Kerry-Anne from Hazelwood, MO, asked:
Hello Julie,
My dad hasn’t had the greatest year, health-wise. He’s struggling with colitis and recently diagnosed dementia (small vessel disease). He has a strong will to live and says he’s going to beat his illness and will be healthy again.
This afternoon, he came by my house to tell me about a vivid dream he had last night. He rarely dreams, but said he was able to see and remember every detail of his life including every person’s name, every situation, things he long forgot, he was able to recall with incredible detail.
I asked him how he felt after his dream and he said incredible! He said he’s never had a dream like that and that it was neat to go back and revisit everything.
After about an hour, he left and I immediately felt emotional – happy and proud of the life he just described, but immensely sad to feel life without him.
Would you happen to have any insight into what stage my father is in, and if the dream he described was maybe a life review?
Thanks so much, many blessings to you,
Kerry-Anne
Hi Kerry- Anne,
Sure sounds like your dad witnessed what many Near-Death Experience (NDE) survivors call a life review.
And, it makes sense to me that your dad would have the opportunity to watch his life review as part of his end-of-life process.
To get more information for you, I energetically connected to you and from you to your dad.
He is currently in Phase 7 of the Twelve Phases of Transition® which means he’s surrounded by angels and the spirits of deceased loved ones and pets.
A free, downloadable, chart illustrating the Twelve Phases of Transition® can be found on my askjulieryan.com website.
People can move through the Phases quickly or take days, weeks, months, even years to pass. In addition, people can vacillate between Phases and even come completely out of them.
In his book Death is but a Dream, Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD, discusses how his university-based research shows 90% of people experience dreams and visits from deceased loved ones and pets at the end of their lives.
When our dying loved ones experience what could be called “spiritual” events, we often think they’re hallucinating. Be assured, they aren’t. Hallucinations are upsetting and these dreams and visits are comforting.
As you go through this process with your dad, do your best to focus on how heart-warming it must be for him to have begun these seemingly miraculous encounters as he prepares to transition.
For more information, please consider reading a copy of my Angelic Attendants: What Really Happens As We Transition From This Life Into The Next and then give it to your dad to read.
Hope you find my book comforting and enjoyable too!
Thank you Julie, I appreciate your kind words and agree. Dad seemed very comforted by his dream and happy remembering all the people and events in his lifetime. He’s traditional Catholic, so he often thinks some of the spiritual stuff is woo woo. No matter, I know he has an army of relatives waiting for him and he will be completely overjoyed to see them again and return home. I will miss him dearly on Earth but know very well I will see him again! Thanks again – sending you love!
My brother passed not quite 2 weeks ago. For about 18 months before he passed I felt like I had been prepared for this event. About 10 days before he passed I had an overwhelming vision where I felt his ancestors/past lives? were checking in & waiting for him. They were in a powerful swirling vortex around me, I could see they were people from different nationalities & era’s. I didn’t feel like they were my ancestors. I can only remember one face clearly, he was a well known figure from history. When I looked him up I found he died of a similar uncommon condition to what my brother had. The vortex felt like it was tearing or devouring time or history in some way. Outside the vortex I could see other people, I’m not sure but I felt like they where a cast of characters that played a role in my brother’s mind during his life with schizophrenia, they were standing in a line in vivid colour. My vision would then switch to travelling through the galaxy with my brother, he didn’t know I was with him, he seemed very determined to reach his destination. I felt very overwhelmed by my vision & opened my eyes in my darkened bedroom to see a Golden yellow cloudy swirl moving around on the ceiling above me. I would go straight back to the vortex vision again when I closed my eyes, then onto the characters, then onto travelling through the galaxy it all repeated over & over. I wonder if I had seen this all through my brother’s eyes & if he saw the same thing at the same time or if he saw this at the time he passed or if it was not anything. He knew he was dying & would tell me he would be going home in a couple of weeks, then a week, then the weekend, then tomorrow. How can we ever be sure if our loved ones always have a pleasant passing when they have lived such traumatised lives?
Wow Judy, thanks for sharing your story about your brother’s passing.
It has been my experience that everyone goes to Heaven and is surrounded by angels and the spirits of deceased loved ones and pets at the end of their lives.
Very helpful.