Something spooky is happening to me

[Senzi]

I lost my mum a year ago and recently weird things are happening. A photograph of her on my sideboard keeps falling over. It’s not near a window or draught, I have no pets.

Also her favourite flowers - sunflowers are appearing wherever I go. I popped into several shops and the first thing I see are sunflowers, whether they are dried flowers or a picture of sunflowers, I’ve never noticed sunflowers anywhere before.

I’ve also noticed weird things like a book we used to read together is suddenly on my bookshelf (it wasn’t there before), or when I randomly turn in the radio the music is something not recent, but something personal to us.

I’m getting a bit freaked out, no-one else knows about these things. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Some rather harsh responses here OP - I’m sorry you had to read those. I absolutely believe that our loved ones somehow find a way to stay with us & comfort us. I was distraught after our beautiful rough collie was put to sleep. We were a bit posh & had carpet in the garage. Our doggy used to sometimes wee on it. A little while after we lost him, I went into the garage & there was a fresh trail of wee. Couldn’t believe it!
After our beloved bunny died, I kept seeing a robin whenever I thought about him or I would find a white feather in the very places he used to go.

My dad died 7 years ago and I did all the admin/paperwork around his life insurance, pensions etc. I put all the pw in a plastic folder when I was done as I knew I'd need some of it when my mum passed. I think I gave it back to her for safe keeping (but can't swear to this).

She passed earlier this year and on the day of the funeral, I came home to the plastic folder slap bang on the kitchen island. At first I wasn't remotely bothered and assumed that one of my siblings had dropped it off earlier in the day and my DH/DC had forgotten to mention it.

I checked with literally everyone in my household and all my siblings and no one left it there. No idea how it appeared there but my mum always said I was "more decoration than function" so I'm assuming she still thinks I'm slightly useless from the other side!

I have, for a year after my DM died. I took comfort from it and even now when something weird happens I say 'cut it out mum!' .

A very similar thing is happening to me at the moment. I’ve also had similar things happen when other people have died. I completely get it and believe it’s messages from beyond.
However, be cautious saying it out loud irl, the reason I say this is that I told another relative about the strange things happening to me and the person got really angry with me and accused me of thinking I was special as they hadn’t experienced anything similar regarding the death. I wasn’t anticipating that reaction.

Lovely post 👏🏼

@RaisinsAreTheWorkOfTheDevil, yes we had this. Niece and I have both had weird things happening since dh died but he liked us. The relatives he didn't like haven't had any and got stroppy with dn when they found out.

Oh well.

It's shelf*

Aahh I've said this a lot in MN but when my grandmother died there was a thunderstorm at her funeral and lightning stuck our house. My mum always said she'd make a thunderstorm when she died so I knew it was her saying goodbye. 32 years later, she'd said the same thing loads of times and always promised to make a storm, she died. Literally 20 minutes after
She died the heavens opened, there was a
Huge supercell thunderstorm across the UK, 28th June 2012, it's even reported on Wikipedia!
Personally I believe! My mum said probably 100 times over the years she'd make a storm
When she died

You miss your Mum and want completely normal occurrences to mean she's trying to communicate with you.

She isn't. You just miss her.

I have lost both of my parents and have never noticed any signs. I'd suggest a bias of the mind. You may not be seeing any more sunflowers than you ever did but you notice them more now. Thinking about it another way, if all the dead people were sending signs there would be some really weird shit going on in this world all of the time. It's like when people say that a white feather is a message from a dead person. If it is then that is all quite evil in my opinion and I feel for the poor birds that keep losing their feathers to send us messages.
I can't explain the book but I basically don't believe in it personally but if it brings people comfort to think that then it causes me no bother.

You see, if it makes someone feel closer to the person they miss, why does fhat matter? And honestly you don’t know for sure that it isn’t her mum communicating in some way. Both my parents died last year and I’ve had all sorts of unexplainable things happen. Logically I tell myself that I’m connecting stuff and noticing things because I miss them, but some of the stuff is really hard to explain. And if I feel more connected to them in those moments, why not embrace that. Not being able to ever speak to them again is fucking hard. Sorry for your loss OP.

Yes I did - last July after my Mum passed away. I say believe.

Having similar experiences so I want to believe. 🤶🧘❤️