Has anyone had this happen, EVER? My Mother passed on June 2. My husband, daughter and I did not make it in time to say final goodbyes.
She knew we were coming. But passed the day before we arrived. My daughter, husband and I stayed in her home while visiting and making arrangements. My daughter slept in mom's bedroom where she died. One night my daughter was in bed with only the light of a night light glowing in the kitchen in front of her door. She said she was not asleep. Then she sees a woman standing near her door. Just the dark outline of her and her hair which was like mom's. When she cried out the woman turns and went into the living room. My daughter got up and checked but no one was there. She came to my room terrified. My daughter is 29, is an ICU nurse and not prone to believing in ghosts. We are mystified at this. It could be a nightmare but seems to not be.
Previous to this, I spent a month with mom and the bumping and knocking was so bad in her house, I teased that daddy was checking on her. It was creepy.
A strange mystery.
But...these old walls in old houses do creep us all out on occasion. Sorry about her passing.
My Mom recently died and I would love a sign from her but I also like to believe that she is happy in heaven now and that her spirit is there.
If they're interpreted as contact or reassurance from a loved one, or self assurance, and if they make the surviving relative feel comforted, that's all that matters in my book.
On several occasions after my sister died, I would suddenly smell her perfume. I never wear perfume, so it wasn't from me. The perfume bottle was nowhere near me when it happened, nor was it in area where a draft could carry it close to me.
After my mother died, I kept hearing the phone ring either in the middle of the night, or early morning when I was still asleep. I could hear her voice as I answered the phone, apparently in my imagination. I fully expected to see her phone number (which my father still has), I checked caller ID but there were no calls.
I think there can be unspoken and unresolved issues after someone dies, and sometimes these events speak to those lingering concerns. And sometimes the events may be our way of comforting ourselves about the loss of our loved ones.
I also know that intense situations such as the loss of a loved one heighten our awareness and senses, and sometimes that can cause us to believe that something is happening that really isn't.
This is an interesting question; I'm glad to be able to read about other's experiences.
My husband and I live in a house that has "energetic beings" of some sort so I'm familiar with them. A few years ago, the "entities" were doing some odd things like messing with my covers and funny stuff with lights. The next morning I got the news that my close friend had lost his battle with cancer, I think that was him paying me a visit. He was well aware of our ghosts....
Sorry for you loss. Big hugs...
I don't believe in a here-after or supernatural things, or that anyone is driving from the great beyond. What I have experienced is my mind's way of processing information and feelings. We can have memories that trigger a sense. Sometimes I can smell the starch in my dad's shirts even though he's been gone nearly 30 years. I could hear the change in his pocket rustle like it did when he walked down the hall. To me, these are just sense memories but I don't believe he's there in any way. These memories are so ingrained that my brain can call them up all these years later. Sometimes these sense memories come to me in dreams.
For me, personally, sleeping right where someone had died was something I will never do. Maybe sleeping in your Mom's bedroom also bothered your daughter., something others don't consider.
I was unaware that the OP was looking for mystical or ghost story answers. Sorry.
Friends have shared similar experiences that you mentioned, to me. I truly believe that they do come back to check on their loved ones, make a connection with the home that they lived in and loved. To me it seems that it is a final checkout of everything that was important to them and that they loved.
My gra dmother would not pass until she was sure that I had a job.
My mother passed only when she felt that she could safely leave DH and I. We decided to pull the plug, having worked in the medical field, we knew it was time. But she hung on unti we both could talk her into the fct that we would bo OK.
And finally, when I was nine years old I went through several weeks in hell, feeling that I had killed my Grandfather. He came to me one night, be it a dream or real, he told me that itvwas all Ok, he was happy where he was and he wanted me to know that I had nothing to do with his death!
with white light and maybe til some time had passed). Many people who pass on don't realize that they've passed on and they continue to go to familiar places, such as their homes. She could have been just saying goodbye...but if it didn't feel so positive then maybe she was somewhat caught in a zone of mild confusion. You can always call in white light/God or angels and then tell her that she passed on and it's OK. She can go with the light herself and will then be able to grow properly and regroup her own life...