My mother passed away suddenly, unexpectedly in 2008. Though she had health issues, it was still quite the surprise. She visited me a few times afterwards in dreams. Still every once awhile. Even in the past five years I had a few vivid dreams of her that had a just-so quality where she communicated something important to me. I had no doubt it was a communication from her. How that works with where she may be now, I'm not totally sure, except to say the astral plane isn't bound by the same rules of time.

Yet in the immediate aftermath it was those dreams that, while not taking away my grief, made it more bearable. Others have followed from other relatives and people I know who passed since then. I can't say all my fears of death are gone, but these dreams, alongside meditation and occult practice, they have changed how I feel about it for the better.

Justin Patrick Moore