staticgirl
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Impybat, your dreams sounds most unsettling and I expect they might have put you in a low mood for a while. I hope you have since shaken that off.
Hi staticgirl, thank you and yeah they did but things are better now.Impybat, your dreams sounds most unsettling and I expect they might have put you in a low mood for a while. I hope you have since shaken that off.
I once had a similar experience between sleep and waking, but the being who appeared to me was the pet cat of a friend of mine! His demanor resembled that of a very bashful and adorable little old man, but was it unmistakably the cat.An old guy who was an acquaintance of mine years ago appear in a dream (not exactly a dream but that place between being awake and asleep) . . .
The following week I heard he had died around about the same day I had the strange dream, had few similar things happen especially in the liminal space between sleep.
There is a view in some Christian thought that in the afterlife you are restored to 33 years old, the age Christ died. Good if you are over that, not so good if you are younger. I like it, also the idea that everyone gets 1 acre and a tree . I'm not sure whether I want a Rowan, a Silver Birch, an Oak or a Larch. I've planted all of those round my house except the Silver Birch which was there already.Something I’ve noticed about dreaming about my dead family members - and this is pretty much a nightly occurrence - is that they are always younger, usually significantly so, than when they actually died.
Damn I wish I'd bothered to record my dream last night as there are only image fragments left and impossible to reconstruct a coherent account of any plot detail.
For me it’s a comfort that Derek and Sam are finally together...That's interesting and explains a lot about how the spirit guides seem to be particular types.
Trouble with that is, 2000 years ago in Syria, 33 might be a respectable old age. So is it a literal Jesus age or the modern equivalent (88)?There is a view in some Christian thought that in the afterlife you are restored to 33 years old, the age Christ died. Good if you are over that, not so good if you are younger. I like it, also the idea that everyone gets 1 acre and a tree . I'm not sure whether I want a Rowan, a Silver Birch, an Oak or a Larch. I've planted all of those round my house except the Silver Birch which was there already.
I don't know whether those ideas come from the Bible or not.
Common misconception. Because so many people died young, it looks like what you say. But actually if you managed to survive childhood , diseases, famines, war and so on people didn't age much more rapidly than now. Which was why, up until the 20th century, old people were so revered - they had survived.Trouble with that is, 2000 years ago in Syria, 33 might be a respectable old age. So is it a literal Jesus age or the modern equivalent (88)?
Wasn't Celebrity Ghosts Stories made up or over exaggerated ?Taking the account at face value for the purpose of speculation, there are a number of other things it makes sense of.
I've been intending a few times to start a post about that tv show i keep mentioning, Celebrity Ghost Stories, or more to the point about the interesting patterns which emerge when you've watched a large number of accounts of apparition encounters over multiple episodes and seasons. One of the repeated features - i must have seen at least 4 or 5 stories on that show that involve this - is of a ball of light appearing in the witness's room at night. Sometimes it remains as such, other times it morphs partly or wholly into a recognisable person.
It's immediately interesting to me to wonder if this represents confirmation of "Lois's" sense of herself as being a ball of energy.
Well let's go with that. We can skip past whether some "orbs" are more than dust specks and give a few moments thought to what it would mean to be a formless ball of energy, to exist without a body. I imagine when most of us contemplate the possibility of an afterlife we people it with physical forms, including our own in some "astral body" indistinguishable from our earthly one. To discard that comforting notion for one of being truly discarnate is at first very unsettling. What kind of existence would that be? But, again taking Lois's reported words as real and accurate it becomes less disturbing. If say you left your body at death and 'met' your dead loved ones - if the act of "projecting your appearance into their minds" was a mutual thing, how indistinguishable would it be from waking reality? Sound, touch and taste would presumably just as mutually transferable with your thoughts. When we dream at night our dream selves have no literal physical form, but it does as far as it's concerned. This would also explain the oft reported claim via mediums that this "summerland" realm, like dreaming, involves changing your physical surroundings with a mere thought. Apparitions and hauntings she appears to have partially explained. Perhaps poltergeist activities and the meaningful coincidences of after death communications are the increased psi abilities of an un-encased mind.
Wasn't Celebrity Ghosts Stories made up or over exaggerated ?
I got it mixed up with some American one which with a episode with Natasha Henstridge and Bret Micheals and thanks to watching that I never watch another again.I've only seen one or two episodes. The one that sticks in my mind is where a female TV presenter* went to look at a house she was considering buying. She found it totally empty except for a full-sized coffin, which her mother sat on!
Diamons and her mother had been let in by the last owner, who was, she discovered later, actually dead at the time.
The purchase was not made. I'd have jumped at it!
*For some reason I misremember the presenter as Gloria Hunniford when it was actually Anne Diamond.
So maybe what I have mentioned before on this forum about the swirling wave like mist in my room could of been that deceased energy and maybe if I watched it for a bit longer it would of took to a form of a person ?Taking the account at face value for the purpose of speculation, there are a number of other things it makes sense of.
I've been intending a few times to start a post about that tv show i keep mentioning, Celebrity Ghost Stories, or more to the point about the interesting patterns which emerge when you've watched a large number of accounts of apparition encounters over multiple episodes and seasons. One of the repeated features - i must have seen at least 4 or 5 stories on that show that involve this - is of a ball of light appearing in the witness's room at night. Sometimes it remains as such, other times it morphs partly or wholly into a recognisable person.
It's immediately interesting to me to wonder if this represents confirmation of "Lois's" sense of herself as being a ball of energy.
Well let's go with that. We can skip past whether some "orbs" are more than dust specks and give a few moments thought to what it would mean to be a formless ball of energy, to exist without a body. I imagine when most of us contemplate the possibility of an afterlife we people it with physical forms, including our own in some "astral body" indistinguishable from our earthly one. To discard that comforting notion for one of being truly discarnate is at first very unsettling. What kind of existence would that be? But, again taking Lois's reported words as real and accurate it becomes less disturbing. If say you left your body at death and 'met' your dead loved ones - if the act of "projecting your appearance into their minds" was a mutual thing, how indistinguishable would it be from waking reality? Sound, touch and taste would presumably just as mutually transferable with your thoughts. When we dream at night our dream selves have no literal physical form, but it does as far as it's concerned. This would also explain the oft reported claim via mediums that this "summerland" realm, like dreaming, involves changing your physical surroundings with a mere thought. Apparitions and hauntings she appears to have partially explained. Perhaps poltergeist activities and the meaningful coincidences of after death communications are the increased psi abilities of an un-encased mind.
Catseye maybe a lot of us are dreaming of deceased parents because we are all being told what to do by governments at the moment.Last night I had a dream of my dad. It was also an horrific dream (for me) and I debated putting it in the vivid dreaming thread, but since that is already 98% me, I thought I'd come here for this one.
I dreamed that I woke up shouting 'Daddy!' but I was unable to shout. You know that kind of half-whisper that is all you can produce in dreams? I sat up, still trying to cry out and I was back in my childhood bedroom, with my brother asleep in the other bed. He looked to be about eight (we moved into separate rooms a year or so later). I carried on trying to shout and eventually went in to find my father asleep in the other room, alone in the double bed (my mother should have been there, and if my brother was eight, I would have been about ten). I felt like a child. My dad was aged roughly 40, as he would have been when I was ten.
I finally managed to shout out, and then woke up. I don't know if I shouted out IRL as there's nobody here but the dog to hear me. I woke in a strange feeling of dread, as though someone was in the house and moving around (couldn't happen: because of Dog). So maybe a mixture of sleep paralysis (unable to shout, plus the dread on waking) and a bad dream, but I have NEVER dreamed of myself as younger before.
One man from Australia, Robert Bruce, who writes about astral projection says that when your consciousness travels on astral (or other) planes, memories have to be transferred to your physical brain on "re-entry,"( f you want to call it that). If you don't do that, you don't recall the journey. Even if such experiences and dreams are "all in your head," your brain still has to move short term memories into long term memory for you to recall things later. Short term memories come from working memory, which only lasts a few seconds. If you are interrupted or distracted before memories move from working memory to short term memory, those memories go "poof!"Makes you wonder like a Alien Abduction when some abductees have some or most of their memories erased about the experiences and I wonder if in our dreams we do venture to other worlds, afterlife but then they erase most/all of experience before go back to sleep mode.
Thats really interesting as i'm a quite distracted/dreamy type of bloke but often wonder you can have dreams of your passed life ( if it's true) and how to bring them on.One man from Australia, Robert Bruce, who writes about astral projection says that when your consciousness travels on astral (or other) planes, memories have to be transferred to your physical brain on "re-entry,"( f you want to call it that). If you don't do that, you don't recall the journey. Even if such experiences and dreams are "all in your head," your brain still has to move short term memories into long term memory for you to recall things later. Short term memories come from working memory, which only lasts a few seconds. If you are interrupted or distracted before memories move from working memory to short term memory, those memories go "poof!"
Catseye maybe a lot of us are dreaming of deceased parents because we are all being told what to do by governments at the moment.
We have had our adult choices taken away and wait until we are told what to do next, just as we did when we were children.
I am in a very large hangar type building – it’s clearly derelict or rarely used, it’s huge and dark and water is dripping from the rafters, and in the middle distance, illuminated by an inspection lamp, I can see a metal gurney with a shrouded body on top of it.