Signs/messages after a person passes away

The day of my father’s death, within an hour or so, the clock in their lounge that had kept perfect time for many decades, suddenly stopped. It could’ve been a coincidence but it didn’t feel like it.

When my cousins husband died during covid I went to visit her shortly afterwards. They loved to visit RHS Wisley together so we went there for the day to reminisce. We went by taxi and when we got back to her house she settled up with the driver. It was £25. On her doormat was the mail and amongst it was a letter addressed to her husband from N.S. and I, he had won £25 so he had just paid for that lovely day out! We’ll always look upon that as a gift from him as a sign he was there and enjoying that day with us.

Oh yes I do. But you have to be open to them otherwise they won’t find you.

No.
I don’t know what everyone is seeing or hearing but it seems you’re getting some comfort from it.
. I believe in God and the Bible so of course I absolutely believe in the afterlife.
The trouble is that it says in the Bible that there is a great gulf between the living and the dead that the dead can’t cross back over from.
I’ll probably get roasted for bringing religion into the discussion, but it’s what I believe, and I’m allowed to believe it, just as everyone else is allowed to believe what they do.

I take comfort from knowing that those of my relatives that believed in this life, are now with Jesus, but I’m also sorrowful that those who did not believe, are in that other terrible place.

My Mum died over 14 years ago now. I still occasionally have very vivid dreams she is in. She is always much younger in my dreams, almost as she was when I was a child growing up. I find it soothing, almost like we have shared time together. I mentioned I had had such a recent dream and Mum was there at the beach with me to my younger sister and she cried because she so wanted to have Mum in her dream. I wish I'd never told her because she was so sad not to have seen Mum. In future if I see Mum in my dreams I'll not be telling my sister. I don't understand why some people can dream of their deceased loved ones and others just can't despite trying hard.

What a beautiful and comforting thread!

Definitely not although I'm a superstitious person and thought that perhaps I might. Yes, I've seen white feathers and robins and such but I live in the countryside so expect them.
I would give a lot to be able to dream of my late DH but only had 1 dream with him in and he was just walking and I didn't even know if he was walking towards me or away from me.
When I was a teenager around 13/14 ish any time I dreamt of a person, relative/family friend or whatever then that person would pass away shortly afterwards. Used to really frighten me but it doesn't happen anymore. I think nowadays that probably I'd heard the grown ups talking about the person being ill or something.

Thanks so much everyone for adding your thoughts and stories. Some are uplifting and some sad, and I’m so sorry for those of you struggling or needing more comfort.

I don’t normally subscribe to this kind of thinking-my family are all very practical. However. My youngest brother, Robin, died in 1990. Dad died in 2000. Mum died in 2010. After she died the whole family got together around a tree in the crematorium where we sang Christmas carols and scattered her ashes. While we were singing a Robin sat in the tree, head on one side, watching us. He moved around to watch each of us. It was amazing and very moving, and we really felt that our family was watching us.

My father died nearly 30 years ago. We were very close and I missed him dreadfully. I had just moved to a new house-semi detached, well back from the road and the Moss a peat bog park behind me. I started smelling cigarette smoke on a daily basis and it was so strong that I used to go outside to see if anyone was in my front or back garden. No one and I have never smoked and lived alone at the time. My dad was a chain smoker and I think he came to check on me every no and again. About 12 years ago my mother died and he's never been back. I think he was waiting for her. I really miss him and I miss his smoke.

I was having a cup of tea with an elderly neighbour who's husband had died two days before and a beautiful butterfly landed on the window sill of the room we were in. We both looked at it and smiled, it wasn't a coincidence, it just felt so significant.

No, I don't believe in ghosts or afterlifes, once you're dead that's it, the end.
People just attach things to grief, they see a feather falling while they think of thir dead dad and decide it's something to do with them. But what about all the other feathers they see?

People say a bird (often Robins) will fly around them, but birds do that all the time.

A light flickers, which lights do all the time.

My stepdad died last week, we never had a good relationship but he'd been asking about me the day before he died. I didn't find out until Saturday morning, but on Friday afternoon (around the time he died) my electrics blew, my cat was acting really odd and my dishwasher flooded my kitchen.
Now was that my stepdad? Or was it the fact the switches tripped due to getting wet somewhere and the cat was bothered about the water and me stressing about it all?

Don't really go with stuff like this BUT the oddest thing happened when MIL passed very suddenly. Two days after she died I had the strongest smell of her perfume in my bathroom. Tweed which I never liked. It was so odd and strange and bothered me for ages.

Yes! Too many to list...

If you're open to noticing 'signs' you'll find them. I hope they are comforting.

The night of mums funeral i was in bed feeling distraught. A bright light appeared on the ceiling. It gradually faded to nothing. I was overwhelmed with peace. I felt sure she sent me a goodbye message.

This woman is a hospice nurse:

www.instagram.com/reel/DRAmUyZEUQC/?igsh=MXgwYnE3aWx6ZHMyOQ==

A draft, perhaps?

I like to think these signs genuinely mean those who have passed are near & find it comforting.

My dear mother passed last October. Both my daughter & I just wanted to know that she was now happy and at peace & would ask for a sign. One evening my daughter & son-in-law were in their kitchen when they heard a sound from behind the curtain. My son-in-law jokingly said to my daughter ‘it’s your Nanna’. When they looked part of a sign the grandchildren had put up for Halloween had fallen down & was swinging…it said ‘Happy’.

One the same evening I was at my house alone watching tv. Suddenly a heart decoration hanging from a cupboard door fell to the floor. ‘Happy heart’? We like to think so.

After my husband died I was literally followed around by a robin (he loved birds). A wonderful butterfly entered our conservatory after my mother died and stayed for several minutes. Yes, I do believe we are being watched over for many other reasons too. I believe that there are many, many things we do not understand and those who are open to such things, will notice them

“I take comfort from knowing that those of my relatives that believed in this life, are now with Jesus, but I’m also sorrowful that those who did not believe, are in that other terrible place.”

I’m very struck by your comment. I’m sure your religious belief gives you great comfort in many ways, Hippychick”, but what a terribly sad burden of sorrow you must bear on behalf of your non-believing relatives.

I know it's each to their own when it comes to belief but I would love someone to possibly explain how a heart shaped, red and white Haribo sweet hit me on the arm through the open car window on an empty road with no pedestrians around either.

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This woman is a hospice nurse:

www.instagram.com/reel/DRAmUyZEUQC/?igsh=MXgwYnE3aWx6ZHMyOQ==

A draft, perhaps?

That should be draught in my earlier (I blame autocorrect 😅)

'There are more things in heaven and hell than are dreamt of in our philosophy'

Hamlet

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hamster58 I’m normally a very sceptical person, however 14 months ago the love of my life died unexpectedly, only 63. (I didn’t live with him) He had a very active life as SAS, intel & 18 years as 1 para. If there had been anything I could have had from his possessions it would have been the ‘green army scarf’ he wore day in and day out. One day 7 months after he was cremated, I was walking in the new neighbourhood where I’d moved to, only to see the identical scarf on the pavement muddy and soaking wet.

I have to ask Nannee49, did you keep the sweet?