My Uncle and my Mum were talking recently about 'ghost stories' and to my surprise he had a few of his own. I asked him to write them down, here is one of them:
Mum and me often would talk about the afterlife. She believed, but I do not. She often said that it if she could she would find a way to show me. About four years after she died I was living near Beattock. I was driving home from work one evening with Sheppy(my dog) in the back of the car. As I was driving up Torthorwald Brae, I suddenly was very aware of a very strong smell, which I recognised as Gloria Vanderbilt perfume, which Mum used to wear. I looked in the rear view mirror, and saw mum sitting in the back. I braked hard, causing poor Sheppy to be thrown into the front of the car. At the same instant, a large tractor pulled out of a farm road right in front of me. If I had not braked I know I would have smashed into it.
Steve, you're bringing to mind this. My dad died when I was very young. Not long after his death, as she later told us, my mom was driving (the marriage was very difficult, she had left him about six months before and the death was an abrupt shock, but she wasn't "mourning") and he was suddenly in the seat next to her, for a moment or however how long. She didn't know if she hallucinated, and as she is strongly disinclined to believe in anything paranormal or afterlife-ish, she didn't try to think much more about it, but there it is.That's really interesting, Steve.
My last auntie died two years ago ( at 90) ...I didn't have any waking experience of her (after her death) but I did have a very vivid dream in which "I was driving her old car," the car she used to drive me about in when I was kid. She didn't look well when she died but in the dream I turned around and saw her in the back of the car, young and smiling at me. I was stunned and said to her "You're alive, that's amazing." Then I woke up.
It was a dream and if you hadn't of jogged my memory tonight I don't think I would have probably remembered it. It's not in the same league as your uncles experience though.
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My last auntie died two years ago ( at 90) ...I didn't have any waking experience of her (after her death) but I did have a very vivid dream in which "I was driving her old car," the car she used to drive me about in when I was kid. She didn't look well when she died but in the dream I turned around and saw her in the back of the car, young and smiling at me. I was stunned and said to her "You're alive, that's amazing." Then I woke up.
It was a dream and if you hadn't of jogged my memory tonight I don't think I would have probably remembered it. It's not in the same league as your uncles experience though.
Tim, although you say that you wouldn't have remembered this dream, you also call it vivid. Would it be correct to say that you remember the details very well? It is possible that you experienced an after death communication. Maybe your connection with your aunt is stronger than you think.