Dreams Are a Wake Up Call

From: Diana Avarca (lozano_diana@yahoo.com)
Story type: Angel
Location: at home 
Source: Form Submission

I was laying down last night and thinking about my mother whom is very sick I finally fell asleep and I started dreaming that my mother died in the hospital. All of our family had already agreed to have her taken back home to Texas where she was born and her last wishes were to be returned to lay next to her parents.

Well as I dreamed I was on my way to Texas on the bus and as I got off in Rio Grande Texas it was about 12AM and there was no one else in the streets so since the town is very small I walked to the funeral home,as I walked in I saw the first door to the left and my inner feeling told me my mother was in that room so I opened the door and saw the beautiful casket in the front and I knew it was her.

I walked in and sat down in the very first row and fell asleep and I fell into a deep sleep I started dreaming about everything that was going on around me and as I sat there my family members started walking in my grandmother and grandfather both walked in and I started to cry as my grandmother sat next to me she held my hand and told me not to cry because death was not a bad thing. it was the beganing of a new and better life.

so I sat there and started talking to her and my grandfather walked uo to my mothers casket and told her it has been many years that you moved away to Minnesota and I am happy you are home. I felt somewhat relieved that my grandparents were there to comfort me. As I sat there my children all walked in and all were crying for my mother I tried telling them not to cry and tried to comfort them but they just ignored me they walked past me and I felt very sad that they did not want to talk to me.

I sat through the whole service and then everyone left without saying a word to me I just could not understand why.I got up and walked outside and everyone had left I walked down the street and the streets were empty so I went back into the funeral home and my grandparents were still there I asked my grandmother if she knew why my family would not talk to me and my grandmother smiled at me and said they are not mad at you my dear they just cannot see you you are dead.

I said What do you mean I am dead? And she said as you sat in this chair next to me you went into cardiac arrest and died but you just feel you were dreaming my dear because as know your grandpa and I died many years ago and no one has even come to your mothers funeral yet you were just dreaming. I said no I have not died I just cannot wake up I have to wake up I just have to I am not ready to leave my family yet. please help me and my grandmother laid her hand on my forehead and I woke up sweating and I heard my mother calling me to help her to the bed pan.

I was so happy I was alive and most of all that my mother was still alive and I would have my chance to tell her the things I thought i had missed out on.I tell you this was a very very scarry dream but also a wake up call to tell your loved ones how you feel while you still have that chance.