Is my dead Grandmother visiting?

[Babadoo]

I live in my grandmother's old flat, she passed away a year ago on Thursday. Last week I spent her inheritance money on a piano, which I know she would have approved of. The other night when I went to bed, I turned off the lights, rolled onto my back and saw a spinning wheel above the bed with flashes of light and images that I couldn't recall afterwards. I felt warm and nice, not afraid at all. It went on for ages, moving in different directions, and then I eventually went to sleep. Yesterday I went into the bathroom and it smelt of my gran - witchhazel/TCP, a warm smell - and as I washed and got ready for bed I daydreamed aobut my gran. I went into the lounge for a short while then went back into the bathroom and it didn't smell at all of anything. I even got my DH to go in and check! Does anyone have any thoughts? My DS hasn't picked up on anything, and they are supposed to be more sensitive to these things, so am I imagining it all?

Hi Babadoo

I am not an expert on these things by any stretch of the imagination but do find things like this fascinating and do read about it a great deal etc.

From what I have read and been told, one of the ways in which we get visits from our loved ones that have passed is indeed through smells related to them. Also they can make their presence felt in your thoughts so that you know that they are with you.

Sounds to me like your grandmother is letting you know she is around and how wonderful that you feel so warm about it.

I also don't know much about these things, but It sounds like a lovely experiance. Lucky you.

It sounds very lovely, and comforting. I'd write it down somewhere so you can look back on it in the future.

Thanks guys. Not sure what I'm supposed to do now though. Maybe I should go and visit her grave on Thursday and read some prayers for her at home, she'd like that

hi babadoo that sounds a lovely experience. children are usually more sensitive but think of it this way - maybe your nan was just saying hello to you i'm sure there are things you've said to your dh that you didn't want your ds to hear

say hello to her?

No I couldn't say hello, what if she said hello back? I'd crap myself!!!!

She was just letting you know she's around.

Whenever my dh smells fresh paint, his grandad is around. He was a painter and decorator.

One day my in-laws were here (they're spiritualists) and dh and I commented that we could smell pipe smoke (no-one was smoking). "Oh yes" pipes up MIL "there's a man wandering around" . We bought the house off a man who collapsed here but died in hospital, but he'd lived here all his life. "Have you changed the back door?" says FIL (we had) "well he's shaking his head at it, he doesn't like it" .

I smelt the pipe smoke one night lying in bed. I told him to bugger off . I also smelt it on Christmas Day - we'd were all in the car and I had to pop back into the house as I'd forgotten something and that was when I smelt it. Just in one specific area. I kind of liked the thought that he'd come back "home" for Christmas Day and wished him a Merry Christmas.

Visiting your nan's grave and reading some poetry sounds a lovely idea.

About a year after my mum died I used to smell Johnsons Baby Powder sometimes. My mum used that all the time but I don't, never have and didn't even have any in the house not even when dd1 was a baby.
I like to think that it was my mum visiting.

My grandad died 3 years ago this month. He used to smoke but stopped about 2 years before he died. My granny keeps telling me that when she's sitting at night watching tv she sometimes smells cigarette smoke. I suggested it was probably grandad come to say hello.

Thanks for all your messages, it makes me feel a little less mad. On Saturday night my DH was away and I went to bed alone, and as I laid in bed, I had the feeling something was behind me. I got all scared and turned the light on and told myself off for being a wuss. As I laid on my back, I saw out of the corner of my eye something like a wisp next to me in bed, but when I turned round there was nothing there. I really felt there was someone next to me. I told myself I was being stupid and turned my back and I felt a cold pressure on the top of my head, almost like someone was patting my head...Was I imagining this or has anyone else experienced anything similar?

hello babadoo, i have experienced a lot of things like this. when dp is away and i'm not feeling very well there is a feeling of being tucked in - like your moms do when you're little. i also get a feeling of my hair being played with - especially the little wispy bits at the front.

i am just reading some of doreen virtue's books on angles and she mentions in one of them that the "wisp" is the aura of a spirit. it makes sense to me because i've seen a lot of this type of thing - so much so sometimes that the room seems almost foggy! so don't worry about it, it's most likely someone who was close to you in rl wants to say hello to you and most importantly to reassure you you're not alone. they won't want to scare your or anything because they are just sending you their love - you may have thought that with your dp away that you would be all alone, they are just telling you that you are not.