That My Deceased Father Sent Me a Message

Of course it was your dad. We live in such a rationalist (egocentric) world that we feel we must not consider that these sorts of experiences are somehow ‘real’.
My mum (also Irish!) used to say ‘the spirits want you to be happy.’ And I suspect it’s no coincidence your dad popped in when you were all having a nice time.
Or he just didn’t want to be left out!

I would agree with this.

I went with my mother to collect my grandmother’s ashes and, as we were leaving, the song we’d had played at the funeral came on the radio. I know logically my grandmother isn’t communicating with me via the radio, but it was a nice thought to think there could have been more to it than coincidence.

1 million % it was a message from your dad. He knew you needed him and he came to say hello.

That's if you command it, like AI or chat gpt. It doesn't just randomly start play obscure Irish songs out of nowhere that no one knows anymore.

Erm Spotify does work with voice all linked to Google or other platforms it will pick a song.

When we got home from our first scan of our first baby my other half had a bit of a teary moment and said he wished his mum was here. We made some food and then he decided to fix something on his PC, I can’t remember what it was exactly, but something was affecting his work files or something.

An hour or so goes by and he shouts to me to come and take a look at something that he found on his PC. It was an old file that his dad had once uploaded on there that had several clips of video footage of my other half’s mum, he had bought a new camera and couldn’t work out that he was already recording 🤣 and she was sort of jokingly around
. Ofcourse his dad was swearing like a trouper, it made my other half happy as it was footage he’d never seen before and his mum looked so happy in it. He said that’s just how she was. I don’t believe in ghosts, but I do sometimes doubt myself…

This.

Sorry you lost your dad, OP.

(Though if one of my deceased parents made my phone play Foster and Allen songs, I’d regard it as an act of war…)

Idealist3 if I were you I’d stop looking for an explanation and just enjoy.

Funny I’d not heard that song in years, mammy used to sing it to us when we were very young. I’d got it into my head to go searching for it on YouTube yesterday

It is very strange indeed. It's as though he still is about. Too coincidental. We live in a physical realm but can not see the spiritual realm. Very comforting to know that they're still there just somewhere else that we are eventually going to.

I've had some strange experiences very recently at the point of waking up but not being fully awake or conscious yet and feeling a soul nearby. The strange thing is that this close relative is still alive but I have been praying for their healing (they dont know this) and I believe on a subconscious level, their soul is visiting me as i sleep. I dont think about this person at all before i sleep. Its strange but also comforting.

This is very interesting.

Name changed for this as my friends have heard this before…

My dad passed away over 10 years ago and was a consultant in quite a specialist medical field. I started having some concerning medical symptoms earlier on this year and was sent for a MRI. I had worked myself up into quite a state both at the thought of the MRI and what the results might show.

Lay down in the machine with the horrible cage cage thing on my face and the radio came on - the first song they played was my dad’s favourite song, Robert Miles’ Children. Am convinced it was my dad sending me a message it would all be ok, and it was.

It's your phone picking up on what you are taking about/location etc, my new one keeps doing it, it spoke to me the other day when I asked a friend a question and my home piped up with a detailed answer,I didn't even know it could do that ,was quite the shock!

Or it's your dad sending you a message.

Wow I'd be so freaked if that happened to me...

I would very much believe that's a message from the other side.

I'm guessing you're Irish? Maybe you're dad is asking for prayers, or to have masses said for his soul. We should always pray for the dead.

My friend believes she gets visits from souls in purgatory. Call her mad but she's a professional functioning woman of sound mind but she has had experiences.

Wow. Yes, I believe she sent you that message. The fact that it didn't save makes me think it too. So strange. A message meant only for you.

Just believe whatever gives you comfort.

No-one here is going to be nasty enough to burst your bubble and state what they feel is obvious, even if you have picked AIBU to post this in.

Simply, of course it was him. There's no other reasonable explanation. He popped in to tell you all he was still with you.

I have had some signs and messages that I do believe in, but not for a long time now. One was a musical message also, at a time I was feeling very low and actually asked for a sign. It was an obscure song that I don't think I had heard for 20 years and never since. Just on the radio, it was pre-Spotify.

That's lovely, there may be some rational explanation for it but I wouldn't look for it, I'd take comfort from it.

Awww, what a gorgeous story. How lovely for you @Idealist3 And I believe you! I love hearing stuff like this.

I wonder if influencing music is somehow the only ‘sign’ that can be received? I’ve had similar with a niche old song like ‘Mountains’ - heard on a plane, in a Croydon cafe & then randomly on guitar in a car park in Belize! All within a month. I said out loud ‘ok, you are having a laugh now’! All
pointed to something I needed to do. NB: Am not Woo at all.