The feeling that someone who passed away is with you

*sparky* · September 2014

This may sound crazy and I feel a little nuts right now but I had the strangest feeling today and I am wondering if anyone has felt something like this before.

When I was in HS my best friend was killed in a car accident. We had been friends for 7 years and did everything together. She loved music and was an amazing singer. After her death our school created a scholarship in her name for musically talented students.

My LO has loved music since the day she was born. If she is upset or fussy all you have to do is start singing to her and she stops instantly and listens to you intently. I know a lot of babies love it when you sing to them but this seems a little beyond normal and both of her sitters have commented on how much she seems to love music.

So today I was driving home with DD and she was a little fussy so I started singing to her and then the memory of my friend just hit me all at once. But it wasn't just a memory it was a really strong feeling that literally took my breath away and made me feel like she is here with me through my daughter. Why this just hit me today and not sooner and why I am crying about this when it has been 20 years since she died makes no sense to me whatsoever.

So tell me A14 have I completely lost my mind or has someone else experienced anything like this?

Merlyna04 · September 2014

I am a believer , so probably I lost my mind since I was a kid .

edoliesmom · September 2014

I haven't experienced this personally, but I totally believe things like this are possible.

What a comforting feeling that must be!

RedDawnsRevenge · September 2014

If your crazy I am too. 2 weeks before DD1 my grandfather died. Mo has the same personality. This pregnancy my other grandfather pass way, he had a laid back personality like DD2. Some times I am sure my girls are reincarnations of these family members.

ladygali · September 2014

Sometimes LO stares and smiles at the wall by the front door and I like to think maybe he's looking at my husband's late grandpa who is just checking in

UnofficiallyLO · September 2014

I've experienced this recently.

zoopsiedaisy · September 2014

I think its totally possible. My LO will stare off behind me frequently and looks so interested in something but there's nothing there.

Also, and this is very literal, but her middle name is Jo after my dad Joe. I had a porcelain hand and foot print made and the woman etched her name into it on the front and wrote it on the back. On the front she slelled it Joe and on the back spelled it correctly, Jo. I am convinced that this has something to do with him. Why would she spell it correctly on one side and not the other? If she was unsure, why didn't she email? We were I'm contact the entire time she was making it regarding colors and finishes. Even if its a fluke it makes me happy to think it might have been my dad letting us know he's here.

momofmanyinthemitten · September 2014

Not a family member or friend, but DS flirted with our ghost. A previous owner's daughter told us about her, so when I saw DS follow something across the room, smile and sheepishly nuzzle my shoulder, I could only assume it was her. I'm pretty sure DH's grandma is DD1's guardian angel. There have been several occasions when she could have been seriously hurt, but ended up just fine. She was an OB nurse and loved babies. The first time I showed DD1 a picture of her, she waved and said hi as if she knew her even though she had died a couple years before DD1 was born.

katy4128 · September 2014

I totally believe this! At my parents house my dog used to go into the entry way and bark like crazy. Lately, whenever we walk in there now DS will smile and laugh. I know it has to be someone. Also, the first time we took DS to church my DH was walking around with him and everytime he passed the statue of Mary DS would smile. He still does it to this day but gets really excited and does his shy smile. It is almost like he knows her!

yellowflower15 · September 2014

My daughter's middle name is my late grandmother's name. When she was about 18 months, we were vacationing in my home area (an area where my grandmother visited). My daughter kept talking away as though she was talking to someone. Every time I asked her who she was talking to, she named my grandmother. It's a very unusual name and I don't think my daughter knew it was her middle name. It makes me feel like my grandmother is watching over her.

zazu13 · September 2014

I am a firm believer that we have angels around us more than we realize. I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.

Alissadsuggs · September 2014

Two months after i miscarried my grandmother passed away (also the month I conceived this LO). I had the same dream everynight for weeks that my grandmother was sitting there holding a baby and telling me everything was going to be ok. My sweet hadley was born a year to the day I miscarried the other pregnancy and my labor nurse was an elderly lady with the exact same name as my granny. I can't explain but I swear she was there with me and now my daughter is named after her

*sparky* · September 2014

I loved reading all of your storie - thank you. I have never felt something like this before so I am glad to know I am not crazy. It is reassuring to think my friend is somehow here with me.

smushi · September 2014

LO likes to laugh and babble at the open doorway when we do tummy time in his nursery. I always acknowledge and ask aloud Is it Great Granny? or Is it (name of people who built our house)? Then I put a shirt on... lol

dmosquera4 · September 2014

your are not crazy i feel like this every day when lo starts to laugh at thin air. i feel like all of our grandparents, DH and I, are there making faces at him an making sure he is never alone, i am a true believer.

ive also had that same feeling before so you are not cray at all.... this post made me cry so i can only imagine how you feel

xoxo

Ashleypixie · September 2014

My grandmother had been in a nursing home for a few years and was (I hate to say this I just hate this phrase) but a complete vegetable. Family visited her often and told her about what was going on in everyone's lives as if she may understand. She passed away three days before my wedding. She was a very spiritual person, and I beleive she let herself go because she believed that she could see her family one last time. I dedicated a song to her. I'd like to think she was there. She was the best person I've ever known.

Ashleypixie · September 2014

Also, I am not a religious person by any means but I do beleive some people are sensitive to different types of energy. I know when a house is "haunted" and most details about this person. I can visualize them in my head and sometimes know their name. Never been wrong. I also sense people's auras and it helps me determine what kind of person they are. I feel people's moods around me and often feel angry or sad or irritated if I get too close to them. I don't beleive this is spiritual at all, empathic people must have slightly evolved in a different way, fully aware that energy is constant and transferable. I don't know, like newton's law of inertia taken a step further. As if energy is constant and can only transfer but never stop...? If that makes ANY sense to anyone else. So @sparky I've taken your craziness to a whole nother level!

smushi · September 2014

@ashleypixie you and my sister are like the same person. It's soooo weird. Except instead of children she has a pole studio and pugs...

Ashleypixie · September 2014

Haha! Good, I'm one person less weird in this world.

dmosquera4 · October 2014

@ashleypixie have you ever tried to go to a spiritual healer? i know you are not religious or anything but it sounds like you have a beautiful gift. and they sometimes help you unlock it.

i know i sound crazy just asking you that

Merlyna04 · October 2014

Ashleypixie said:
Also, I am not a religious person by any means but I do beleive some people are sensitive to different types of energy. I know when a house is "haunted" and most details about this person. I can visualize them in my head and sometimes know their name. Never been wrong. I also sense people's auras and it helps me determine what kind of person they are. I feel people's moods around me and often feel angry or sad or irritated if I get too close to them. I don't beleive this is spiritual at all, empathic people must have slightly evolved in a different way, fully aware that energy is constant and transferable. I don't know, like newton's law of inertia taken a step further. As if energy is constant and can only transfer but never stop...? If that makes ANY sense to anyone else. So @sparky I've taken your craziness to a whole nother level!

That happen to me too since I was a kid I try to avoid those staff but it's hard not to feel it.
And I also try to avoid talk about these with other people because they don't Believe it.

SoulTermination · October 2014

I've experienced this a few times in my MIL's house, though I never met the woman in question.

Before I met my DH, and before his mom married his stepdad, his stepdad had a previous wife named Joanne. She loved to wear jasmine perfumes. When she passed away, he married DH's mom. When DH and I fell on hard times, we moved in their house even though they were already housing one of my SILs and her two kids.

Getting to the point, one night when I was sitting up alone on the computer in our room I smelled jasmine from nowhere. I was totally perplexed. I had no candles or incense going, neither did SIL or MIL, there were no jasmine plants anywhere on the block for the smell to come from. Trying to find it, I came out into the kitchen and asked MIL if she smelled jasmine. All calm and collected, she told me, "Oh, that's Grandma Joanne, SFIL's first wife. She visits every once in a while to check on Eldest Niece." (Eldest Niece was the only grandbaby born when she passed away, I believe.)

Blown away. Never had someone be so blithe talking to me about ghosts, lol. I caught her around a few more times after that before we moved, and always made sure to say, "Hi, Grandma Joanne!" even though I never met her. Never had any feelings that she was dangerous or anything, though she certainly seemed to be curious about my video games because that's usually when I'd notice her! XD

J&NL · October 2014

That's awesome!

Ashleypixie · October 2014

It can even happen in new homes, not just old creepy one where you can just get that " feeling." When we were house hunting, there was a new neighborhood with one house nearly finished and we poked around to check it out. My husband found me in the backyard, I couldn't stay in the house any longer. It just felt like someone was following me very closely. So we went next door, to a house that was only framed in. EVERY opening to the house, doors, windows, fire places, had blessings and prayer verses all over them with markers, as if to keep something from entering the house. So weird. I found out that one of the contractors had died of a heart issue of some kind, in or around the area. Whomever was building the house had feared something about him or his death I suppose.

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