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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:43 PM
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Poll question: Have you ever dreamed of those who have passed on?
If so, is it pleasant or disturbing? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:45 PM
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1. Sometimes it's nice and sometimes it's not. 50/50.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:54 PM
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7. The reason I asked is...
last night I "saw" my Brother we lost several years ago. I don't know how he "communicated" with me, but I felt he was telling me he had not been hurt and could never be hurt. It was somehow comforting.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:59 PM
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11. Glad to know that.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:09 PM
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15. It may have been my subconcious reaction...
to the dangers of the hurricane.
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:49 PM
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2. Yes. Sometimes it's comforting
(like when my mom visits) and sometimes it's disturbing (when it's my best friend from high school who turned out to be a pathological liar and a sociopath)
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:58 PM
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10. I'm so sorry some of our dreams are disturbing, Dear...
All those I've had with Family members have been pleasant and most of the others.
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:50 PM
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3. It's always nasty when I dream about my father.
I have recurring dreams about him and they are freaky.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:04 PM
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12. I'm sorry, Ladyhawk. I'm sure that is rough. :-(
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:51 PM
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4. I have
I used to dream about my mom a lot and that was both pleasant and disturbing. Pleasant because the dreams themselves were so ordinary and comfortable - disturbing because I'd wake up to the realization that it wasn't real.

I still dream about dead friends (I have far more dead friends than I do live ones), relatives and even pets. Sometimes it's just really nice - other times it's bittersweet.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:13 PM
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16. I think we'll find most of us have these sort of dreams...
Here's wishing you more live friends!
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:52 PM
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5. Yes. My Mom and Dad.
They are generally confusing or frustrating, but also generate pleasant feelings.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:15 PM
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17. Good, I'm glad you have some pleasant feelings from them...
There have been some I've had that were nonsensical, too.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:52 PM
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6. Hello to my dear BikeWriter.....
I have not dreamed such dreams...

But my husband has.....Both his parents and his brother are gone now..

It seems to me that his dreams are not unpleasant...he's just around them, and they are doing stuff together.....

No nightmares for him, AFAIK.....


:shrug:
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:17 PM
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19. That's the way my dreams of family are, Peggy.
The nightmares about war are all bad, unfortunately.
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phylny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 06:01 PM
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27. My dreams of my mother are like that, too.
In fact, invariably in the dream, I'll think, "Well, hell, she's had breast cancer for such a long time, I guess the chemo is keeping it all at bay, because she's still alive." In fact, she died 17 years ago.

:loveya:
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:55 PM
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8. I have dreamed about my grandfather several times in the part year
The dreams vary quite a bit. Some are pleasant. Some are disturbing. Unfortunately even when I wake up from the ones that are pleasant, I feel sad because I remember that he is dead.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:21 PM
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20. I'm sorry, Nikia. Yes, their absence...
does seem more intense for a while after "seeing" them.
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Tallison Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 04:55 PM
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9. Only about those who die suddenly/accidently
And the dreams are actually very pleasant, kind of a medium in which my subconscious or whatever the hell has the opportunity to integrate reality with the ideal it held out. I love those dreams. I can't help but feel like something lives on in them.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:27 PM
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21. Those are the ones who generally appear as ghosts, too.
Do you see any correlation there?
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Tallison Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 08:36 PM
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34. I don't know, as I have NEVER SEEN A GHOST
but hope to solicit the attention of one.

That's what they say, though...
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Meatwad Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:05 PM
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13. All the time.
And I even dream of those who have passed that I never met.

Weird, eh? Makes you wonder if there is some kind of afterlife...
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:31 PM
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22. Weird, yes. That's a mystery that may remain unexplained.
It is fascinating though.
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:06 PM
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14. I've dreamed about my mother several times
I wake up missing her acutely, but it's nice to be able to "see" her at all. I've dreamed about my dad a couple of times, with the same feeling, and my sister only once (strangely).
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:35 PM
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23. I feel much the same way, DTBK. It's so very realistic...
when I see them!
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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:15 PM
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18. Sometimes my mother visits me in my dreams
They are usually in strange locations which I can't identify; sometimes she just calls out my name. I've also had dreams about my former pets.

These dreams are not disturbing, just strange.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:38 PM
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24. My Family usually have some sort of message...
It may not relate to anything that's happening at the time, though.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:40 PM
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25. I dream about my great-grandmother all the time.
The dreams are always very comforting and pleasant.
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Lady President Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 05:58 PM
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26. Disturbing, but the loss is recent
I dream quite often about my father who died 2 months ago. Unfortunately, in the dreams he is the last stages of his life when he was so sick and in so much pain. I think it might be my subconscious trying to remind me that it's better that he's not suffering.

I do believe that as I begin to better accept his death that I'll remember him during our normal happy times.
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 07:16 PM
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28. I would welcome
any dream that include my Father or Mother.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 07:46 PM
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29. I was very close to my grandmother.
She died 10 years ago and I have had dreams about her that are so real that I wake up crying and feeling her in the room and around me for a really long time through the day.

The only reason I classify them as disturbing is because I miss her so very much that they upset me. The dreams themselves are not disturbing. It was the hardest loss to date in my life.
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 07:50 PM
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30. Other: one very vivid dream of my father
and yes, it was pleasant, to say the least.
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 07:51 PM
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31. My father, just last night
Edited on Sun Sep-25-05 07:52 PM by El Fuego
Funny you should post that...I was talking about it a few minutes ago.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 08:03 PM
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32. I frequently dream of my mother, dead for over 30 years.
In my dreams, she has neither aged nor changed one whit. I, OTOH, have aged, grown, changed - and my mother can't understand why I don't cower and do her bidding.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 08:09 PM
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33. Yes, but I can't answer whether it is disturbing or pleasant.
I think the overall vibe I get is pleasant, but don't have any specific dream details to call upon.
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Groggy Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 08:37 PM
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35. I have very vivid dreams of my Mom
She passed away 2 years ago. She holds me in my dreams..they are so real. I could swear she was communicating with me. I suppose someone could say its just wishful thinking but....the dreams are so darn REAL. when I wake up I can remember the softness of what she was wearing and remember what she felt like. I've only had those particular dreams probably less than a handful of times. In fact, the last one was just last week.

It is very pleasant and comforting.
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