Visitors from Beyond: Or Lucid Dreams?

What Do You Think?

Put briefly, a lucid dream is a dream where you are aware that you are dreaming. This can range from simply realizing that what is happening is not physically possible in the real world; therefore, your mind accepts the fact that you are indeed dreaming and the events transpiring around
 you are not real events. Lucid dreams can, and do, take many forms. It is this basic low level lucid dream where you are aware that the events are part of a dream, but you exert no control over the course of the dream, that I wish to concentrate on.

My mother passed away when my first born was nine months old. It came as a great blow to me. I loved my mother dearly and wasn't quite ready to let her go. I am told that a day or two prior to her passing she ventured outside to view the wondrous sights of nature near her home. When she returned, she exclaimed of the beauty God had bestowed on us in the natural world and added that where she was going was even more beautiful. Within days, she had passed.

Which leads me to the episode of lucid dreaming I wish to share with you. Several months later, when her birthday arrived, I found myself in the midst of a dream that has lingered for 20 years.

I was in my dining room when suddenly my mother appeared. Instantly, I realized that she could not be there, as she had passed on; yet I was so eager to see her that I joyously began a conversation with her. We talked for what appeared to be several minutes.

What we talked about escapes me. It is what happened next that has etched itself into every fiber of my being.

I knew she couldn't stay for long, I believe she told me that, but perhaps it was merely knowing that she had passed that told me this. I really don't know. I began to tell her about my son and realized she had not seen him for several months. I asked her to wait while I ran to get him out of his crib, so she could see him before she left. I ran down the hall and plucked him out of his crib only to return to an empty room. On the table was note written in my mother's handwriting.

What is said has haunted me through time. "Life is so unpredictable that even death doesn't play by the rules."


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YOUR DREAM IS SIMILAR TO MINE. 20 YEARS AGO I HAD A DREAM SO REAL IT WAS LIKE I WAS REALLY THERE , AND IN COLOR. HONESTLY LIKE I WAS AWAKE. I WAS STANDING IN THE DININGROOM AND THE MY UNCLE WHO HAD PASSED AWAY WHEN I WAS ABOUT 9 OR TEN YEARS YEARS OLD CAME INSIDE MY FRONT DOOR AND I ASK HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING HERE. HE SAID I COULD ASK HIM ONLY 3 QUESTIONS. I ASKED WHY HE HAD COME , AND HE SAID THEY WERE DEBAITING WHEATHER I WAS GOING TO LIVE OR DIE. I THEN ASKED HIM WHAT HE DID NOW. HE SAID HE WAS KIND OF LIKE A LAWYER, WHO WAS DEBAITING WITH THEM. I THEN ASKED WHEN WOULD I KNOW WHAT THEY DECIDED ABOUT MY LIVING OR DIEING. HE SAID ONE YEAR FROM NOW I WOULD KNOW. I ASKED HIM IF I WOULD LIKE IT IF I DIED ,HE SAID I HAD ASKED MY 3 QUESTIONS ALREADY AND THEN HE WAS GONE, IT WAS THE MOST REAL THING I HAD EVER EXPERIANCED. I WOKE UP AND JUST COULDENT STOP CRYING, I TOLD MY HUSBAND ABOUT THE DREAM AND THEN PUT IT OUT OF MY MIND. ONE YEAR EXACTLY TO THE MONTH THAT I HAD THAT DREAM I CO

Posted on 01/24/2009 at 6:01:44 PM

Mommy2Lots... weirdo? Never. Someone will always think we are weird for one reason or another.

Posted on 07/29/2007 at 9:07:00 AM

GReat story. I'm not sure which one it is. I can see it from both angles. Interestingly enough, I'm with Deborah, in that I have also had dreams that happen before. But, I'm no psychic because at the time of the dream, I have no clue that it's a dream that's going to happen. LOL Oh no, now people are going to think I'm a weirdo. LOL :-)

Posted on 07/26/2007 at 4:07:00 PM

Some of my adventures have involved temporal shifts wherein I experienced hours' worth of events, only to be returned to within minutes of when they began. I know they weren't dreams because I had physical proof of the events (sore muscles, bruises, scratches, and in one case a large part of my tongue was nearly severed). Many people have experienced dreams that were more than dreams, but they are afraid to be labelled as mentally incompetent if they report them.

Posted on 07/20/2007 at 12:07:00 AM

I've had lucid dreams before. I had two in particular that involved those who passed on. One involved my mother and the other my husband. It was very intriguing though to know that I was dreaming but I can honestly say that those dreams seemed more real than what we call reality.

Posted on 07/19/2007 at 8:07:00 AM

Very interesting. I find that I sometimes have dreams that are premonitions. If I actually remember a dream long enough to retell it, I think it's important enough to note. Those dejavu moments I have had later in life have actually been from dreams...!

Posted on 07/19/2007 at 7:07:00 AM

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