I keep having dreams about my mom who passed away last year. I'm I still grieving?
Perhaps. Or perhaps something you came across during your day shared a similarity with a memory you associated with her, so those neural pathways were reacessed and contributed to your dream.
Or both
>>17225532
>I keep having dreams about my mom who passed away last year. I'm I still grieving?
Quite the opposite: it means that you AREN'T grieving. Not fully, anyway.
Dreams are, in and of themselves, nothing more than your brain trying to go back and sift through all the random crap it didn't have time to deal with immediately over the course of the day. In the interest of time, it tries to do this all at once, often mashing things together in ways that don't make much sense to the conscious. And so isolated dreams don't mean anything.
But this same phenomenon has implications for recurring dreams. They indicate that something is on your mind a lot, and that you aren't fully processing this thing in the moment.
I am sorry for your loss. But you need to get these feelings out where you can process them, and, when they are done, to let them go. I suggest seeing a grief counselor; they're trained to help people do this sort of thing.
>>17225532
I still have dreams about one of my best friends that died back in 2011. Shit sucks, but there's not much to do about it. If nothing else, enjoy the short time you get to be with her again.
>>17225571
My life has been successful lately and I can go by everyday life without having to mourn my mother. But I still miss her. It's a damn shame and it's really unfair. She didn't deserve for that to happen and I don't know if death is cruel or not. Death is such an odd thing and is too mysterious for it to happen to my mother at such an early age.
Dad passed 3 years ago, and I still often see him in dreams. Some of the time I remember int he dream that he is actually dead, and then I wake up.
I'm very sorry for your loss anon. Grieving takes as long as it takes. I'm old fag and dad and mom died over 20 years ago. I still miss them.
>>17225810
do you still see them in dreams?
