Anyone else have vivid dreams, sometimes involving loved ones who have died?

[Augustus40]

Does anybody get vivid dreams? I dream of my mum who died in 2004.

She is 90 per cent of the time in my dreams at night. They are just everyday dreams of nothing in particular.

Anybody else?

I dream more vividly since taking magnesium.

After my nan died (we were very close) I had the most vivid dream. I’ve never dreamt in that level of detail before.

Obviously I was grieving and brains are crazy things, but it was such a beautiful dream. It acknowledged how difficult her passing was but then moved into a really happy moment where she was content and comfortable and smiling and we were laughing and I remember waking up in tears but also really comforted by the whole experience.

Months later, a medium brought it up without my prompting. And she said that was a specific visit she made to me to let me know that she was happy and ok.

I wish she would visit in my dreams again.

Yes, I’ve had frequent dreams about my dad since he died, some of them quite distressing. I don’t think there’s anything supernatural about it though, I think it’s a normal way of processing grief

Yes but I am not a believer in the paranormal at all.

I had a friend who died a few years ago from cancer. I had no idea she was as ill as she was.

I keep having dreams where I tell her how much I miss her and how I never knew how ill she was. They are very vivid.

I think it’s my way of processing grief as I wake up and realise again that she’s gone. RIP V

I also have very vivid dreams about other relatives and pets who have died but they aren’t as affecting as the ones about V.

My mum died 21 years ago. You would think the dreams would cease by now!

They are not unpleasant dreams though.

Yes, and while I miss my loved ones terribly, and desperately want to believe it is ‘visitations’ with them, the reality is it’s the brains way of processing grief, and keeping your loved ones with you as you miss them.

I dream of my Mum who died 13 years ago, my 2 Aunties who died in same yea as Mum very frequently. They are vivid dreams but about everyday things. I find them comforting. It's a bit like ice had a visit with Mum. I mentioned them to my youngest sister once and she cried because she has never had a dream about Mum and she was sad about that. I wish I never told her. I do t think it's anything paranormal just probably my need to remain close with Mum and Aunties.

Yes I dream of my late husband fairly regularly

I had a really vivid dream 2 weeks ago about my partner who died 3 years ago.
My mobile rang and it was him. He said he was just calling to see how me and his little boy were. He said he was in in odd place that he couldn't leave from.
I passed the phone to my son to say hi and then the call ended.

It was very real and vivid. It was nice to hear his voice again. He sounded quite cheery. I couldn't stop imagining it happening in real life and wishing for it to happen.

Dreams can be really intense sometimes.

Yes, my dead parents are often in my dreams and sometimes grandparents too. I like it, I don't believe in an afterlife but it feels they're back with me for a bit.

I dream a lot, and occasionally my long-dead parents and sibling are in the dream, in a very matter of fact way. In the dream I’m slightly surprised that they’re not dead!

Weird isn't it!

Only 3 times, one of my great-grandmother, another of grandmother, and another one of my MIL.
Interestingly, the first one was also to do with a phone call @specialsauce
I think I "summoned" her via the phone and suddenly she materialized right in front of me (all in the dream of course). She wasn't saying a thing, just smiling with some angelic light around her. And I felt outpouring love from her and I too emitted my love for her. It was quite emotional, woke up a little teary actually.
The other 2 times the dreams revolved around their interests and personality, which matched what they were like in real life.

I have had a few dreams of my Mum since she died, but I wish she was in my dreams every night as I miss her so much.

A lot of the time I can't remember much but there was one which is really clear and when I looked up the meaning it said intense grief.

I lost my dp 11 years ago & have vivid dreams that he hasn't died but I'm the only one who knows he is still alive.

I do, they are very distressing whilst I’m in the dream. 😢

Yes, but I think that's fairly normal.

I get that sometimes with regard to my parents. I find myself marvelling that Mum is cured of her dementia.

It's only recently that I've started to dream of my husband in that way, though I had two very vivid dreams just after he died where I knew that he had died and one the other week where I knew that he had died in spite of seeing him alive and I just held onto him and sobbed.

Yes.
Dreamt of my dad quite a few times. He was very disabled at the end.
One time I visited him in a big empty hospital type place. It was peaceful and clean. We went to the gardens outside and the trees were heavy with pink blossoms and the sky was blue. It took my breath away, it was so beautiful. I said "Ohhhh isn't it lovely here Dad?'
But he was still in his wheelchair and he looked up sadly and didn't smile.

I also dreamt that he was at the bottom of the stairs and was crawling around in the dark because he couldn't get upstairs. That one was much more traumatic.

I dreamt of my Nan a week or so after she passed. It was really upsetting. In the dream the phone was ringing (old fashioned handset/landline) and I picked it up and there was silence and a crackle then Nan was crying out, "Get me out of here! I don't like this place! Get me out! I don't like it!"
It was really disturbing (I was about 16).
I dreamt of the phone ringing insistently a few more times, but in my dream I was too frightened to pick it up because I knew it would be her trying to contact me.

Yes I do and I believe that some of them are spirit visitations. Sometimes I wake up feeling that I've actually spent time with that person. One was a girl I was friends with at school with who sadly died of cancer when she was 15. In the dream she said she couldn't believe I was now married with kids as to her we were both still 15 and I presented as that age to her. We were both sat at a table in a cafe and it felt like I was with her for hours. At the end of the dream she was stood by a door and I asked if I could go with her. She said "no, I have to leave you here, clock is ticking" or something along those lines, then she started to fade away.

Almost never. I had one clear dream about my late husband, about 7 years after he died. It was very difficult as the dream was of me and my now partner on a day out we’d had a few days prior. My late husband was distressed to see me with someone else and I was embarrassed and frightened and didn’t know what to do.

I also had one dream where my late father in law turned up, again quite disapproving.

Luckily I am pretty sure this is my brain doing the things my brain does, believing constantly that I’m getting things wrong, not some kind of spiritual visit.

After my husband died he left a lot of 'stuff' that was no use to me but still of some value, so after a few months I started selling it off. Nearly every time I sold something I'd have a dream/nightmare about him - that he had been missing not dead and come back and I was going to have to confess I'd sold some of his precious things and he'd be absolutely furious and we'd have to give back the life insurance money. These dreams were so realistic - I'd wake up feeling so guilty for selling his things and panicky that I'd comitted fraud by using the insurance money!

Other vivid dreams I've had include dreaming I was being chased - I woke up absolutely pouring with sweat and breathless - just like if I had being running. Other (much more pleasant!) dreams include one of a famous actor who took my hand and led me upstairs and... Even now - that dream was so realistic it almost feels like a memory!