On Oct. 13 last year, one of my aunts in Italy suddenly died. She had just finished tidying up the kitchen after lunch when she collapsed to the floor. They certified her death when she arrived at the hospital. At the time it happened I was not there as I live in Spain, nor did I manage to go to her funeral for health reasons, but my father -her brother- went. OK, so this is nothing strange up to now. Some time later, I started to dream with her, I dreamt her at least 3 times I clearly remember and a few more of which I remember bits and pieces. The strange thing is that I imagine myself to be with both my aunts, the dead one and the alive one, doing things with them, but being fully conscious and aware at the very time of dreaming that this is totally impossible because we all know she is dead. Apart from that, dreams are normal and enjoyable, just as it was good to be together in life.
Can anyone explain me why I dream with her like that - doing very real things together like going for a walk, having a good conversation, shopping or whatever and feeling it as it were really happening now, with the consciousness that she is dead.... This goes beyond me, it really puzzles me
I even came to suspect these very lucid dreams (and I am a great lucid dreamer) might have actually been OOBEs...
I don't really know what to believe.....

My grandfather used to tell me that the most common sort of dream is the "wish" dream. Pehaps you wish your aunt were still around, so you could do things with her (and her sister), and your dream enables you to fulfill this "wish" somehow.

Also, if the death was sort of unexpected, perhaps you're still processing the fact of her departure.

I hope this helps!

I certainly wish she was still around.... we left so many things "pending".... she never saw my current home office for example. I would have loved if she had been able to visit us! And we used to go to the mountains the three of us and have long summer walks near the snowline... O didn't I miss all this! I was glad I had a very long phone conversation with her soemthing like 6-8 weeks before she died. But indeed I do miss her a lot!

Yes, I think you are probably right, thank you!

Dear Friend,

Seeing your aunt dead and as well as live form means you are getting her characteristics at subconscious level. nothing to fear about. Live form means as you predicted she hadn't seen your office or other things she wished to see before death, but dead from means you are becoming more like her (plz, don' considered as you are going to die, plz, plz,. OK).

Have a nice dream.

Thank you, sahilendra! That's nice to know! She was a Sagittarius like me, our birthdays were only 6 days apart... So, there was a lot of common ground already....