Communication with spirits through dreams?

[NightCrawler]

Hello all, I was unsure of how to go about researching this subject. Can a person communicate with a spirit of a dead person through dreams? I'm sure there are people who believe in it and some who do not but I am very interested in looking into the subject further, and seeking out some evidence. Or others experiences that could be similar. This is all due to a recent dream I had where I was communicating with my passed on Great Grandma. I was in my room and I had an old TV in there. The TV went all static and her voice came over the speakers. She told me she was unhappy with the nursing home she had been put in before she died and that they should have put her in some place better. Then she started saying something about $10,000 and how they should have used the money for that, that the money did not get used right. She also said I could still fix this....I tried calling my parents into the room and then my Grandma said she was starting to fade and would soon not have enough strength to communicate by voice. By then my Dad rushed into the room and said I was being crazy saying I was talking to ghosts. Then I called my Grandma, telling her to stay with us. Then the TV screen flickered and an old film reel played on the screen, it looked like my Grandma when she was in her 30s walking down a street somewhere. Then my Dad believed and my Mom rushed into the room and I told her what was going on. She did not believe either so I kept trying to ask questions to comunicat with my Grandma then the same thing happened again and images of her flickered on the screen, interuppting the program playing on the TV. --So, normally I would just brush this off as nothing, just another odd dream. BUT, I told my mother about it when I met up with her for lunch today and she said it was weird. I asked why and she said well, your Grandma did not like that nursing home se was in, she hated it! I knew this and told her that I remembered that from when I was little. Then she proceeded to tell me that was not the weirdest part, she said that each of my Grandma's kids got exactly $10,000 from her will. This was something I never knew until today when she told me. So I thought that was pretty interesting. Anyone know anymore on this subject?

[kookyinc]

This should probably be in Beyond Dreaming. IMO. Anyhow, I personally do not believe in spirits or souls even existing. When you were younger, you probably heard mention of there being $10,000 in her will, but due to your young age, you didn't pay conscious attention. Either that or a really curious coincidence, but a coincidence nonetheless. But I'm probably not the best person to ask. Just tossing in my two cents.

[NightCrawler]

Oh okay, is there anyway to move this thread to that section? Or maybe it would be better to make a new one? Anyways thank you for your opinion kookyinc, disagree about spirits existing but I appreciate a different point of view.

[kookyinc]

Oh okay, is there anyway to move this thread to that section? Or maybe it would be better to make a new one? Anyways thank you for your opinion kookyinc, disagree about spirits existing but I appreciate a different point of view. You could PM a mod, I think.

[VegasDreaming]

I hope my post doesn't add fuel to the fire of the whole wrong posting area.. But I wanted to talk about the super kick ass dream you had I believe in spirits, ghosts, channeling and all of that stuff... Well the majority of it. I've had strange experiences too. I've had dreams where I talked to my grandparents after they passed away and several different variations of dreams that involved them shortly after they passed. Other than dreams, one real life story my mom told me that when I was born, and I just barely started to talk, she was carrying me through our hallway and I pointed to a picture of my great grandma and said "grandma" but I have never met her in my life because she died before I was born. People in my life have told me that when what happened to you, happens it's a way of passed relatives to communicate with you. Science says that dreams are just thoughts of personal experiences. I think you might have something there though since you have never been told about your great grandma's will. Regardless of anyone's oppinion, I think this is kick ass, I would ask a dream specialist.

[NightCrawler]

I just PMed a Mod so hopefully it will be all set soon and in the proper section! Hey Vegas, you seem to have similar views to me. I believe in ghosts and spirits, the afterlife... I would agree that maybe your Grandma somehow communicated with you when you were little. I mean, who's to say it is impossible? Yea, like I said, I would have brushed this dream off as nothing...but the exact amount each of her kids got? Weird. And I found out from my mother earlier today when I talked to her that the 10,000 was actually money that could have been used to put my Grandma in a better nursing home while she was alive. So my mother's take on it is that my Grandma was telling me she thought her kids should have used the money on her rather than saving it so it just got bumped into her will. Crazy!

[VegasDreaming]

Yeah that's a very cool experience We're you startled or kind of freaked out at all when you woke up and realized what you dreamt?

[NightCrawler]

I was not freaked out, but I was def thinking damn that was an interesting one! So I wrote it down, I didn't feel a little weirded out until I found out about the money thing!

[VegasDreaming]

Haha well that's more than I could probably say but good luck with your dream, I wish I could give more advice or information!

[NightCrawler]

Thanks, and no problemo. It's nice to know someone else is as interested in dreams/spirits as I am!

[VegasDreaming]

It's been all I could think about for the past couple days

[VegasDreaming]

And other than that, I've always been interested in the human mind, dreams, and psychology.

[ooflendoodle]

This would be a great plot starter for a horror/suspense haunting movie lol sorry. Could just be weird coincidence or maybe you did know somehow then forgot but that's probably not the case

[Philosopher8659]

Can a person communicate with a spirit of a dead person through dreams? Let me ask you this. If I have a spirit, why in the hell should I care where it goes after I am dead? Or are you saying that the dead are alive? If thought is the product of a brain, where is thought when there is no brain? If the behavior of the body is the results of a brain, what behavior are you speaking about that the so called dead have? Secondly, if one defines life in terms of function, are you sure you are alive to begin with? Define the thing that is the topic of this thread. What is a man? Is a man a man in disregard to living or dead? ect.

[Baron Samedi]

Your third eye is open.

[NightCrawler]

@Vegas - I've always wanted to take a psychology class and learn something about that. Sadly I've never had the chance to even take an intro. course. hopefully someday though, I would love to learn about it. @ooflen- haha, you're right it could be! The mission of the movie would be the main character trying to find the 10 grand, and fix the problem the ghost is trying to communicate! lol @Philosopher- Honestly you confused me, do you not believe in the afterlife? If so then I guess this thread is pointless to you. I thought the topic was obvious, I had a dream, and it seemed it might have been my Grandma's spirit/ghost trying to relay a message. I would personally define a spirit as that person's soul after death. I do not think our brains are all we are made up of. I believe people have souls, and that is truly what makes them who they are. Therefore after you die you may not communicate the way a living person with a brain would, but you use alternate routes to go about doing so. Just my opinion.

[DarkoMarco]

Hello all, I was unsure of how to go about researching this subject. Can a person communicate with a spirit of a dead person through dreams? I'm sure there are people who believe in it and some who do not but I am very interested in looking into the subject further, and seeking out some evidence. Or others experiences that could be similar. This is all due to a recent dream I had where I was communicating with my passed on Great Grandma. I was in my room and I had an old TV in there. The TV went all static and her voice came over the speakers. She told me she was unhappy with the nursing home she had been put in before she died and that they should have put her in some place better. Then she started saying something about $10,000 and how they should have used the money for that, that the money did not get used right. She also said I could still fix this....I tried calling my parents into the room and then my Grandma said she was starting to fade and would soon not have enough strength to communicate by voice. By then my Dad rushed into the room and said I was being crazy saying I was talking to ghosts. Then I called my Grandma, telling her to stay with us. Then the TV screen flickered and an old film reel played on the screen, it looked like my Grandma when she was in her 30s walking down a street somewhere. Then my Dad believed and my Mom rushed into the room and I told her what was going on. She did not believe either so I kept trying to ask questions to comunicat with my Grandma then the same thing happened again and images of her flickered on the screen, interuppting the program playing on the TV. --So, normally I would just brush this off as nothing, just another odd dream. BUT, I told my mother about it when I met up with her for lunch today and she said it was weird. I asked why and she said well, your Grandma did not like that nursing home se was in, she hated it! I knew this and told her that I remembered that from when I was little. Then she proceeded to tell me that was not the weirdest part, she said that each of my Grandma's kids got exactly $10,000 from her will. This was something I never knew until today when she told me. So I thought that was pretty interesting. Anyone know anymore on this subject? Just for the record I want to say I absolutely think you were talking to your grandmother here. I like her use of the television to communicate. Most ghosts who communicate from the other side. IE, they have made a succesfull transition and are no longer in our dimension, project thier communication through a tunnel, the same tunnel that people report seeing in NDE's (near death experiences). Rather than traverse the tunnel and come back bodily, they project through it, and the use of the TV in my opinion is a perfect receiver for this kind of transmission.

[DarkoMarco]

Let me ask you this. If I have a spirit, why in the hell should I care where it goes after I am dead? Or are you saying that the dead are alive? If thought is the product of a brain, where is thought when there is no brain? If the behavior of the body is the results of a brain, what behavior are you speaking about that the so called dead have? Secondly, if one defines life in terms of function, are you sure you are alive to begin with? Define the thing that is the topic of this thread. What is a man? Is a man a man in disregard to living or dead? ect. Are you over analyzing the experience reported by a dreamer? Or are you trying to be a caracature of an annoying over analytical blogger, cause if so, mission accomplished.

[kookyinc]

Are you over analyzing the experience reported by a dreamer? Or are you trying to be a caracature of an annoying over analytical blogger, cause if so, mission accomplished. I don't think he is trying to be a caricature.

[VegasDreaming]

Darko - Dude that shit was funny. Night - I had the chance at my last school back in vegas but I wanted to do other classes. I'm hoping that my new school here in texas will have a psych class.

[TracyN]

I am a paranormal investigator in my spare time. Our group goes out and investigates suspected hauntings of businesses and residences. We use scientific equipment to conduct experiments to try and capture evidence of paranormal activity. We have seen and experienced some very interesting stuff so it is reasonable to say that the deceased could possibly communicate with us through dreams.

[Philosopher8659]

@Philosopher- Honestly you confused me, do you not believe in the afterlife? If so then I guess this thread is pointless to you. I thought the topic was obvious, I had a dream, and it seemed it might have been my Grandma's spirit/ghost trying to relay a message. I would personally define a spirit as that person's soul after death. I do not think our brains are all we are made up of. I believe people have souls, and that is truly what makes them who they are. Therefore after you die you may not communicate the way a living person with a brain would, but you use alternate routes to go about doing so. Just my opinion. First you say belief, then opinion. A wise man once said something to the effect 'We testify to what we have seen, and speak of what have known.' By the very foundation of language, it is not possible to construct a sentence making an affirmation about things we are ignorant of. This is because at the foundation of language is a convention of names and there is no valid process which defies that convention. This is because it incurs a simultaneous affirmation and denial--in mathematics "NUL speech". In other words, it takes more than the ability to put words in a certain order to make them language. I have socks, do I care what happens to them when I am dead? You are the product of a physical brain. Does your soul get drunk when your body drinks beer? If not, you are not your soul, if it does, your soul is the product of a physical brain. That brain is functional to some degree. What does a non-existent brain produce? You say you believe in things you do not know, yet things you should know, you show no interest in. Is that sane? This does bring up an offshoot idea: Can the life of a person be measured in terms of the time spent as a ratio between NOP and valid mental operations?

[DarkoMarco]

First you say belief, then opinion. A wise man once said something to the effect 'We testify to what we have seen, and speak of what have known.' By the very foundation of language, it is not possible to construct a sentence making an affirmation about things we are ignorant of. This is because at the foundation of language is a convention of names and there is no valid process which defies that convention. This is because it incurs a simultaneous affirmation and denial--in mathematics "NUL speech". In other words, it takes more than the ability to put words in a certain order to make them language. I have socks, do I care what happens to them when I am dead? You are the product of a physical brain. Does your soul get drunk when your body drinks beer? If not, you are not your soul, if it does, your soul is the product of a physical brain. That brain is functional to some degree. What does a non-existent brain produce? You say you believe in things you do not know, yet things you should know, you show no interest in. Is that sane? This does bring up an offshoot idea: Can the life of a person be measured in terms of the time spent as a ratio between NOP and valid mental operations? Why are you attacking this kid for simply asking for affirmation about a dream? And further, why are you talking circles around the topic? The topic,,, and I'm sure you read it when you came in here, was stated simply enogh, and yet , you want to attack the kid for what? His Syntax. I think bottom line you are just threatened about the topic, period, and you want to lash out, or attack anyone who states something that contradicts your beliefs. We are in beyond dreaming buddy, and if the topics inside scare you, maybe you should stick to the more right brained topics,and stop lashing out at kids who are just trying to figuire things out,,,,,,,,,,,,, peace.

[Philosopher8659]

Why are you attacking this kid for simply asking for affirmation about a dream? And further, why are you talking circles around the topic? The topic,,, and I'm sure you read it when you came in here, was stated simply enogh, and yet , you want to attack the kid for what? His Syntax. I think bottom line you are just threatened about the topic, period, and you want to lash out, or attack anyone who states something that contradicts your beliefs. We are in beyond dreaming buddy, and if the topics inside scare you, maybe you should stick to the more right brained topics,and stop lashing out at kids who are just trying to figuire things out,,,,,,,,,,,,, peace. If you cannot follow the ideas and their implications, don't bitch at me because you are slow. When you make it a habit of lying to yourself, it is not only you you effect, "You do unto others as you have done unto yourelf." And just maybe I am fed up of having my life stolen from me because of people like you who don't give a damn about what is true or not, what is right or not. I am lashing out, because I have a right to defend myself. . Nobody has the right to believe what they want, they have the responsibility of believing in what is true because, like it or not, man is the most dangerous creature on this planet. And as for you, if you believe that it is bad form to try and lead someone out of madness, it is because you are mad.

[DarkoMarco]

If you cannot follow the ideas and their implications, don't bitch at me because you are slow. When you make it a habit of lying to yourself, it is not only you you effect, "You do unto others as you have done unto yourelf." And just maybe I am fed up of having my life stolen from me because of people like you who don't give a damn about what is true or not, what is right or not. I am lashing out, because I have a right to defend myself. . Nobody has the right to believe what they want, they have the responsibility of believing in what is true because, like it or not, man is the most dangerous creature on this planet. And as for you, if you believe that it is bad form to try and lead someone out of madness, it is because you are mad. So what do you want? Do you want everybody in the world to be a carbon copy of your self? To only believe what you believe? You know, just because your quotting Kant, or Nietsche or Milton, doesn't make you any different than a Christan or a Muslim or a Hare krishna right now. You are ecclesiastically seeking to convert others to your form of belief, and last time I checked that was not what this forum was all about.