Have you ever had a scary dream about a loved one or friend soon after their death?

In my third terrifying dream I was at some kind of car dealership and was looking at cars when I suddenly saw my mom walk out of an office building. I was horrified because I knew she was deceased and couldn’t believe she was walking around. In my dream I couldn’t bear to look at her because I was afraid of how she would appear so I ran between cars, hunkered down so she wouldn’t see me, until I found a car with someone in the driver’s seat and begged them to let me in so that my mom wouldn’t find me. They finally let me in and I crouched down below the windows. Then I woke up.

In my next dream I dreamt that I was laying in bed and was just waking up when I realized that my mom’s deceased body was just below me, under my bed. I was frozen in fear and did not want to get out of bed because of this.

I think these dreams were a traumatic response to watching my mom die shortly before and that my mind was trying to process and come to grips with losing her. We often try to convince ourselves that our loved ones are “at peace” (which I pray they are) but really death is a traumatic and horrific event as we are ripped away from the people we love, sometimes with little to no closure or warning.

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

Yes. I actually had three dreams about my mom soon after her death. In the first one, I dreamt that I was at a large outdoor event with lots of people around and it was very hot. In the dream my mom’s body was nude and lying exposed for all to see. I could not see her face, mostly just her back, and I was horrified that she was in that position and her body not properly cared for after death and I was trying to figure out what to do with her body and why it was lying there exposed.