Hi Chris-

I like your post, and I agree with what you said. I had a similar experience.

A few days ago I was meditating on the various kind of reality that might occur, aside from the one we live in, and at the edge of my vision I just barely saw someone jumping up and down. As I expanded my vision to see what was going on, I found that my "everyday reality" image got squeezed, and to the right and left were dozens of alternative realities. A person came out of the one I was looking at and started to tell me jokes, rather a new thing for me in meditation, and I started laughing and then realized that I was conversing with a being from a different reality.  (When I told my wife about it she said that she sees this stuff all the time and what's the big deal?)

Makes me happy too!

dave

Chris, I do believe that dreams that are THAT profound cannot be your imagination. One thing that stands out to me is that most people commonly have "regular" dreams that are a bunch of short sequences that are most likely not remembered in whole...BUT I have had some dreams that were so convincing that it seems almost impossible that it was just my imagination.

I dreamed about my grandfather after he died, and just to give everyone an idea of how much that meant to me, I never met me biological father so my grandfather was like my father...so his death really changed my life and dreaming about him meant so much. Well, in this dream he appeared to me in vivid color...I could see every detail ion his face and I walked up to him and asked him what he was doing here and how much I missed him...he then said to me that everything was ok and he could not stay and I started crying and hugged him and said you cannot leave again because I love you and he replied back to me in a calm and even tone and said don't worry, you will be here soon!

I sware on my life it was the most realistic dream I have ever had in my life (well next to the 2nd dream I had about him in the house he used to live in months later and then never again), and because the context of this dream was really like I was speaking to him, the realism, the color, and the words all were a little too coincidental to be just some random dream. I didn't think of him before going to sleep and since he died I never really dreamt of him.

Ever since then that was around the time I started question life, my existence, the Afterlife, etc. which led me to this board. No coincidence I don't think. The other strange thing was that Alysia recommended a book by Gordon Phinn and shortly after I met the guy online and spoke with him online. All of that in my opinion is too detailed to be concidence, and I believe wholeheartedly that dreams are extensions of our connection to the spirit world....just like sleeping is the closest we get to death before a coma or actual death.

So I thank you for reminding me of that moment and sharing your with everyone, especially since I read this o Father's Day and just had a special moment this morning in hte memory of my grandfather (Donny Hathaway's This Christmas does it everytime). If I find more evidence to support this outside of this board I will share...