No i have never. but i wasnt really close to my mother when she died. she left me when i was 9, and died 2 and a half years after. I was and still am hurt because i never got to say goodbye or ask her how she could abadon her family but its getting better and i hope it gets better for you

I experienced this several times and I did just 2 nights ago, just a week before the 3 yr anniversary of her death. I was dreaming we were together and laughing like old time. I could see her face and smile. Near the end of the dream, I must have realized she is dead cause I said "Mom, I really miss you". I woke out later. These dreams feel so real and when I awake I miss her even more, Donna. Hugs, Rachele

Embrace the dreams. I believe your mom is there with you. She's comforting you the way she can now. You mentioned medical and financial problems. She's watching over you and trying to let you know she is there with you every step of the way. If it doesn't seem too strange to you, try talking to her out loud whenever the feeling hits. My mom was coming to my kids every night and during naps in the day to help ease them through the grief. She has come to me in a different way. When I ask her about things or share my feelings with her, she has put things and people in my path. Unmistakably it's her way of helping. I so wish I could have her visit me in a dream though.

Hugs to you~ Rachel

My mom died 6 mo. ago and I have desperately wanted to dream of her. To see her again. I did once, but in the dream she was far away and I couldn't see her well. I woke up so disappointed. :-(

I hope you all can experience your moms' in dreams or a sign. I don't want to wake up from them to the reality. LIke you beaniesgirl, my mom has given some signs in ways of things, songs or people put in my way too. Doseydoe, if she was there in the dream wheither clearly or not, than take that as a visit. Rachele

I am new to this site but I also have been having similar dreams.. My name is Vicki & it will be 2 years this Feb. that my mom has been gone. She had a very long drawn out time with Alheimer's. She didn't speak the last 3 years of her life, couldn't walk...couldn't do anything, it was aweful. When I would first dream of her she couldn't talk in my dreams but as time went by she began talking to me again. She is in my dreams alot now. My girlfriend's mom also passed away, our moms were friends as well as us. 25 years went by & I didn't see my old girlfriend and then I found her on Face Book and we have been spending alot of time together. My girlfriend and I expierenced something that I do believe was our moms coming to us. One day I called my husband out side and asked him if this bird was a humming bird...I had never seen one & thought it was so beautiful. A couple days went by and i was on the phone with my girlfriend & she say's "Oh my God there is a beautiful humming bird in my yard, I have never seen one" Mean while we are always making jokes that Marie & JoAnn (our moms) are happy that we found each other after all these years. A few days after that I was still in bed & my husband was leaving for work, when he came in the bedroom I said " I just had another dream about my mom" and he said WOW I was coming to tell you the humming bird is back... I started crying but it was happy & sad cry.

I have dreams that my mom is still alive also,I wake up and realty smacks me

I come from a muslim family and they say that when you see family members who have passed in a dream, they are coming to tell you messages. In fact these kind of dreams have the most meaning and are the most important in our culture. I feel she is coming to tell you that she is still here and continues to be and wants you to people you feel inclined to the same message. Maybe she knows know your faith in the afterlife is very strong and maybe some others in your family don't have the same faith as you... so she can come to you to spread the good message to your family!!! You have a gift and an open heart.... enjoy these visits... you are very lucky you have been getting them so often!!

Rachele, i have had a dream almost identical to yours... we were laughing and talking just like old times and i stopped and looked at her and said i miss you so much. it was weird and when i woke up i just laid there in a daze thinking was that a dream? i have these kinds of dreams very often.

I have had several dreams like these since my Mom passed away on Dec of 2007. It's always the same pre-tense... My Mom has "come back" from where ever she has been and I try to fill her in on everything that has happened since she's been gone. It's never a feeling that she's come back to life, just a "returned" feeling like she was away for a long time. Yet I am always conscious of the fact that she was dead. Very odd dreams but not disconcerting .

I lost my Mother after a long battle with cancer in 2002. I cared for her on and off for 13 years, the last two left her bedridden. She lived with me periodically throughout those 13 years, and full-time for the last two.

Her death had a huge impact on me. I also got sick shortly after she died and am struggling with my health and finances as a result of my illness to this day.

One of the worst things I experience, however, to this day.........is the kind of dream you have just before you wake up........when I think she is still alive and all is well..........only to wake up and have that remaining
grief grip you like you are hearing the news for the first time. I understand what you are going through.....it is almost like post traumatic stress.

IT used to happen repeatedly during the first two years, then gradually became less frequent.........now it happens only once in a great while.

But whenever it happens, it just plain HURTS !!!!

JessMK you just described exactly how my dreams of my mom usually are. They are getting better now but for a LONG time I would constantly dream that she was here but I knew she had been gone, but she didn't or dream of losing her again. Horrible. I just wanted some happy dreams of her. I think that I am getting close because my dreams aren't really of losing her anymore but more that she is just there in the background of what ever is going on.

I am so sorry for your loss darlin', I also lost my Mama, thanksgiving day of '08'. in the begining I wished, hoped, & prayed for signs or for her to come to me in my dreams. it took a little while but then I got it. the dreams were rough at first, cause you wake up and realize it's not true. it has become easier now, sometimes I have good dreams sometimes I have bad ones. but I know my Mama is coming to see me,
and I wake up to feel this warmness around me, as if she had just hugged me. it's one of the best feelings I've had, since I lost her. you are in my thoughts & prayers, and I hope you get to feel that calm, warm feeling
I get to feel every once in a while

I dream of ma almost everyday. I keep trying to save her. I keep on telling her "Ma, let's go to the hospital right now, before you die" and she looks at me as if I've gone crazy. The other day in my dream, I was sitting with her and making snacks of some people who had come over (something we would do very often) and suddenly I turned at her and kept saying "I love you Ma, you have to know that, don't you?" Woke up right after that.

I try to journal my dreams. About 4 months back, I had the most amazing dream every since ma's passing. She was sitting by my bedside and when I started crying, seeing her, she hugged me and said "don't cry mamma, I'm here, I'm right here". It felt so REAL!!! I could feel the warmth of her skin against mine, I could smell her perfume!!!! If this isn't real, I don't know what is.

Take care all of you...

I used to have dreams like I'm trying to save my mother also (@ Jhelum). Like the first week after her passing I would have dreams of her still being in the hospital and I was still trying to care for her like I did when she was alive. The most life-like dream I had, I was on the top floor of a hotel,[ it was one of those hotels where you can look down to see the lobby], and I was walking down the hall and ran into my mother's best friend [who also passed a yr before her]. So consciously I'm thinking, whats she doing here, and when I turn around to my right, there was my mother standing there as well, she was so happy to see me & I was happy to see her and walking without her cane as well, it felt so real, we just hugged and never let go, after that I woke up feeling great like I had really embraced her. I lOVE those dreams and cherish them as real memories.