Can a deceased loved one visit you in your dreams? Many people claim that they have experienced dream visitations. In these dreams, the spirit of a loved one appears suddenly and unexpectedly either during or after a normal dream. Often their image will be brighter, and their surroundings quite vivid.

Why do they come?

I think they come into our dreams because we shut them out when we’re awake. The majority of us are taught that ghosts are the products of the crazy and delusional. They come to us through our dreams because we are in a more “open” state when we are asleep.

Quoted from Esoteric Dreams:

Deceased relatives are certainly frequent visitors in these kinds of dreams. They may come to comfort the dreamer, to let him know that they are all right, that death is not what it seems, not the end. They may come to give some helpful advice, or to set the dreamer straight. Sometimes they will even come to ask a favor of the dreamer. (In one case, a murder victim appeared to the dreamer, and revealing the identity of the murderer, seemed to ask the dreamer to see to it that justice was served.)

Are they real?

Skeptics will have you believe that these visitations are nothing more than the biproduct of a distraught mind. While that may be true with many cases, I feel that we have no solid clues about the afterlife. For many of us, seeing is believing.

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