Friday, November 2, 2012 - Mediumship - Post Halloween is an appropriate time to talk about spirit visitations. Pagans participate in Samhain festivities to honor the dead and celebrate harvest time. Mexican culture recognizes midnight of October 31st as the beginning of their Day of the Dead holiday, a time when deceased relatives are welcomed back home to visit. Halloween season is historically the time of year when the veil between the spirit world and the physical plan is at its thinnest making it easier for supernatural communications and ghostly apparitions to happen.
I don't talk about it much, but I sometimes see dead people. Mediumship is not my life calling but I have had communications with dead spirits. I am clairvoyant and have seen a few dead people over the years. I've grown accustomed to deceased relatives popping in for brief visits during my dream sequences. I believe that spirits visiting us in our dreams is the easiest way for them to make themselves noticed. In the past week four relatives appeared in one dream. It rather felt like I was attending a family reunion with my great grandmother, my mother-in-law, my ex-husband's step-mother, and an auntie all there at the same time. Dream time visitations from my beloved relatives always make me feel happy upon waking.
I've also had pop-in visits from spirits in the daytime while I'm fully awake, although such occurrences are rare for me. I witnessed the apparition of a celebrity once standing at my bedside one evening shortly before drifting off to slumber. This happened within a couple of hours of the person dying. At the time I thought the person had gotten lost during an astral trip. The experience was certainly trippy for me. I saw her clearly standing in front of me as if she were in the flesh. Her arms were outstretched with two yellow flowers grasped in a fist. A few seconds later she faded away, leaving me sitting upright in my bed in a state of wonder and bewilderment. I didn't learn of her passing until the next day from the news. I never told anyone about it until years later. It felt so surreal I was flustered and wasn't sure what was expected of me. Even now I'm not comfortable giving out the individual's name in respect for her family. But, the experience helped me realize that spirits can and do sometimes get confused during their transition.
Another unforgettable visitation from a departed soul occurred while sleeping in bed with my husband. He was sound asleep on his back and I was sleeping restlessly on my right side facing the wall. I awoke, albeit slightly groggy, and flipped over to my left side. As I was adjusting my pillow I opened my eyes and saw my deceased mother-in-law laying in our bed. She was sandwiched between her son and myself. Seeing her tucked in under the covers with us was a real eye-opener. Even now, years later, I clearly recollect her beautiful smile and the brightest blue eyes with an amused twinkle in them staring back at me. In a blink she was gone, but afterwards I lay awake in bed for at least an hour. I knew in my heart she had made her appearance in hopes I would tell her son she had been there. I wasn't sure he would believe me, but I told him about his mother's visitation in the morning anyway. It wouldn't have been fair to her or him if I hadn't. Whether he chose to believe she had truly been there or not was for him to decide.
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I have this ability as well and can sometimes see spirits or have that feeling they are there in the room.
When I was very young this ability was stronger, most likely because as a child , our minds are open and less cluttered.
Even my ESP was stronger as a child, but I still get those feelings about people and can sense who they are .To use this ability, I have to be in a relaxed state.
Katie,
This has been my experience as well. Whenever I am tired, sleepy, relaxed, or experiencing a lowering of life energies it is easier for these types of spirit contacts to occur.
A great subject. I also used to think of them as “Dead” people and never thought much about them being around.
Now I think of it as another level that our mind has access to. It may be our enlightened mind.Perhaps this is just a rose by another name that feels right to me though.
I have always been able to sense and see spirits. My mother could too so I was never taught that it wasn’t normal. Now my son can see them too, who is only 6.5 yrs old. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, I believe it is a gift to be able to do this even though it can be unnerving sometimes when you don’t expect it.
I see them all the time..since childhood..I’m a crystal child and so the line between dimensions has always been thin for me:)
I was born in Scotland & as a boy I didn’t like several places because of the crowds which no one else seemed aware of, an elderly Aunt (who I laterfound out was a white witch) told me I was seeing the past people who had lived in these places. When I was 9 we moved to Queensland Australia & I continued to see the crowds less as I grew older but still some places seemed crowded. About 15 years ago we moved to Tasmania a state rich in history I became more spiritually active became a very accurate intuitive card reader. However I no longer see pirits even when visiting the famous convict settlements around Port Arthur in the south. Can you give me some sort of explanation for this as in an odd way I miss the crowded streets?
Though I don’t experience visit of far and near ones but my wife sees her father occasionaly
my mom recently passed and i cant actually SEE her, but i know she is here, i have smelled flowers and we sense a presence so we talk to ther and make her feel welcome. a little creepy at night though….
Tracy, my condolences on the recent loss of your mother.
As a child I was visited by spirits via dreams. One time a deceased relative gave me a message to relay to her son. This was very scary to me – and I was uncomfortable with this for a long time. As I got older it was less intense. I still have “visitation” dreams but not as many. I’ve always been an empathic too – and can read and feel peoples emotions.
This post is very interesting. My mom passed away in 2010 and I occasionally have dreams where she is alive. I feel very warm and comforted when this happens. I thought these were just “dreams” and didn’t think of them as visitations per se. I would like to know more about this phenomenon. Thanks!
My mother passed from cancer not long ago and I miss her terribly. Since then, I’ve sensed her presence several times; when she is near me I feel happy and teary. She has come to me in my dreams a couple of times. In one dream, she looked healthy and happily told me that her knees no longer hurt (she had bad arthritis in life). In another I had a dream of the location of where she wants her ashes spread and heard her voice telling me exactly where to put them.
Other experiences: A plant she had given me went into full bloom on our first holiday without her. Since her passing, a light in my house flickers when I am the same room; is this her communicating?
I have had experiences like these my whole life.
a friend of mine can see spirits!…as i can see from this page is not so uncommon….