If and when I happen to dream during my sleep, it's usually about family members that are no longer with us. They talk, sometimes weep, but when I wake up, I don't remember any word, and that unsettles me . I lit a candle, ask for forgiveness, say a few words in their memory; that calms me down.
These kind of dreams are important to me. They indicate that there's some sort of connection and communication with the deceased. Things don't end completely with one's passing; the departed 'stay in touch' somehow.
In my latest dream it was my beloved mother that made her appearance. She talked and cried. Perhaps she was asking me not to skip my usual pre-High Holidays annual visit to her grave . We live in weird times, with a shutdown threat upon our heads, so her fear of me not visiting, was not without reason.
The next day, I put the mask on, and hurried to the cemetery to be at my parents' graves.
The day after , I went to the cemetery of an adjacent city, to visit the graves of my brother and my little nephew.
A friend of mine, who doesn't have dreams of that sort says I probably think often of them and they feel loved by me, that's why they appear in my dreams trying to communicate.
Well, that's true. I think of them daily, comparing them to the people I encounter. I consider them by far superior in their human qualities.