One of my goals for nearly two years has been to make contact with my daughter Megan who died in Oct. 2008.  While I've done that through Bruce's friend, Caryl, I hadn't managed it on my own.

This morning I woke up at 6:15 from a dream which had left me feeling very happy.  In the dream I was staying in a large building, somewhat like the Nancy Penn Monroe center at TMI, and I was taking a course there with others.  I was sitting on the back porch looking out over the sloping lawn.  A man was standing near the fence at the edge of the lawn.  Then I noticed a young woman with him, who turned towards me and smiled.  I realized immediately that it was Megan.  In the dream, I clearly knew she was dead and did not think she had returned to physical life.  I've had other dreams in which she has appeared but as a physically alive person, usually younger, often as a child.  We quickly walked to each other and hugged.  It was the most wonderful hug I've ever known, like that first taste of cool water when you've been very thirsty for a long time.  We talked for a short time, but all I recall of that is her telling me she was doing fine and that she was happy (which she hadn't been while alive).  She said she couldn't stay long.  Then she was gone. 

For the rest of the dream I was almost glowing from the pleasure of having seen her, hugged her and talked to her.  Later, a number of the participants in the course, including me, were studying for a test we had to take, organizing some books and other materials, much of a Buddhist nature.  Mainly, I just wanted to tell them I had seen Megan.  Then I was sitting at a table with a man and woman telling them about my visit from Megan.  I told them I wasn't very good at visualizing (which is true), but that this experience of my dead daughter was as real as it could be.

So, was it real?  My longed for contact?  Yesterday was the fall equinox.  This morning was a full moon.  Auspicious coincidence?  It felt real to me.

Pat

Pat E. wrote on Sep 24^th, 2010 at 1:18am:

It felt real to me. Pat

Great dream.
If it is real to you, then it is real.
All experience is subjective so no amount of intellectualizing by anybody about what should or didn't happen can give you any better answer than the answer you just gave yourself. :-)

Hi Pat,

Wow!  It sure sounds like it was a real visit to me!  I completely believe that no matter where we are in a dream (no matter what we're dreaming about), our loved ones can find us and join us there.  You know, they can just show up and play along in the dream reality so that it makes sense to us.  We naturally accept them in the scene.

Your sensations in the dream sound so wonderful and you had very clear thinking and impressions, so it sounds like a real spiritual visit from her.  Emotions are always real. 

One important thing I've learned is to just accept whatever little door there is to open you up to the opportunity you've set intent for.  Know what I mean?  Don't discount something just because you may have doubts or it didn't turn out like you think it should have.  Take what you are given, let it open you up even further.  Rejoice and be thankful for it, and it will undoubtedly lead you to more, I'm sure of it.  Just feeling those good feelings inside yourself about it are the kind of thing that attracts more of the spiritual connection and PUL.  Just focus on the positive. 

Vicky

Pat,
What a beautiful experience. Can you have any doubt at all that it was real?  I mean if you really look to your heart, your guidance. Of course it was real. Belief systems may throw up a smoke screen, but that feeling that you felt (feel) when you hugged your daughter is real. And she came to you, and reassured you about her well-being-- that is real. I had a similar experience with my mother two years after she passed. That experience began the process of stripping away my beliefs. Of course that process is still on-going. Take heart, because this is another layer of the onion peeling away.

Thank you all for your comments and encouragement.  I appreciate it.

Pat