What It Means To Dream About A Deceased Loved One

May 24, 2018

If you have lost a loved one, you must know that it is one of the toughest things to come to terms with. Not everyone deals with the grieving process in the same way, and some people may even spend most or all of their life getting over their loss. 
 

You may consider yourself blessed if your deceased love shows up in your dream, and despite how religious or spiritual you may be, seeing a lost love in your dream would feel fulfilling. This is so because the dream will give you some happiness, hope, and even some closure. These dreams seem real to the dreamer, they are welcomed and are important to the healing process despite your personal beliefs. 

Visitation dreams follow a number of different themes, which you can read about below.
 

In the dream, your lost love will look as they did in life and may even appear healthier. They are in their purest state, and because of their happiness and love for you, they are appearing to you one last time before moving on.

They look healthier because they are no longer in bad health, have no bad or negative feelings and you are glad to see them, especially if their passing was long and painful. 
 

Those who have been visited by deceased loved ones in a dream, often state that their loved one wants to absolve them and comfort them with the fact that they are well and contented. This will be helpful for you to know especially if you were not on good terms with them in life or if their life was a difficult one.

You will wake up from such a dream feeling good and thankful for the comforting message. 
 

It is often reported that loved ones in a dream are not very talkative, but they are able to communicate clear messages through body language and signs. This is known as telepathic communication, and a great deal can be communicated this way to the dreamer that it makes them joyful for the dream experience. 
 

Regular dreams are confusing and take place in random strange locations and will be an odd mixture of life experiences. Visitation dreams are organized and they make sense. This is how the dreamer recognizes it as a visitation dream. 
 

While the details of a regular dream are quickly forgotten, within minutes of waking up, that is not the case with visitation dreams. Many people will use a diary to document their dreams right after waking.

Visitation dreams, however, are vividly remembered and the memory of one could last the entire life of the dreamer. Because of this, many feel that visitation dreams are actually spiritual visitations as opposed to a regular dream. 
 

Once you experience a visitation dream you will feel the impact it has on your life. It changes you because you would have learned something from the experience you did not know before and it would leave you feeling that you made a connection with the spirit of your deceased love in the dream. 
 

Visitation dreams often leave the dreamer with such a powerful sense of peace that you will gain closure that ends the grieving process. You will see that your deceased loved one is content and peaceful and you will feel you can move forward with your life. 
 

The light may signify “a better place” the deceased one is in, and he comes into the visitation dream to offer comfort. 
 

This issue has been questioned for centuries and the appearance of deceased loved ones in visitation dreams seems to confirm this. Because you love and trust them you will also tend to believe that life exists after death. 
 

Deceased loved ones may play a role in the visitation dream to be able to interact with your subconscious and offer help to you on a different level. In your waking hours, you may think of your deceased loved one in physical form only and apply normal filters to process communication in your rational mind.

Through the role play in the visitation dream, the deceased loved one is able to reach your subconscious mind for you to accept help. 
 

Visitation dreams provide a sense of reunion with the deceased loved one so you will be able to spend one more time together to express any thoughts you had not been able to express before. You will be happy for that time together and it will help you move forward with your life afterward. 
 

The meaning of visitation dreams has been debated in psychology and religion. Theories have suggested that the dreams may be your way of processing loss or that they are intended for the lost love’s last appearance before passing into the next life. The result is that, whatever you believe, waking up from such a dream will give you a sense that your grieving is over and you can now accept your loved one’s passing and get on with your life. 

Please let us know about your visitation dream experience if you've had one! Also, if you know anyone who has experienced visitation dreams, tell them of this post so they can know what it means!