My father passed on on November 1. However, a strange thing happened a few days ago when I slept. In my dream I was sent to a vacant college campus, or at least I'm assuming that's what it was. I eventually found my father, noticeably younger and with his hair all black wandering aimlessly through the campus. His hair was all black again. I say, "dad, you look a lot younger." He acknowledges this. In physical life my father had been battling mesothelioma for about a year and a half which left him with a severe chronic cough. I said to him, "Have you noticed you're not coughing anymore?" He eventually said, "So I'm not. I'm better?" "Yeah," I replied. He did a few little coughs after that and then eventually shapeshifted into an even younger form of himself and the mustache that I've never seen him without went away. I think he probably shifted to a teenage version of himself. He then continued wandering the campus which was for the most part empty. I did see a few other people I didn't recognize around the buildings but they were scattered and far away from him and likely out of his field of view. Not sure if they were helpers or not. It felt like a failed retrieval. Like I tried to retrieve him but didn't and I woke up afterwards. This was also a lot clearer than most of my dreams have been. Another interesting backstory is that I have constant intense intrusive thoughts that got in the way of my second retrieval to Bruce's CDs and made future retrievals next to impossible to do. Perhaps this is what Bruce referred to as the interpreter except in this case it goes way off topic. I'm wondering if helpers or some other force arranged for me to do this in a dream for this reason? The advantage with the dream retrievals is that the intrusive thoughts were completely gone and I could see a lot more clearly. The disadvantages are less control and the fact that when I wake up, I wake up and there's no smooth transition back to physical reality. My father was an atheist in life with no beliefs about life after death so him being stuck in a thought form isn't completely unimaginable. Plus a college campus is the kind of place he would probably like to go to given that he was curious, liked to learn and even worked for a university at one point in time. Not sure if the other people I found were helpers waiting for me to make a move so that his attention would be at a level where he would then notice them. This also makes me think that the forces that be guide people to do retrievals in dreams automatically if it's needed sometimes and that whether they believe in them or not most people have done a retrieval or will do one at some point through this method. I would like to eventually get to where I can consciously go back and find out if this was a real retrieval and if it either actually worked or if my appearance at least made my father notice that he was stuck so helpers could assist him in moving on.