Has This Kind Of Thing Ever Happened To Anyone?, I'm pretty sure I'm not crazy Options

[Lucy1Josie2]

Hi, everyone --

A couple weeks ago, in the middle of the night, I had an experience I wanted to share, and to see if anyone has ever had anything like this happen.

I was awake, I was not dreaming, but all of a sudden, I knew Lucy was there. Lucy was the dog I had when I was growing up, who I never really grieved properly until I just recently got another dog, Josie.

Anyway, in this night, wide awake, I knew she was there. I didn't see her, and I didn't hear her. But she was there, very calm and just watching me, and I had the feeling there was another dog with her, and that dog was wagging its tail and panting/smiling, like he was happy for her. Happy for her, that I've been thinking of her again and telling her in my heart how much I loved her, and still do. Kind of like this other dog knew how long she'd been waiting for me to come around, and was so happy that it finally has happened.

I like to write fiction, and I keep wondering if I was just imagining it. But then I keep thinking that I would not have imagined this other dog that was with her. It was a bigger dog (and again -- this is so weird!! -- I didn't actually physically see anything, I just "knew"), and he was much bigger than Lucy, but was very friendly. For some reason, I think it was a male dog, kind of a german shepherd mix.

Maybe in my subconcious I was imagining it, but it just seemed so real. And again, I just don't think I would have imagined another dog. I keep thinking if I had imagined it, it would have just been me and Lucy.

I really am such a sane, reasonable person, I hesitated to write this, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me:

Has anyone else ever had an experience like this, with animals especially (considering the forum) or people who've gone on?

-- Michelle (Lucy & Josie's mom)

p.s. -- And Lucy, if that was really you, I'm glad you've found such a wonderful friend! You'll have to introduce me to him when I see you again!

[toonie]

Devastated, I totally agree with this:

it makes me wonder how we humans, the so-called civilized folk, have come so far from our hearts and interactions with all the mystery of the universe. How did we come to view such things as "not rational", "not sane", "fodder for the looney bin" and such? If such things exist and occur and we see them, isn't it far less sane to claim they don't exist and that we don't see them?

I once read somewhere that the dead can see us and be with us but they can't influence the outcome of our earthly affairs. Fair enough, imagine if all the dead could run things here, it's our life you know! But I think that those little signs, that cat like shadow
that is on the bed since I lost my cats, or perhaps it was always there and I never looked for it before last fall, then again if I discount that shadow, I sort of close myself to more magic don't I? So I choose to believe that certain little signs are possible, even if the dead can't get me the things I would like, and that too is fair enough.
Goethe and Rudolph Steiner both believed that there are things that are yet can not be scientifically observed-both these men were no fools, yet they were not afraid to believe in a certain magic.