I’m happy I had that experience nearly to years ago… but nothing since… I want to believe but it’s difficult when no one else around you understands … I still am finding it unbelievable that I found him and to be honest feel guilty that although I’ve no come to terms that h gone - it’s the finding him that has fucked m up! 
Yes, my dog and I both heard my husband call his name. My dog was digging a hole, heard his name, perked up, looked at the balcony, then me, then tilted his head confused. We both heard it.
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That’s the hardest isn’t it when you tell people about your experiences and they make you feel like you’re going crazy, it certainly doesn’t help the doubt does it! I am having an hard time believing at the moment and keep wondering what the point in life is, if there’s nothing after! I’m holding onto the hope that there is and we will see our loved ones again! X
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@Jess1 i meditate daily and then talk to my parents - ive noticed recently i will get a sort of sensation of a chill/shivers but i had assumed its cos ive not got the heating on high and im sat on the floor! So youve got me wondering now! 
Is there any particular meditation technique you find particularly helpful? I also started going for reiki healing and ive found a few days after the healing, i have a big emotional outburst followed then by a much clearer dream about my Mum.
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The chills I feel from time to time don’t feel like the chills you get when you’re cold, in fact I find it hard to explain exactly! Actually do you ever get shivers when you listen to music that makes you feel good? Well it’s sort of like that but more intense!
I should meditate daily but I have a lot of stuff going on right now.
When I do meditate, I just let my thoughts go on because there is no point in trying to stop them, a lot of people seem to think they’re not doing it right if they’re thinking about things which isn’t true.
I’m supposed to be arranging some sort of healing myself because I’m really struggling at the moment!
Apparently reiki is supposed to help open the chakras so maybe that’s why you are able to connect more strongly!
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I feel my partner is around and I believe she has contacted me. I tried to put myself into a relaxed state and just let thoughts come to me as questions. The strange thing about this was that the answers seemed to come really quickly, and some before I had properly formed the questions.
I also have seen pictures in my head; a long time ago relating to a friend of ours who had died, but we didn’t know and, more recently one from my partner.
Some people would say such things are wishful thinking, imagination or even madness, but I don’t think all of it is. It’s a comforting feeling as well.
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Keep an open mind yea, I had things pop into my mind like memories and so quick. I done a few spirituality video conferencing via messenger. It’s does leave you thinking, if you want to pursue this further there will be spiritualist churches in your area.
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That’s so good to hear @Dublingirl . You will feel comforted by his visit. I have had a few dreams similar to yours and have woken up feeling refreshed and loved. S always said that after death there is nothing, he laughed at me going to church. But I know he will be waiting for me, I have absolutely no doubt about it.
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My mum passed away nearly 2 weeks ago and I was on the phone to my dad the other morning I was telling him to worry about bills etc and in the background a voice said “nooo don’t get yourself worrying about all that” I was shocked and asked my dad if my brother was there to which he replied no he was on his own. We are certain it was my mum! It was so surreal. I can’t explain it. After talking to other family members about it they said it was something my mum would say.
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That’s a lovely dream and I am glad it gave you comfort. I, too, am an atheist, but certain things make me certain there is a life beyond this one and a good one. My partner particularly believed in “signs” that I used to gently tease her about. Now I see such things all the time. Some I can logically write off, but the majority seem to be of the " See, you silly man, she has survived!" kind
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I’ve not had another experience since that ‘night’ … but that just makes me believe it wasn’t a dream… cos I was wide awake! … still suffering… still can’t believe that it happened to me /feel sorry for myself… it engulfs you… ?
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Hi jewell_12,
I have just had a similar experience. I lost my wife six weeks ago and I wasn’t expecting a sign or anything. I’m not particularly religious nor do I believe one way or another in an afterlife.
Last night, I woke up to find I was being squeezed around my body and felt an arm and a hand around my waist. When I touched the hand I realised it was my wife. I was wide awake and looking around the room so I am as certain as I can be that I wasn’t dreaming.
I felt a pressure on my back as if I was being cuddled from behind. This lasted about a minute until the squeezing lessened and slipped away. The bed creaked slightly as this happened but I wasn’t moving.
Lillian always said if she died first she would come back to me. I have thought about this over and over and I believe that was her way of doing it. Until last night, I never thought it was possible.
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It was Lillian. Was the way you were touched the same as her touch? I bet it was.
I had a few experiences like that in the early weeks and they felt just the way S would put his arms round me or hold my hand. Even the way my shoulder would just fit right under his arm.
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It was exactly the same, even down to how tightly she squeezed me. It was definitely Lillian.
I’m glad you said you had a few experiences of S visiting you in the same way as I am hoping it wasn’t Lillian saying a last goodbye.
It would be easy to say I dreamt it or imagined it but I was definitely wide awake and fully conscious.
I now fully believe that loved ones can visit us after they have gone. I never thought I would say that but my experience was so real I know it wasn’t my mind playing tricks on me.
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Hi Dave,
I’m sorry to hear your loss. I haven’t had another ‘experience’ since then… However a good few years back - I woke up and my nan’s silhouette face was floating in front of me and then smiled - it freaked me out a bit as I wasn’t dreaming of her cos she died 25 years ago… it has opened up my mind that there is another dimension after we pass… I’m not religious and don’t believe in the bible sect.
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Hi Jewell_12,
I’m not religious either and never really believed in an afterlife but after reading about other experiences like yours I am now starting to believe there could well be.
When I felt Lillian cuddle me it was physical. She squeezed me and I didn’t imagine it. I was wide awake.
Lillian always said she would come back to me if she died first and she did it. I haven’t felt anything since and I just hope it wasn’t her way of saying a last goodbye.
I just want her back so, so much.
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I think where ever you can pull inspiration and support to carry on with life is a blessing. There’s a not lot of support out there. There should be more. I been hit with a double blow in a space of a year losing mum August 23 and then being diagnosed with Myeloma Cancer in June this year. I had a pre Stem Cell meeting yesterday, I had to deal with it on my own. I was told 2,3 percent of death and if I caught a infection I would end up on intensive care. Time I got into town I felt out of synch with the world. I felt like a dead man walking, take what you can the both of you to help you.
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I dreamt of my great grandma as she was in the only photo I’d seen of her, dressed for her golden wedding anniversary.
She was sat across from me in my grandma’s hospice room and I knew she was there to take her away. I woke up to a text my mam had just sent, that she was gone.
I’ve never been spiritual or religious, so I still don’t know what to make of it.
On the topic of anniversaries, grandma and grandad celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in the hospice. The way they loved each other was soul wrenching. She passed in April after battling terminal cancer for 5 years, he died 3 months later from broken heart syndrome.
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Hi @emily98 ,
I’ve never been a religious person either, though am spiritual, I believe in fate, & that our loved ones can send us messages.
Recently I have had a few dreams of my mom, I believe she is trying to warn me about something, last week I dreamt I walked into our sitting room, the room was decorated with Christmas decorations, sparkly streamers & tinsel, but there were black ones amongst them, & mom was sat on the sofa, talking to me, I can’t remember what she said, but she sounded like normal, but I felt she was talking to me.
Earlier this week, I dreamt I was getting married, but the weird thing is, I was dressed in my old school uniform, black jumper, black trousers, & smart black shoes, & a white shirt, I’d chosen to walk to the church, & mom was standing just up the steps waiting for me, also dressed in black, all the guests were walking into the church, but outside there was a funeral being performed in the graveyard, it was at that moment I looked at what I was wearing & thought, “I can’t get married in this,” I ran out of the church, looking for somewhere near by where I could quickly buy a dress & change, with mom following me, as luck would have it, I found one just as it was closing, & a gorgeous blue dress in the window, I quickly explained to the woman, I was getting married, could I buy the blue dress in the window, she said ok, got the dress for me, but when I pulled out my purse to pay for it, I found I had foreign notes, they were green & red, I don’t know where they were from, but in the dream I thought they were Mongolian, but gladly I found some of the right money, that’s where I woke up, I sense mom might of been warning me of a death.
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I saw my husband a few weeks after he died. And then a week after I felt him get into bed with me . The mattress dipped and I was petrified until he put his arm over me and I felt his beard in my neck. I don’t know if I imagined it all or not. I told one of my sons who just said don’t overthink it just take it and be comforted.
I read a book after that called Signs by Laura lynne Jackson. It came up on Amazon unexpectedly , a sign? and I bought it. I feel I don’t need to delve any further than that. I’ve never asked for anymore signs.
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