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Speaker 3: I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
Speaker 3: on a journee to prove the existence of life after death.
Speaker 3: On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know
Speaker 3: that our loved ones have survived physical death, and so
Speaker 3: will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. I am
Speaker 3: having a good day and I'm grateful that I get
Speaker 3: to share a little bit with you today. I woke
Speaker 3: up this morning, had a pretty powerful positive conversation with
Speaker 3: my mom. We were talking about dreams and aren't they crazy?
Speaker 3: Some of the things that show up in my own
Speaker 3: dreams make me certain that there is a much bigger
Speaker 3: picture going on. Where do they come from? I don't know.
Speaker 3: How can they be so clear as if they really
Speaker 3: are happening?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Then we started talking about dreams of loved ones in
Speaker 3: the afterlife, and I love talking about that. And we
Speaker 3: talked a little bit about Christopher Kerr, the doctor who
Speaker 3: works with hospice, who we spoke about, oh, just over
Speaker 3: a month ago, about all the studies he's done with
Speaker 3: people that are close to dying and how they have
Speaker 3: dreams so clear as if they are real of their
Speaker 3: loved ones who have passed. And then mom and I
Speaker 3: started talking about children. I wonder what kids dream about,
Speaker 3: which made me think, do kids dream about loved ones
Speaker 3: who they haven't met yet? Who have already passed? So
Speaker 3: if you have any stories like that, send me an email.
Speaker 3: I love hearing your stories, first of all, but I
Speaker 3: am interested to know about little kids. I know we've
Speaker 3: talked about little children seeing people who have already passed,
Speaker 3: and we'll talk a little bit more about that today.
Speaker 3: But if you have a good story about the afterlife,
Speaker 3: or signs you've gotten from your loved ones or a
Speaker 3: near death experience, maybe just drop me an email Sandra
Speaker 3: Champlain at gmail dot com. Some other good things happening.
Speaker 3: I got an email from the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Speaker 3: The public relations lady Victoria sent me an email saying
Speaker 3: that they are holding a contest and already more than
Speaker 3: one hundred applicants have submitted essays for the prize. The
Speaker 3: contest is called the Linda G. O'Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize,
Speaker 3: and they will be awarding one hundred thousand dollars annually
Speaker 3: to groundbreaking research in the field of consciousness. She says
Speaker 3: the date to submit is already over. Of course, it'll
Speaker 3: be one next year as well, but their submissions aim
Speaker 3: to answer questions such as does consciousness survive after death?
Speaker 3: And do our minds affect the physical world? And if so,
Speaker 3: how and how do we access our full potential as humans?
Speaker 3: Over one hundred applicants have already submitted their essays. They
Speaker 3: say the winner of the prize will be announced in
Speaker 3: June of twenty twenty three that the prize is named
Speaker 3: in honor of the IONS board member and longtime supporter,
Speaker 3: Linda G. O'Bryant. She has been a member since the
Speaker 3: eighties and she created this award with the aim of
Speaker 3: inspiring groundbreaking discoveries in the field of consciousness, with the
Speaker 3: ultimate goal of shedding light on revolutionary ideas that could
Speaker 3: change the world. And then it said about IONS, it
Speaker 3: sounds so close to IONS, which is the Near Death
Speaker 3: Association group, But this is IONS. The Institute of Noetic
Speaker 3: Sciences is a nonprofit research center and direct experience lab
Speaker 3: specializing in the interaction of science and profound human experience.
Speaker 3: Founded in nineteen seventy three by Apollo fourteen astronaut and
Speaker 3: sixth man to walk on the moon, Edgar Mitchell. IONS
Speaker 3: is dedicated to exploring the frontiers of consciousness and extended
Speaker 3: human capacities to promote a more holistic view of human
Speaker 3: potential and the nature of reality. For more information, visit
Speaker 3: noetic dot org. So that's noe tic dot org. So
Speaker 3: I wrote her back to make sure as soon as
Speaker 3: these essays come out and the winner has been chosen
Speaker 3: to include me and I would love to do an
Speaker 3: interview with them, and you bet I would love to
Speaker 3: share the essays with you. Speaking of essays, do you
Speaker 3: know about the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies. In two
Speaker 3: thousand and one, aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow created a contest
Speaker 3: offering a million dollars in prize money for the best
Speaker 3: evidence of the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death.
Speaker 3: The results are in. People made some good money and
Speaker 3: the essays are now available to read. He's also doing
Speaker 3: a new program giving up to one million dollars in
Speaker 3: grants and we'll fund research into contact and communication with
Speaker 3: the other side. So if you'd like to read the
Speaker 3: prize winning essays, there's twenty nine of them. You can
Speaker 3: go to Bigelowinstitute dot org. It's not just me talking
Speaker 3: about the afterlife. We have a lot of research going
Speaker 3: on from some very prominent people all about the afterlife,
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of good to report. It's very
Speaker 3: easy for a skeptical mind or person like I used
Speaker 3: to be, to make these statements like there's no proof
Speaker 3: of the afterlife, when really there is, but not enough
Speaker 3: people are talking about it. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book
Speaker 3: called the tipping point. What does it take for maybe
Speaker 3: a product or a new idea to really take off
Speaker 3: in the world and make it mainstream. Here in America,
Speaker 3: we had the American Revolution when the colonists fought to
Speaker 3: make our country independent. And you may have heard of
Speaker 3: the story about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Little
Speaker 3: did people know that there was another gentleman who made
Speaker 3: a ride as well. I don't even remember his name,
Speaker 3: to be honest, but it didn't have the impact. Why
Speaker 3: Paul Revere is remembered is he was someone that was
Speaker 3: part of the com unity, that people knew, that people trusted,
Speaker 3: and when he did his midnight ride saying the British
Speaker 3: are coming, the British are coming, the colonists were prepared,
Speaker 3: leading America eventually to become its own country. What does
Speaker 3: Paul Revere have to do with the afterlife? You ask,
Speaker 3: when enough people hear the word, and I think, do
Speaker 3: a little bit of your own research to really know
Speaker 3: in your heart the reality of the afterlife. It'll be
Speaker 3: easier to share about this. Even looking in my own life,
Speaker 3: when I was a kid, there was a local psychic
Speaker 3: who made some terrible predictions, and I know As a kid,
Speaker 3: my parents had told me that stuff is crazy, you
Speaker 3: have to see it to believe it. So I grew
Speaker 3: up not believing in any form of mediumship or psychic abilities.
Speaker 3: Thought everybody was crazy who talked that language. And through
Speaker 3: my life I've seen now what began as just a
Speaker 3: few New age people doing the spiritual stuff. It's become
Speaker 3: so mainstream that everybody's heard of mediumship, It's on television.
Speaker 3: There's all kinds of paranormal things. So what may happen
Speaker 3: in the future. I personally think during our lifetime more
Speaker 3: people than not will believe in the afterlife. I'm hoping
Speaker 3: within my life that we all have some handheld device
Speaker 3: we can use to talk to our loved ones, get
Speaker 3: their voices, have our psychic abilities so in tune that
Speaker 3: we know when our loved one is talking to us
Speaker 3: through our mind. Way back in two thousand and two,
Speaker 3: I started doing all kinds of human exploration courses what
Speaker 3: it is to be human? How we can have the
Speaker 3: best life possible. One of the courses I took met
Speaker 3: five times a year in San Francisco. We had to
Speaker 3: come up with what was called an impossible promise. We
Speaker 3: had to declare what our life is for. Back in
Speaker 3: two thousand and two, I had no idea. The instructor said,
Speaker 3: what is it You've always been interested in? Who have
Speaker 3: you always been being? What's important to you? And two
Speaker 3: thousand and two, that's twenty one years ago. I was
Speaker 3: just realizing how interested I was in exploring is their
Speaker 3: life after death and exploring the different reasons to believe.
Speaker 3: I had gotten into electronic voice phenomena, and I had
Speaker 3: heard some voices. I had taken a mediumship course. When
Speaker 3: you make your life about a purpose bigger than who
Speaker 3: you are, it gives you not only a powerful life,
Speaker 3: but the stuff that happens in our life that's not
Speaker 3: so good doesn't seem so bad when you have your
Speaker 3: eyes focused on something bigger. So some people were making
Speaker 3: this impossible promise that they wanted to end homelessness. Some
Speaker 3: people wanted to clean up the water in the world.
Speaker 3: Some people wanted to make sure there's no starvation on
Speaker 3: planet Earth. Some that all children have schooling and have
Speaker 3: shoes on their feet. And yours truly had to come
Speaker 3: up with something. So I said, by the year twenty
Speaker 3: twenty seven, all people will know that we don't die
Speaker 3: and that we are souls having a human experience. I
Speaker 3: said that with no evidence that I really wanted to
Speaker 3: do that, but I had to put something on the paper.
Speaker 3: And how interesting is it that, through the events that
Speaker 3: have happened in my life, including the passing of my dad,
Speaker 3: that I am here now four years away from what
Speaker 3: I said in this impossible promise that all people in
Speaker 3: the world will know. Now it's called an impossible promise
Speaker 3: because it is impossible to get it to every single
Speaker 3: human being on planet Earth. But has it given me
Speaker 3: passion and has it given me life? Absolutely? It has,
Speaker 3: And now I'm getting opportunities to share to a huge
Speaker 3: audience to you listening now. I also got a call
Speaker 3: not too long ago from the producer of this show
Speaker 3: and the producer of Coast to Coast, am there may
Speaker 3: be an opportunity if you like to meet me live
Speaker 3: along with George Nori in New England later on this year.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you more about it when I have more details.
Speaker 3: So be careful what you wish for, Be careful what
Speaker 3: you write on a piece of paper, be careful what
Speaker 3: you share with others. But if you want to have
Speaker 3: a powerful life, look to serve others in the biggest
Speaker 3: way you can. Let's head to the break and then
Speaker 3: we'll talk about the dream world when we come back.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sanders Champlain
Speaker 3: and I'm thrilled to know that weeks and months before
Speaker 3: we pass we dream of our loved ones. They're there
Speaker 3: to meet us, greet us, and help us across the veil.
Speaker 3: But what about dreams of our loved ones while we
Speaker 3: are still fully alive? How do dreams of our deceased
Speaker 3: loved ones affect the dreamers? Just like telling you about
Speaker 3: the Institute for Noetic Sciences and the Bigelow Institute, I'm
Speaker 3: thrilled to report that there is research going on about
Speaker 3: dreams of our loved ones. Psychology Today recently published an
Speaker 3: article about just the same thing, so let me read
Speaker 3: it to you. This is by Libby Maw Many years ago,
Speaker 3: shortly after my friend Janet passed away, I had a
Speaker 3: vivid and intense dream about her. During her life, Janet
Speaker 3: was disabled and wheelchair bound. In my dream, however, I
Speaker 3: saw her moving freely and joyfully. She looked young and healthy.
Speaker 3: Her entire body basked in radiant light, and she smiled
Speaker 3: warmly at me. Happy to see her, I exclaimed, Janet,
Speaker 3: you look so beautiful, and I reached out to touch
Speaker 3: her face. The instant I made contact, I woke up
Speaker 3: trembling in amazement. I knew that a profound experience had
Speaker 3: just taken place. Clinical psychologist Jennifer Shorter defines visitation dreams
Speaker 3: as striking, emotionally intense dreams in which a recently deceased
Speaker 3: loved one returns to provide guidance, reassurance, and sometimes a warning.
Speaker 3: These experiences are unique, powerful, and sometimes life changing. Based
Speaker 3: on multiple studies, here are eight common characteristics of visitation dreams,
Speaker 3: and she has written a book about it, called Visitation
Speaker 3: Dreams of Deceased loved Ones, Understanding Their Meaning and Transformative Power.
Speaker 3: So Number one, it feels so real. One of the
Speaker 3: most common descriptions of visitation dreams is that they are
Speaker 3: so much more intense, vivid, and kinesthetic than ordinary dreams.
Speaker 3: It feels so real is a common refrain characterizing experiences
Speaker 3: both during and after the dream. The intensity of the
Speaker 3: dream may stay with the dreamer for months or even years,
Speaker 3: as if the dream had happened only recently. Number two,
Speaker 3: the deceased appear healthy and vibrant. Typically, the deceased appear
Speaker 3: in visitation dreams not in their ill, frail, or anguished states. Instead,
Speaker 3: they show themselves as healthy, vibrant, and younger in appearance.
Speaker 3: Number three, the deceased convey reassurance The deceased also frequently
Speaker 3: appear in visitation dreams, conveying reassurance, love, and joy. The
Speaker 3: reassurance can be both that the deceased is okay and
Speaker 3: that the one who's dreaming will also be okay. Number four.
Speaker 3: The deceased convey important messages. The deceased invisitation dreams often
Speaker 3: come with important messages for the dreamer. They may impart wisdom,
Speaker 3: life lessons, reminders, or other helpful guidance. Number five. The
Speaker 3: deceased communicate telepathically. In many cases, the deceased will appear
Speaker 3: in visitation dreams, communicating telepathically and or symbolically rather than verbally.
Speaker 3: Without words, the dreamer is able to clearly understand the
Speaker 3: message of the deceased loved one. Number six. The dreamer
Speaker 3: awakens with intense emotions. Those who experience visitation dreams often
Speaker 3: awaken feeling strong, usually positive emotions. In addition to a
Speaker 3: vivid sense that the dream was real, one may also
Speaker 3: feel love, joy, relief sadness, or pensive. Number seven. The
Speaker 3: dreamer experiences closure. Some people who have had visitation dreams
Speaker 3: report that the experience helped them with the process of
Speaker 3: grieving following the dream. They were able to cope better
Speaker 3: with loss, achieve closure, and move on in their lives.
Speaker 3: And number eight, the dreamer is changed by the experience.
Speaker 3: Perhaps the most striking aspect of visitation dreams is that
Speaker 3: they can transform the life perspective of the dreamer. Many
Speaker 3: people who have had visitation dreams report a stronger interest
Speaker 3: in the larger existential question of life, as well as
Speaker 3: a desire to explore spiritual purpose and meaning. These include
Speaker 3: cases where the dreamer had little or no interest in
Speaker 3: such matters prior to the visitation dream. So that was
Speaker 3: from psychology today. Next, I want to share with you
Speaker 3: some words from doctor Joshua Black, who is actually a
Speaker 3: grief dream expert. The podcast Grief Dreams that you can
Speaker 3: find wherever you listen to podcasts, and there are currently
Speaker 3: two hundred and eighteen episodes of different people talking about
Speaker 3: their grief dreams and visitations with their loved ones, So
Speaker 3: you want to check that out. This article is from
Speaker 3: a guideposts. Grief dream expert Doctor Joshua Black explains how
Speaker 3: we can interpret dreams about deceased loved ones and why
Speaker 3: they occur. Doctor Joshua Black will never forget the first
Speaker 3: dream he had about his father shortly after he passed.
Speaker 3: In it, his dad stood on the other side of
Speaker 3: the room, looking healthy and peaceful. Doctor Black called out
Speaker 3: to his father, I love you. I'm going to miss you.
Speaker 3: Doctor Black isn't alone in his experience. His study, published
Speaker 3: in the journal Dreaming, found that eighty six percent of
Speaker 3: participants dreamed of loved ones after they'd recently passed. For
Speaker 3: doctor Black, this first dream was followed by a series
Speaker 3: of vivid dreams of his father. They affected him so
Speaker 3: deeply that they inspired him to pursue a PhD. In
Speaker 3: such dreams, which he calls grief dreams, he's gone on
Speaker 3: to become one of the foremost experts in this emerging field.
Speaker 3: Here's some questions, he answered, What are the characteristics of
Speaker 3: grief dreams? A grief dream is any kind of dream
Speaker 3: you've had after the loss of a loved one. It
Speaker 3: can be a symbolic dream reflecting on your emotions surrounding
Speaker 3: the loss. For example, you're feeling overwhelmed by grief, so
Speaker 3: you dream something collapses on you, reflecting that feeling of
Speaker 3: being crushed. Or it can be a dream in which
Speaker 3: the deceased is mentioned, perhaps by an angel or a
Speaker 3: hospital worker, or you can dream that the deceased is present.
Speaker 3: This type of dream interests people the most, and it's
Speaker 3: where I've focused a lot of my academic research. Question
Speaker 3: what forms do the grief dreams in which the deceased
Speaker 3: are present commonly take. I've found seven common types of
Speaker 3: these dreams. They are rationalization dreams, in which the dreamer
Speaker 3: tries to understand why the deceased appears to be alive
Speaker 3: and present, and others in which the dreamer helps their
Speaker 3: loved one cross over into the afterlife. Sometimes the dreamer
Speaker 3: sees the deceased as sick or dead. Similar in tone
Speaker 3: is the type of dream in which the deceased expresses
Speaker 3: disapproval of the dreamer. There are also separation dreams, in
Speaker 3: which the deceased and the dreamer are kept apart by
Speaker 3: a physical obstacle, such as a wall. The most positive
Speaker 3: dreams are the ones in which the deceased offers comfort
Speaker 3: through words or actions, or dreams in which the dreamer
Speaker 3: sees them healthy and happy. Question do people have more
Speaker 3: negative dreams or positive ones? Dream research has shown that
Speaker 3: when people have dreams in general, they have more negative
Speaker 3: dreams than positive ones. That simply because of daily stress
Speaker 3: which gets incorporated after trauma. Research shows these dreams tend
Speaker 3: to become even more negative. So you'd think that grief
Speaker 3: dreams would follow this pattern and that people would have
Speaker 3: more negative grief dreams than positive ones, But that doesn't
Speaker 3: seem to be the case. When the deceased appear in dreams,
Speaker 3: they tend to be positive. In one of my studies,
Speaker 3: about ninety percent of people reported having at least one
Speaker 3: positive dream of the deceased, as opposed to forty four
Speaker 3: percent who had at least one negative. It points to
Speaker 3: something different going on with these types of dreams. They're
Speaker 3: a very special experience. Many people I've spoken with have
Speaker 3: told me these dreams also feel different from an average dream.
Speaker 3: They're much more vivid. Question, so what does it mean
Speaker 3: if you're one of the people who has a negative
Speaker 3: grief dream. Negative grief dreams don't mean that you've had
Speaker 3: a negative relationship with the person who's past. They are
Speaker 3: often a reflection of the distress the dreamer is experiencing
Speaker 3: after losing someone. This is especially true if you are
Speaker 3: suppressing your emotions about the death of a loved one,
Speaker 3: which isn't uncommon. I did that after my dad passed.
Speaker 3: In this case, the negative dream can help you work
Speaker 3: through your feelings you've been avoiding in your waking life.
Speaker 3: I'm going to pause reading that article to you and
Speaker 3: just talk a little bit about dreams. I don't know
Speaker 3: if this is true for you, but in me, it
Speaker 3: is stirring up all kinds of memories. The good news
Speaker 3: is we're talking about something fascinating, something I haven't really
Speaker 3: dug my teeth into yet. I know I've interviewed enough
Speaker 3: people that have had near death experiences, and they describe
Speaker 3: the memory of them so crystal clear, clearer than any
Speaker 3: memory they've ever had, and they can recall it even
Speaker 3: if it's seventy eighty years before. There's something in common
Speaker 3: with this and these grief dreams of loved ones. Some
Speaker 3: people experience them so vivid and real. They're loved ones
Speaker 3: appearing younger, healthier. Things are spoken that weren't spoken when
Speaker 3: they were alive. While I know we all have some
Speaker 3: crazy dreams at night, and I do believe some of
Speaker 3: the emotions we experience in our dreams are some of
Speaker 3: the emotions we're experiencing during the day. But I can't
Speaker 3: help but believe that our loved ones use the dream
Speaker 3: state when they can to let us know that they
Speaker 3: are okay and still alive, and for us to continue
Speaker 3: living our lives. So let's go to the break and
Speaker 3: we'll hear more from Doctor Black. You're listening to Shades
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 3: Did do too find yourself at the break reliving or
Speaker 3: recalling some of the dreams you've had of your loved ones.
Speaker 3: I have to admit I don't remember having a dream
Speaker 3: so crystal clear with communication from my dad or my grandmother,
Speaker 3: not like that. But what I have had are some
Speaker 3: really pleasant dreams of them in my mind. When I
Speaker 3: wake up in the morning feeling happy and good about
Speaker 3: a dream and my loved one was in it, I
Speaker 3: tend to think that they had a little something to
Speaker 3: do with it, letting me know, hey, I'm still here.
Speaker 3: I have had dreams of arguments and scary stuff. We
Speaker 3: are all human beings, and we have this subconscious mind,
Speaker 3: and it has been said that our minds store so
Speaker 3: much information, and at night when we sleep, dreams act
Speaker 3: sort of like a bilge pump on a boat, pumping
Speaker 3: out things that we no longer need in our subconscious.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: I know, dreams seem so real to life, and that
Speaker 3: is a miracle and a mystery. But when a loved
Speaker 3: one comes in clear and you're left feeling love, I
Speaker 3: can't help but think that's the real deal. So I'd
Speaker 3: like to continue reading a little bit more from this
Speaker 3: article about doctor Joshua Black, who is a grief dream expert. Question,
Speaker 3: why are these kinds of dreams so important? Remembering your
Speaker 3: grief dreams can provide an opportunity to reflect on the
Speaker 3: work through your grief in a new way. For instance,
Speaker 3: my father died very suddenly, and my dreams gave me
Speaker 3: a chance to say goodbye to him. Some dreams allow
Speaker 3: the bereaved to continue to feel bonded with the deceased,
Speaker 3: which can be helpful after a loss. Grief dreams can
Speaker 3: also lead people to place more value on their dreams.
Speaker 3: In general, dreams can provide a new tool to understand ourselves.
Speaker 3: I believe that the more we understand about ourselves, the
Speaker 3: more we can love ourselves. Question what are some of
Speaker 3: the most surprising things you've learned about grief dreams during
Speaker 3: your research? First off, how common they are and a
Speaker 3: sample of berieved partners and spouses eighty six percent had
Speaker 3: a dream of the deceased. But even more than that,
Speaker 3: how common they are after all kinds of loss. And
Speaker 3: of course I was fascinated to discover that people experienced
Speaker 3: grief dreams before knowing their loved one had passed. Wow.
Speaker 3: Question what do grief dreams of spouses look like? They
Speaker 3: fall into one of the larger dream categories I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 3: such as the dreamer being comforted by their deceased loved one.
Speaker 3: For example, one woman told me that her husband came
Speaker 3: to her in a dream and told her not to
Speaker 3: worry about him because he was with Jesus and no
Speaker 3: longer suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Interestingly, it's also common for
Speaker 3: a deceased spouse to appear in a dream and approve
Speaker 3: of their partner remarrying. There's a lot of love and
Speaker 3: positivity in these dreams. Question how common are pregnancy lost dreams?
Speaker 3: One of my studies found that fifty eight percent of
Speaker 3: people who'd lost a pregnancy had a grief dream, both
Speaker 3: mothers and their partners. These parents have never met their child,
Speaker 3: but nonetheless a dream about the baby lost. The child
Speaker 3: can appear in their dreams as a newborn in their arms,
Speaker 3: or as a toddler saying I love you, or even
Speaker 3: as a teenager saying it wasn't your fault. Question, how
Speaker 3: about the dreams that people have of deceased pets. My
Speaker 3: study found that seventy six percent of people whose pets
Speaker 3: had passed had dreams about them. Of course, the major
Speaker 3: difference is that the animal generally doesn't talk. These dreams
Speaker 3: tend to reflect the pet's life and what they and
Speaker 3: the dreamer used to enjoy doing together. So, for instance,
Speaker 3: the dream might include taking a dog to a favorite
Speaker 3: dog park or petting a beloved cat. Question do young
Speaker 3: children have bereavement dreams? A lot of people forget that
Speaker 3: children can have these kinds of dreams, even young children
Speaker 3: who don't yet understand death but are nonetheless trying to
Speaker 3: have these dreams. It's important to ask our children and
Speaker 3: the kids we serve if they're having these kinds of dreams.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the dreams will start years after the person the
Speaker 3: child is grieving has passed away. One woman told me
Speaker 3: that she began dreaming of her deceased father when she
Speaker 3: was thirteen. She'd never actually met him because he had
Speaker 3: died before she was born, but she formed a bond
Speaker 3: with him through these dreams that sustained her as she
Speaker 3: continued to grow up. He'd give her fatherly advice in
Speaker 3: these dreams. Question, you mentioned grief dreams before knowledge of
Speaker 3: the loss. Can you explain what these are and why
Speaker 3: they might occur. Yes, some people have grief dreams before
Speaker 3: they are notified that their loved one has pain.
Speaker 4: Asked.
Speaker 3: Usually, in these dreams, a loved one comes to them
Speaker 3: and says goodbye, often in a very positive way. Sometimes
Speaker 3: the dreamer knew the person was unwell, and other times
Speaker 3: they did not. I can't explain it. I think in
Speaker 3: this case there's an invisible tie between these two people.
Speaker 3: They're connected somehow. Question in your opinion, how are these
Speaker 3: dreams spiritual? Interestingly, people of all religions and varying levels
Speaker 3: of faith experience grief dreams. Some think these dreams are
Speaker 3: unhealthy or that they have a negative spiritual component, but
Speaker 3: my research has shown the healing powers of these dreams.
Speaker 3: One of the main questions I get is do you
Speaker 3: believe that this is a visitation? And I can't determine that,
Speaker 3: only you can. And he tips on how to better
Speaker 3: understand grief tream d personally, I found dream journaling and
Speaker 3: studying about dreams is helpful to understanding dreams. To understand dreams,
Speaker 3: you first have to understand your own dream language and symbols.
Speaker 3: I always tell people to start with the emotion in
Speaker 3: the dream and connect them to waking life, then work
Speaker 3: from there to connect the symbols to waking life. So
Speaker 3: once again, check out doctor Black's podcast Grief Dreams and
Speaker 3: he's got a website, Griefdreams dot c A. Do you
Speaker 3: want to try and experiment with me? Have a picture
Speaker 3: of your loved one close by, and before you go
Speaker 3: to sleep at night, have a conversation with them that
Speaker 3: you're doing a dream experiment and ask them to come
Speaker 3: to you in your dreams. Have the dream journal. And
Speaker 3: this may not be an overnight thing, no pun intended.
Speaker 3: It may take some time and some practice to see
Speaker 3: if your loved ones appear in your dreams. I'd like
Speaker 3: to read now just a few examples of people from
Speaker 3: beneath a YouTube video talking about loved ones and dreams,
Speaker 3: just so you can see how normal this really is.
Speaker 3: Bobby says, I just had a dream about my mom,
Speaker 3: who passed away many years ago. She gave me a
Speaker 3: great big hug. Ellie said, last night, I had a
Speaker 3: dream about my friend who died of cancer. But she
Speaker 3: looked so healthy like before she had cancer. She had
Speaker 3: her own hair, and she was smiling. She told me
Speaker 3: she's very happy and nothing hurts anymore. Hannah says, it's
Speaker 3: been almost a year and a half since my best
Speaker 3: friend died, but she finally came to visit me in
Speaker 3: my sleep. It was beautiful. Nick says I dreamt of
Speaker 3: my deceased cat and my cousin. It made me feel
Speaker 3: so happy during the dream, as if we had more
Speaker 3: time together. Maria says my husband passed away one month
Speaker 3: ago and I've been dreaming about him often. Jan says
Speaker 3: my mom passed away just about a month ago now,
Speaker 3: and I have been having numerous dreams of her, almost
Speaker 3: on a daily basis. The most recent dream I've had
Speaker 3: was her sitting on the edge of my bed and
Speaker 3: she looked over at me and smiled. I wish and
Speaker 3: hope to continue having these dreams of her because it
Speaker 3: is the closest thing I still have to her being
Speaker 3: here in person. Josie says, I dreamt last night about
Speaker 3: my mom and dad. My dad gave me a bank
Speaker 3: note in read in his left hand. It's a wonderful
Speaker 3: feeling to see both of them together in my dreams.
Speaker 3: Kp says I had a dream of my uncle that
Speaker 3: passed away in June, and he looked healthy and young again.
Speaker 3: The first dream to me was like he was showing
Speaker 3: me how he was doing now. My second dream was
Speaker 3: him hugging me and telling me that it's okay. And
Speaker 3: that he's doing well and he's back with my other
Speaker 3: uncle and someday I will see them again. Wes says,
Speaker 3: my brother passed away last year, and I saw him
Speaker 3: in my dreams smiling, and he gave me a big hug.
Speaker 3: Evan says, I dream about my beautiful son in one dream.
Speaker 3: He said, Oh, Mom, you can't imagine how happy I am.
Speaker 3: Morris says the day my sister passed away, I went
Speaker 3: home and had a very hard time. I was crying,
Speaker 3: asking her to give me some signs. Later that night,
Speaker 3: I went to bed and dreamt of her. She was
Speaker 3: holding my hand and we were walking. She was so happy,
Speaker 3: smiling and gave me the biggest hug I ever felt.
Speaker 3: She was healthy too. We walked in a place I
Speaker 3: have never seen before, but it was so beautiful. I
Speaker 3: woke up crying, and I ended up crying for a while.
Speaker 3: It was the most vivid dream I've ever had, like
Speaker 3: I was there physically with her. Genie says, last night
Speaker 3: I had a dream of my twin who died when
Speaker 3: she was two years old, but she looked about the
Speaker 3: same age as I am now. The only words she
Speaker 3: said were I'm right here, I'll always be by your side,
Speaker 3: beautiful stories. Grief is so very tough, and our loved
Speaker 3: ones certainly want us to know that they live on.
Speaker 3: So whether they come through your imagination in the dream state,
Speaker 3: you hear their voice, you receive a sign, or maybe
Speaker 3: you talk to a medium, they are alive and well
Speaker 3: and you will see them again. Coming up after the break,
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Speaker 1: Hi, this is you Folllowgist Kevin Randall, and you're listening
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain.
Speaker 3: We started out this episode talking about some big prize
Speaker 3: money being given out for evidence of the afterlife from
Speaker 3: some pretty major organizations, followed by studies of loved ones
Speaker 3: showing up in our dreams. And just to continue that
Speaker 3: more mainstream people are talking about the afterlife, I want
Speaker 3: to play a clip from Doctor Oz's show, Oh My Love.
Speaker 6: We are revealing the most outrageous things that will blow
Speaker 6: your mind. And today's show comes from something you've been
Speaker 6: sharing with me. Since we first talked about it, I
Speaker 6: received an overwhelming outpouring of responses about rageous signs that
Speaker 6: you say your loved ones are sending from the other side. Now,
Speaker 6: this woman says, for example, that her mom finds ways
Speaker 6: to send her a unique science like a queen of hearts.
Speaker 6: It has a significant meaning to her. And think a
Speaker 6: look at this flower made out of shells. The viewer
Speaker 6: says she thinks it's a sign from her son. Now
Speaker 6: I just been blown away by the response, I wait
Speaker 6: until you hear the stories we found and the lives
Speaker 6: that were changed. Could you be next?
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 3: My name is Kate Rabinowitz.
Speaker 8: My fourteen year old daughter Anna Litton was killed six
Speaker 8: years ago.
Speaker 4: A week ago, I thought that my GPS had failed me,
Speaker 4: and I asked, Anna, if.
Speaker 8: You are here, can you please send a sign that
Speaker 8: this is okay? And I looked up above and there
Speaker 8: was Anna, capital letters with an exclamation mark.
Speaker 3: I am so grateful. My heart burst and I felt
Speaker 3: like she really is here.
Speaker 4: My name is Linda Vinciguera, my dear sistant passed away.
Speaker 4: And then the next morning I come out of my
Speaker 4: house and this big tigan did mona butterfly comes flying
Speaker 4: right at me. This was going on five days and
Speaker 4: oh my sister's burial. The butterflfe just comes right at
Speaker 4: me and circles around me, just right at my face,
Speaker 4: and then it disappeared, truly a sign from above.
Speaker 8: Hi. My name is Francesca. My son Matthew passed away
Speaker 8: three years ago. He left our family, including a younger brother, sister,
Speaker 8: and a future stepdad, way too soon. And although it
Speaker 8: was really excited about planning this big wedding and having
Speaker 8: all our friends around. I couldn't help but feel lots
Speaker 8: of sadness and guilt knowing that he wouldn't be a
Speaker 8: part of our special day. And then I got this
Speaker 8: amazing sign and a beautiful wedding present from Matthew that
Speaker 8: left no doubt that he was still around and would
Speaker 8: be a part of our special day.
Speaker 6: Marchessca you just heard from this year, She says she's
Speaker 6: received many signs from her son, Matthew. So what kind
Speaker 6: of son was he?
Speaker 8: It was very enerogenic, he was very outgoing. He was
Speaker 8: the life of the party. He just loved everyone, and
Speaker 8: everyone loved him.
Speaker 6: So you lost him how long ago?
Speaker 8: Three years ago? Three years ago.
Speaker 6: I got destroyed for that.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 6: I know it was painful.
Speaker 2: The biologic orders win.
Speaker 6: So you're driving along and you believe you've seen a
Speaker 6: sign from your son, one of several that have apparently occurred.
Speaker 3: Yes, So.
Speaker 8: The first sign was about five weeks out. So I
Speaker 8: usually use ways. We have a house out east, and
Speaker 8: I put Ways on to head back home into the city,
Speaker 8: and it was just taking me off the normal road.
Speaker 8: It stopped in a dead end and then it shut off,
Speaker 8: and then when it shut off, I didn't know what
Speaker 8: direction we were pointing in, so I came out and
Speaker 8: I put the car navigating system on it, and then
Speaker 8: when I looked up, it was said Matthew's lane, And
Speaker 8: it was kind of one of the first real signs
Speaker 8: that I knew that he was pretty much kind of,
Speaker 8: you know, selling me. No I am here, because just
Speaker 8: before that, I got a he used to wear a
Speaker 8: star of David and he had a tattoo of the Hamsa,
Speaker 8: and just before that I saw somebody wearing that with
Speaker 8: a and I just kept seeing that all the time
Speaker 8: that you know.
Speaker 6: So I've got a picture of the road sign that
Speaker 6: I can put it up everyone to see, and it
Speaker 6: says there's Matthew laying again. So that sort of woke
Speaker 6: you up to the fact that he was selling you
Speaker 6: smaller signs like the tattoo in thegury and others. Yes,
Speaker 6: have they been getting louder and louder able to notice
Speaker 6: them more?
Speaker 8: Yes, Yes, absolutely. So.
Speaker 6: For example, I know that you're happily in a relationship,
Speaker 6: you were thinking about getting married, Yeah, you know this
Speaker 6: was a few months ago. Yes, And there's an awkwardness about that,
Speaker 6: right because you wanted him to be there. Yes, how
Speaker 6: did he communicate to you that it was okay?
Speaker 8: We took a trip to Miami and we got into
Speaker 8: our room about six forty five am, and I looked
Speaker 8: at Charles and I said, you know, we have to
Speaker 8: go down and watch sunrise.
Speaker 4: And he kind of was.
Speaker 8: The first didn't really want to go, and then he said, okay,
Speaker 8: we'll go down. So we went down to the beach
Speaker 8: and it was pretty deserted, and there was one gentleman,
Speaker 8: kind of a little far off, just sitting there. Son
Speaker 8: was kind of coming up. He walked over to us
Speaker 8: and he was wearing a baseball cap, and it was
Speaker 8: the kind of the first thing I noticed because I
Speaker 8: actually have the same hat the man was wearing, which
Speaker 8: has the flag on it. Yeah, and I wear it
Speaker 8: because my son loved the flag and I actually just
Speaker 8: wore it hiking the day before.
Speaker 1: So then he.
Speaker 8: Asked if I wanted our photo taken with the sun
Speaker 8: with the sunrise, and I said sure, So he took
Speaker 8: a photo. He handed my phone back and he reaches
Speaker 8: into his pocket and he hands me a flower and
Speaker 8: he goes, this is for you. He looks straight in
Speaker 8: my eyes and he goes, this is for you, and
Speaker 8: I said, oh, I said thank you, and he goes,
Speaker 8: my wife and I make these and they're perfect for
Speaker 8: wedding bouquets. I said, thank you. I don't tell him
Speaker 8: we're getting married. And he looks at me and he goes,
Speaker 8: my name is Matthew Goodness, so I don't tell him
Speaker 8: about my son. But I said, oh, that's nice. My
Speaker 8: name is Francesca.
Speaker 3: This is Charles. We come here often.
Speaker 8: And he goes, well, I come here, you know, every
Speaker 8: morning to watch, you know, to watch the sun rise.
Speaker 8: He goes, maybe I'll see you again, and I said,
Speaker 8: you know, maybe we will see each other again, and
Speaker 8: that was pretty much it. And then he looks at
Speaker 8: me and he says, do you know do you know
Speaker 8: what my name means? And I was like, I think
Speaker 8: I remember, but it wasn't sure. So he's like, my
Speaker 8: name means a gift from God. Oh, so I said,
Speaker 8: I think I remember that. And then that was kind
Speaker 8: of it, and we walked away, and then my husband,
Speaker 8: my fiance at the time, was really blown away because
Speaker 8: I was still kind of shocked, and he kept saying,
Speaker 8: oh my god, that's a sign. You have to put
Speaker 8: this flower into your wedding bouquet. That was definitely Matthew.
Speaker 6: This is it.
Speaker 3: This is the actual flowers, the actual flower.
Speaker 6: So it's okay if you may ask Just's husband join
Speaker 6: us for a second. To Charles, you say you were
Speaker 6: skeptical about all this, like a lot of people are.
Speaker 6: So what was going through your mind?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: I was, as you said, it was skeptical at first.
Speaker 7: I'm skeptical by nature. And we were literally the only
Speaker 7: two people on the beach besides this man. And when
Speaker 7: he approached, he sort of I guess as a New
Speaker 7: Yorker you can look at strangers a little bit with
Speaker 7: a little bit of caution. But this man just had
Speaker 7: this light glowing in these light blue eyes, and you
Speaker 7: could almost see through them. It was just so clear,
Speaker 7: and he was just so peaceful. And when he handed
Speaker 7: the flower and said his name was Matthew and explained
Speaker 7: to us what it meant, I was completely blown away,
Speaker 7: just blown away.
Speaker 3: And it's not left me.
Speaker 6: Are you rethinking your skeptical thoughts about signs? Which is
Speaker 6: I think an appropriate one. I feel the same way.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure about these signs, but I keep hearing
Speaker 6: these stories that there's just too much coincidence.
Speaker 7: I am, but as Francesca described, that was one incident.
Speaker 7: There's been a bunch of others. There was the Matthews
Speaker 7: Lane and several others, and these are just uncanny and
Speaker 7: absolutely hard to wayne.
Speaker 6: I don't even know how to have this flower.
Speaker 8: This actually what's interesting about this story because it kind
Speaker 8: of keeps going. I had a reading with Laura Lynn
Speaker 8: Jackson almost a year before August twenty first, twenty eighteen,
Speaker 8: and she's telling me that my son. She's like, oh,
Speaker 8: you're going to be She was like, you're going to
Speaker 8: be somewhere in seven months, So you're going to be
Speaker 8: away somewhere, he's telling me. She goes, well, this is
Speaker 8: what he's saying. In seven months, he's sending you a
Speaker 8: gift for your wedding. I don't know what it is
Speaker 8: or how you're going to get it, but you're going
Speaker 8: to get it. And then she goes, let's see, it's August, August, September, Oxber.
Speaker 8: She goes, okay, end of March.
Speaker 3: Well, end of March.
Speaker 8: Was I flew end of March to you know Miami Floor.
Speaker 5: It was April fifth, It was pretty close.
Speaker 8: It was seven Yeah, Well was seven.
Speaker 6: Months, let me ask meeting Laura Lyn Jackson, come join
Speaker 6: us if you do much. He's here in the audience.
Speaker 8: We've heard and it keeps getting better.
Speaker 5: Not just one.
Speaker 6: Actually there at this point four or five events which
Speaker 6: just don't make sense if they're arbitrary. And I'm struggling
Speaker 6: as a position to make sense to this as well.
Speaker 6: I just you know, the latest observation that you predicted
Speaker 6: she was going to get a wedding gift, which I
Speaker 6: don't think that was. It's not logically possible how to
Speaker 6: loved ones send signs so seemingly easily to people they
Speaker 6: care about from the other side.
Speaker 9: It's pretty magical, isn't it. You know, it's wondrous how
Speaker 9: they can do it. They can orchestrate all different things
Speaker 9: to happen. What I love about this story too, is
Speaker 9: that Matthew kept it a surprise.
Speaker 5: He didn't tell us exactly what it was.
Speaker 9: Going to be, but he told you it was it
Speaker 9: was going to arrive to you. I think they have
Speaker 9: a way of orchestrating certain people to enter our paths.
Speaker 9: For example, the Matthew that came up to you on
Speaker 9: the beach, that was absolutely Matthew on the other side,
Speaker 9: guiding that man into your path and inspiring him to
Speaker 9: give you that flower, which is really a gift from
Speaker 9: your son.
Speaker 6: So what do you think Matthew wants for Princeessica to
Speaker 6: hear right now?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 9: I think he wants you to know, and I think
Speaker 9: you do already know this, that he is there with
Speaker 9: you every second of the day. He's here with us
Speaker 9: right now, and you sharing the story of connection is
Speaker 9: inspiring others to see their own loved ones connecting in
Speaker 9: their own lives. So it's really this beautiful team of light,
Speaker 9: you and he, you know, share to help others understand
Speaker 9: their own journeys, their own connections, that our loved ones
Speaker 9: are always with us. And I think it's pretty clear
Speaker 9: he was saying he was coming to the wedding and
Speaker 9: that he was going to be there for the happy
Speaker 9: moments too, and that he wants you to live a virbrant,
Speaker 9: joyful life of love and connection and he celebrates that
Speaker 9: with you.
Speaker 3: Absolutely I believe it.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, I'm your pain. It does.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: They are with us, they want us to be happy.
Speaker 3: They are still part of our lives. It's so hard
Speaker 3: for our mind to get around the reality of the afterlife,
Speaker 3: and I don't think we're meant to, but every so
Speaker 3: often remind yourself if your skeptic and have doubts, that
Speaker 3: you are living on a planet which is hurling around
Speaker 3: the ever expanding universe. We hold cell phones in our
Speaker 3: hand that are invisibly connected to all the information in
Speaker 3: the world, or almost all life after death is real,
Speaker 3: my friend, Your life is for a purpose. There is
Speaker 3: going to be a moment when we each take that
Speaker 3: last breath, and our loved ones and our pets will
Speaker 3: be there too. Don't be hard on yourself, live each
Speaker 3: day to the fullest and definitely let the people in
Speaker 3: your life know how much you love them and savor
Speaker 3: every minute. Remember our home base is we Don't Die
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Speaker 3: medium demonstrations. I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you for listening to
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