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Noosa_1978

posted on Mar 03, 2008 - 01:32 AM

A few days ago, a friend of mine told me that his mother comes to visit him every night. His mother passed away about a year ago from Cervical Cancer. I know that she is in heaven. Other people have told me the same thing about loved ones who have passed away. Sometimes my dad, who died more than 20 years, comes to my dreams and talks to me. Is it possible after we pass away, to come back to earth and check up on the loved ones we left behind? How and why do people who departed to heaven try to communicate with their loved ones that are still here on earth? I thought that only saints, angels and God can appear to us. Our loved ones are just regular people.

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AMoussa01

posted on Mar 03, 2008 - 01:58 AM

"our loved ones are just regular people."

On the contrary, they are not "regular people" if they have been accepted by God and are now waiting in paradise for his second coming. They have been deemed worthy in sharing eternal life with our Savior and therefore have somewhate of a ranking in heaven. And it is possible for them to be aware of what happens to those who are still living life here on earth. Also, the intercessions do not only have to come from the well known saints, but can also come from holy people who have reposed in Christ. I'm sure they are praying for us and for God to have mercy on us all.

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Katherine

posted on Mar 03, 2008 - 02:09 AM

"I thought that only saints, angels and God can appear to us. Our loved ones are just regular people."

By technical definition, a saint is simply a person who is in heaven (or paradise then heaven...or whatever it is that God has intended for us when we die. Let's not get technical.) Anyway, so yes, as Tony beautifully put it, we can ask for the intercessions of anybody who has died just as much as we ask for the intercessions of St. Mary, or St. Mark, or any of the well-known famous saints of our church because they are all saints. Hence, I think that our loved ones who have died can appear to us and speak to us the way famous saints do.

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geomekhaiel

posted on Mar 03, 2008 - 04:51 AM

Noosa,

What Kathrine and Tony have said is all fine and perfect but I just want to add that a great deal of it has to do with the psycological impact which the death of a beloved person can have on a person. When something really his us hard and consumes our thoughts (very strongly) then it is no surprise that we can even have dreams about those things.

I remember that a few weeks ago I was extreamly consumed by a certain thing, which consumed every one of my thoughts for a few days and I ended up even dreaming about it. The thing that was on my mind was no where near as consuming as when one loses a parent, but still, it did have an effect on me.

It is all really better explained by psycology then by trying to explain it as an apperation of a reposed and beloved person.

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Overgrownegyptian

posted on Mar 03, 2008 - 01:09 PM

It is possible for our beloved dead to visit us in our dreams but as George said, psychology explains it. A death of someone close to us is very traumatic and the way the brain deals with it is one of many many ways. One way of course being that the beloved dead one will "visit" us in our dreams and that is a coping mechanism the brain has established as to deal with the death of the beloved one.

I won't say that these dreams aren't your beloved ones visiting you but there's a good chance that the brain is just dealing with the death by dreaming the person to be talking to them in their sleep.

I hope this helps, God bless you.

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