Just when you thought dreams were bizarre enough try throwing in your deceased mother in the mix.
Thousands of people a month search the web to find out why their deceased mother paid them a visit in their dreams. Could this be just a figment of your imagination of something that contains a deeper meaning?
Oddly enough these common encounters all seem to have something striking similarity to them – known to call your name, watching them smile at you, and even being in a heated argument. This cannot be just a fluke…
On top of that when our dead mother emerges in these dreams they tend to be extremely vivid and detailed as if you actually made contact. So how do you really know if your dead mother actually contacted you in your dreams? Well it seem to have some tell tail signs…
Dead Mother Dreams
Before we jump into the meaning we first need to understand what might a “mother” represents in a dream. A mother is a symbol of sacrifice, unconditional love, care, affection and nourishment – the theme alters based off of your past relationship with her.
Alternatively if you harbor repressed emotions, feelings, or anger pent up from the past it might come across her in a negative light. Essentially a healthy relationship gears more towards actual contact from beyond the grave, whereas a poor or unhealthy relationship might make you examine reconstructing your past.
So how can you tell the difference?
Arguing With My Dead Mother In Dream
Believe it or not one of the most common dreams revolving around your dead mother is an argument. Why would this be? Well it turns out that good parents doesn’t necessarily mean good parenting. Perhaps your mother was a toxic person, or maybe she didn’t give you the love and support you truly needed and it still hurts you till this day. See article how to spot a toxic mother in your dreams.
Dreams have a tendency to pull up unconscious emotions or repressed past memories in a symbolic metaphoric way. Arguing with your mom might suggest that these emotions are still lingering within and needs to be sorted out. She surfaces when your relationships and personal feelings are affected in your walking life. However if your are mimicking her bad habits “arguing” might be an unconscious projection – seeing her behaviors within you.
Dead Mother Dreams: Dying Again
Why would you want to relive this horrible experience again? One possibility might be the fact these emotions and feeling still resonate deep within your heart. You might have trouble processing what you experienced or had trouble accepting the way she died.
Watching your sick mother go though this painful process is not only a horrible experience but something causes a lot of repressed psychological trauma. Your dream wants you to relive this experience for a specific reason. Why? Could it be the fact you need to let go and accept she is gone? Could you be angry? Do you think you could have helped more?
Dead Mother Dreams: Making Contact
So how do you know you actually made contact? More than likely your dead mother would appear in your dreams either smiling, offering you gifts or money, or maybe she called you on the phone.
Phones and gifts seems to be very common symbol communication methods dead mothers use to send messages. It might be their way of saying hello or they are still looking down at you.
If you dream of your mother crying might relate to disappointment or you might be doing something that could be making her upset. It would be hard to say if this was actual contact, only by reflecting what is going on with you at the moment will determine.
I dreamt of my dead Momma. I kept hearing that she bought me a present and it was something I always wanted. (I thought it could be a horse) My brother and his wife helped her because she had been in an accident and her body was in pain, but she was able to walk around. She let me hug her even though she was in a lot of pain. She bought me stagecoach… It was a lot of money and huge. I heard my brother say she got 8 million dollars in a settlement from the accident. During the… Read more »
I lost my dear mother in August 2022
I’m still in disbelief but I try to move on
I dreamed of my beloved mother she was calling my phone twice. A Mother’s love is irreplaceable which makes losing her to death an incredibly painful experience.im holding u close to my heart remembering u is easy I do it every day but missing u is a heartache it never goes away.i miss u so much
I had a dream where some animals had got into my house, they were only in the living room but there were 2 white fluffy cats, a grey parrot and 2 guinea pigs. I went to the bottom of the stairs and shouted my mum (she passed away in 2005) she came to the top of the stairs in her dressing gown so I went up to take her to the living room to show her the animals that had got into the house, she was really blind in my dream, however in life she was not. She then went… Read more »
My birth person as I called her, passed in April 2020. She reminded me in December 2018 how much she resented me since I was born. We was also a narcissist. I had a dream in July 2021 where we were in a crowded mall and of course she was yelling at me, but it was quiet, I was watching from the outside in. A few nights later I had another dream where a dark figure handed me a box with a recording of her wanting to apologize for how she treated me my whole life. I haven’t dreamt of… Read more »
My Dad passed in Feb 2022, and my Mum followed in April 2022 of a broken heart, I think of her, and when I do I get really emotional, I constantly feel her around me and at times smell her perfume, At least once a week I dream of Mum, however last night, in my dream Mum was calling my name in the dream and then she reached out and pushed my back, BUT it was that real that I felt her put me in my sleep and call my name and that woke me.
Hello . I dream about my mother but in my dreams , she isnt present and won’t answer my calls. I have not SEEN her in my dreams at all. She passed 18 years ago. Thoughts ?
My mom passed away in Dec of 2019. I dreamt that she and I were in our old neighborhood and she was just sitting there she did not say anything to me but she smiled and sat on her walker. As I stood with her I looked across the street at the bus stop and saw Antonio Banderas the actor. I called him over to us and I told my mom look Antonio Banderas. Lives in the neighborhood. He came over to us and I tried to take a picture with him and my phone was broken. I tried to… Read more »
My mom passed away Nov 2020. She was at the tail end of her chemo treatment plan for lung cancer. The treatment was working and she was going into remission. But the chemo made her very sick. Then she contracted COVID. She suffered in the hospital for 3 weeks until we decided to remove care and let her go. She died fully conscious and literally suffocated to death in front of us. The meds they gave her to make her comfortable and numb and to fall asleep didn’t kick in fast enough. It was violently traumatic for us as we… Read more »
I am so sad to read your story and i am truly sorry for your loss. My mom just passed away July 9th. It is a whole new kind of emptiness. I dream of my mom as well. She is walking beside me, always on the left (which ironically was her good ear side) She never speaks to me. She’s just there. I hope you see my comment. If you want to email me please do anytime:) Maybe we can help each other?
That is heart breaking 🙁 my mom left us on 11/11. I have dreamt of her twice. I have the same dreams of her being present with me. We are walking or doing things together, but she does not speak.
So sorry to hear of your mom passing. My mom also passed. She died( rather transitioned) God called her home. I had a dream about her, my sister, my dad. It was really weird. REAL WEIRD)
In real life my father is still alive, my mother passed 4 years ago. I had a dream their bodies were given to me in a box. I gave my dads to him, as he was still alive in my dream? And I tried to give my mums to my sister. My sister(we recently stopped talking in real life) just had a new born baby in my dream and in real life. People said I was selfish. I begged her to take it and said I couldn’t carry it with me any longer? I then birthed a premmie baby boy… Read more »
The baby is you or what will be healed. In order to do it you will have to embrace the feminine energy that is contained within you to nurture the baby boy. Its possible there is a connection between the nourishment of the milk and your mothers death. Hospitals are known to be places that heal us but something came premature and needs the right help. Your mom might be trying to help you figure this out. They tend to appear when major changes will emerge. This has all to do with you! Boxes contain memories that needs to be… Read more »
I have frequent nightmares and the majority of the time they end with me dying or escaping, but sometimes my mother appears and the nightmare ends and we talk, hug, etc. The feeling of dread and fear is immediately replaced with love and warmth like I’m sun bathing. Sometimes she will tell me what I have to do in my dream, othertimes we just catch up. It’s always nice to see her after so many years.
She might be telling you that she is there for you during the tough times in your life. Nice dream.
My mother came and showed me where an how she lived ,small house alone ,drove an old truck and went to a cold,dark ,creepy swampy area where she traded 2 vouchers for 2 gallons of milk she retrieved from the mud an muck .we were only aloud like a half hr . After we got the milk it was time to go .we hugged ,said I love you and we miss each other ,and she jumped in the truck and drove to the rd. Turned the corner and I woke up . Shes been dead since 2004 .that was my… Read more »
Seems more to do with a repressed emotion. Being poor might have more to do with your feelings towards her and not the other way around. However this will all depend on why you dont think she will be in heaven.
I had a dream my mom how passed in June. Called me while I was getting a tattoo dedicated to her. And said she lived the tattoo. I started crying and asked her to meet up with me. She said she had to leave and I can’t know why but she will be back and everything will become clear. She also visited me guided meditations. My son says he sees her and says stuff I never told him.
Sorry to hear about the loss of your mother. Tattoos are actually very symbolic in our dreams when relating to things that have left an indelible memory or mark on us. What location was the tattoo on the body? What type of colors or prints do you remember? I think you should trust what she says about coming back, however this might take time for you to recognize or settle your emotions.
Where does your son see her? What does she tell him? What is his age?
I have dreamed of me and my dead mother talking along the rainy pathway. We have our own umbrellas and I saw a letter and money in my mother’s head so I advised her something is in her head. She took it out and checked it and saw a letter with money. So I asked her, can you give or lend me the money, mom? She refused and said, Why did you let your husband renovate his old house? I told you….see?. In my dream what I understand is my mom is telling me something, It is like I told… Read more »
The rain might be related to pent up emotions as the umbrella emerges to protect you from it. The part with the letter in the head could be metaphorically related to a message (psyche/mind) that is worth much value (money) to you. It seems as if you contacted your deceased mother in the dream based off of the next part. Old houses might be related to the past (old you or past relationship), something must have changed (psyche/mind) and she is questioning it. If you ask her for something and she refuses what does that mean to you? Did your… Read more »
had a dream about my mother who left her flesh,i am a lucid dreamer who has night terrors and sleep paralysis,the dream was my mother saying ‘david we re ok’ there were figures in the backround could not make them out, perceived as relatives passed,when in dream i was holdin her face saying ‘how are u here’ awoke sitting up in bed wth tears running down my face. wow!
Hello David. Incredible dream. I think you should trust what she said to you. It seems as you received a message for a specific reason. What is causing your night terrors?
not sure,had them for 20 years,being lucid i interact withthe entities, i speak and am spoken to,i used to fear them,not so much now, my friends who i tell about my dreams say they wouldhave a heart attack, the tales i could tell. may also be i was steep in western occult tradition from a early age, and now have 35 years of ancient scandinavian study all aspects of the culture
thanx for your insight