Life after death experiences

[emma9001]

Just curious and seeking some comfort as I have just lost my sister.

Has anyone had any near death experiences or signs of life after death?

Sorry for the loss of your sister.

I absolutely didn't believe in life after death until I was sat in the living room after my grandma had died and I can only describe it as a person height shadow but more like a black cloud, swept slowly across the room and behind the curtains. Had my husband not also seen it I would have thought I had made it up.

Not quite the same, my cat of 20 years died and we buried him at the bottom of a tree. Next day, a cat identical to how he had looked as a kitten, was sat by the tree. Saw it again the following day, never seen it before and have never seen it since.

Now I'm not so sure what i believe but take it as a massive comfort that loves ones are telling us that they have got to the other side.

I'm so sorry to hear about your sister. I have had many lovely signs from loved ones after their deaths - just little coincidences: music on the radio, smells of aftershave from nowhere, vivid dreams... when my mum was dying, she saw and spoke to my aunt who had already died. I had a very strong feeling, when she died, that she had simply left to continue somewhere we cannot begin to comprehend.

A few days after my dad's funeral I think he came to visit me in my dreams to say goodbye. He was dressed in the clothes we buried him in. I have never had a dream so real, I could smell and feel as though he were there. He was literally sat at the end of my bed, in my dream I woke up and he was there. He just wanted to give me a hug and say goodbye. When I woke up for real I had been crying.

Also I'm sorry to hear about your sister. I strongly believe there is an afterlife after watching my dad pass away xx

About three days after my sister died, I had a strange experience in my sleep. It wasn’t a dream but I felt this strength pass through my body and I knew it was her.

Yes I'm convinced my dad stayed around for a while, he died suddenly at our family home, I was living there at the time. He communicated through electrical interference randomly the t.v would turn on by itself, or if I was watching it, it would merge into one of his favourite channels without me touching the remote. Doorbell would ring but no one there, felt the top of my head being touched once as I sat alone. I would hear the living room door close when no one downstairs and would of been the time he went to bed, like he was still in his routine. I feel he has now passed over, as this was many years ago it no longer happens.
When I moved into my own place the random tv turning on would happen occasionally, but not now for years.

I've had many experiences over the years, too many to write, some subtle signs and some not. I have seen a ghost not known to me, he was busy haunting a pub!
The last house a lived in had activity, hearing footsteps, slamming doors, smoke alarms going off in the middle of the night, with no smoke to cause it on consecutive nights. I don't feel the spirits were connected to me but to that house.
House I'm in now, is peaceful apart from the neighbour!

When my Gran died I was obviously missing her and sad that I could no longer see and talk to her when I had a vivid dream that she came to me and said that she could still talk with me, meaning within my dreams. For a few months after, I was having the same dream where I was in her house and her open fire was being lit in preparation for her coming.
When Dad died suddenly I threw myself into sorting out the admin side of things for Mum. One day I was walking along thinking of what I was going to do with some things and was a bit undecided, when as clear as day I heard his voice in my head say “It’s whatever your mother wants to do” which was exactly how he’d say it.
One day Mum and I had had an awful day sorting out the burial plot at the crematorium so to lighten things up I stopped in a garden centre on the way back for lunch. Whilst browsing in the shop I stopped at a display of hanging ornaments, the type with names on and put my hand out randomly to pick one up to look at it. I jumped a mile when I saw I’d picked one up with my Dad’s name on it, not his full name, but the shortened version that he was known by and one that you wouldn’t expect to find. It was definitely his name I saw and I wish I had bought it as I believe it was his way to say that everything was going to be alright. I’ve since looked at those same ornaments in shops and on line but they don’t do his name, yet I know I saw it.
After the couple of months of sorting out his business I dreamed my Dad came to me and shook my hand.
A few years after he died I was having one of those hard days that pop up, missing him. Before I went to sleep I thought about him coming to me in a dream, sort of requesting he did and he did indeed come to my dream that night. He didn’t speak but was giving me a look that said that I shouldn’t have summoned him. The elation I felt at seeing him in the dream was amazing and I woke up feeling that way too.
My elderly Aunt died alone in hospital with covid at the height of the pandemic and although I hadn’t had much contact over the years it was playing on my mind how she died until I dreamed that I was walking in an old fashioned arcade and my Aunt was walking towards me, young, healthy and radiant, dressed in a peachy pink silk lace dress. She passed me without looking and went into a coffee bar. I watched through the window as she jumped up onto a stool at the bar. I just felt the dream was telling me that she was all well.
These dreams were so vivid and I remember them as clear today as when they happened, the oldest being over 25 yrs ago.

My dad always used to wear a maroon cardigan. At his wake we were in a room with a mirror on the wall. As we raised a toast I saw him in the mirror. I thought I was mistaken and that it was someone else in the room wearing maroon, but no - everyone was wearing black. I'm sure it was him, coming to say goodbye.

Sorry for the loss of your sister. 💐
I’ve had lots of experiences that make me strongly believe in an afterlife.
Like a pp, I had a vivid dream about a family member who had died, who told me not to be scared or sad and they were happy and started telling me about the afterlife. It felt so real.
A relative of mine used to know people had died before she was told because she said she used to see them appear in her house.
Ive also seen what I believe to have been ghosts, because there was no other explanation for it. Shadows and figures.

Not me but a friend of mine. Her lovely mum had passed away a couple of years previously aged 91, and my friend was at the funeral service of her aunt (her mum's younger sister) when during the service her gaze wandered through the large window of the crem to some woods at the other side of an expanse of lawn where she is convinced she saw her mum standing. Her mum was a diminutive lady and had a favourite bright blue cardigan which this figure was wearing. She stopped looking after when the mourners all started to file out and when my friend got outside, nobody to be seen. She was nowhere in the grounds and wasn't in the group. There was not another funeral waiting to go in either. She is convinced it was her mum.

I'm so sorry for your loss @emma9001 🪷

There is a wonderful book called After by Dr Bruce Greyson, and also a YouTube channel called Coming Home - both are about near death experiences and the other side. Fascinating and very moving. They may give you some comfort.

I'm a Buddhist and we understand death as like the start of a new intake of breath, it's the beginning of new life. We also believe our karmic bonds with family members are eternal - your sister will always be with you and you with her. xx

I'm so sorry for your and your family's loss.
@emma9001

I'm so sorry for your loss, OP. I definitely believe, I've had many comforting signs from my passed loved ones.

When I was around 16, my mother and I made a pact that whichever of us went first, we would try to contact the other. Fast forward 6 years, and a fortnight after her funeral, I was staying at my father's house. I woke up with the most vivid memory; I had lain in the bath and sat up to shampoo my hair. My mother was sat on the lavatory in her favourite outfit and said,
"Well, just because I'm dead and buried doesn't mean we can't keep in touch."
I was so, so delighted and she's been back at very sad times and moments of celebration throughout my life.

OP, I firmly believe that she will contact you somehow. I am terribly sorry for your loss. My brother died, and although we weren't close, I miss knowing he's there. Take good care of yourself and I hope you're able to smile at some of the happy memories, either now or in the near future.

If you go on nderf.org website you’ll find thousands of stories. Sorry for your loss xxxx

Twilight, those messages are amazing. Thank you.

I remember my mum telling me a story about my uncle (dads brother so her bil) who died young. He rode a motorbike and on the way to his funeral the funeral car stopped at traffic lights and a man on a motorcycle with a helmet pulled up right beside the car and looked right at them through the window. Obviously could have been coincidence but the family took it to be him riding off and saying goodbye.

My dad died a few years ago and I've had no meaningful signs which makes me sad.

When my grandma died strange things happened for weeks after. Finding feathers, finding money around the house, TV turning off by itself, objects not where I had left them, computer screens flickering for no reason, weird coincidences. Also had a very vivid dream where it felt she visited me.
When my grandad passed there were no signs but he was a nonbeliever.

For several months after my dad died, I kept seeing his face in men of the same age/height. I'd just be walking through town and I'd have to double take at some people. After I'd looked at them for a bit, their faces went back to normal. It was so odd. I had a difficult relationship with my dad. He died suddenly at 56.

I too had a very vivid dream of people who have died {one was Dad, the other a friend}

Both hyper real and vivid.

Dad gave me a hug and it felt sp real, and he told me he loved me, and ''understood'' things now, that he didn't while he was alive.

Friend was so realistic, I said {Name} you are supposed to be dead?- he replied with a smile ''I am- I have just come to tell you I'm ok {I was very upset at his death as he died all alone} - I asked him what it was like, he smiled, again, and said ''I can't tell you, I have to go now''.

I wish I would get a sign from my Mum who died a couple of months ago but there is nothing 😓 even when she is in my dreams it's only fleeting and she doesn't talk.

I have never had a single sign I the 20+ years since my mum died. I don’t believe in afterlife and I don’t want to give you, OP, any false hope that it exists (it really doesn’t)

BUT

our loved ones live on through us: our memories of them, the influence they had onus, the happiness we get when thinking about how our lives’ were enriched by them.

so your sister will absolutely always be with you, just like my mum is always with me.

Although I do believe in the afterlife because of my experiences, I also 100% agree with @GoadyMcBigot when they say

our loved ones live on through us: our memories of them, the influence they had onus, the happiness we get when thinking about how our lives’ were enriched by them.
so your sister will absolutely always be with you, just like my mum is always with me.

Someone I loved very much sadly died before my children were born, but through the many, many stories I’ve told them about the person they feel they ‘know’ this person. They often say things like ‘XXXX would’ve loved that’ and they retell the funny stories that I’ve told them about the person because something has reminded them of the stories I’ve told many times. This person lives on in that respect, and I love that.

There is a Disney (children’s) film called Coco and it sums up how I like to think things are when our loved ones die. It’s a lovely film if you feel up to watching it.