Seeing a loved one but before you knew they had died

[Bimlass]

This week I was woken up strangely at 4 am with the feeling that someone was in my room. I thought it was my daughter but it wasn't. I had an overwhelming feeling of love but sadness.
Later that day I received news that my first love had died suddenly, now he lived in Canada and I've not seen him for 30 years but we did chat frequently last being beginning of November.
I found out that his death occurred at 10:58 Canadian time which is a few moments before I woke up. I believe that my former love came to say goodbye and I was still very much in his heart.
It's not the first time I've seen someone in my room, I saw my fathers father the night of his funeral, having not attended as I was still too young I was able to describe what he had been buried in.
I don't believe that when people die that they go up to heaven as I have studied the Bible and I believe we sleep till we will be awoken on judgement day which few can get their heads around.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a visitation before learning if a love ones passing.

Nope

Nope.
I don't believe in the same things as you at all you might as well ask me to believe the moon is made of cheese.

I haven't, but I don't judge people who believe differently and they find comfort in it.

My mum says she saw my dads parents when he was seriously ill. He pulled through however. So yes I believe.

My DS saw my DH in my bedroom one morning. Found out that night that he’d passed away pretty much at the time that DS had seen him. It freaked me out so much and he was so sure he had seen him. DS said “daddy just came through the wall but the walls not broken. What’s he doing? Oh never mind he’s gone now”.
I told my sister straight away and when the police turned up that night they said they thought wherever he was, he was probably alive. Imagine how batty I must have looked when I said “no my son saw him come through the wall. He’s not alive”.

I want to be sceptical but I’ve had too many odd experiences. Half an hour before I got a phone call to say my grandpa, who lived in another town across country, had died, I swore I saw him looking in my living room window. Im a bit embarrassed now as I’d had a huge fanny fart just at that moment. The dog was barking at the window as if someone was there too.

My dad was staying in a hotel the night his father died (my dads parents lived abroad, dad lived in the UK). He was single at the time, and it was decades before mobile phones. He told a story about how he saw the ghost of his father sitting in a chair in that hotel room that night. They had a chat. It was only when Dad got home the next day that he found out that his father had died. His reaction was “I know”.

In a sort of opposite way round story, my grandmother had surgery when my aunt was pregnant. The first thing GM said when she cane round was “Christopher Simon”. My aunt’s baby had been born 2 months early, whilst GM was in surgery, and was called Christopher Simon.

When I was young my grandpa passed away in a Hospice surrounded by family. I was to young to be allowed in the room so I was waiting in the family room. I went out to the toilet for a break and I had a funny butterfly feeling in my chest and a rush of cold feeling. When I went back I was told he had just passed away but for some reason I felt like I already knew

Story goes my G G grandmother saw her son in her bedroom and then he vanished as if he had been swept away. He was the first in their village to be killed in ww1 , I think he was literally blown to bits

With regard to the Christopher Simon thing that can easily be explained without resorting to anything supernatural. She had been unconscious in hospital for 2 months after the baby was born. Visitors would have mentioned the baby and she could have heard this.

No me but my dm saw her grandad and found out the next day he had died through the night. We lived abroad so hadn't seen him recently. Like you she had a feeling of love from her vision.

I do believe in life after death.

Fanny farting at Grandpa's ghost 😂

Yesterdayallmyfish I read it that the baby had been born 2 months prematurely and that the gm was unconscious for surgery for a short while, but I could be wrong

Wombat - yes, you are right. I read that wrongly. That's my theory out the window.

I’ve not had this experience but when one of my DC was born I had a complication, it felt like I was literally fighting for my life and I thought that three of my deceased relatives were at the end of my bed like tall pillars of light. I still don’t know if it was some kind of stress induced, post birth psychosis or if it actually happened.

The night my dd died I was asleep upstairs. I woke up because I heard her come up the stairs. She sat on the side of the bed I felt the weight of her sitting down. I was 7mths pregnant with dd2 at the time she said I know what your having. I could see her very clearly.
I got up to see where she had went, I thought she had left the house.

In the morning i told DH she had been in the house during the night. I tried to phone her and got no answer. When the police came to the house I knew something had happened to her.
When they took statements from us I told them she had been here during the night. It wasn't until they checked cctv footage they informed us it was not possible for her to have been here. She was already dead by then.
I will never understand what happened that night because it felt so real.

I've read too many accounts like this to not believe in it. I really hope that there is something after death.

I'm not religious and don't know what I think it was, but I clearly remember when I was about 10 waking up with a start in the night and looking at the glowing digital clock beside my bed, which said 3.16am. I was normally a very heavy sleeper so this was unusual for me but I clearly remember looking at the time. I got up and went and got in with my mum and the next morning my mum received a phone call saying our nana had died unexpectedly in the night (she'd gone into hospital for something minor), time of death 3.16am. Most likely total coincidence but odd nonetheless.

@parkheadparadise so sorry to hear your dd has passed .

Many years ago I worked for a small family run business. I was working late one Friday along with my boss (late 50s) suddenly he had a heart attack and I called an ambulance.

The day after I was at home with my parents and upstairs in my room I felt a strange aura around me then I got the phone call he had died. The morning after I woke but couldn't open my eyes. I felt as though a bright light was shining on me and I had a huge smile on my face, this went on for around 5 minutes. I believe he was in the room with me. This happened nearly twenty years ago and I still see him in my dreams most nights.

My grandfather did not believe in anything woo.

He was walking home from work with a colleague, they met and chatted to another colleague, the only thing they noticed that was a bit strange was he was dressed in his 'sunday best', when my grandfather got home he was told about the death of the man he had just been chatting with.

I recently watched a documentary about an Australian man who survived a night alone in the 'death zone' on Everest.

Apparently one of the reasons climbers are left is that the Sherpas believe the spirit doesn't leave the body for three days and moving a body would confuse the spirit.

With regard to the Christopher Simon thing that can easily be explained without resorting to anything supernatural. She had been unconscious in hospital for 2 months after the baby was born. Visitors would have mentioned the baby and she could have heard this.

No, ste wasn’t unconscious for 2 months, she was unconscious for a few hours, and had had no visitors before she came round.My grandfather was with her, but it was the 1970s so no one was able to contact hi to say that the baby had been born. The relevance of the 2 months is that the baby was 2 months early, so no one was realky thinking about his arrival yet.

It isn't common but it isn't rare if that makes sense. I've heard it happen at the time of death and also around the time of the funeral. Both have happened in my family. I'm also in the sleep until the last judgement belief system but as how that happens is a mystery I'm fine with time being a bit wibbly wobbly around death.

Bijerunski - see my comment above yours

@Wombatstew, yes, you’re right
@yesterdayallmyfish, apologies for not seeing your second comment.