Is this is weird, or what?

[left-of-center2012]

About a week ago I remembered a woman I had worked with around 1995 in San Diego.
She and I had a lot of fun working together, and twice went together to visit a former patient at his home.

Then we moved on and I forgot about her. For some reason her memory came back to me
about a week ago and I thought I’d see if I could locate her on Google and send her a note saying I had enjoyed our time together 26 years ago.

I looked her up this morning and see she died a week ago.

[peppertree]

1. I can relate, as I'm sure many here can.

You're in touch with the ether, left-of-center.

I've had it happen many times, where I'll suddenly feel like watching a particular movie - or hear a particular song - and sure enough, the star in the movie or singer/songwriter will pass away shortly afterward.

My belief is that it's their soul's way of telling anyone who wants to listen, that they're about to pass on.

I relaize how all this sounds - but there's so much we don't understand.

[Rorey]

4. I think some of us are more receptive

I think some of us are more receptive to the messages sent from ............wherever they're sent from.

[peppertree]

6. Well said.

We all can be though - if we'd just get over our hang-ups about the subject ("it's mumbo-jumbo," "don't tell anyone or they'll think you're crazy," etc.).

[Rorey]

8. I completely agree NT

[peppertree]

10. Thank you.

[SheltieLover]

9. +1,000!

👍

[peppertree]

11. Thanks!

[SheltieLover]

13. Yw

I could tell stories from my year working at a hospice that would blow your mind. (In a good way.)

[peppertree]

16. I'm intrigued!

Inquiring minds want to know!

I haven't had many experiences with the supernatural - but a few memorable ones certainly (see https://democraticunderground.com/10181515272#post7 ).

There were a couple of others - but they've been very few and far between since that apartment in the 1980s.

[Rorey]

17. It sounds strange to say, but presence at a death is sometimes amazing

In particular, when I my favorite husband (prior to the trumper I divorced two years ago) died, I was holding him as he left. The actual second that he left this life was something I can't even fully describe. It changed my outlook on death, and certainly helped me to accept it.

[smirkymonkey]

18. I would love to hear some of them!

If you feel like sharing! Maybe you could start another thread on it?

[mopinko]

2. not weird if you ask me. my family has a banshee.

in irish legend, a banshee is the ghost of a woman who was either murdered or died in childbirth.
while they howl at their murderers, they spread important news to family members. sometimes warnings, but also news like deaths.

when my uncle died, my da, his only brother, already full of cancer and pain meds and out of it, woke up calling his brother's name. like, at the moment.

quantum theory says such things ARE possible.

[Rorey]

5. That's fascinating

I had never heard of that Irish legend.

In a way it seems like it would be sort of comforting that your dad and his brother were/are connected like that.

[peppertree]

7. Sad yet compelling. Thanks for sharing that.

We also had what might have been a banshee in a former residence, around 40 years ago.

We lived in an old apartment whose former owner, an artist, had been slowly poisoned by her (right-wing) husband.

Her ghost apparently wanted that apartment all to herself, seemingly visiting misfortune on anyone who lived there (we moved out after 4 years - just as the previous owners had - and we later found out that subsequent owners had had a series of tragedies as well).

She, however, appeared to be fond of yours truly, and would sometimes play and dance with me in my dreams. My memory of her matches what my mother and a next-door neighbor saw exactly.

I hope she finally found peace. God rest her.

[SheltieLover]

12. Find a psychopomp to guide her to the light

[peppertree]

15. We've lost touch completely - but I trust someone finally did.

Last I heard, that apartment (which had become abandoned by the late '90s) was sold and renovated around '04. It was last sold in 2011, and is still with that last owner.

I don't know anything about these last two owners - except that if they've been able to hold on to it that long, Lydia (the spirit in question) must finally be happy.

I hope so.

[Rorey]

3. I used to be the biggest skeptic about things like this

Now I think anything is possible. I'm sure my sons sometimes think I'm crazy, but my daughter is a believer.

So yeah, I think it's more than a coincidence that you happened to think about that woman around the same time she died.

[Faux pas]

14. Not

weird at all, very interesting though for those of us who have had similar experiences. She was telling you good bye.

[onethatcares]

19. well that's a relief

I thought I was the only one that happened to.

Sadly, when my thoughts drift to someone I haven't seen in years, the next thing I see about them is an obit..

Presently we're living in a house we bought 2 years ago. The previous owner raised dogs for fighting (neighbors told me this
after we moved in). There's a spirit dog, black mix, medium hair that has adopted me. She comes over to my chair and puts her
head on my thigh while I'm watching teevee or lays her head on my leg before she falls asleep in my bed. It's taken a bit to get
used to but the food is cheap, she doesn't shed, and I don't have to take her to the vet.

Win/Win.

[left-of-center2012]

20. And she doesn't need to be walked.

Thanks for sharing.

[FakeNoose]

21. The psychics tell us that in the Afterlife

... we'll be met by all the dogs and cats who have loved us over the years. They can't wait to see us when we get there. It's a nice thought, you know?

[onethatcares]

22. yes, I like animals better than people most time

thanks