Has anyone had this happen? I feel even strange admitting it, but after my brother left I swear I head his voice. I really think he talked to me. I saw a figure of him in these trees at the cemetery and he said to me that he loves me and I am going to be okay. I must be wanting to hear and feel this right? It was so real. I could even tell you what I saw him wearing and exactly where I stood and he was standing. I know I sound crazy, but has anyone else had those unbelievable sightings or heard those unimaginably sounds?
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Yes, I have felt my brothers presence and even heard and smelled his closeness to me. No you are not crazy. I believe our loved ones come and go to make sure we are okay. Lynn
Lynn-
I loved your all your post. You make me feel normal and not so crazy. The love you hold for Denny is similar to my love for Bry!! Thank you for sharing. Your thoughts help so many people.
Yes, i did have an experience like that it was my brother in law. I was young and laying in bed trying to fall asleep and I had seen him. He was saying good-bye and it just seemed like I was dreaming or something. It was so surreal I didn’t even know he had passed on yet. It was the night he died and I still think it was some sort of dream that somehow because in a sense we are all connected in someway that as he passed I pictured him. I don’t know exactly how to explain it. It was comforting though when I learned of his passing. I don’t think our loved ones come and go to “check up on us” that would be torture to some who have passed I would think. To see their loved ones crying for them and not being able to reach out. but if I did see what I saw and it was not a dream then as he went from this life to the next I was blessed to get a good-bye.
Nina-
That is a surreal experience and I like the bit about tourture seeing our loved ones again. Thanks for sharing and letting us know that it is not only the siblings directly, but also the in-laws that are deeply affected by the loss too.
I have not had this experience. In the days that followed my sisters sudden death,I have waited for something like this to happen. It however, has not happened to me. I have a close friend that had a dream. My sisters friends have spoken about having similar dreams of seeing her. I told myself, that now I will find out about these types of myths. I still wait….. hoping that she will come to me in a dream. If it is only for the moment I have with her, to see her or to hear her voice. I don’t doubt that it will happen, my guess is that this thing that I want soo badly, will come on it’s own terms.She will never be here on this earth with me in the flesh. She will however be in my thoughts and in my memories every day, untill we meet again.
I understand exactly what you are saying when you say you feel crazy to admit it… but I see/feel my brother with me daily. The early morning my brother passed I woke up overly emotional and got sick, and only to find out 5 hours later the time I woke up was the time he passed. It has been two months to the day today and I have seen my brother in my dreams each evening, along with other passed relatives with him. Additionally, 1 week after he passed my phone began deleting each night at the same time. For the first month I thought I was crazy or that Verizon owed me a new phone, but now it only happens on the nights I am very emotional and need to know he is ok. I know I am fortunate for this, but I do believe that the deceased show themselves at different points in loved ones lives, and if your brother or sister hasn’t yet, don’t lose hope because I know they will come to you.
Thank you for sharing something that brings hope to all of us. The feeling of having our siblings close to us again. Thank you.
Stevie,
I think part of the struggle is hoping for something so unclear and misunderstood. Thanks for the comments, they help many more brothers and sisters than you realize.
I would give anything if my brother could come to me, even in a dream and tell me that he’s ok, that everything is ok. I miss him so so much, but I never dream about him. It makes me sad.
I have been hoping that my brother will come to me in a dream to let me know he is okay but that has not happened yet. My brother only passed a short time ago. (friday will be 4 weeks).
I do think that he has sent me signs though. While preparing a poem for his funeral, I reached a point in my poem where I expressed that I know he is looking down on me and he is now my guardian angel. At that point i was just about to erase those lines because I thought it was maybe a little silly, then my two children were playing down the hall and my five year old told my two year old at that very moment that “he would play the angel and he would look down from heaven.” I don’t know if I’m crazy or if my brother sent that message through my son. Needless to say I left those lines in my poem.
A few days ago I was sitting in my basement doing some laundry. I was listening to a cd and the next song was coming on when it stopped. I was already upset that day and yelled jokingly at the cd player from across the room “Justin if your here can u fix this??” No joke right after I said that the song came on super loud. Then I thanked him. I don’t know if it really happened and he was really there but it makes me feel better at least thinking its true. Also my 6yr old daughter told me my brother sits in the backseat with her sometimes. Ive heard that children are more perceptive to spirits-I wonder if theres any truth to back it…?
I believe in spirits of our loved ones talking to us. There is an awesome book called “The Message” that was given to me about a month before my brother suddenly died. I know I was prepared for his death. Maybe I was prepared because I actually feel more pain from my mother’s abusive responses and reaction to my brother’s death. My family is very dysfunctional. I have felt my brother everywhere especially about 11 days after. Now I don’t fell him as close so often. My dogs even saw him and felt him. He touched me also one night when I was sobbing listening to some music. I was in bed and I felt him put his hand on my ankle. He threw a butterfly and some flowers at my husband at the funeral. I also felt a warmth come into my body at his service when I was really struggling. He whispered to me that he knew what I had been going through and he would be there for me. I feel like my brother is my heavenly bodyguard now. I feel he often speaks to me through music. My brother loved music. I also believe that God has angels and miracles lined up to help me go through this time. I can relate to the feeling that Justin’s sister writes about. I also feel like my brother can read my mind. Many times I have thought something then Tim does something to answer the question and confirm to me he hears my thoughts. I knew my black lab saw Tim one morning, but the next day I wondered if my chihuaha could see him too. As I was thinking this I came out of the bathroom and was looking at pebbles and suddenly she jumped as she was dreamily staring at me. I know my brother poked her! I laughed so hard. I just love my brother so much! I’m not sure how all this works, but I do know the more I wonder and pray to know and to feel Tim I do. When it happens it is one of the best feelings ever. I feel close to God and my brother when it does happen. I feel it is important for people to know that I am LDS also. I do not do any drugs, not even caffeine. Perhaps this helps? I also believe that when we follow God’s commandments we are closer to the spirit. I can’t wait to see my brother again! HE is awesome! My brother was a survivor of a kidnapping, family dysfuntion, and he became a sheriff. I love him, he is one of my heroes.
Yes. I have. I see my dad occasionally always away from the house in places I cannot stop and stare or approach him. Usually he is another car going the opposite way. I think his spirit watches over me. It reminds me of him and gives me comfort. I am okay with it and don’t believe it is crazy at all. I feel fortunate that he is checking on me and my family.
Yes. I have. I see my dad occasionally always away from the house in places I cannot stop and stare or approach him. Usually he is another car going the opposite way. I think his spirit watches over me. It reminds me of him and gives me comfort. I am okay with it and don’t believe it is crazy at all. I feel fortunate that he is checking on me and my family.
I found this site as I am contemplating the loss of my brother. He is in final stages of cancer. I am searching for ways to comfort him so he can die in peace.
My brohter died in his sleep on the 25th of September 2010. In April, june and july i told my husband of three dreams that i had. Each dream was the same. My brother was in his bed, and had passed away. I saw him on his bed. This is how i say him on the day he dies when i had to identify him.I never had this dream after July 2010.
Since his passing, he has come back to me in a dream. I though it was my sub-concious, but deep down i knew it was not like a ‘normal dream’. He came back to me and said :’It was not meant to happen this way”, ‘I am OK”, “I have been busy” “Stop worrying about me”
It was more detailed and real then my above stated comments. In fact i could not get the experience out of my head………… I am not a medium or any thing like that. My Father had the same experience. i believe our loved ones do come back to try and make us feel better. It does not make us feel better, beacuse we expect them to keep coming back.They do try and connect all the time. I am already starting to see the signs.I was scared of them, now i cant wait for them.
what a gift…
I had a “dream” as I awakened one morning after my big brother died suddenly.
I was reading a picture with a handwritin message on it.
It was my brother’s handwriting, saying he was with “the one who left early” and that they were working hard on something, (some kind of project of importance).
As I read the message I focused on the black and white picture. It was a picture of our baby sister who died when we all were kids.
Another moring I awoke to him hugging me.
Another morning shortly after his death, i awoke to his face right in front of mine. He looked normal, but his pupils were bright white light, instead of black. How strange that was.
I beleive that in grief, our minds are scrambling images together trying to cope with the deepest pain there is, and trying to restart normality. And that’s all it really is.
Hi. I hope that you take comfort that your brother has come to you in your dreams … of course, there is no real comfort at all, but I am a person who also lost her best friend on the planet just 3 weeks ago to a sudden heart attack. She was 51 and I am 52 but we still looked and acted young for our age … she has not let me know that she is okay. I worry so much about her. My pain is unfathomable and any dream with her in it would help me. I am so glad that your brother hugged you and my hope is that you have more dreams to come. Best wishes even though our lives have been changed forever.
Thank you Jules, and my condolence on your loss. I thought for sure my brother would come in a dream the next day or so after he died, to show me there in fact is something after death. Hard as I cried, he did not come until about a month after. Be patient, dreams come when they come. I read somewhere that dreams have more to do with the Dreamer, than the Dreamed Of. It’s all such a mystery and the power of the mind is amazing. But I must say, the dream where he came back to hug me was the most powerful thing I ever dreamed and I think of it often…..even if I did dream it up myself.
Visitation dreams are real. People don’t make them up
Sadly, it does not happen to everyone. This does not mean they are made up.
Check out a book called Grief dreams. TJ Wray. There are better resources but this is a good starting point I think.
That happened to me too.
sometimes when i think about my brother, i cd imagine him looking at me and smiling.
He was just 9 years old, and he passed away 3 years ago, but i cant forget him, and i always beleive that hes watching me right now.
God bless u all
I have both heard and seen my brother after he died. I was 11 and he was 15 when he died in a fire. During the first few weeks, I saw him in my bedroom 3 different times. Actually it had been his room. Each time I saw him, I’d go wake my parents up to tell them David was in my room. My dad would check but not find him. The last time I saw him, he was standing in my doorway and told me, “You can’t have my room.” My parents moved me to a diffferent bedroom after that. Years later I dreamed I saw him in a field. I was so excited, I started running toward him, hollering his name. When I finally got to him there was a narrow stream of water between us. I started to step over the water, when David told me to stop, that I couldn’t come where he was. I said, “Why not? But I want you David!” He calmly said, “Because you have to go back. You can’t come where I am. You have to go back.” Confused and sad, I turned back and walked away. I know he was trying to tell me that it was ok, that I needed to go on with my life. It was a turning point for me. God bless you on your journey.