Is it normal to see dead relatives in dreams?

I once had this dream about two years ago that I thought was really weird. I walked into the living room of this weird house and I saw a man, bout in his seveties with brown hair brown eyes. He was smoking a cigar. He then got up, walked right infront of me, looked me straight in the eyes patted my back and smiled. In the dream it the whole dream the room was really sunny and very bright. After he smiled, I woke up and had this weird tingling feeling in me. I thought this dream was weird, but just ignored it and went back to sleep.

It was only till bout six months layers when I was at my grandparents house I was looking thru old family pictures from the the fourties fifties and sixties. Then one picture caught my eye. In it was my dad when he was a newborn, and a man holding him that I felt I've seen him before. Then it hit me, it was the man in my dream. I literally shat a brick right then and there. I asked my grandmother who it was, and it was my great grandfather. I kept lookin thru them, and there were some when he was in the world war 1 and some where he was in college. He played four sports in college, and was a star in all of them. My whole family and cousins are athletes, including me, so we probably got the genes from him. He then went to the NFL in the twenties for a year for the steagles, then went to the war. I never met my great grandfather (before the dream atleast). He died twenty years be4 I was born. is it normal to have a dream like that?

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  • Deathmourn

    Yes, it's your subcontious wanting them back. Let it be try to enjoy your dream time u have. Don't get upset.

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  • anonalexis

    you probably saw the picture at some point in your childhood and it was subconsciously stored, only to be manifested in a dream. there's nothing weird at all about that.

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  • Scarlett01

    Something like that has happened to me but I knew the people before they died. One of them was an aunt of mine. I asked her what it was like in heaven. She said she loved it but they had her working. When she was alive she didn't work and sued stores to make a living. Anyway, I think it's a cool dream u had.

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  • melly666

    I have had a good few occurrences like this in my sleep especially when younger. Dead relatives do still come to me in my dreams(occasionally still) and warn me about future events I'm going to encounter among other stuff I knew nothing about previously. The thing I did notice about what you wrote was this 'brightness'. I always get this with them...pure bright white light but not painful and a sort of look in their faces of peace that is different than normal,or rather in this world. You can guarantee your grandfather is looking over you,how much more proof do you need. I talk to mine knowing they are listening,maybe do the same to let them know that you know they're about. I think this is a wonderful experience you had..and yes,you feel very different in the morning,a sense of peace in a way. He's just letting you know he's around you!

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  • My brother had a great dream about Grandpa a couple months after he died. It goes like this: he went out to the porch and Grandpa was there. He said to him: 'Hey, do you wanna play some table tennis?' My brother said: 'I thought you were dead' and grandpa said: 'Oh yeah, I forgot about that.' Then he disappeared XD

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  • AREYOUBLINDTHEGAME

    i havnt had any but lots of people i know have

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