Hello Folks!
Just thought I'd make my first post on this topic, as I've recently had a strange dream about my close friend who passed away very unexpectedly almost exactly a year ago.
About 2 months ago, I had a very bad night, as I was woken up three times from nightmares in one night. I don't normally have nightmares that are scary enough to wake me, (maybe three in the last 15 years) so having three in one night is strange in itself. The first 2 dreams, I don't remember the details, but what was strange about them is that I couldn't wake up right away, and had to literally fight my way back to waking.
The third dream was very vivid, and started with me dreaming that I was laying in my bed, on my stomach, with my arms crossed under the pillow, and my head turned to the right, sleeping, (which is how I was actually positioned at the time). This is the first dream I can remember that I was sleeping in a dream. In the dream, I felt the pillow being pulled out from under my head, which woke me up inside the dream. At the same time as I was trying to wake in the dream, my friend was standing beside the bed, on my left, shaking me with his hand on my back, and telling me repeatedly to "wake up!" I could actually feel him shaking me, pushing me slightly into the bed, and moving my body.
I struggled to wake up and see what he wanted from me, and finally actually woke up this time. I lay there for a minute thinking what a weird dream that was, and how I can't recall ever having felt things physically in a dream, (except for falling/flying dreams I had when young!) I then rolled over and looked at the space where he would have been standing if he was actually there, and saw a dark shape, vaguely human sized, against the wall. I brushed this off as an outline of a poster that I have on the wall, seen in a very dark room. I then rolled over and went back to sleep.
When I awoke, the first thing I thought was that maybe he was trying to warn me about something, so had a look around the house, no smoke, fire, flood or attempted break-ins, so it wasn't a warning about immediate dangers. (good thing too, as I slept another 2-3 hours after the dream!) This dream stayed with me all day, as I was wondering if it was a message, a simple dream or what!?
Anyway, I went to bed the next night, still thinking about the dream. But as I'm laying there, I'm thinking about the dark shape I saw next to the bed, when I was definitely fully awake, and that it was certainly the poster that I saw. So I turned my head, expecting to see a dark outline, but in the dark, the tone of the poster almost exactly matches the colour of the wall, and definitely doesn't present a dark outline like I thought it did.
Now looking back, I wish I had been able to stop myself from waking fully, as I feel like my friend had something to say to me, and that I missed the chance to get some important piece of information.
Cheers!