This is a paranormal experience I have had:
Working on a private medical floor, most all our patients were admitted for chemotherapy or end stage treatment of cancer. I cared very much for my patients and connected on a deeper level with one patient and his devoted family. He was admitted several times to the unit as his treatment usually required hospitalization. Over time, I became very close to him and his family. Together, we watched as he fought to survive.
Having put in my resignation, I worried that I was not going to be able to care for and say good bye to my good friend. I was changing jobs and also arranged a visit a dear friend in the U.K. during the interval. He was still hanging on my last day at work, and I said my good byes then,but feeling somewhat guilty that I wouldn't be there to support his passing.
One night, I woke from a sound sleep and sat straight up in bed, knowing that he had died. I felt he him reach out to say good bye to me. I felt sad but relieved his ordeal was over and he was finallly ok.. I noted the time and date and on my return I found he had died quietly at the same time I felt he had made contact with me.
Was that paranormal? I will always cherish that experience . Was this event due to the fact I had anticipated his death? Or did he really say goodbye. Although the experience was real to me, was it due to the expectation effect, my own stress and guilt ofer his passing? Unfortunately there is no way to repeat the event. I still mourn his loss.
Although I had known he was facing death and had anticipated his passing, the event changed me. Knowing that one soul could reach out over time and space to touch another was very profound.
Yes, this event can easily be explained away or chalked up to knowing a disease process, but it left me transformed. I feel I gained an awareness of something much greater within us and the greater connection we have to one another.
This is but one subjective experience that made it important for me to understand, and be able to relate to others that have had a similar experiences. It does matter, because he was my friend, he could have been yours. You can't explain away a subjective experience like that lightly. The event was and always will be real to me ,and real to all the others that have had visitations from loved ones at the moment of their death.
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