Grandmother Grandma Gran
So many people dream about their grandmother, especially the dead grandmother. Grandmothers represent so much in your dreams. They are the doorway through which your life came into being, and bring us that much nearer to the source of Life. They are also the wonderful gateway to the ancestors and their collective wisdom.
Of course they could also be a bad grandmother – but even so they are a reflection of the pains and inner wrongness we may carry with us through our family inheritance. So whether good or bad we should honour them, for only through them can we find out way back to what is beyond them in the past.
She is a mother and a grandmother and is a very special person in your life. A grandmother is the living essence of all the mothers who have existed before them. I know that seems an everyday thing in one way, but if you take time to consider it, it means that your mother or grandmother is a sort of magical being. It also means that she is a stream from which the rivers of your life have flowed.
At times a grandmother may appear like an angel, as she is to a young child. Her touch and love is a link with the ancient wisdom that grandmothers have inside them. It can reach through them and change your life.
See Integrate
Inner grandmother: Many people do not realise that they have an inner grandmother equally as powerful as an external grandmother. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with or knowing your grandmother, and they are what makes you the person you are. This is true even if your grandmother was never there for you – you still have all the memories of her not being there for you filed under ‘Grandmother’. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner mother can appear in dreams because you are still deeply influenced by what you hold within you. The inner grandmother can also signify what has been received via genes passed on or ancestral influences. See ancestors: parent integration; The Conjuring Trick
Example: I had this dream about my grandmother: I walked into a very bright house where there were so many little children…it seemed she was taking care of them, they were playing and laughing inside the house. She was wearing her favourite flowered dress, as I walked toward her she spread out her arms and offered me a hug, so I went to her and as she hugged me I felt warmth and happiness, I saw bright flowers and sunshine and plants in the breeze. Then in an instant it was all gone. I woke up; I was in a good mood. I got ready for work and as I was on my way to work my mother called me to say happy birthday. Right at that moment I remembered the warm hug my grand mother gave me that very same morning…..what a coincidence that same warm feeling. As I shared that dream with my mother, we both had tears of joy.
Example: But as the baby I knew I was giving a signal that I was bonding. The cries were a bonding signal. I wouldn’t cry until I was in the presence of someone I could bond with. I felt my mother had been frightened of my weakness, had thought I was dying and had not opened her heart to me. So only now did I bond.
I knew someone loved me. I knew they understood what pain was and were not afraid of it or of death. This pierced me right through. It was my grandmother, but to me it felt like some higher being who had reached out of the unknown to help me. The bonding cry was a signal to say “I recognise you! I recognise you! I’m bonding to you. I’m bonding to you! Someone recognises me. I can cry now because I am in the presence of love.”
Example: What could this mean? I have been in communion with my spiritual nature and speaking to my loved ones who have passed on recently (mother, grandmother, papa, great grandmother and oddly, I’ve been feeling my great great grandmother around me, though she passed on long before I was born).
Useful Questions and Hints:
What part did your grandmother play in your life?
Have you ever felt her presence – good or bad?
What do you carry in your nature from your grandmother?
See Characters and People in Dreams – Summing Up – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Talking with the dead
Comments
Hi there last night I had a dream that I saw my deceased grandmother (fathers side) and grandad (mums side) together. I felt like I was lying awake in bed watching myself talk to them near my wardrobe. However it wasn’t them at the age when they died it was either them when they were younger or in a past/ future life, however I knew it was them. There was lots of light and it felt very warm while they were hugging me. They also told me I was pregnant. I have recently had a baby who is 7 months old today.
Can you shed any light on this for me? Much appreciated
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Caitlin – In dreams we may switch to the dimension in which we are in contact with the so called dead. It sounds as if yours was a perfect example of that. See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/journeying-beyond-dreams-and-death/#WHappens
The looked younger because when they leave the body the dead often appear as they were in their prime. This is because in essence, when in the realm of death, we can be anything we believe we are – male, female, or a being of light. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dreaming-of-death/ and http://dreamhawk.com/news/exploring-death-and-life/ also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-archetype-of-death/
I dreamt of my dead grandmother who lived with us all her life and whome I loved so much telling me she wanted my twin brother next to her – my brother is alive and both him and I were very close to her
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Kodyb – I know this may sound strange and news to you, but your grandmother, being dead, has a lot more abilities than she had while alive in her body.
What she is saying, and perhaps trying to do, is to have your twin brother join her in her death state. I have seen it happen. So she needs a good and kind talking to. Often the dead have no idea of the world they now exist in, and carry on feeling that the body they had in life is them, along with all the restrictions and emotions – like loneliness – they had in the body.
Again you might think it strange, but you can talk to your gran any time – because being where she is, she can receive what you are thinking, but unless you are able to converse using thoughts – as happens in dreams – you will not be able to have a two way conversations. So explain to her that she has the ability to constantly be aware of you, your twin brother, in fact anybody she focuses her attention on – because she is living in place that is beyond time and space. http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dimensions-of-human-experience/ and http://dreamhawk.com/news/there-is-a-huge-change-happening/
A woman’s experience of knowing deaths powers
Unlike any dream environments she’s known, her mind feels clear, alert, and free.
Is she awake, asleep, or somewhere in between, in this place that’s more vivid than previous reality?
Her surrounding is cylindrical, vibrant, and vast; white light emanates with a strength that almost hurts.
The only route is up the helter skelter stairs of this lightening bright, snow blindness light-house.
Tentatively, so unsure she starts to ascend; round and round she coils windowless walls forlorn,
until she reaches the top and it’s sacred platform.
Relief from the piercing light is achieved where windows open on to darkest space.
Her anxiety easing, she approaches the central display: an exceptional, universal camera obscura.
Far from static it reveals the whole world and with just one thought from the viewer’s mind, a place and a loved one instantly appear presented real time for one to observe.
Standing mystified, a presence then joins her and informs her with seemingly no external voice at all:
“This is the place where people come after death’s fall.”
With instant recognition of her self-mortification, she spontaneously utters: “Oh, so I’m dead!”
The presence inwardly sighs: “No, you’ve misunderstood my intention:
I’ve brought you here to show that each of the dead choose someone to guide and watch over on earth.
And that you have a someone still loving you.
Your self-destruction is unnecessary; you just need to give life a reasonable chance.
Please think on this experience and what I have said; your duty is still to life, it’s not yet to death.”
Wide awake and bed room returned, she shakes her young head in disbelief.
If it were but a dream, would she not be drowsy?
But she feels as alert, as she was in the lighthouse.
Bemused yet compos mentis she arises and finally she prepares to venture to sleep.
Under the covers consciousness leaves her and she won’t be roused again this mystical night.
But in the morning she hears her door thumping; her housemate yelling that a guest’s arrived:
A priest is there to see her – a holy surprise!
This transcendent encounter should encourage all of us to be self-kind, and is a testament to the protective powers of our all inspiring mind
I had a dream last night about my gran who passed away 2 years ago. I lived back in my favourite childhood home with my family, my uncle who we have had a big family bust up with and haven’t spoken to in about 3 years. My gran was also there but she was as small as a child and was acting quite childlike but looked as old as she was when she died. What can this mean.
I dreamt that I was carrying my partners grandmother towards a beach, which ended up being a backdrop at the front of a plane and there were passengers there and my partners family was watching me and not helping me carry her. When the plane landed we went straight to a beautiful beach it was secluded ! So sunny and she seemed happy. In my dream she had dementia !
What does it mean ? I’m usually good at reading signs from my dreams but I can’t tell this time
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Leo – It seems you are going through a big inner change at the moment. I see it as you making an effort without any outside help. Many people do not realise that they have an inner grandmother equally as powerful as an external grandmother. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with or knowing your grandmother, and they are what makes you the person you are. This is true even if your grandmother was never there for you – you still have all the memories of her not being there for you filed under ‘Grandmother’. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner mother can appear in dreams because you are still deeply influenced by what you hold within you. The inner grandmother can also signify what has been received via genes passed on or ancestral influences.
It is almost certain the dream is dealing with your inner grandmother and her dementia. It suggests you have beautiful feelings about her, but the change you are going through is saying you are forgetting important things about her.
Hello,
I had a dream the other day of me hugging my live grandmother and she was just smiling and hugging me. Just today I found out that she is ill, does that mean anything ?
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Candice – It may mean that she is telling you that no matter what happens she is still alive and loving for you. Also it is a way of telling that she is getting nearer to the death of her body, but she will still visit you in dreams. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/near-death-experiences/
My nan died may 2015 I was close to her my whole life. Now I keep dreaming she’s hurt like once I dreamt she fell down the stairs and I couldn’t get to her to help her. Lastnight I dreamt I lived with her and someone I knew was trying to break in wen she was asleep so I put her in danger !? I get these dreams all the time it’s making me so upset
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Emma – At death your Nan changed her whole way of life, so she no longer lives in a situation where she could fall down the stairs, or be in a place where people could break in. That is all physical world situations, none of which apply to life after death. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/near-death-experiences/
You can help you Nan by feeling and linking with her through love. It is well known that when the living feel pain, anxious or hurt, it effects the dead, who are very fully linked with those they left in they world of sorrows – in other world, the world you live in.
I have been trying to find an answer on my dream mostly the same…. but have not had it in a while not sure if it’s because I’m dreaming about my deceased father of almost a year now. But my dream of my grandma I am a little girl she grows into a giant sometime or as soon as I see her I’m stunned…. too scared to speak I try to think of calling my mom. But nothing comes out. The last time I dreamed of her same thing . I’m little in my house I grew up in and we’re both at ends of the hall and I can’t speak or move. I was told the next time I dream of her to ask her what she want to tell me ???? I don’t think my dreaming mind will remember that. The dream I have of my dad I grown in a house I grew up in … he is laughing at me being silly or joking with him or he is just in the he room with my family and in the dream I know he died but I’m not scared or upset
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practicing what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
You are dealing with the power of an inner grandmother. Many people do not realise that they have an inner grandmother equally as powerful as an external grandmother. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with or knowing your grandmother, and they are what makes you the person you are. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner grandmother can appear in dreams because you are still deeply influenced by what you hold within you.
It seems she was an imposing and scary person and it has left the influence of being unable to express yourself. But you are a grown woman now, so imagine you are standing in front of your grandmother, and say to her, “You9 ought to feel shamed of yourself acting as if you are so ‘big’ and frightening a little girl”, and carry on with anything else you need to say to her – and don’t let her put you down. Remember it is only memories you are dealing with – your own fears.
I had a dream with my grandma that passed away and we where hugging what dose it mean
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practicing what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonOrThing or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
It suggests that you and she were sharing caring love.
“My breathing became very slow, I wasn’t aware of having a body, I was in a different state of being I suppose. But I received a clear message, and the message was, “Don’t interfere.” I was being shown something that I must not interfere with. I was being led toward experiencing life beyond time and space. I was shown images of life and death, and the images of the higher beings.
Only half an hour has passed – amazing. Part of it was that I realised that I had slept with this holy, holy, holy woman. She said she is passing on her powers to me. The baby, which is neither male or female, but I am seeing it as a female. It is creating a huge web – she is creating a huge web. It is to connect people.
Then I entered the realm of death, and I was shown my father. “I have fathered you my son”, he said. “but you have led thousands of us to new understandings through your exploration and findings.”
From this I saw my father in quite a different way than when he was in the body. He looked as if he was now a person of importance because of the knowledge he was communicating.
I dreamed of this social gathering. I was busy and just looked around the room smiling. I noticed this old woman wearing glasses sitting at a table, just looking at me. No smile, just watching me. I go back to doing my thing, A few moments later, I again look over and see her. Same look on her face. I go back to doing my thing, but have a strong feeling I know her. I again peer over and realize, she is my grandmother (in-law). I go running over to her with tears in my eyes, telling her how much I love her, how much i miss her, how much she means to me. She still has the same look and says nothing to me. I don’t remember anything after this.
Hi, my grand mother very recently died and and since the my first sleep after her death I’ve had 3 recurring dreams of just her deceased head placed in side a small boxed single shelf metal refrigerator. It seems to be a morgue of some sorts but I’m not sure everything feels very cold and icy blue . any one help with these meanings. She was very close to me and was more significant in my life than my own parents.
My grandson who is 22 literally walked out of his house in the middle of the night, and sat on his front porch where her had a conversation with my deceased mother. He said he looked over and saw a bird, and when he came out this morning, it was dead. What could be the meaning of this?
Hi – I am going to halt from answering your posts – the reason is that in so many of your post I give the same information to. That is because most posts do not realise the difference between dreaming and waking life. It makes a great difference.
So, most of what I put in answers is my attempt at explaining what dreams are really about. It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing it would help me, and hopefully you too.
Tony
It depends what he associates with the bird your mother. Obviously it is his feelings about death. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/association-of-ideas-with-dreams/#Working
Good morning. I just woke up from a strange dream. My grandmother passed on December 15,2016. The same day my grandfather passed 38 years ago by the way. Anyway, I’m my dream my mother(still alive) and I were walking up the stairs to a house (not either of ours) and we were carrying bags of groceries in and out of the the door. I went to go back out and coming up the stairs was my grandmother! I felt scared and shocked in my dream. I ended up grabbing my cell phone and ran outside as she walked past me. She was walking very slow…I am not sure if there was dialogue. Om my phone I went to call the doctor (even though I don’t know who he is) to say she walked out of the car we were in and she was alive. Then I woke up. The wake is today so it very well just may be anxiety. Any input you have would be great. It is very vivid on my mind rI get now.
I keep having a similar dream about my fathers mother, my grandmother.
In my dream I find out that my grandmother is alive. My grandmother passed away over 39 years ago.w While I am thrilled that my grandmother is alive in my dream I am filled with so much guilt that so much time has gone and I did not talk or see her in over 30 years.
Hi – I am sorry to suddenly stop replying to dreams like this, but I must upgrade the dream dictionary – I started the revising in 2006, and haven’t got near the end yet.
So for a while I urge you to read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/i-am-no-longer-interpreting-dreams/
Also here are so ways you can find your dreams meaning – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/ or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
Hundreds of questions about your dreams have already been answered if you scroll down to the very bottom of the page were people’s questions/comments were replied to. Also see http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/
Tony
Any negative feeling you have is felt very deeply by the dead who love you. So don’t torture yourself or your grandmother.
Unlike any dream environments she’s known, her mind feels clear, alert, and free. Is she awake, asleep, or somewhere in between, in this place that’s more vivid than previous reality? Her surrounding is cylindrical, vibrant, and vast; white light emanates with a strength that almost hurts. The only route is up the helter skelter stairs of this lightening bright, snow blindness light-house. Tentatively, so unsure she starts to ascend; round and round she coils windowless walls forlorn, until she reaches the top and it’s sacred platform.
Relief from the piercing light is achieved where windows open on to darkest space. Her anxiety easing, she approaches the central display: an exceptional, universal camera obscura. Far from static it reveals the whole world and with just one thought from the viewer’s mind, a place and a loved one instantly appear presented real time for one to observe. Standing mystified, a presence then joins her and informs her with seemingly no external voice at all: “This is the place where people come after death’s fall.”
With instant recognition of her self-mortification, she spontaneously utters: “Oh, so I’m dead!” The presence inwardly sighs: “No, you’ve misunderstood my intention: I’ve brought you here to show that each of the dead choose someone to guide and watch over on earth. And that you have a someone still loving you. Your self-destruction is unnecessary; you just need to give life a reasonable chance. Please think on this experience and what I have said; your duty is still to life, it’s not yet to death.”
What does it mean to dream of finding a braided lock of your deceased grandmother’s hair in a small box? I found it while walking on a bright, sunny day.
The box had a little condensation, but her hair piece was mostly dry. Her hair lock was mostly grey with reddish-brown highlights.
Thank you!
Hi – I am sorry I cannot keep up with number of dreams sent at the moment. But I have described a way that you can get to the meaning of your dream. It only takes a little time to work at knowing the meaning of your dream.
So please click on the link and find your dreams meaning – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/ or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
But your dream is important, for it is a gift from you9r ancestors. She has left you her loving thoughts and her philosophy of life. They are both valuable gifts that will help guide you.
You may not realise that you have an inner grandmother equally as powerful as an external one. You have taken in millions of bits of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with your grandmother, and they are a major influence in your early life. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner grandmother can appear in dreams because you are still deeply influenced by what you hold within you. The inner mother can also signify what has been received via genes passed on or ancestral influences. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/ancestors/
My great grandson wants to dream about his grandma so bad he cries every night and says why can’t I dream about GiGi. I tell him to just pray real hard and ask God to let her come to your dreams and maybe it will happen.
Norma – Tell him it doesn’t work if he cries, because crying is all about believing his GiGi has left him. Far better for him to remember what he felt inside him when she held him. If he does that as he goes to sleep it will happen.
Tony