I’ve had a few I think I might have posted about one of them under a different name.
My mum was dying, it was a weekend and she was at home so we had no medical assistance. She was on a syringe drive giving pain relief but she was hanging onto life and it was very distressing.
For two nights in a row family members had been awake by her bedside and they were exhausted but I work nights so was finding it easier.
I’d caught up with a few hours sleep during the day but no one else was used to sleeping in the daytime so had been awake constantly.
The other family members left for some sleep in the afternoon and I was on my own with my mum, my sisters dog and my mums cat who was on the bed with her by her feet.
My mum was peaceful and I was just sitting by her side, it was a weird dreamlike state.
My dad had died 4 years before and suddenly the smell of his aftershave filled the whole room, I was convinced I was imagining it but it was so strong and recognisable. It was an aftershave that was hard to get hold of and I bought it for him for every birthday and Christmas and usually had to order it from abroad.
The dog sat up and started whining and the cat moved and sat right on my mums chest and her breathing changed and she took 3 last breaths whilst I held her hand.
I’m glad those last moments were was so peaceful and that the animals were there, I try not to think about it but I do find it comforting when I remember how strong the smell was.
Like pp I’ve had a few dreams that have been very vivid then the event I’ve dreamt about has actually occurred, they are often pretty mundane but the last significant one was the night before the air India crash in June this year.
I told DP about it in detail and he was very freaked out when we saw it later on the news.
Me and DP have both had almost identical dreams some nights which is pretty freaky.
Often the premonition like dreams are reoccurring and I’ve had the same one over and over recently that I’m hoping is just anxiety.
I keep dreaming I’m watching the news and they are advising to have a “survival kit” with food, water, batteries, a wind up radio etc. there is an underlying sense of urgency but they are saying it a precaution and not to panic.
I stopped watching the news a few months ago due to anxiety so it’s not something I’ve seen and subconsciously remembered.
In the dream it escalates where the uk gets warning that an attack could be imminent and gives advice on what to do if it happens but reiterates it’s unlikely and this is just to make people prepared for all eventualities. Next there are rumours on the internet saying that the uk is under threat.
Every time I dream that an emergency alert goes off on my phone (I’ve never had one so it’s not based on experience) and then I wake up.
I know logically it’s likely just my brain picking up on anxieties but it’s the way the dream is so vivid and similar to the others that is really causing me to freak out, I’ve had the same dream 5/6 times in the last two weeks, it’s always the same and I wake up at the same point.
This is one of the cases I actually appreciate people’s scepticism and I’m happy to be told it’s just an overactive imagination and that it’s just a dream and the others were simply coincidence!