others but this does not mean they won’t stop trying. Another reason why you may have not had a dream visitation yet is because your loved one is undergoing healing after their passing and some spirits fall into a very deep healing sleep after they have crossed over which could last in our time for days, weeks, months and even years and during this deep healing sleep they are unable to contact us through our dreams. Another reason which I have personally encountered on many occasions is because for whatever reason some spirits are just not allowed to visit their loved ones in their dreams which will allow them to be consciously aware of the visit and where they will be able to recall that visit on waking so some may assume that because they have not recalled a visit from their deceased loved one then that deceased loved one hasn't visited them when the reality is we see our deceased loved ones regularly during our sleep on the astral planes but often we are not allowed to recall these visits on waking. However this won’t stop some deceased relatives or friends trying to sneak a visit in that will enable their loved one to remember the dream once awake. In one of my dream visitations my loved one had told me right at the beginning of the dream to be quiet, he had put his fingers on his mouth and said shhh and I was able to pick up his thoughts telepathically that he was not supposed to be visiting me and I was not to make any noise at all in case my spirit guides became aware of the visit and thus stop the visit.
On another occasion in a dream he came to visit me and I had asked him if he was allowed to visit me and he told me that he had got permission from his spirit guide so it seems that permission may be needed sometimes from a mentor or spirit guide for the deceased loved one to visit some relatives or friends on earth. This is not to be took the wrong way though when they are not allowed to visit us, there will be a very good reason for this and it is no reflection on us and although it may seem unfair, as I had said there will be a very good reason for this that are just unable understand and comprehend here on earth right now but remember that although it may seem like you are not in contact with your deceased loved ones you actually are meeting up with them during your sleep often, it is just unfortunate that we are not always allowed to remember these meetings.
Below is a list of signs of an afterlife dream visit from deceased loved ones, including our spirit guides, pets and angels. You don’t have to have every single sign in the list but some signs that class the dream as a genuine visitation dream are important such as the dreamer having higher awareness than normal during a dream, the dreamer is lucid, the dreamer is aware that their loved one has passed away and that the dream felt real and that it actually happened. Once awake the dream will have had a big emotional impact on the dreamer and the dreamer is able to recall the details of the dream very clearly and will also note that the dream just felt different to their ordinary dreams. However, if you had a dream of a deceased loved one and you felt in your heart that they really did visit you regardless of what signs you had or didn't have than the chances are it was a visitation dream. Your intuition will be your best guide in telling you if the dream was a genuine dream visitation or not and you will just feel it was in your heart.
Signs and characteristics of a dream visitation
1) The dream may be vivid and the colours may be brighter but this is not always the case
2) Your awareness will be unusually high for a dream and you will be lucid to some degree. Often the dreamer will become lucid on seeing their loved one or pet. Higher awareness than normal and lucidity is one of the main signs of a real dream visit
3) You will may be able to think rationally and logically. You may be able to control your actions and thoughts
4) During the dream you may notice it feels different to other dreams. you may even think to yourself you are not dreaming
5) You know your loved one or pet has died and you may even tell them this or you will just know they are no longer with you on the earth plane
6) The dream is often coherent and logical and usually follows a logical sequence. There may be some skipping’s of scenes but the dream should remain logical to some degree
7) You are flying
8) You become aware of your feelings and of your loved ones feelings too
9) You feel real and your loved one, spirit guide or pet seems real to you
10) The dream in general feels very real too you and feels as if it actually happened and took place
11) Your touch sensation may be heightened and it may feel like you are actually touching them or an object
12) You feel like you are having an actual conversation with your loved one or pet-pets can communicate telepathically during dreams too
13) They will give you a message or just tell you that they are okay and fine and sometimes they will just hang out with you
14) The loved one or pet may appear younger. Sometimes they may appear at the age they were when they passed but at some point during the dream they may then show themselves as being younger. They will choose an age/appearance that they know you will recognize. Often they will appear at an age of around 20-30 years old but this will not be the case for everyone
15) They will show themselves as being healthy and free of any ailments or disabilities they had. Sometimes they may show themselves as having ailments or disabilities that they had at the start of the dream but then at some point during the dream they will then show themselves as being healthy. This is their way of showing you they are no longer sick or with disabilities
16) Your loved one or pet will communicate with you telepathically, not only with words but also with thoughts, feelings and even images too in some cases
17) You may wake up straight away rather than go into a new dream. Something may wake you up such as a ringing telephone, doorbell or someone calling your name. This is done on purpose and often manipulated by the loved one because you are most likely to remember the dream and its details much better if you wake up straight away
18) Once awake you will think to yourself that the dream was no ordinary dream
19) You may even be surprised when you do wake up because you may have felt you was already awake during the dream. This is how real like these types of dreams can be
20) You may feel yourself leaving or entering your body (OBE)
21) Your heart may be racing when you wake up
22) You just know in your heart that the dream was real and actually happened despite doubts beginning to creep in. It is a normal reaction to question and analyse these dreams when you wake up but something in your heart will keep telling you it was real
23) You remember the dream and its details clearly on waking and for months and even years later
24) During the dream you may be able to recall your waking life and even discuss situations or events that have occurred in your waking life with your loved one or spirit guide
25) Knocking sounds like someone is knocking on your door, hearing a doorbell chime or a ringing telephone in your dreams or during the state of consciousness where you are half asleep and half-awake can be a deceased loved one or spirit guide attempting to get your attention for communication. The communication is mostly likely to take place with your higher self rather than your lower self but on occasions spirit beings deliberately make sure that the lower self is able to hear the communication because it is of some importance that is useful for that person to hear whereas on other occasions a person is just lucky enough to be able to hear the communication take place once their attention has been gained. This is also a common phenomena hearing knocking sounds, doorbell chimes and ringing telephones during dreams and in the half asleep and awake state.
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