Dreams

Coping with bereavement
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It will be 4 years this April since I suddenly lost my wife Pat, it is only within the last few weeks have I recalled starting having dreams involving her, anyone else noted the same?

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Hello @Mick1836 ,

I’m so sorry for the loss of your wife. Thank you for sharing this with us. I’m just giving your thread a gentle, “bump” for you - hopefully someone will have some thoughts to share.

Take good care,
Alex

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Hi @Mick1836
My mom passed 3 years this April, I have had many dreams with her in off & on over those 3 years, in some of them she was like how I remember her before she got sick, & a few she was like she was in her final months, at that time she was very incoherent, didn’t understand simple things, she died of brain tumors, it was very traumatic. At first I found dreaming of mom distressing, but I’m slowly getting used to it, now I’ve had time to come to terms that she’s gone.

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Hi Mick1836. It will be 4 years this April for me since i lost my husband Peter in the last 2 weeks i have been having dreams about him one the other night was extremly vivid we were in the car i was driving and were going to pick my freind up and take her to pick her car up Peter didnt even know this freind as i have only known her since he died it was lovely to have him by my side again. Take care. Jenny.

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It’s just over a year since I lost my wife, but have regularly had dreams about her, some very vivid. I find them comforting until I wake up and realise that…it’s only dream :sleepy:

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Thanks for sharing on here @Mick1836 about dreaming of your departed loved one. I have only mentioned it to my counsellor, and once to my mother, that I have not dreamt about my husband (as yet in 2 years 2 months & 3 weeks). I think about him every day, several times of day. He is carried in my being as if he were still alive, but I know he has gone.
Several friends who have been bereaved have said they dream of their loved ones who have died. My teenage son has dreams about his Dad, sometimes he tells me they are unsettling dreams, other times he just knows his Dad is there.
We truly are amazingly wired creatures! :blush:

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