Last night I had an odd experience which has recently been disrupting my sleep on a few nights.  I had a vivid dream of Janet an old girlfriend who committed suicide back in the late 1970s.  Then I was awakened by 3 loud knccks!  The knocks were so loud and so real that I almost bolted downstairs to see if there was some emergency or whther some prankster was trying to disturb my sleep.  But as I collected myself, I realized that the knocks came either from my badroom wall or my dream imagination.  I shared this experience with my friend Ken, an architect, and he expressed surprise because he and his wife Nancy had separately (not together) experienced the same phenomenon 3 or 4 times in the past year.  Nancy had in fact been terrified by the knocks.  To reassure her, Ken brushed them off as his ice machine shutting down.  But he confessed to me that this couldn't be the true explanation because these knocks were much louder than the thump of his ice machine.  In fact, the first time the knocks awakened him, he bolted downstairs, got his flashlight, and searched outdoors!  

I'd be interested to hear whether any of you have often had the same experience.  Loud knocks are of course a common manifestation of spirit activity, but until other manifestations accompany the knocks, I'm inclined to attribute them to my dream unconscious.  I'll keep you posted if I detect an emerging pattern such as recurring dreams of Janet.  I wish I had recorded the dreams that preceded the knocks because I've since forgotten them.

Don  

Recently, I have awoken to music going through my head, as if from a Radio.  I'm convinced that if it is not from my own consciousness, that whoever it is has a sense of humor - waking me up to "Monday morning" on a Monday, etc. 

Don, I would say that it may be hard for a loved one to get your alert attention in the dream state, and as such, a few raps that startled you like the "suprise symphony" from Haydn might have been in order.  Sort of a direct way to make you think about the contact instead of trifling with images and the dream state.


Matthew

Hi Don

Yes, I've also had such knocks precede important contacts. 
Three seems relevant too. Please put in mind that you are
ready for further communication, to further open yourself
to such possibility.

Yay!

I've had loud noises, too, mostly short yelling voices, murmuring or deep droning tones, always sounding like the source was very close to my ears, very real, but I could tell it wasn't physical, as I go to bed with earplugs. These occurings did mostly happen at the edge of the dreamstate. I couldn't find a pattern or meaning behind this, though, except that it happened a few days in a row, and then stopped.

Spooky