Met someone's dad who passed away in a dream

[Pearce]

Someone I barely know other than on Facebook. They live close to me but I have never met him in person and never knew his dad at all. Saw on Facebook his dad had passed and said condolences and some kind words. I believe I met his dad in a dream two nights after he died. I don't remember it clearly other than shaking his hand, and him just being the nicest and sweetest man (which everyone on Facebook said he was IRL one of the best people in the world). At one point the dream became more lucid and it occured to me who he was, and I said something like "Please don't take this the wrong way, but how are you here? I thought you passed away." He just giggled and grinned and said something kinda funny and witty but I can't remember what. Then I guess I woke up.


I'm just wondering why I saw him in a dream when I never knew him or met him, and why it feels like he's helping me now. Like spiritually and emotionally. I'm just feeling so much lighter so much more joy so much closer to God. And it just feels like someone is around somehow.

I definitely didn't want to tell his son this, especially so soon after he died...

 

[Lyn Holley]

Pearce, that is wonderful! We are all connected! We may never know exactly how or why he chose you, but celebrate the fact that he did. He is giving you gifts!
At some point later, when it feels right, you might tell his son. It might be encouraging to him.

 

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

I think that the news of death has made you think deeply. You may not have met him and barely know his son but nevertheless this has made you stop and reflect. My guess is that you are quite young and that you are not used to people dying. So you have been thinking how you would behave if this type of situation was closer to your own life rather than a vague connection with a complete stranger.

 

[Pearce]

I think that the news of death has made you think deeply. You may not have met him and barely know his son but nevertheless this has made you stop and reflect. My guess is that you are quite young and that you are not used to people dying. So you have been thinking how you would behave if this type of situation was closer to your own life rather than a vague connection with a complete stranger.

I'm 32. Death isn't new to me. The hardest one was my grandfather, in 2009.

(I have also had more than one near death experience myself, including one suicide attempt. I have pondered my own mortality a lot.)

 

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

Well the fact that you are thinking about death and have had a near death experience is enough to say that the dream is about that. The message on facebook has set you off thinking about your own feelings about death. It is a theme running through you in waking life and the dream is like a short play which shows you focusing on your own mortality. Death is pretty final and the dream mind will focus in on this at the slightest opportunity.

 

[Lyn Holley]

Pearce, I hope you can concentrate on the positive elements of the dream? Is death final? Well, no. Your friend's father came to comfort you, beyond death. And you were chosen for that comfort because you are loveable.