Signs

[Sol_y_Paz]

Have any of you who loved and lost had any signs after death that comforted you? 

If so, please share.

[P.J.]

Do you mean like feeling the spirit of the person? I have lost a boyfriend and best friend, and yes they have communicated with me since then, in all sorts of ways...sometimes in a dream, or I'll hear a certain song and feel them then, or just simply feeling them by me. With my boyfriend, immediately after his death it was almost like he was still around, just not in his body. So many strange incidences I would barely believe had I not experienced.

And yes, these experiences are always somehow a comfort. That love lives on.

...if that's what you meant.

[Sol_y_Paz]

Exactly what I meant.  Thank you for sharing.

Sorry for your losses.

[Belia]

A year after my grandfather died he visited our home.  It was very late at night, I had been watching TV in the family room and was going upstairs to bed, and as I was walking through the foyer I smelled him.  You know how some people have a smell to them?  Like their soap / cologne / essence?  I smelled my grandfather.  It couldn't have been anyone or anything else because no one had been in that area of the house for hours.

As soon as I smelled him I got this overwhelming sense of peace.  In an instant I knew that he was there, he was just checking up on things, making sure that all was well.  And I knew that HE was fine.  These weren't even really conscious thoughts, just an overall sense that washed over me.  It wasn't until the next day that I fully understood what happened.

That was 20-25 years ago and I remember that feeling of deep peace like it was yesterday.  

[hjdmom24]

The day my father passed although I knew the time was near I ran home to shower and change clothes. I was laying on the bed relaxing for a minute when I felt two very gentle but distinct thumps on my chest. I *knew* it was my dad saying goodbye..I said goodbye dad out loud and about a minute later my mom called to tell me he had passed. He was not affectionate in life so that final "hug" ment alot. I will never forget the feeling of it. About 6 months after he passed I would find screws laying on the floor that I could not explain why they were there..it went on for about a year and although I don't know the significance I know they were from him. I sure wish I would get a sign from my mom though..I was much closer to her but haven't felt anything in the 2 years since she died;.

[raelize]

my brother, Jay died March 2010.  the night after he died, he appeared next to my bed with a picture of his snake and when i asked if he wanted me to care for it, he nodded his head and left.  i have had many dreams with him telling me that he is okay now and in a better place.

  dd has a seizure disorder.  i have celiac.  her seizures all last spring were not responding to medication.  she was only diagnosed last spring.  one morning, wehn i was in twilight sleep, Jay appeared in front of my bed and told me to check her iga levels.  when i totally woke up that day, i immediately went to the computer and researched and found out that celiac is linked to her type of seizures.  the neurologists didn't know this, i had no idea, so i know i wasn't subconciously feeding this info to myself.  but her seizures have pretty much disappeared since she has been gluten free

a snake (which are well known as messangers from the other side) once wrapped itself around a window frame of my parents house and watched my family have dinner.  

i was out one day in my mothers large garden with her.  Jay had big plans to work in  her garden that summer since he was a botanist/horticulturalist.  we were talking about him a lot that day.  I looked down at a plant of basil and there was a blue Jay feather.  i had always always called him Jaybird.

there is a book called hello from heaven that has a lot of information about signs and visits from other people.  there is another book called the Gift that is supposed to help explain different signs from the other side.   

[Nasubi77]

I had a cousin named Ricky who had Cystic Fibrosis.  He lived to be 33 (which was way beyond the life expectancy of CF in those days) and died when I was a teenager.  Our dads are brothers and our families were very close, even though we lived a few hours away.  He had a sharp wit and he always had a sly smile as if he was thinking of something clever to say.  He kept a boa constrictor, but eventually she got too big, and he too weak to handle her.  She got donated to a zoo after his death but refused to eat and died some months afterward. 

He also had long hair, which unfortunately had to be shaved in his last weeks or maybe even days at the hospital, so he had very short hair when he died. 

Not too long ago, I had a dream that I was at my aunt and uncle's house in Rick's room looking at his stuff and reminiscing and I got dizzy so I went to lay down on the couch.  As I was lying there, he appeared in front of me.  I saw that he had short hair, and I said to him, "Aw, Rick, they had to cut your hair!"  But then he turned his head to show me that it was long, just pulled back into a pony tail.  He pulled down the pony tail and I was able to run my fingers through his hair.  It brought on me such a feeling of calmness and peace and I woke up with that feeling. 

I took it as a sign that he is at peace and even has back his long hair! 

I, too, have very long hair, and even though it was not a conscience decision to grow it long to mimic him, I feel a connection to him through it.  I am also the only person in my family that keeps reptiles, so I feel a kinship through him in that aspect, too.