visions at time of death

[mountaingirl]

Has anyone else here experienced a vision of someone at the time they died. My mil died in the early hours of sunday morning. I was in the middle of a dream when suddenly the picture of her hospital bed with her children around it came into view, she was sitting up (later found out this was true) and was bathed in a golden light coming from above. Just her not the others.I awoke with a start and felt that I had seen her pass over, I looked at the time and waited for my dh to call, he did 3/4 of an hour later. I found out later that evening that it was at about that time. I had asked her/ put out into the universe before I went to bed, that if she was going to die then to tell me as I was getting on a plane later that morning to see her, I'm absolutely blown away that she did and although feel sad I also feel peaceful. She was a true non-believer, me a lapsed catholic with my own ideas of god and the afterlife. If only I had got a chance to zoom in and look up!!

weird - shivers down my spine.

My dh had a dream about his gran dying and she did.

Also when a friend of mine died i could smell her perfume in my house (before I knew she died)

I used to work in intensive care and we had a lovely lady on the unit who had been extremely sick, but did manage to get better and eventually go home, i had looked after here a lot during her stay. A week later though she was re admitted to hospital. Around the time she was in hosp, i had gone with my mom for an endoscopy, and while my mom was recovering, i saw the lady who had also had a procedure. She recognised, and thanked me for everything i had done and for looking after her. A couple of days later, i was alone in the coffee room ready to start a late shift, and i felt her around me. I didn't think anything of it, just wandered how she was and if she had got back home. We had report and it was then i found out she had come back to itu and was dying. She died on my shift and i'm sure she was saying goodbye. She had a daughter the same age as me too, and we got on really well. I do believe a persons soul or spirit lives on, it still makes me sad to think about her now.

It is a weird feeling knowing that has just happened to me surely though there must be others who have had such an experience as this and the ones from taffy and brummie?

Yes.

I've had this happen to me three times - both in the past 7 years.

Wow! The same as me or the seeing/ feeling of a presence(?). I have had someone whisper very loadly in my ear once when I was driving up to london to see my mother who was undergoing a breast op that it was cancer..I nearly drove off the road. Also about 12 years after my father took an overdose and died I dreamt that we met in a church and talked about what had happened and I finally got to say goodbye to him. I'm not sure if I should become religious after this experience though, but it has comforted me to know she contacted me and that her spirit has gone somewhere else.

It's easy to try to rationalise it out as a dream, even though you know you weren't dreaming.

That's true. I felt at the weekend almost elated that she had visited me and given me the opportunity to see her go (once I got over the initial shock). I also had such a feeling of peace that she was /is ok. She was such a non believer in anything religious...though I must check if she believed in an afterlife at all.

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I used to have regular dreams about DH1 (he died 10 years ago). I say about him, but he was not like usual "characters" in my dreams. He was totally real. Every inch of him was how it should be. We would always have a very real and tearful reunion. I'd cling to him like a limpit. He would be very calm and explain that he was ok. That he will be with us forever. I'd sometimes see him in my dreams when I'd had big life events (re-marrying and having DDs 2&3) I'd feel guilty and disloyal (in life he was very posessive and jealous) but he was always happy for me.

I long to have those dreams more often. It's like getting a phone call. It's that real. When I do have them I sometimes wake up crying because he's gone again, but I also feel so happy to have seen him.

I have them maybe once or twice a year now.

My mum dreamt her dad came to tell her goodbye, he also told her not to be too upset. We received news the following morning that he'd passed away that night...this was many years ago .