When Dreams Come True

(from South Africa)  I need help. When I dream my dreams come true. To some point I’m okay with that, but when I wish for something bad or good to happen for someone, it always happens in 13 days. I’m so scared.

I’d be scared too if I had been wishing for something bad to happen to someone. In my opinion, you are creating bad Karma and eventually it will come back to bite you. Put out good energy, and good energy will find its way to you. At least try to be neutral, or only make wishes for yourself.  —Kat

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Friday Ghost Story: Fragrances and Smells from the Other Side

Sometimes we see them, hear them and feel their touch. The following four short stories suggest that spirits reach out to us through most of our senses. Sight. Sound. Touch. Even our sense of smell.

Smelling Flowers in Winter

Linda in the U.K. writes:  Just last week I was sitting in the lounge. And a really strong smell of flowers was around my nose. It was so strong. Then about three days later it happened again. Then my husband said he had it as well. It’s never happened before. It was very overwhelming. Just wondering if anybody else has experienced the same thing.

We sure have! Here a few typical examples.

Smelling Pipe Smoke of Deceased Former Homeowner

Kat in Conn. writes: I bought my house from an elderly woman who had lived here with her recently deceased husband. The couple had been well-liked and active in the community, and lived many happy years in the house. One evening after I was settled in my new home, and working in my home office, the strong aroma of pipe smoke drifted in. The smell was unmistakable and not unpleasant, and was strongest in the smallest room that I used as a guest bedroom and for storage.

This became a regular happening, two or three times a week, around the same time of early evening. I talked to one of my new neighbors, a longtime friend of the couple. He told me the man had used that small room as his den, where he would retreat after dinner to enjoy smoking his favorite pipe.

Incidents of pipe smoke gradually decreased as the house became more mine, until they completely stopped.

Spanish Seasonings Linger after Departed Dad

Tammy in New Jersey writes: About a year ago I was driving to work and in my car I could smell my deceased father. My dad was Spanish and his home and he always smelled of seasonings. Yesterday October 24th I was once again driving to work (no food in my car) and all I could smell was my dad. On November 13th next month he will be dead for 6 years. I have been going through a lot of problems lately in my life, and I’m wondering if it’s my father’s way of letting me know he’s with me. I was told it means he was by my side in the car. I just know the smell and all I could smell was my dad.

Smelling Perfume at the Moment of Grandmother’s Death

A young man from Virginia told Kat: During a long drive home from meeting a client, a young man’s car suddenly filled with the distinct fragrance of perfume, the same scent his grandmother always wore. A phone call shortly after he arrived at home informed him that his grandmother had passed—at the exact time he was on the road smelling her perfume.

Please share your experience with unexplained smells. Comment here or use the Dreamwatch Submit Your Story form. I know you’re out there! Tell us your story. — Kat

For similar personal stories of paranormal experience, visit our special page: Physical Manifestations—Unexplained Sounds, Smells and Orbs

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Friday Ghost Story: Revenge of a Warrior Spirit?

My wife and I were backpacking out of the red rock wilderness of the Utah canyonlands. We spent three and a half days in there enjoying the rugged beauty and quietude of the area, traveling by compass and getting our water out of seeps. The year was 1993 and we had been married only a year.

We came upon what looked like an artifact tool, a translucent piece of quartz, laying on the sand. We hesitated about taking it (a no-no), but decided to take it back with us. We got back to the trailhead and the truck, and then drove the 44 rough miles back to the hard road. The whole area is incredibly beautiful, mysterious, and very rugged.

We regrouped in the town of Green River to get a motel room, clean up, wash clothes, and relax a bit. We had some pizza and a few beers and went to bed fairly early. I had placed my eyeglasses (then made of actual glass) on the nightstand next to me and the bed. I also had the artifact laying there as well, next to the glasses.

When I awoke in the morning, I picked my glasses up—and my mouth dropped. One of the lenses was shattered. You could see the impact point where something had hit it, and hit it hard, as this was not thin glass, and then all these cracks radiated out from that point.

The glasses were fine when we went to bed. I have no logical explanation of what could have caused this, and I had to drive back to New York with one lens killed in action, and hoping nothing else would happen. We found out later, that (the quartz tool) was indeed an artifact, probably a knife.

(This story was submitted to Dreamwatch.com)

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Friday Ghost Story: A Mother’s Comfort from the Other Side

My Mom passed away June 2011, from a terminal illness. Before she was even sick we had talked about keeping in contact after death if it is possible, no matter who passed first. We believe in God’s words and Angels sent from above to help people in difficult times. I talk to Mom every single day, I know she can hear me. I know there is life after death.

It has been over 6 months since the Lord took her home, and stopped her suffering. Every day I ask, “Mom why can’t I feel you, we promised each other that even death wouldn’t keep us apart.” I finally accepted the fact that it’s just so long for now, and one day we will be together again. I took comfort knowing where she is at, for why come back to this earthy world when she is in Paradise. No worries, fear, suffering nothing but pureness and love.

This morning out of the blue (I wasn’t even thinking of her at these moments), I smelled her, and felt like a pulling tickle feeling in my stomach. This experience didn’t last but a couple seconds, but WOW it was amazing. I really wish I could put into words what I felt. Then maybe a half hour later it happened again. I wish that feeling would have lasted longer, but I’m greatful for having that experience at all. I wonder why now? What has changed if anything? Why did it take her so long? Will it happen again?

The only thing I can relate it to is … The past week I have not been feeling well with stomach problems. I have had stomach problems since I was a child, it comes and goes. I have been to many docs and undergone many tests when I was younger. When I was feeling this pain as a child I would cry and say, “Momma please take my pain away.” She would comfort me the best she could as any Mom would do for a child. Well last night the pain was so bad I said the same thing, “Momma please take my pain away.” Is this why I felt her? Is this her way of comforting me now? Did she not come to me before this because she knew I was okay? Why? Why? Why? Oh so many questions. Can anyone help explain this to me? Please I need to know. God Bless You.

Thanks to Carol in USA for this story. What do you think? Please leave your comment and opinion.

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Happy New Year 2012!

Happy New Year 2012Thank you all for visiting Dreamwatch and for sharing your personal—and often intense—adventures into the unknown. If we’ve learned anything from your stories, it’s that no matter how strange was your paranormal experience, it is similar to others.

You are not alone. We believe!

Sincerely, Kat 

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Happy Holidays!

Happy HolidaysI wish you and yours a happy and healthy holiday season, no matter what you believe.

Sincerely, Kat

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Tuning In … To Yourself and the World

Submitted by Kristen: I have also been in a terrible car accident in which my compact car rolled several times end over end after hitting black ice. I remember closing my eyes and feeling like someone had wrapped their arms around me until we stopped moving.

I did not scream. I felt completely calm.

When we stopped, I was hanging upside down because I had my seat belt on. I released the belt, pulled myself through the space left between the roof and the empty drivers side window and crawled out of the car. As soon as I was clear of the car, another car came barreling into the drivers side of my car.  Still,

I was not scared. I felt very safe and peaceful.

I refuse to watch movies about demons, possession, etc., it gives me horrible anxiety and I feel like I am being followed for days afterwards, but that could just be my mind playing tricks, but I love vampire and zombie movies … Go figure.

Sometimes I still have one-sided conversations with my mom (now deceased) and I feel a warm tingling sensation, like the one you get when someone gives you a really good hug. I love that feeling. I have also noticed that street lights will turn off randomly as I am driving when I am talking to her. It was more prevalent when she first passed, or when I am feeling particularly bad that day, but I only notice it when I am talking to her. I have even loosely tested the theory with my sister in the car, it freaked her out and. She told me I am not allowed to do it anymore. Gotta love big sisters :-)

Not sure how to take all of this, or what it means, or even where to go from here, but every day is a new adventure and I think it is very important to be in tuned with yourself and the world around you. Any comments or advice are welcome and appreciated.

Read more from Kristen: Child’s Premonitions of Danger and Death, on the Dreamwatch Premonitions page.

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Friday Ghost Story: Mom’s Message of Hope from the Hereafter

Two weeks before I turned 11, my mom died … Between the loss of my dad (four years earlier), and the violent way my mom died, I would be scared to even walk down a dark hallway, I was just creeped out! Also, I had this feeling like, how could my mom just leave me? It’s like she could feel my sorrow, and she wanted to make me feel better. I started having these most vivid dreams that were very NOT dreamlike. In fact, we had a place … where my parents were building our dream home. It sat high on top of a mountain, and sometimes in the mornings the clouds would actually be below you, it was truly breathtaking. Even after my parents died I’d often … spend the day and I’d ride my horse and just reflect on things; it was a comforting place to be. When I began having these dreams, … they were so vivid & I could actually feel myself there—this is where my mom had them take place. She was wearing what she had on at her funeral and had a turban like cloth wrapped around her head like to cover the bullet wound. (I’d often think about how icky it was at the thought of her been shot in the head.) My mom would tell me how she never meant to leave me, and I’d make myself wake up and instead of this helping, it actually freaked me out more! … I believe my mom knew that it was scaring me because the dreams became less frequent. …

At the age of 13, I took a summer babysitting job where I had to be there at 5:00 a.m., and after the kids’ mom would leave for work, I’d fall asleep on the couch, until I’d awake to the kids calling my name. Like any other babysitting day, after the mom left I laid down on the couch and fell asleep. My mom came to me wearing the same thing, even the turban thing! She sat right next to me on the couch, for whatever reason I felt calm. What was really cool was I could either lay there and look into her face when we were talking, or I could float up into the corner of the room and look at us both there on the couch, me laying there and her sitting there.

My mom told me that she had been trying to reach me for so long, but she said she could tell it was scaring me so she wasn’t able to tell me or show me all that she needed to. She took the turban off her head, and leaned over & showed me she no longer had a hole in her head, the wound was healed. She told me she never meant to leave me, how much she loved me, and to tell my brother and sister she loved them too. She shared how wonderful Heaven was, and could not wait to all be together again. … Finally, she told me it was time for her to go. She said to not be afraid of her coming to me in dreams. She said I’d never have a dream about her again. She kissed me, again, said she loved me, and said, “Shar, the kids are going to call for you now,”… and I heard, “Shar, Shar, Shar!” I flew up, felt such joy, tingling all over!

I couldn’t run to the phone fast enough to tell what I just experienced to anyone who’d listen! To this day I’ve never had another dream of my mom, nor do I believe any of those were dreams at all. In fact, my mom told me they weren’t when she visited me that last time. She wanted to ease my heart and made certain to let me know this world is NOT all there is.

Has anyone ever had such an experience? Also, does anyone know of someone who does (investigates) psychic cold cases? Thanks for listening to my very long story, God Bless You All!

Submitted by a 46-year-old woman in Oregon. Thanks for your story. Read more from Shar: DREAM OF FUTURE EVENT – FATHER’S DEATH on the Premonitions & Psychic Dreams page. — Kat

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