An interesting story:
When my wife was around 10 years old and her family lived in Chicago, her very young sister (around 4) woke up one morning and, came into the kitchen where the family was gathered for breakfast. She asked, “Where’s Grandpa?” They told her that he lives in California and he’s not here. She said that when she was sleeping he woke her up and told her goodbye.” She was pretty emphatic that she saw him so, to calm her down they made a long distance call to California. It turned out he had died in the night.
Make of it what you will...
Thanks! I believe it! Notice the 4 year old did not come in crying or upset, nor was she frightened as one would expect if visited by a spectre. She was calm yet adamant. Thank you for posting it.
Wow—my sister tells a similar story about the night my dad died.
That is almost identical to what happened when my dad unexpectedly died. He and my daughter, who was also 4, had a “mutual admiration society”. My wife and I woke her up and told her that we needed to talk to her about “Pop”. She said that Pop and Jesus had come to her that night and that Pop had kissed her.
The hair on the back of my neck stood up!
The night after my brother died, I also had a dream where I saw him, big and healthy as life, and I asked him, are you in heaven ? What's it like, and he said it was OK, like he was sort of regretful that he was there. He died quite young ( he was 22) and doing something kind of reckless; maybe he was sort of regretting it, or maybe feeling bad about all the pain he was causing my Mom. I did not tell my Mom about that dream; she had enough pain.
A similar thing happened to me, in 2006. I hadn’t been feeling well the night before, and stayed up very late, so I was sleeping late one morning in July. I woke up to the phone ringing, answered it, and it was my oldest brother, George, and he said, “I’m just calling to let you know that Mom is all right”, which I thought was a strange thing for him to say, because our Mom had died two years before. Just then I woke up, for real, and realized it had been a dream. A half hour later, my older sister called to tell me that George had died, unexpectedly, a half hour before.