The dead come to our dreams with a message, advice or warning that should be understood in order to avoid unnecessary troubles and keep ourselves from making mistakes, according to mystics.
Psychologists believe that dreams about relatives or friends who have passed away are just a manifestation of depression or feelings of guilt towards them.
However, let’s take a closer look at the mystical point of view and try to understand what messages can be carried by people who are now alive only in our memories and can talk to us only through our dreams.
Modern dream books often do not pay enough attention to many important nuances: what the dead people look like in our dreams – dead in the grave, alive and happy, or they come to life right before our eyes, or maybe we just do not remember in our dream that this person passed away long ago.
It is commonly assumed that the dream of a dead person (talking to him, listening to his advice, and doing what he tells) is a sign of unexpected news or changes in life. Christian dream interpretation books sometimes explain that we have such kind of dreams when the soul of our deceased relative or friend has not found peace yet, and advise to hold additional ceremonies at the funeral and repose of the deceased (for example, if in the dream the deceased asks for water).
Pagan interpretations of dreams that have come down to us recommend to implicitly obey everything that the dead person asks for, in order to avoid the anger of the gods. And while dreaming dead people may be scary, sometimes it can be a good omen.
In case if in your dream a dead person comes back to life, it may mean that something lost will soon return (money, a thing, or even social status).
An English dream book interprets the dream of dead people as a sign of good events in the family, such as a wedding or the birth of a child or anything happy and prosperous. Another dream book says that seeing a dead relative in a dream before the wedding is a warning against the union. This dream indicates the unhappy marriage and warns that the children born in it will be sick and weak.
At this point, there is no definitive interpretation, and you should always take into account many confounding factors. But most interpretations concerning dead relatives (especially parents) appearing in a dream indicate a warning of trouble.
Sometimes the dreams in which a sleeping person communicates with their deceased parents, help find inner peace, confidence, and even affect the success in business and the well-being of the family.
It is also believed that it is impossible to influence the dreams in which we see our dead loved ones. Mystics claim that even if you manage to do it, it is absolutely useless, since it is not us who call them in, it is them who decide to come to us.
For further information, check my recent article about the dreams of the deceased.
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I have been having what people say is a "visitation dream". In my dream my husband (who died 4 years ago) is alive. I have such a happy feeling in the dream but when I wake up and realize it was only a dream I'm suddenly sad. It's like I just lost him again. These dreams upset me because I want to go back to sleep where he was alive. The dreams are very vivid and the feelings I have after the dream is that I wish I hadn't had the dream and I can't get them off of my mind. I have been told that I should be happy that my husband visited me in my dream but I don't. I spend the day thinking about the dream and crying.
My grandpa passed away in March, I was very close with him my whole life. But, since he's passed I've had 2 super vivid dreams of him being so alive and happy. The first one I went to visit him, and we just talked for what felt like ever and the 2nd one we, as a family, went to a restaurant, and he was there, very much a live, and very happy to see me. He just kept hugging me and telling me how much he loved me. It was so hard waking up, because I didn't even realize at first that it was a dream. It's a very bitter-sweet thing.
My mom had a dream of 4 of her ralatives all in the same dream. They are all deceased but where alive in the dream and together. It was her Mom & Dad..a close aunt and her husband.They where all in the same house in which my Moms parents lived in.
I've only dreamt of 3 dead people before. My aunt, my great grandmother, and a boyfriend. My aunt supposedly committed suicide but all of the family suspects murder. In the dream I saw her and she was frantically trying to tell me something but I could not hear her voice, as if she was on mute. I proceeded to tell her that she was dead and I didn't understand how I was talking to her. When I told her she was dead, she stopped talking and paused for a moment. Then she smiled as if it was ok and disappeared. In the dream about my great grandmother she was happy and there was a strange kind of sunshine, and I did hear her voice, but only a few words, and they were "It's beautiful here." The dream(s) about my boyfriend were much more complicated. He had been in the army and committed suicide after he was out. In one dream I was running from something unseen and I attempted to jump over a cliff and was barely hanging on, about to fall, and a man camoflauged in a guillie suit grabbed my hand and pulled me up. I asked who my rescuer was and he took off his mask, revealing my dead boyfriend. He never talked, almost as if he knew I couldn't hear him (like in the other dreams I could not heat their voices). In a separate dream we were on a boat and for once in a dream about him the sun was shining through the boat windows. He had his back to me. He was dressed in a suit. As I entered the room he turned to face me and his eyes lit up just like they used to. He took my hands in his and it occurred to me that I was wearing a wedding dress. We were apparently getting married. As he held my hands he looked me in the eyes smiling and I heard his voice for the first time in my dreams. He said "It's ok." That was the last dream I had about him, and the last words I ever heard from him. As short as they were, it was comforting. That was my experiences summarized. There were more dreams but those were mostly bits and pieces and hard to explain. I hope that maybe my posting on here somehow helps someone else that finds this page.
hey ya hi i just wanna know one thing that i had got a dream that my uncle who had passed away a year ago had came to my dream and he was trying to hit me and wanna kill me what does this meant by ?????
I would say he is very angry at you for something you have done or are doing, most likely to or with another family member.
My dad passed away 10 years ago...a very slow and painful death and I've never really recovered. He was my dad and my best friend and I miss him every day.
I often dream that he actually didn't die; he went into hiding so he could live with his other family. I run into him and am so happy he's alive, but he wants nothing to do with me.
I wake up from these dreams feeling just awful...they can ruin my whole day. Does anyone here have any thoughts on what the heck this means? I do have occasional dreams about him where he's just there and I'm comforted, but these 'he's not dead' ones are driving me insane.
Did he actually have another family? Either way it sounds like you may feel ,even irrationally, betrayed by him. Maybe angry at him for "abandoning" you. You say you haven't really recovered so this is probably just some emotions you haven't dealt with coming up in your dreams. Maybe counseling or a grief group could help. Just my unprofessional opinion. Hope it helps
go to his graveyard to visit him take some flowers and live some change money above his grave you will be find afterward!