Dream a Little Dream Part II
 

What happend to the original post? I do not know since I have been away, but I wanted to include my dream just in case it improves my odds. I would dream about a wonderful day with my mother who passed away suddenly in March. We spent a blissful holiday together in Venice at the Danieli a few years ago. My dream would be holding her hand and walking around Pza. San Marco again together. I would be just overjoyed to see her beautiful face in my dreams tonight. Sweet Dreams to all.

Calamari I hope you have a beautiful dream about your mother. That is how we keep close our loved ones that we have lost in this world - they come to us in our dreams, our other world. I wish you a very sweet dream tonight.

Calamari, I hope you get your dream tonight. I can't imagine how hard it must be to lose a mother so suddenly. Luckily you have those lovely memories of being in Venice together... and every time you think of her she is with you.

~kat

Calamari,

What a beautiful post. I wish that you will have many more dreams about your mother, including your special day in Venice. Did you write a report about your trip? Now I want to go give my mum a HUGE hug.

I didn't see the original thread but it looks like it was shut down for some nasty reason or another:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34510609

Maureen

Hi Calamari,

I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. That dream very well may happen. When I was in college I lost a boyfriend, very unexpectedly. I had a really hard time dealing with it until he came to me in a dream. All he did was give me a long hug, then he looked at me and said "Goodbye." To this day it's the best dream I've ever had because it gave me such closure.

On a very different note, I understand you have connections at Il Fornaio, one of my favorite restaurants. We recently moved from SD to Tulsa. I'm putting the bug in your ear that Tulsa DESPERATELY needs a good Italian restaurant. All the places I've tried here so far are pathetic, and DH just isn't buying my suggestion of going to Italy every time we get a craving for Italian food...

Oh Calamari,
If only dreams came true~
Since they don't though, I hope you have these lovely dreams with your mother every night.

This week, my dream would be to share a little time with my son, who is camping on an island off the coast of Japan. It is time for him to come home :)

Calamari, that is such a beautiful dream. Having almost lost my mother this spring I can certainly relate.

My mother is not well enough to travel to Europe, nor do the walking that Venice entails, but I would love to take her to my beloved Venezia in a dream, reliving my husband and I renewing our wedding vows there since she was not able to be at the first or second ceremony where we said our vows.

Yes, that would be my dream.

Calamari, I read this post and that same night I had the most wonderful dream I was with my late grandmother once again. We weren't in Venice or any far away place, but it was still a great dream. I wish she would visit me in more often dreams, but it's so great when she does. Thanks for this post, I think it helped bring her to me.

I am so sorry for your recent loss, I hope your mom comes to visit you in dreamland soon.

Three years ago, a week after I had returned from a solo trip to Paris in April, my 35 year old daughter unexpectedly died. A year later to the month, her father, my 57 year old ex-husband, died just as unexpectedly.

Shortly afterwards, I saw the two of them again in a dream. They came riding up in a big, red shiny convertible, like one of those old Cadillacs with the pointy tail fins.

He was at the wheel, she was in the passenger seat and they both had these big, big grins on their face like they were so happy! They waved and waved to me as they swept by, leaving me standing there understanding that it was OK now.

I hope the fact that the car was red, not white like a cloud, wasn't an indication that their destination might be down instead of up!

Nah, it was just a cool looking car.

Calamari, I hope your dream comes to you soon, maybe even often, and in it your mother is smiling at you just the way you remember her doing. Her visit, when it comes, will lighten your heart immensely.

Croque Madame, my "visitor" also drove up in a car, although his was a big white van (hmmm!). He was confident and reassuring (as he always had been), then got back in the van, although he wasn't driving. He smiled as he closed the door. How strange that our dreams seem to be similar!

Calamari, Always dream on, if it makes you closer.
Croque, sorry about your daughter.
I've never had children, but I suspect the intensity of losing one. I have an old dog with alzheimer's, arthritis, blindness, arthritic, and I love this animal, for me it will be the same. Though it's not a human , my feelings are as intense.

Calamari: My mother is 84 years old and very fragile, with lots of possible medical problems - she could leave us at any moment. I have already dreampt about her passing, I think because I am aware that it will happen and I will need to deal with it. You already have a passing person. Rejoice in your memories! I already do, and my mother is not dead yet. Relive those moments, minute by minute.

My uncle, told me after my grandmother died in an accident, that he dreamt of her several nights in a row.
(When she died, she had severe osteoporosis and was bent and frail.)
He said in all his dreams, she was standing straight and strong and all her beloved pets were with her. He insists, that dreams are the way our loved ones come back to visit us and they ARE telling us that everything is OK and that they love us.
I will listen to my uncle and wait to see her in my dreams too.
((L))

calamari was the sunshine of her mother's life and VISA VERSA. Should we all be so lucky!!! Those of you motheras on line, don't get hooked, spend more time with your children.Too many here have work, and children but seem to post all day.

This thread is very moving to me and odd because I was just thinking about this very subject last night.

Some time after my dear grandfather died he came to me in a dream. We were both sitting on the roof of a train that was moving through a beautiful, snow-covered landscape. He said to me, "I sleep with the children," and somehow I knew that meant that he was safe and happy and in a good place.

It was a beautiful, reassuring dream, and I can't remember him ever appearing to me again.

Cigalechanta, I know exactly what you are going through with your dog, as 2 years ago my husband and I were in the same boat. Our dog was 14 years old, senile, arthritic, and had heart problems. For the last 6 months of her life I took her to several vet specialists trying to find a cure. I know how impractical it is to spend so much money and time on a 14-year-old dog, but this was our baby and we weren't ready to let her go. My husband was also pretty crazy about this dog, but he realized before me that her time had come, but I had such a hard time accepting that. Finally one day I looked into her eyes and saw that she wanted freedom from the pain, but the only way I could give her that was to release her to the angels. So, we made the terribly painful descision to do this for her. It was the worst day of our lives and we cried so hard.

I would like to end this post on a happy note. After our dog passed, my husband insisted we get a new dog ASAP. I was so broken-hearted I told him we should wait a few months. But he kept searching the web and the newspaper for dogs, and finally one day he dragged me out to see a puppy. He immediately fell in love, and I knew I wouldn't win this one, so we brought home the puppy. But within a few days, the strangest thing happened. I found myself madly in love with this dog!! I couldn't believe it was happening, but it felt so good. Of course, the new dog didn't completely take away the pain of losing our other dog, but she did help to fill in the space, and she really breathed new life into our home.

Cigalechanta, when your dog's time comes, I know how hard it is, but please have faith there will be healing. Our late dog still visits us in our dreams sometimes, but not as much after 2 years. I'm sure she's happy we have a new dog now.

Furthermore, big, major hugs to all of you who have lost loved ones, espcially to you, Croque, for losing such a young daughter.

I must now get a Kleenex and re-apply my make-up before getting back to work.

I have been away taking care of my dad and just checked in on this post. I am so touched my all of the responses and I must say to Croque Madame heartfelt condolances over the loss of your child and her father.

I am happy to report that I have had my first "Mom" dream! It was only a flash...exactly like a program interuption during a special announcement. A dream interupting another dream. My mother grew up on the Santa Monica Pier and she loved those carosel horses. In this flash, there she was, so beautiful, fresh, smiling, she looked about 35 or so wearing a white cotton pullover and white "clam digger's" or Capri pants holding on to the brass pole, sat a top the most magnificently painted Venetian wooden carousel horse. I just learned that all of the horses on that carousel were hand painted by artesians in Venice, Italy. How weird is THAT? and it is one of the last, if not the last Venetian carousels in the USA.
THe kids and I all have caught a horrible virus so as not to pass it on to dad, we have come home for the weekend. Next week we will stop at the Santa Monica Pier and I will show the girls my mother's carousel.

Calamari, Glad to hear from you. I hope you and the kids recover quickly from that nasty virus.

Calamari, I am so happy for you! What an enchanting vision of your mother!

See? That is how she wishes you to think of her. Lifting you up, freeing you from the weight of your heavy heart, onto that wondrous carousel horse with her!

May she return soon to scoop you up for another ride! You have only to wait without really looking and there she will be.

I'm sure that was a lovely vision that will stay with you forever, Calamari. Best wishes for you and your family to be well again soon.