Dreaming of dead grandfather taking my unborn baby??? :(

[medic76097]

Ive been having some really strange dreams...
A little backround- My dad's father (my grandfather) passed away in Feb. last year at 94 years old. He had a stroke and never recovered. I was in Alberta and was driving through a snow storm in the middle of the night and most of the next day after his stroke to get home to the coast of BC before he passed away. I had just gotten into town and stopped at my parents house to drop off my dogs and go to the hospital when my mom called to say that he had just passed away. Literally within minutes of me getting into town, although I didnt make it to actually see him before he died, I was in town. I have no guilt about not making it there in time, nor do I have a very strong realtionship with him to being with. I spent alot of my childhood at my grandparents house, but he was the strong silent type and didnt interact with the kids much.

When I graduated from Paramedic school , he shocked everyone and gave me his dog tags from WW2. No one knew he had them, let alone wanted to give them to me. His only request was that one of the two tags was to be cremated with him when he died... which it was. I made sure that one was placed with him and I have the other at my house in a memory box hanging in our living room, along with some of his old military stuff and my grandparents original wedding photo.

Anyway, I have been dreaming about him. ALOT. I dream that he keeps trying to take my baby. In my dreams he is alive and interacting with people in my dream like normal, but its not situations that I have from memory. He doesnt talk in the dream and its never a sitiation where I feel like hes being mean about taking the baby... he just tries to sneak around with her and keep her away from me. Kinda interesting that I always dream its a girl as well. I would love to have a boy and keep voicing that to people lately. The baby is a bit older, maybe six or so months. He never harms her or fights when I take her back. And in my last dream, the reason I was struggling to get my baby back from him was because of a huge amount of snow that had fallen.

Recnetly, I was back in BC to visit family in May and we had planned to do a year memorial of his death but because I announced my pregnancy, it sort of got forgotten. Before he passed away he asked to be spread in the river (No idea why) and we had to wait till May for that to happen since the river was frozen in Feb when he passed and May was the next time our whole family could get together. Also in May I had two tarot card readings (I know, I know... lol) and I kept getting a card that didnt fit in with the rest of the readings. It was a card that was meant to remind me to be more open to messages that Im not receiveing or that Im overlooking. At the time it didnt make sense and I pushed it aside.

The whole dream last night had me on edge this morning so I called my parents to ask if there was a special date comming up that could be the reason that my grandfather has been on my mind and I just didnt remember the date, like his birthday or wedding anniversary. That conversation lead to my dad telling me that theres nothing special coming up and his birthday was in March.... The day we found out we were pregnant. I had no idea.

The whole thing has me a little shaken up since my grandfather is obviously dead and I dont know if or what it means to have a dead relative try to steal your currently unborn baby. Im also pretty nervous since we go to the doc on friday to hear the heart beat... an appointment that we have had to change several times due to scheduling issues.

Sorry this is so long!! I know that alot of people think that dreams and the afterlife and all that stuff is a bunch of crap.... Usually I have a very open mind about things so the fact that this is a dream/situation that keeps happening, I feel like hes trying to tell me something and Im just not getting it
Has anyone else had vivid dreams this far in??
Thanks for reading... again sorry its so long

 

[xzaviorsmommy]

I have crazy dreams all the time. Just the other nite, I dreamt of an old boyfriend who in my dream was the father of my baby. But I think your dream is a message. I took psychology and it had a deep impact on my view of dreams and the mind in general.

Let me say first I don't think anything is wrong with baby. I don't know your religious beliefs, but I would interpret it as your grandfather and baby know each other. He's been taking care of her/him and has a strong bond with it. He doesn't object to your taking it away since he knows the baby is rightfully yours, but also has a deep love for it and connection. In your dream the baby can be a girl for a few reasons. One obviously being that she is a girl. But also, girls are easier to correlate with being protected, loved, weak and vulnerable. So he's trying to show you that he'll be the baby's protector in life boy or girl. As he has military background, and a silent person, that's probably why he is being so secretive about taking the baby. Not saying a word and trying to just sneak away. It shows that he doesn't wanna be vocal about taking care of the baby. It's something that can only be seen and felt, not heard.

I know this might sound completely crazy but that's how I look at the dream. Since he gave you the necklaces, he's probably always felt a strong, unsaid connection with you and is now carrying that onto your child. He also is maybe trying to show you that just because he's not physically here, he knows your baby personally and just wants to show you he'll always be there.

Or all of what I just wrote could be crap and you're crazy =\ haha jk but hope it helps?

 

[Heather1]

I thought reading your post was really interesting! I, too, have always been a really lucid, vivid dreamer and pregnancy has shifted this into fifth gear. In years past I feel I have definitely been "visited" by passed relatives so I definitely am a skeptical believer because all we know about the afterlife is that we do not know.

So as far as your dream goes, the impression I got from it was that if there is a message in it, the message may be your grandfather playfully expressing that even though he is not here, he will be "here" for your child. He will be present and protective of your child.

It's really special that you are having these dreams and that you are not dismissing them.

 

[PG5K]

I have a lot of vivid dreams, I am also a sleepwalker and suffer from night terrors.
Over the years I now believe that dreams are your brains way of getting rid of worries and thoughts. I try.not to think too much into them because my dreams are always so different (though I'm normally running away from something)

I would take comfort in your dream as it sounds nice to see your granddad.

 

[SleepyBaby]

Dreams are our way of processing information, worries and stress's, https://www.dreammoods.com/ try going through web sites like these and seeing if you can make sense of it, its good to find a meaning to dreams x

 

[leahtaba]

I don't know much about interpreting dreams etc but I didnt get anything sinister from your dreams at all, as PP's have said I think it indicates your grandfather watching over your baby. I would take them as a positive

 

[medic76097]

Its just so odd for me. Apperantly my dad has been dreaming of him too over the last few weeks. The way that the dates and such are connected is odd for me too. We found out we were pregnant on my grandfathers birthday (I didnt know it at the time) and we are due to have baby on the day he was deployed overseas during the war. Plus having a winter baby (not planned at all to have a winter baby) and my grandfather was famous for being outside all winter battling the snow to keep his driveway clear. lol

 

[lauren_88]

Freud was the first person to acknowledge that dreams are the way into a persons unconscious mind. He believed that in order for everyone to live within a civilised society, certain urges would be repressed and released within your dreams (where they wouldn't technically do harm to anyone).

Personally, I take from what you have said that you might have some anxieties about something happening to your baby (which we all do at this stage) and perhaps this is being reflected in your dreams?

I'm a great believer in the afterlife and since finding out I was pregnant, I've been dreaming about my grandfather who died suddenly in 2009. He brought me up so was like a dad to me. You mentioned that you didn't have a close relationship with your grandfather, perhaps by him visiting you in your dreams he is trying to mend this by showing you the bond he already has with your unborn baby? Most psychics I have seen in the past few years always mention that dreams are the ideal way for the afterlife to visit you as they will not face any judgement, scare anyone and you can be yourself with them without the realisation that they are no longer on this earth.

As already mentioned, I would take your dreams as a positive effect and also the dates which all point to events related to your grandfather, I believe, to be another sign that he is watching over you and your baby to keep you both safe from harm xx

 

[Shezza84uk]

Don't panic hun maybe it's his way of congratulating you. I've never met my great grandmother but I had a dream about her at 10wks she basically said that's definatly a boy and smiled at me.

I called my grandmother and asked her about how she looked etc and the way she did her hair and that's exactly how she looked she mailed me a picture and sure enough it was her she did seem pleased as we don't have many boys in our family so I assume it's just her way of congratulating me.. X

 

[Bumblebeee]

I wouldn't read too much in to it, pregnancy does crazy things to our minds!
I have picked up a few shifts on a friends burger van for some extra money and I had a dream a few days ago that I mistook the grill for a chair and burnt my ass off!!!