Does anybody dream about parents who have passed?

[greenday16B]

I regularly dream about them. In the dream I am somewhere like on a bus trip or in a restaurant and they randomely appear. Its very vivid.

I have dreamed of my husband who is dead, but often he doesn't realise he's dead in the dream and I weirdly know he is in the dream, so it's all a bit awkward. Some have been nice enough dreams, a couple have been very awful, so I don't look forward to spending time with him in the dreams if that makes sense. I don't dread it either, it just is. I think they started a couple of years after bereavement, certainly not straight away. My children also dream of him and tell me about it.

I dream about everyone in my family very vividly, and colleagues, and friends, it's non-stop in my dreams. Often I wake up quite exhausted emotionally from the whole thing!

You will in time. I’m so sorry for your loss

I wish I did have suggestions. It’s just that age old thing, time. I’m sure your beloved dad will enter your dreams x

My mum died when I was 24, after a while I always had similar dreams that she was allowed to come back but on certain conditions, could no longer walk or had to fight the cancer again. My Dad died 18 months ago and I have the same sort of dreams. I ve been told it's like bargaining which is kind of classed as a grief stage.
I love dreaming about them although it's more my dad when I do as it's more recent.
It was a few months after they died before I started having dreams of them.

It's been 5 years since I lost my mum and we were very close. I've always dreamed a lot and thought I would dream about her often but I didn't.
I have just recently had a few dreams with her in them and they were lovely but it's almost as if my mind won't let me enjoy them, there is always something going on that stops me from really being with her.

Very regularly. My dad died 10 years ago and my mum last year. I dream about my dad at least once a week. Less regularly about my mum but she still stars in my dreams at least monthly 💕

I find it comforting 🥰

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I dream of my dad every couple of months.
He died 16 years ago.
I love it because when I wake up I can vividly remember his smell, the way his mischievous eyes would twinkle and how his voice sounded.

Without these dreams I'd have probably forgotten these small details.

Sometimes, but not very often anymore.

Dad passed away when I was 11 and I used to have very vivid dreams about him, but as the years have gone on (it's been 28 years) the dreams are less and less frequent

Sometimes they're comforting, but sometimes they're distressing - his death was very sudden and traumatic - so that stands to reason

Love this.. I agree, it's like a world we can escape to whenever we like. I close my eyes and they are there. I made sure I got voice recordings of all my loved ones who are now gone and I put them on the big speaker while I cook etc, it's like they're in the house. I definitely recommend this for people who still have their family members

I always dream about a big quest to find a toilet with obstacles in the way in different settings, it's always when I need the loo in real life 🤣

I dont think i ever have although i rarely remember my dreams

Not often, but I do dream of my Dad. He's usually younger in the dreams and full of life and vitality. Really nice.

My Mum is very much alive and well, but its weird I never ever really dream of her at all and never have.

No, but if I do dream of anything, I don't remember.

However, they are always on my mind. I would love to talk to my dad about films, theatre books etc and have some recipes from my mum. Just general life chit chat.

Me too

My Dad died a few weeks ago so no dreams about him. Not really sleeping properly yet so am still in the thick of the shock I think.

My grandad died about 20 years ago, and about 10 years I feel he came to me in a dream as he sat in my room and talked to me while I was asleep and told me it was all going to be OK and I just needed to keep trucking on.

Similarly my grandma, who had died years previously, I feel visited me during my labour with my first child. It felt very natural and I experienced her completely as being there with me. It was only afterwards that I looked back on events and thought ‘hang on, she wasn’t there, so what the heck was that?!’.

Both ‘visitations’ (aspects of my own consciousness) were incredibly and powerfully comforting.

I do hope to see or feel my Dad again in the same way.

Condolences to everyone on the thread lurking and posting.

My dad died three months ago and he regularly pops up in my dreams. He doesn't do anything or interact with the "plot" of the dream in any way - often just sits in a chair in a corner. I found it unsettling at first but now I've gotten used to it and it is weirdly comforting.

I lost my mum Jan '23 and in the early days and weeks I had some very vivid dreams that also included sound and touch. These days I have occasional dreams with her in but they aren't as vivid as those earliest ones.

I often dream of one parent or the other. My dad moved on with another lady a few years after my mum passed but she was always his one true love. Last night, I dreamt he died all over again and someone gave me some flowers to put on his coffin. On them was a card with a picture of him and my mum all dressed up, back together, and it seemed to be meant as a comfort to me.

Yes I dream about my Dad.
The dream is not about him per se and he is usually in the background.
I find it vey comforting.