

At the time, my husband had been sharing memories of his late grandpa, which probably triggered something in my heart about losing mine. That’s what her mom represented.”Īfter talking to the experts, I thought back to how I’d been feeling in my waking life when I dreamed of my grandpa. So perhaps God was showing the dreamer that her friend was walking into a place of spiritual growth, and that she was going in with wisdom. “When her mother was alive, wisdom was her big characteristic. “The friend was someone the dreamer had been worried about,” Dr. In the dream, the woman saw her mother-who had passed away 20 years earlier-and a close friend walk into a church. Virkler Kayembe for help deciphering a dream. For example, a woman recently came to Dr. Are you feeling those same things in some area in your waking life? That might shed light as to what the dream means. Next, think about how you feel in the dream. Are you in a house? At school? At the beach?

It’s not so much about that person, but what their name represents.”Īlso, be sure to analyze where the dream takes place, Dr. Sometimes that alone is what God is trying to give you. “I look up the spiritual connotation of the name, like the Hebrew roots, and see what scripture verse is attached to it. “A lot of times, there’s something to do with their name,” Dr. Breathitt suggests looking up the meaning behind the name of the person you dreamed of. So if you have a dream of a dead loved one, how do you go about analyzing it? Dr. Read More: He Started to Give Thanks After This Traumatic Experience And that they want the dreamer to stop grieving and live out their destiny.” If the dreamer is stuck in grief, the deceased will tell the dreamer that they are happy, that they’re in heaven, that Jesus is real. “If people have just lost a loved one and they never got to say goodbye, God chooses that person to come back into their dream as a messenger. “A dream is a gateway, a doorway to the supernatural,” Dr. Other times, a deceased loved one might show up in a dream to communicate a message on behalf of God. “When the deceased come into your dream,” she says, “it’s an open invitation for you to take on a piece of that characteristic that you admired in them.” Breathitt says, especially the characteristics of someone else we’d like to mirror. God is allowing the dreamer to tap into that.”Īfter all, God is aware of the desires of our heart, Dr. “That could be a spiritual gift or a divine characteristic like wisdom or kindness. “These dreams could mean you’re receiving a gift-or divine mantle-that God had previously given to the person you’re dreaming about,” she says. Barbie Breathitt, author of Dream Encounters: Seeing Your Destiny from God’s Perspective. The purpose of the dream could also be to anoint the dreamer with something very specific, says Dr. Read More: Her Grandpa Jacques Sent a Message from Beyond They’re healthier than they’ve ever been, they’re happier, they’re home. So God will give us the true situation of how they are now in heaven. “That’s not the picture you want to be left with. “Sometimes the last time we see a family member or a loved one is in a hospital bed,” she says. Charity Virkler Kayembe, co-author of Hearing God Through Your Dreams, God uses dreams of the departed to give us closure and a glimpse of heaven. In fact, after all these years, he may have given me that dream to show me Grandpa really was in a better place. At that age, I had a difficult time figuring out where to file his death in my heart. My grandpa began his battle with Parkinson’s disease when I was just a kid. What exactly? Here’s what a dream of the deceased might mean… In fact, God might be trying to tell you something in the dream. But according to dream experts, it’s actually quite common. Then I woke up.ĭreaming of the dead like I did might seem unusual-even startling, if you’re the one having the dream. Like he was having a really good dream himself! I knelt beside him, pulled the covers up over his shoulders. Even though he was sleeping, he had the biggest grin on his face. He was asleep, with the brightest white blanket and pillow I’d ever seen.

It’s been more than 20 years since my grandpa passed away.
