Someone to watch over you?

Yes, I think so, not sure who.
In the past 12 months my oh dementia has gone into decline, making life very difficult. I could feel myself drowning in the responsibility of it all.

Then out of the blue, I had an email, to say my brother was looking for me. I’d been adopted as a baby, so never met him.
We’ve met loads of times now and have a great relationship.

But I really think someone or something thought I needed someone in my life at the point. 😍

That’s lovely Primrose.
I wish I could feel my mum was close to me because I miss her, but I don’t. It’s lovely that you do.

I don't really believe in things like this but I have to admit at to at least three occasions where it has felt that a hand has reached out to prevent an action or turn events in a totally unexpected way. I can only describe them all as distinctively odd but beneficial.

Babs03

Have had a tumultuous and difficult few years, marked by loss, ill health, and things just generally going pear shaped. Have not so much been mulling over whether someone is watching over me, more whether someone has been sticking pins in a voodoo doll. Could do with a break so if anyone can spare someone to watch over me please send them over pronto.

I will have a word with my Mum!, 😉 one of her sisters was called Babs.

Have had a tumultuous and difficult few years, marked by loss, ill health, and things just generally going pear shaped. Have not so much been mulling over whether someone is watching over me, more whether someone has been sticking pins in a voodoo doll. Could do with a break so if anyone can spare someone to watch over me please send them over pronto.

I think the processes that make us smell smells or get success with an incantation are actually deep in our own minds.

After my sister died I would sometimes think I could feel her hand on my shoulder, something typical of her. It was comforting, but I am sure the physiscal feeling and attached emotions came from my deep mind and not that my sister's spirit was present in any way.

Purplepixie

There’s no one there!

But how do we know?
Refusing to believe in an afterlife is just as much a faith/ belief system as those who choose to believe in one.
Impossible to find out until we die.

deedeedum

I am a big St Anthony fan. He is brilliant, even finds parking spaces.

Send him my way, pleeease🤪

Oh your Mum is definitely watching over you - never stop believing that! I smelt my Dad's aftershave a few days ago whilst doing the ironing. My Dad has been gone 39 years - he was only 45 when he died and I'm 62 now! They don't make his aftershave anymore, it was an Avon one called Spicy from the 1970's and since my Mum went into a nursing home, I have my Dad's ashes! So yes, I firmly believe he's with me and watching over me!

My mum taught me to ask Saint Antony if I needed help or to find something. I think my brother who passed last year keeps an eye on me because at strange times I hear his voice telling me things in a joking nagging way (which was his way with me) and I’ve actually listened and burst out laughing in situations where I’ve needed advice and can hear him and done what he’s said. I’ve even managed to fix my iPhone by listening to him when I’ve no idea what to do to fix the problem so yes I do think there’s a greater force at work somewhere.

Chestnut

Romola

I don't believe that a dead person can watch over someone.
But if I'm in difficulties I ask myself how my mother would have coped. She was a brave and resourceful person and she loved me. I usually get a steer if I think about her.

It's not a dead person watching you, what a horrible thought. The spirit world is beyond our understanding but we can communicate with it sometimes.

Ok...

perhaps not believing stops them? I definitely have my mother by my side, and she died many years ago, to strong , vivid not to believe and my hushand,, I smell a faint smell of tobacco smell... I believe

No, not at all, wish someone would though.

Nope

There’s no one there!

Yes I do! St Anthony finder of lost things...has never failed

Yes definitely.

No. It’s not possible. When someone dies the brain which is the thing that made them what they were is dead too.

Romola

I don't believe that a dead person can watch over someone.
But if I'm in difficulties I ask myself how my mother would have coped. She was a brave and resourceful person and she loved me. I usually get a steer if I think about her.

It's not a dead person watching you, what a horrible thought. The spirit world is beyond our understanding but we can communicate with it sometimes.

Husband had a stroke whilst were on holiday abroad. He began hallucinating seeing wild animals in his hospital room and dogs sitting on top of the tv. It was a terribly difficult and distressing time for me as well having to witness all this alone in a foreign country . A couple weeks later he turned to me and said that there was a little boy sitting on my shoulder! Though he was unaware of this it was the birthday of our son who died when he was 2 years old!! It definitely gave me some comfort thinking he was with us and I’m sure my husband turned a corner that day and began his battle back to health. Not sure what happened but I took all the help I could.

Me too henetha. If anyone is looking out for me, they need a refresher course!

I'm pretty sure no-one is looking out for me. But I wish they were.

No one to watch over me other than DH and when he has gone heaven know what will happen to me I seem to have accidents and mistakes all over now.

I don't believe that a dead person can watch over someone.
But if I'm in difficulties I ask myself how my mother would have coped. She was a brave and resourceful person and she loved me. I usually get a steer if I think about her.

Me too Skydancer. She is the only adult I felt true and unconditional love from. My Mother tried to break the relationship but the bond was unbreakable even though we were only allowed a few hours every four months. When I was an adult she was the only true and supportive person I had to go to. I regret not being able to spend more time with her but my parents banned it.