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Grief Dreams: How They Help Us Heal After the Death of a Loved One

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This book is just what I was looking for. I had been having dreams like this and now see what they actually are. It is a relief to know that this happens to others and that these are more than "dreams". They are messages and visits and it does help us understand that this is the way life works. We are all going to die and we are all going to lose someone we love. It brings me comfort to know that we can still communicate on a spiritual level and be together. I miss my father immensely, but I know that in my dreams he may come and hug me or just smile. And he is still there...and will always be. I am not as lonely , just like others in the book mention.

The book is easy to read with personal stories mixed in with factual reesearch. Anyone who lost someone should read it!

I bought this book because I saw the authors at a bookstore. What the authors said made a lot of sense; that dreaming is universal, and that we process grief through dreams. Grief Dreams goes over the grieving process in general (which is real helpful) and has a way of normalizing the process. Then the book breaks down dreaming into "types." The whole book provided me with a way to understand my losses--I felt it was written in a way that made me feel the authors cared about me.

I bought this book on the recommendation of a grief counselor. It has helped me enormously in healing from a tremendous personal loss. The anecdotal accounts are valuable tools for anyone dealing with the death of a loved one, as we draw parallels in our own grief dreams. Understanding the symbolism behind the images of our dreams moves us forward through the grief process toward acceptance. I highly recommend this powerful tool.

Dreaming of our lost loved ones is a gift. A gift that most of us don't quite know how to accept or to grasp. Reading Grief Dreams brought to me a welcomed knowledge of understanding, not only as to why I dream about my daughter, Jackie, but also why/how she uses my dreams to effectively communicate with me.

When I submitted my grief dream to TJ, so many months ago, I never expected the comfort and peace I would gain while finally reading her published pages. So please, if you are lost in the midst of grief, give yourself the benefit of what this inspirational book has to offer.

Great book for formulating your own interpretations on any type of dream. Straight forward, reader friendly, and comforting.
Particularly helpful are the tool boxes after actual dreams from grieving people are told.
T.J. Wray has detailed types of grief dreams, though not limited to, specific, intelligent categories with descriptions in the intro as well as a "how to read this book" page.
Found many connections to the grief dreams I've experienced.
Highly recommended reading for anyone who finds their dreams interesting, and particularly to those grieving.

These two doctors have written a great 'self-help' book of dealing with grief. The pain of separation causes the person who's grieving to exist in an insular world of grief which has to be worked through in stages.

Suffering is a natural consequence of living in the real world today, and losing someone close makes it even worse. These rare and special kinds of dreams associated with the grieving process can be healing (from the subconscious surfacing during one's sleep) but living through them can be a scary experience. Two of mine came true.

The main types include 'visitation,' 'message,' 'reassurance,' 'trauma,' and 'faith.' However, there is another which affected me last month when my grandson was killed in a car accident. It was in the form of a premonition (called precognitive dreams), where you are made aware of an event before it actually occurs. They are prophetic: first, Tristan's death,which I refused to believe, and then one about my bank account being emptied with a card. It was but not exactly as the dream led me to believe it might happen, but it did anyway.

Have you experience deja vu, a feeling we have been in a certain place or experienced a certain event before; we have already 'been there' in a dream? In your sleep, you lose the basic law of free will and the subconscious sometimes shows you what may happen so that maybe it could be prevented. There are instances given in this book about how some actually saved the life of the person dreaming.

If you feel like God has deserted you, when something like an unexpected death happens, it can be acceptable to work things out by going to nature, art and music for consolation. I've had to use all three lately. Faith comes in many forms, and you need community support (which I lacked here at these apartments as the Baptist preacher assistant manager did not even say he was sorry, nor did he list the death for others to see). Even the noted theologian, C. S. Lewis, questioned his faith in God when his first wife died (read the book A GRIEF OBSERVED), and a miracle came to him in the person of an American divorcee named Joy for which he wrote an ODE TO JOY.

"If we could only know 'for sure' that our loved ones continue to exist in a peaceful realm beyond this earthly one, then the pain of separation would be a lot more bearable." Message dreams are warnings we should all accept, as being from a loving God or the dearly departed.