Have you ever had deceased relatives show up in your deams?

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1. My Aunt Jean died in around 2000. She was my grandmother's sister. I

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always identified with her because she was single and cool. She worked her whole life and was such fun. Up to date on issues well into her 90s. Kind of dowager countess quick quips about the modern world but where she really liked most modern stuff.Anyhow, in the years since she has died I've dreamt that she is still alive but everyone just forgot about her. And I'd try in my dreams to visit her in her nursing home or whatnot. She'd just show up in any dream of mine. And I'd dream "oh my god aunt jean is alive". And I always apologize to her that the whole family had forgotten about her. She was always nice and understanding..but independent and not dependant on my reuniting her with the family at all. I have probably had that dream a lot over the years. But my mom passed away a year ago and I do not recall dreaming about aunt Jean since.I know I dream about my mom but can't remember what. Mom was sick for a long time and struggled so much at the end that I think it is much deeper. A much deeper loss. Maybe Jean represents me giving up the good times as I have had to over the years. And I try to drag myself back into the social world in my dreams of aunt jean (my social life was always tiny with only close friends but that is how I liked it). But I really don't want to reconnect to the world that way. I'm fine on my own. I have a great family and that and the memories of family are what i need. So aunt Jean is the fun social me. And the family, in the aunt jean dream, is the rest of the social world.Too much ptsd for me to do anything but live an independent life and an even quieter one. Mom I think about a lot these days. And some days I struggle. But it is more an awake thing. But obviously I am no longer shocked, that I gave up my social life when i dream, since mom has passed. I'm on to a new stage of life. One where I can connect at will to my mom when we were closest. Good times are just different for me and so are my connections to the world.