Dead brother has been alive all these years

[angel-dog2020]

Hi, I am 18 years old and my brother died five years ago at the age of 24 from a methedone overdose. At the time of his death he had been married for a couple of months and I kind of fell out of contact with him, not for any real reason because we were very close and i have always regretted not making an effort to talk to him frequently in his final months.These last couple of years i have had numerous dreams about him usually where he comes back to live with me and our family and it was like he wasn't dead this whole time these were more "happy" type dreams although I would feel sad after waking up, but more recently the dreams have gotten more disturbing.In these dreams I find out he is alive and track him down, when in his apartment I look around and he is not home so I walk around and look at his belongings such as,food,clothes,video-games and even his soap and shampoo in the bathroom.I also see pictures he has taken in the last five years and i start to feel so depressed that I have lost all this time with him and I don't understand why he has chose to not speak to me and hide from me and our family.In the dreams I remember it was so hard to find him and when I finally located where he was living he wasn't there and we never reunited because usually either before he would return home I would wake up or he would purposefully avoid me,for example his wife(whom I have not spoke to in close to five years) would tell me he didn't want to see me and that I should go away.Somebody please tell me what all of this means, thanks.

[Varzandeh]

Hi,
Please do charities and prayings for his soul.Something like paying to poor people for food or more, or planting a tree for his sake.He needs any small good deed done for his sake.
Good luck.

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

Well dreams can mean lots of things. Often real life will just reflect a similar situation where you feel similar emotions. If you had for instance fallen out of contact with a friend you miss then it could mean that. Look at little ways in which you miss people.. it may not necessarily be about your brother.

But it could be ... you do miss him and if there is some situation which reminds you of him this may trigger a dream

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The father of modern dream interpretation is not Freud or Jung but rather Jon Winson. But he never made a single dream interpretation. Instead he conducted research into the mind and established that certain brainwaves (theta waves) only appear during the night time. During the day we store up all new experiences and feelings in short term memory. Then at night we start to work through what happened the previous day and we integrate these into long term memory blocks. Then finally we clear short term memory blocks ready to start the process again the next day. Its likely that any dreams we have are linked to these brain functions. The weird images and feelings once deciphered capture our own feelings and new insights into the world around us. So the dreams then will often link to specific events from the day before and to new ways in which our world has been reshaped. It may simply link to our paranoias and fantasies. If we are focused on something about to happen in the near future then the dreams may link to that. Each dream captures one specific feeling or thought process.

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