Receiving messages BEFORE a loved one passes

[cemeterysara]

I have had several experiences when loved ones die, that shortly before they die, I have a sudden, vivid memory of them. Always something exceptionally happy that leaves me with a big grin on my face. It's like they're sharing a last moment with me or showing me how they want me to remember them. Has anyone else had a similar experience and what did it mean to you?
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Sara

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[deja_vu]

Always something exceptionally happy that leaves me with a big grin on my face. It's like they're sharing a last moment with me or showing me how they want me to remember them.



Hi Sara...
I have never experienced this myself but I am excited to see if others have. I think it's a beautiful gift that you are being given though!!!

Laurie

[hoot_n_howl]

Here are two stories that are told in my family:

The first was with my grandfather. He was doing something around the house when suddenly he saw his sister standing in the room. She told him she came to say Goodbye. When he asked her where she was going she said she was going to heaven and that she was going to die, so she wanted to say Goodbye. He found out that she had passed away that same night.

The second one involved my great grandmother. Her young nephew came to her door and told her he wouldnt be seeing her anymore. She said, "Of course you will honey, you can come see me whenver you want to". He said Goodbye and gave her a kiss. She later found out he had been killed in an accident.
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[gspceo253]

Good topic! I've actually had SEVERAL incidences where I've KNOWN that people were going to pass away before it actually happened. Let me explain... I had a strong urge to go home. I was insistant to the point that I took a bus home from college so I could be there. My grandmother passed away the next day. I was 15 and at school when I knew my other grandmother was going to pass. I don't know how I knew though. When my grandfather passed away, I was walking in the backyard and felt some kind of wave of sadness and happiness. I went in the house and told David that my grandfather had just died. About 5-10 mins later the phone rang, instead of saying hello, I just said, Granddaddy's dead. It was my sister. She was SHOCKED that I knew. I had a dream that I guy I was friends with growing up, had died. I was a freshman in college and found out that not only did he die, but no one called to tell me until the day of the funeral only hours before it was going to take place. I don't see the people who are going to die, I just KNOW! Wonder why?
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[denisee]

My sister, brother and I all had intuitions concerning our Mother's death the week before she died. She was not in perfect health - had a heart problem and smoked too much - however, she was working full time and getting along ok. She was very young, only 56.

I don't know how to explain it other than an unspoken knowingness between the three of us.

[hoot_n_howl]

My grandfather had another interesting thing happen. He told everyone one day that his mother had died. When they asked how he knew he said that the picture of her hanging on the wall just jumped off the wall, crashed to the floor, and shattered. They said Oh youre just being silly, the picture just fell. Turns out...She had died!
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[GhostAuthor]

Wow! I thought I was the only one......
I had a dream 2 weeks before my grandmother died. She called me in the dream and told me she was going to die. I woke up crying because I didn't get the chance to say good-bye in the dream. I called her and went to visit her days later.
She wasn't in poor health, so there were no indications anything was wrong. However, one week after I had been to visit her, she died.
My family said she came to me to tell me because of the close connection we always had.
It always has freaked me out a bit to talk about, because I figured people would think I'm crazy.
Nothing of the kind has happened since, but I suspect if I do dream of someone dying again, I'll pay more attention.
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[hoot_n_howl]

GhostAuthor, How awsome that you were able to get that one last visit in!! Some dreams are so vivid and different, we just know it has meaning!! Im glad you responded quickly after yours so you didnt have regrets later on!
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[C]

I never had any dreams or anything. One thing does come to mind. When I was little my aunt who was in her 30's at the time had brain cancer. Since she lived far my parents flew to see her and left me alone with my teenage sister for a few nights. Well there is this old music twist doll that was passed down in our family. My grandmother gave it to my aunt and my aunt gave it to my sister. When my sister reached her 20's it ended up in my room.

One night it started to play. It would stop for a bit then start again. My sister was so freaked about it she tossed it. I snuck out and hid it until my parents came home. My dad said it must be broken but it was odd that it never did it again and the night it did play was the night my aunt died.

[Ashleigh]

When I was a baby, my mother was doing some cleaning. Her brother (my uncle), Matt, was visiting and helping out. He was 10 years old. My mother said Matt was pulling stuff out of a closet and, as she watched him, she suddenly saw him as an adult. He turned around and smiled at her. Then she blinked and the adult Matt was gone and the real Matt was still digging through the closet. A week later, Matt was killed by a drunk driver shortly after getting off of the school bus. That 'vision' was very special to my mother afterwards.
Matt also appeared to his mother (my grandmother) after his death to tell her that he was fine and to stop worrying about him and hurting herself, that he couldn't leave her and do the work he needed to do because he was worried she would kill herself. So she stopped trying to drink herself to death, which is a good thing..I still have my grandmother.
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[GhostAuthor]

Hoot,
It was really great that I had the chance to visit with her one last time. Something just told me that I had to go see her. Whatever really happened in the dream, it made me feel a sense of urgency.... none of which I've ever felt before, or again.

[mae-bea]

This is something that still freaks me out , but I'll tell you anyway . When my son was in High School , I kept "seeing " him in a coffin . It was horrible !! I saw that almost daily until one night around 1 AM I got a phone call . He'd been in an accident . He was fine , not hurt . But , they had collided with a young man on a motorcycle , and he died .
I never had that vision again .
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[cemeterysara]

My usual death preomonitions are strange. I almost always,without consciously paying attention, keep the last Christmas/Birthday card someone sends me. That person usually dies within the year. One year, I told myself it was a superstition and threw away my uncle's card. About a month later my uncle died.

In addition to that, I've started having the sudden happy memories. But the happy memory is so strong that it seems impossible for me to associate it with death. I only recognize the pattern after the person dies.
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Sara

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[hoot_n_howl]

I think its a blessing that you get those happy memories and you have the last card. Thats how we all would want to be remembered when we pass. Remembered with loving, happy moments, that we shared together.
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[LDuplatt]

My wife had dreams about 6 months or so before her grandma and my grandma "crossed over." They were most prepatory, in that we knew our grandmas didn't have much time left. It became easier to make sure we had spent the time we wanted to with them.

Learning to recognize the "prophetic" or "premonition - type" dreams from the "symbolism - type" dreams can be very good...IMHO, this is where many miss the meanings of their dreams, because one will tend to think that all dreams are the same type.

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[cemeterysara]

I'm not very good yet at seeing the meaning in my dreams. I had a few strange dreams for a few days before my cousin was killed in Iraq, but it was a week before I realized how prophetic they were. Part of it was that I had seen details in the dreams that I couldn't relate to anything. I found out almost a week later that the details did apply to my cousin. (These dreams are what prompted this thread).

It turns out of good friend of his had a very vivid dream of what happened, just thought it belonged to a different one of her friends.

Mabey I should be paying more attention to my dreams

(For anyone who is interested, I posted more information about this in the "Off Topic" forum, called "In Memory of...")
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[scaredycat]

Sara I recieved a message from my uncle about 9 hours before he died this past Tuesday. He said " Tell Alice I love her". 9 hours later he was gone. He had been in a coma since Sunday morning. I guess he wanted her to know he loved her.

[ebbsmom]

I bumped this up because I just saw it and I have had a couple experiences. When I was in Ca. my mom always called me when a relative or friend passed away. In April 2004 while already living here in Atlanta, I had a dream that the phone rang at 12:00 am and it was my mom telling me that my youngest brother was dead. I remember saying Oh No! and I forced myself to wake up without even asking her what had happened. I called her the next morning to tell her about my dream and she said that was terrible and she certainly did not want that to happen. One week to the day later the phone rings at 12:03 am and it was my mom. She told me, "Natalie is Dead. She was in a horrible car accident". I tried to wake up just to realize I was awake, it was not a dream. Natalie was my 16 year old niece and the only daughter of my youngest brother that I had dreamed of the week earlier Granted my brother did not die, however, a hugh part of him did. Also the day my cousin died which was just a month ago, I had a dream and it was my dad who had passed away when I was 12 years old. I asked him to spend the night and he said ok. We were just looking at each other smiling and my alarm clock went off. I told my kids that my cousin was going to die that day because my dad was here to get her and stopped by to see me while he was here. Donna died that very day. We knew she had terminal cancer, but no one expected her to go that day. Anyway the odd thing about the dream was that my alarm clock went off at 6:15 am on a Saturday and I did not set it. We get up on the week days at 6:30 am for the kids to get up for school, so I could not figure why the alarm was going off. At the funeral, Donna's husband Ed. told me that Saturday morning he was awakened by a change in Donna's breathing, he jumped up to get her sister who was visiting from Birmingham to help out, they ran back in the room and Donna was gone. It was right around 6:15 am. That sent chills throughout my body and I knew then that the alarm rang because it was time for my dad to get Donna so that she would not be alone when her spirit left her body.

[michelemybell]

I am big time into dreams. I have so many visit me in my dreams that I do not sleep well. I dream in color, taste, feel and smell. I have been in WWII battles, vietnam, and I am not kidding, mafia battles. There is no way I can describe to you a detailed portion of Italy when I have never left North America. Enter in Remote Viewing. Embrase it all and know you are not alone. I have spent most of my life fighting my gift. Only the last two years I have decided that it is ok. Your family and other spirits will flock to you if you are "a sensitive". Go with the flow and enjoy those moments. Some believe that with the right training they can expand those skills and furhte develop talents as a sensiive. I am here to tell you, be very very careful of the doors you open.

I have stories of a deamons, one not not three years ago that will make your skin crawl. That is another post, and me being very comfortable to tell the tales.

[ebbsmom]

I had a dream about demons the other night myself. It was pretty freaky but I just shoved it off and said a prayer when I woke up. When we go on hunts and other things and open ourselves up like that, we won't always get just the good. As long as we pray and proteck ourselves with the light of the Holy Spirit, we will be alright.

[Engima]

I seem to be sensitive to death and dying. My father and I were very close. I had went on vacation to the beach and the third day I was there, I just got a weird heavy feeling in my chest. I tried to shake it off and enjoy the rest of my day. I always called my parents at night to check in. I couldn't get ahold of them. No answer on cell and house phones. Finally I got in touch with my grandmother who told me that my father had a heart attack earlier in the day and was at the hospital. I don't remember driving home. The next morning I was at the hospital. As we were talking about what happened, we figured out that the same time my father had his heart attack was the same time I had the heavy feeling in my chest.

After he was discharged, we also realized that his brother had died from a heart attack 4 years earlier on the exact same date.

Then in 2004, My father died of advanced colon cancer. The week before he passed. He claimed to have 3 shadow men appear before him. One spoke and said not your time yet but soon and he felt hands around his neck. He even told out pastor at the time. That was quite comical in itself. However, the night he died, I was the only one awake when he passed. I had sent everyone home. It was just his girls in the house. Just as he wanted.....

While he was undergoing chemo, all he could stomach was sliced peaches. Even once in a while you can smell them through the house. Trust me, there hasn't been a peach in that house in over 5 years now....