I need to get this out and the other Open Forum is so far down the list that I wanted to make sure you saw this over sharing. My Mama died before my Daddy and no one ever thought that would happen. I remember shortly after Mama died, A white butterfly came super close to me and started flying around me. I immediately thought, “That is my Mama.” It was a very weird sensation. I really didn’t tell people about it but one day I told my sister and she had the same experience. Later while watching some TV show and then others people had the same situation and felt like it was a visit from the other side. I know how bizarre this sounds. But, still, every time a butterfly is outside my window I say, “Hi, mama.” Then I kept hearing about other people saying that.
Then it got weirder. After Daddy died a cardinal kept showing up outside my window and I knew that was Daddy. Tonight on American Idol they are singing original songs and one of the contestants song is called Red Bird. It’s about a how seeing a red bird is a sign from your lost loved one. I had never heard of this. Then Luke Bryan, a judge on the show said that is why his property is called Red Bird. I am a bit overwhelmed. Sorry, I am in my feelings.
In other news, I done tole ya’ll I might be going blind in the other open forum because I wake up every morning with my left eyelash (the side I sleep on) all gunky and crudy. I’m still waiting on an answer.
PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL AMERICAN IDOL IN COMMENTS! YOU WILL BE BANNED!
Now back to finish watching. I am way behind due to recapping RHOA.
Yes to butterflies, cardinals, orbs and also coins. I know someone who finds dimes
I see both butterflies and cardinals – my mom and my hubs
I can’t help you with your eye but you might want to try some polysporin eyedrops – in Canada they are not prescription
DIMES! The first time I found a pile of dimes, I knew it was my grandpa, ever the gambler.
I was REALLY broke after leaving the Bay Area for Tahoe/Truckee and waiting for ski season to open at Squaw Valley.
My friend kept telling me that the dimes were not there when he looked. They just appeared. I wish I would have kept them, but REALLY broke …
There’s some voodoo protection thing with dimes on a red string.
This is a beautiful sentiment and story. Continue to sing away
It’s so sweet when that happens.
My sisters and I always say, “Hi, Dad!” when we see a crow. (Long, funny family story)
Just before my mom passed my sister asked her, “If you could come back as anything, what would you choose?” And she replied, “I’d like to be a butterfly” so we also say, “Hi, mom!” when we see one. These are precious moments!
I hope you see red birds forever. Until you join them.
I forgot about Mom being dragonfly and three SHINY pennies. The pennies have shown up twice.
Bumblebees are my French grandma, Didi. Dad and Didi are hanging out with all of my furry and feathered friend up there. I see Dad most every day.
Thanks for not making me feel like an insane person, Nanette. Banjo was in my dreams a couple of time right after the bad thing. I’ve slept on the couch instead of my bedroom for years because I wake up a lot during the night to pee and sometimes to let the dog out and went right back to sleep. I left him out one night and so I always wanted to make sure he was here when I got up in the night.
Banjo used to sometimes come over and want pets while I was on the couch watching TV and I would pet him. In my dream, he was in that spot and I woke up because obviously he was not there but there was a can or bottle of some kind of cleaner and I was petting him in my dream and knocked it over and it woke me up.
Monarch butterflies, cardinals, red winged blackbirds. Sometimes dreams of my parents and friends who have all passed, and soon after they died I started having dreams of my last 3 doggies coming to me wanting pets. Pennies everywhere—I lived by myself and had an alarm system that was always armed, you tell me how they got there?
That’s beautiful.
When my great-grandma died mu grandma (her daughter), my Aunt, and I all had the same feeling when we saw a monarch butterfly. To this day I see one before something good happens to me. So no, you aren’t the only one.
Me too. Butterflies, coins, red birds. Yup!
I’m loving this.
I never knew about the butterfly thing until a close friend lost her husband. She told me he visits her as a butterfly.
My mom died when I was 12, and I didn’t know anything. I wonder if it’s too late to start looking. I’m 67.
Never too late, keep your eyes out for signs now that you know.
My first time seeing the butterflies they practically swarmed me walking home from work. My mom always wanted me to come home and teach elementary school, that was NOT my plan. I took a job in Savannah teaching middle school (worst job of my life but I was really good friends with the other teachers and we went out every Friday for drinks and Mexican food. Anyway, after Mama died Daddy really wanted me home He wanted me to apply at the elementary school next to what would become my house. I half assed an application online didn’t fill in half of the application and somehow got hired by phone to work at that very school. So in the parking lot of the school walking home was the first time I saw them.My sister says she sees them too.
I don’t know why Daddy is a Cardinal. But he is.
I think that’s beautiful and I do believe this as well! 🦋🐦
I love this. Butterflies and Cardinals are it for me. But I’ll go one step further. My dad died suddenly, like he was eating a bedtime snack of corn flakes and dropped his spoon and was gone. I went to sit with him by myself at the funeral home and was talking to him about a family issue. I asked him to show me a sign sometime soon if I was doing what he wanted. (We were dealing with a siblings alcohol addiction). About 20 minutes later, there was a beeping no one could find. It was my Dads pacemaker going off. The funeral home people said they had never had that happen before! I’ll never forget it.
woo, that gives me chills! that is a sign!
Cigarette smoke I occasionally smell in my home and we don’t smoke. That’s dad. Butterflies and red birds are moma and daddy.
Love ya TT 💙💚💙
“Bridge Over Troubled Waters” by Simon and Garfunkel was popular when my mom was dying of cancer. She loved that song. I would play it for her in the morning before I left for school in 7th grade. After she passed the record player turned itself on and the needle went to that song instead of jumping to where a 45 record would start. (They used to do that.) I just knew it was her letting me know she was okay.
People visit me in my dreams as well. Treasure those moments.
I remember being in high school, a friend killed themselves. It was a weird time just felt strange energy around me, so my family learn about doing this catholic prayer to help the spirit pass over seven days, ironically the last day fell on Easter. We all did it and I was in my room watching TV when a voice came over the TV, not on the show. They said ‘I’m ok now’. It freaked me out, but I felt like the kid was at peace. I don’t know what it exactly was, but something happened. My mom told me as a kid when we were in this one house a ghost lady would go in my room at night (that’s comforting, lol). I guess me and spirits go way back! Another thing, I had a dream someone broke into my brother’s car, sure enough it did happen we woke up to find this out. Also, if any of you remember my father in law story, when he called my husband asking for forgiveness, i dreamt a demon was laying beside me. Woke up ripping the covers off him. This happened twice, always after his contact. Once my husband saw him as evil and manipulative, it stopped. Weird things I can’t explain.
I just read this and how comforting. May 23 is my Chris birthday. He spent this past 2021 saying he won’t make it to 2022. I kept saying geez!! Not nice your son having the most important person saying that!!
HE said okay…..2023!!! LOL.(12-21 guess he knew)
Miss him, but thoughts of him just make me smile.💔
I dreamed about Mama last night and Daddy too maybe. Probably because of this thread. It was a mundane dream I don’t even remember. It was just like a normal day living with my parents. I woke up clearly not fully and thought Mom was here living in the house. Then I woke up a tiny bit more and thought no, silly she lives in her house with Daddy and you don’t live there anymore. It took me a bit convince myself that they had both died years ago. It wasn’t sad or anything. It was just a weird thing that happened.
Oh and my parents used to send me a little bit of money here in there just because they felt like I might need it. It would just show up in my accounts at the bank wherever I was living. They did the same thing for one of my other sisters. We were both unmarried. They were worried about our survival without a man. LOL. One day a few months after Dad died I was taking to that sister and asked her if she ever noticed small deposits in her account she could explain. We were both getting them.
Mine are mourning doves. It means my grandfather is with me and everything is going to be OK. He passed away over 50 years ago.