Greetings Thistle,

It's good to have your posts and comments--welcome!

The Afterlife sometimes requires some adjusting. Maybe your mother is still getting used to being away from the family she loves.  She sounds 'pensive,' thinking so deeply that emotions are deep within and don't show.
Can you send her loving thoughts and mental messages to help her? It may seem like 'just' imagination to do so, but we're learning that those in the afterlife can pick up on what we're saying to them.

Bets

Hello Thistle:

I've analyzed thousands of my own dreams, and found that they often contain messages from our friends/guides in the spirit World.  Going by the symbology I've received, I come up with the following.

The department store = the physical World, materialism
The cash registers = checking out of the physical World and moving on to the World of spirit
Your family's lack of emotion = quite often while in this World people don't find the emotion we really want, which is divine love
The department store window = the barrier between the physical World and the spirit World
Your mother being outside = she is in the World of spirit
Your mother not showing a lot emotion = It is time to stop grieving for your loss and let go of your anger, so your mother can move on with her life of divine love in the World of spirit. You will meet her again when it is your time to move on to the World of spirit.


thistle wrote on May 14^th, 2008 at 10:10pm:

recoverer your analysis of my dream makes a lot of sense.  Now I can clearly see the symbolism in it.  Since my mother was on the other side of the window she was obviously in a different world from the rest of us who were just going on with our lives in a unemotional way.  It was as if we were all tuned out to what really matters which is what you said, divine love.  What could be more material than being in a department store?  Pardon me for parroting back what you said but I'm just trying to digest it all.  I had never really tried to break down each aspect of that dream before.  Wow!  Thanks for your input.  It is really helpful.

Absolutely, Thistle. Our loved ones are so much closer than we can even imagine. I think they find all kinds of ways to speak to us.

The honeysuckle blooming across the alley before my residence of two years....my grandmother is there. I have felt her, and continue to cling to her memory, and that memory, in particular, of the honeysuckle flowers around her house. When I moved into this new place, it was winter, and the very last thought in my mind was what might bloom from the ground that spring. Little did I know, that I would soon be surrounded by fragrant blossoms of many kinds, trailing over the fence across the way. The trees and the bushes and the trailing vines, full of flowers and color, that I never planted.

It was not an accident, that I found myself in this place. There are no accidents, as far as I can tell.

love, b

Thistle:

Here's another possible interpretation. Perhaps your mother felt sad when she looked at family members in the department store because she felt they were being too materialistic and need to focus on spiritual matters. I don't know your family, so I can't say for certain.

Albert

Hi Thistle I got the feeling your mom only showed you her serious face so you would start opening up to the idea that she is making an effort to rend the veil (old fashioned term for making contact)

see, now you are thinking about her more often, this is an opening that occurred in your perception since the dream..she wants you to expect her, and so the very idea of expecting her will cause you to be more receptive to a contact. in time actual conversation, short conversation will occur, I speculate, as I have a friend who's mother passed on and she had the very same type of dream activity as yourself.

it doesn't mean she's unhappy where she's at necessarily, is my main point.

I often dream of malls, shopping areas, and we need these type of symbols in the dream landscape to decipher an area of "exchange."
Happy exploring 

Hi Thistle We've got a large retrieval archives set up here; click at the top of the page under small print Retrieval Archive..probably explains the varied retrieval process better than I could.

I do think your mom has been making an effort. lights going on and off is a classic example of spirit contact reported by many.

will share an animal story, these also are numerous examples by posters. My daughter's cat had to be put down recently due to a disease it had. there was another cat in the room. they were great pals.
as the little spirit lite of the cat exited it's body, no one could see it but the other cat.

this was a very touching moment for the 3 people in the room. the white cat had wrapped her paws around the boy cat who was leaving and she was licking and purring furiously as if she didn't want him to go. as the medication took effect she released her hold and her eyes slowly followed the- (to us) invisible spirit upwards to the very top of the ceiling and there she held her gaze, as if frozen in place for a minute or so.

animals can see and hear this other dimension better than us. All those on the other side, like your mom, have this urge to let us know of our spirit bodies living on, plus they love us and are trying to awaken us.  my grandmother became my mother's helper and spiritual aide when she moved on. I photographed her as an orb over my mother's head!

plus things happened when she was around, but mainly during dream language.

pretty neat huh?