#48 — Would You Believe a Sign From the Dead More If Someone Else Had the Same One?
About a week after their partner died, the caller had a dream: their bed shaking like an earthquake, a ship taking over the block outside their window, their partner's voice telling them not to be afraid. They mentioned it to their brother, thinking it was just a strange story worth sharing. He told them he'd had his own dream that same night, standing on a ship, watching a light bounce back and forth across a map of the country, a voice telling him he wasn't the one it was meant for but to pass a message along anyway. The message was one word, the private word only the caller and their partner had ever used. Their brother had never heard it before.
The dream wasn't the caller's first experience with the unexplainable. Raised by two atheist parents who taught them death was simple, break down, return to the earth, their grandmother offered something else early on, an introduction to reincarnation. Years later, the caller's own three year old daughter delivered a different kind of proof: a sudden, detailed memory of dying in Chicago, gone completely within the hour, never mentioned again.
The caller fell for a partner with an opposing belief system, a devout Christian convinced God would save him even as cancer made that less and less certain. In the days before his diagnosis came back, a crow flew into the caller's office, went straight to their door, and died there, an omen their grandmother had always warned them about. The caller was in the room for his death, and years earlier for their father's, present for a tense scene at his bedside as his girlfriend's family tried to save his soul while he was actively dying.
By the end of the call, the caller doesn't land on one answer. What holds instead is contentment, and boundaries they built the hard way.
Topics covered
09:58 — Their daughter's sudden, unprompted memory of a past life
12:44 — A dream the week after their partner died: a shaking bed and a ship outside the window
15:58 — A brother's corroborating dream, and the one word only the caller and their partner shared
21:24 — A crow, a family warning, and a cancer diagnosis about to arrive
23:51 — A family's last attempt to save the caller's father as he lay dying
Related episodes
Anonymous #3 — What If You've Been Guiding People Through Death Your Whole Life Without Knowing It?
Anonymous #41 — If Life Comes from Death, What if Nothing Ever Really Ends?
Anonymous #45 — How Would You Know If a Message From the Dead Was Real?
Book recommendation: Henry and June by Anaïs Nin — see the full list of Anonymous Book Recommendations here.
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