Several volumes of prebirth communications including announcing dreams have been published in recent years, 7 but for the most part, the dreams are strictly anecdotal, collected from the dreamers without follow-up investigations or analysis. 4 Announcing dreams are not exclusively visual, but may have sensory or auditory dimensions as well. When there are symbolic elements they are easily and intuitively understood they do not require interpretation, as ordinary dreams often do. In announcing dreams, dreamers see and embrace loved ones as in life. This is true of announcing dreams in particular, which tend to be highly significant for the dreamer. Pregnancy dreams are often said to be more vivid and realistic that other dreams. The day after this dream, the deceased man’s widow came to tell the woman that she had dreamed of an elderly sage dressed in white, who had informed her that he was sending her late husband to be the woman’s child. The sage went out of the house and returned with this man, left him there, and vanished. Shortly before she became pregnant, a woman dreamed of an elderly sage dressed in white who came to her house and told her that he was ‘entrusting’ to her a recently deceased man, whom he named. Then he dreamed that an angel told him, ‘Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.’ 2Īn announcement from a spirit figures also in a Burmese reincarnation case studied by Francis Story and Ian Stevenson. Joseph and Mary were engaged, but when he discovered that she was pregnant, he began to waver in his marriage commitment. That recounted by the Apostle Matthew in the Christian Bible is perhaps the most famous. When they occur in reincarnation cases, announcing dreams may help the dreamer ascertain the unborn child’s past-life identity.Īnnouncing dreams have been reported throughout history and from many different cultures. Non-human spirits sometimes deliver the announcements.

Announcing dreams usually occur to pregnant women, but they may precede conception, and they may occur to fathers as well as to other relatives or close acquaintances of the mother. The Nature of Announcing Dreams Apparent Contact with Unborn ChildrenĪnnouncing dreams are sometimes defined as dreams that herald any sort of life transition, 1 but more often the term is used in reference to dreams that appear to ‘announce’ the birth of a child. Understanding Announcing Dreams and Related Experiences.

Announcements via Waking Visions and Apparitions.

Experiences Related to Announcing Dreams.

Parental Responses to Announcing Dreams.

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