Here is my story. I know full well what the reaction is going to be.
I had two rather strange (actually three--but the third is too long a story, and not germaine to this thread) dream events.
The first regarded my mother. One morning I dreamed of talking on the telephone with my estranged brother. Speaking about our mother. I was awakened suddenly by my daughter, to tell me my sister was on the telephone.
This was to inform me our mother had died minutes before.
The second occurred last year. A woman I was once rather close to since she was 12, but hadn't spoken to in years appeared in a dream. Standing in front of the 7th Avenue entrance of Penn Station, wearing a black raincoat, Raybans, black pants. Smiling, holding a Coach shoulder bag and a carry-on in one hand. In her other hand she held up a set of car keys or a piece of chalk. Waving.
I woke up going "How the *&^%$ did she show up?" I hadn't heard from her in years.
Twelve days later her brother called to tell me she died. Was in a coma, brain-dead the night I had that dream.
Go figure. That's my story.
I have no doubt about either of your experiences. Here's one for you:
My Dad died just days before Christmas. On Christmas morning, a day that Mom would be opening the yearly rabbit sculpture/picture that he always gave her, we both decided it would be good to go to the cemetary. When we got there, it was gloomy, dripping with fog, and very depressing. We were just about to leave when a tiny white bunny rabbit hopped out of nowhere, right over my Dad's grave. Pink eyes, pink nose, pink ears.......the perfect little white bunny. We looked at each other and agreed that this bunny HAD to have come by way of my Dad.
The funny part is, every year she would say "next year I want a REAL bunny, a LIVE one!" He would always laugh and say "Over my dead body." I'm not making this up.........it REALLY happened!
The bunny grew into a huge rabbit, and lived for 4 years, about a year and a half longer than life expectancy. We named her "Charlie's Angel Hare," after my Dad, Charles.