I don't call them ghosts, that does seem cheesy as someone already stated. I do believe in the life beyond the one we experience here and now. Have I always? No. I believe there are good and bad spirits that exists here with us, some on purpose and some not. I lost a sister almost 5-years ago, my father 2-years ago, a brother-in-law 17-months ago, my mother-in-law just last year, and it makes one wonder A LOT about these kinds of things when you lose so many. BTW, I am only 44, not some octogenarian. I have always wondered about life beyond and after these deaths decided it was time to look into it more. From what I gather, communication with those who have left this plane or life as people may put it, is that some are better at it than others. One person I read about said being able to communicate with "the dead" is like playing piano, some people have a natural gift of it, and others have to work like crazy just to make sounds that are bearable to listen to. However, they also say that we all have this ability.
That being said, I had a dream one night that a cousin of mine was killed in an accident, the next morning, my brother came in and told me that our cousin (only 3-weeks younger than me) had been killed in the ice storm the night before when the truck she was in with 3 others slid into a river. I dreamt two-weeks before his death that my grandfather would die. Yeah, not huge things, I guess.
So, when my sister was killed, I was very distraught upon seeing her body, but then it was all okay. I knew she was there, I could feel her there and I found myself telling whatever jokes and stories I could to make people laugh because she didn't want us so sad. Had she been there, she would have wanted us to celebrate her life. It wasn't just what I wanted to believe, I really felt it.
Then at some point on my stay with another sister, she says, "You should read the book 'Embraced By the Light'". I won't go into what it is about, but it was a book 13 years before that my sister who was killed kept telling me I needed to read. Was it irony, or a way Di was trying to say something to me? She believed in life after death and communicating with those who were no longer with us in body.
I had a reading done a little over a year ago, and if I had any doubts before, they were erased. So, then I wanted to find out more, and do I have any ability worth honing? Maybe. Do I dream things, is that my "gift"? Possibly. I don't really know yet. I have had some very interesting dreams about some of the people who have died, but I can't say as they are really communicating with me or not.
I have never been one to smell things that weren't there, but I do have an extremely sensitive nose. However, this last weekend I was in our bedroom (I live in an old farm house built in 1907). From out of nowhere, I could smell a very strong odor of dog urine. I know, that is weird. I looked all over in our room, the hall, my kid's room across the hall, no spots, none, nada, zip. I only smelled it next to my side of the bed. We have hardwood floors and no carpet in our room of the adjoined hall or anything like that. So, where did this come from? I have NO IDEA! Later that day, I am in the kitchen and I smelled something else that at this moment escapes me what it was, but as each episode happened, I called to my family. Nobody else could smell a thing, but my nose was full of the smells at each occasion. I still want to find out what was happening. I am going to look into it because I know it means something.
Life is miraculous, that I have no doubt. I do not believe in God or the teachings of any religious followings. BTW, that absolutely does not make me a satan worshipper, if I don't believe in one, why would I believe in the other? So, anyway, life itself is miraculous, so why can't death be just as miraculous? If energy cannot be created or destroyed where does the energy of our being, our "life" our soul, our spirit, whatever you call it that makes us US go when our bodies stop? The essence of what makes us conscious and aware? Where does it go?
I watched my mother-in-law die in hospice, I saw the life leaving her. I have no doubt that her spirit left her body before the rest of her stopped. I have no doubt that she was seeing into other lives, and even her own past lives as she was fading.
Okay, another thing that just happened this weekend, and I don't know why all of the sudden 'things' are happening, but they are, I walked into our very small bathroom that is big enough for a sink, a small shelf, and a toilet. (my hubby is 6'4" and has a really hard time sitting on the loo in there). My son had the mp3 player hooked up in the iPal (plug it in and you can listen to you iPod play on a speaker, also has radio), and he left it on. As I walked into the bathroom, I turned it off so the green light was off. I felt it click, saw the light go out, it was OFF. I went pee, washed my hands and looked over and the knob was ON again as was the little green light. No one came in while I was peeing 2-feet away, but it was turned back ON. Now, I think my sister is messing with me! I then had another dream with my brother-in-law in it. I think I need to figure out how to communicate with my 'dead' relatives or give my psychic a call for an appointment.
Just things that make me go, "Hmmm".
