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Seeing signs from deceased loved ones

Hi everyone. I'm sure that there have already been many forum threads on this topic, but I'm really curious to hear about your experiences.

When you lost someone close to you, did you see signs? I've heard of feathers, electronic disturbances etc. but I've never had a conversation in the real world with anyone about it.

I'm not exactly an atheist - my boyfriend says I'm an agnostic atheist or something...in other words, I don't subscribe to any organized religion, but can accept that we just don't have very many answers to a lot of things, so I'm open.

I just find this all very interesting! I'm really not the kind of person to believe in any of this kind of stuff, but I will share the things that I have experienced (and a few things my sister has mentioned)

The last day my mother was alive, my sister went to say good bye with her children. She said that when she left the hospital, across the street there was loud jazz music playing from someones house. It startled her, because jazz was my mothers favourite. Throughout her illness I would play her jazz music on my phone. In her last couple of days I asked her for special requests and she said "Charlie Bird" (a jazz musician).

The day after she passed my sister noticed a white feather in her jacket. I had heard about the feather phenomenon, but didn't say anything to her. She wasn't aware of any kind of meaning. It was just funny to me, she offhandedly said "where did this feather come from?" or something like that...I just shrugged. But I never forgot it.

At my mothers funeral and visitation, I played music by Charlie Bird on my bluetooth speaker. A week later I popped into a second hand store, and right above the cash was a Charlie Bird record. 

I have witnessed some weird bird activity outside my condo townhouse. There aren't many birds in the area, a few crows, robins and various small birds here and there. But mostly squirrels. A few times since she has passed I have heard a loud gathering of birds right by my house. Hundreds of them in a tree, or on the ground right by my deck, making quite the racket. One time my boyfriend noticed and he said "wow, that's weird...we don't normally see birds here". I teared up and said "it's my mother". 

I've had weird experiences suddenly smelling things that aren't there, one time it was peaches and another time strawberries. The best way I can describe it is like a halucination only with smelling not visual. I've never had that before she passed. She used to make peach pies when they were in season, and she was obsessed with buying strawberries every week.

Sorry if this is a bit long. I hope some of you will share some of your experiences.

Sarah

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  • Offline in reply to Jd1991 Unpublished Reply

    Near death experiences and out of of of body experiences are certainly hallucinations caused by dying brain cells firing randomly and going haywire as they start to die. It takes many hours, if not days for every brain cell deep inside the brain to completely die, completely stop firing and all brain activity deep inside the brain to completely stop. The brain feels more alive then ever it its final moments, it feels that it can think more clearly, see more clearly and hear more clearly. The brain is trying to block the physical pain that it is going through as the body is dying, it makes you think that you detach from you body and leave your body. It is going to feel that the mind is separate from the body by having a sense of looking down at the body. It can also hear conversations more clearly and hear other conversations outside of the room. It also makes you think that you go to a heavenly, hellish or spiritual realm. If you are not revived, later you have the feeling of going beyond this heavenly, hellish or spiritual realm and this sense of equanimity and acceptance. Later you also feel that you lose your personal sense of identity and become at one with the universe. Later you drift away, fade out of existence and the electrical activity deep inside your brain will gradually cease to be. After the heart has stopped, time appears to slow down because the brain is trying to survive as long as it can after being deprived of oxygen. It is a survival technique for the brain. Near death experiences and out of body experiences are going to feel more real than real life because they are very strong and powerful hallucinations. Some near death experiences and out of body experiences contradict each other and they can not all be right but they can all be wrong. What people will experience during their near death experience or out of body experience is what experiences that they had in life and these experiences are on their subconscious mind and when they have a near death experience or an out of body experience they will think have seen things that are on their subconscious mind while they are hallucinating, making them hallucinate that way. There are no spiritual particles or spiritual forces than can interact with the atoms in your body either because we would of already detected them in existing experiments. Quantum field theory says there is one field for every type of particle. There are protons, neutrons and electrons interacting with each other via the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, electromagnetism and gravity. That is the everyday world. Any new type of particle or force that we have not detected yet would be so weak that is would have no effect on what the atoms are doing in your body. There is no blob of spirit energy driving you around like a soccer mom driving an SUV. There is no way for the information that is you to persist after you die and there is no way for that information to be transferred from your body after you die. Particles can be in many places at once and since we are made up of particles we can be in many places at once. If you got into a box with a bomb that would instantly destroy you to ashes if exploded. Hooked up to the bomb is a particle detector, if the particle detector detects the particle spinning one way the bomb would instantly explode and would instantly destroy you to ashes and if the particle detector detects the particle spinning the other way there is just a click sound and you will survive unharmed. When the particle detector detects the particle spinning the universe splits into 2 universes. From your point of view your point of view there will always be a click sound and you will survive unharmed because the version of you can not know that it has been instantly destroyed and has ceased to exist and only the version of you who continues to exist can continue to realise it is existing. You evolve into a superposition of all of the outcomes happening, you become entangled with the environment and you branch into multiple yous. Once you branch you become 2 separate people. You evolve into multiple yous. Every time you make a decision, every time something happens to you and every time you observe something, the universe splits into all of the possible outcomes. These other versions of you came from you, they are no longer you, they are no longer identical to each other and they can no longer interact with each other because they inhabit separate worlds after the branching. Any spiritual existences are just random quantum fluctuations of certain objects by quantum mechanics allows because everything is quantum mechanical and are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons interacting with each other via the four fundamental forces of nature which are electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force and gravity that just so happen by random chance after your loved ones have died which an infinite quantum multiverse allows or you are hallucinating thinking that you have seen signs from your lost loved ones.

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  • Offline in reply to James_C Unpublished Parent Reply

    You don't even know how to set out paragraphs or use a full stop. You would be the last person I would ask an opinion on the mysteries of the universe.

    To come onto a forum where people are grieving lost ones to try and pathetically troll them is a low act of a simple minded and a rather nasty moron - you'll be banned soon, so yeah... get back under your bridge, troll.