Does it seem strange to you that it’s possible to conjure up an image in your head of someone you know who’s died, in exactly the same way as if they’re still alive, or even just sitting in the next room? Strange, and also in a weird way, a little bit wrong?
I used to have dreams with my dad in them for many years after he died. The dream could be about something completely different, but he’d just appear in it like it was totally normal. Everything would be fine and happy, and then I would at some point turn to him in wonder and say “we all thought you were dead!” And on that bittersweet note, the dream would usually end. I’m guessing I was just drifting towards consciousness anyway, and my normal awake memories and mental processing were coming back to me.
I can still see his face but I haven’t had one of those dreams for years.
Apologies if I’ve written about this before, it’s a bit hard to use the search function on my blog for that sort of thing. Maybe I should just type in “I see dead people”.