It bizarre, but I like to believe that there is a Rainbow Bridge, and actually, I do... but at the same time I frequently wonder about what happens once we die. I am kind of stuck between the thought that we go to sleep and never wake up and thats that over with, and the thought of a better place where we go on to meet those we lost...

I am not convinced of "near death experiences", nor "reincarnation" (although it would be nice if those who wronged others paid in the next life)...so what do you think? :)

Feel very much the same as you :) Head or heart :D

Daisy

i'm the same as you chloe, not sure what to believe but would love to think there's is a wonderful place waiting for us all :) what would be the point of just being here for 80 odd years then thats it, if there is a way to come back as something else i would be a fly so i couldnt listen to everyone's conversations and also puke on the food of people who have bad mouthed me :D

LOL @ Jacki the fly :D :D

My uncle said that my Dad had visited him when he was terminally ill in hospital - but my Dad had been dead 3 years.

Mind you, my Dad has spoken to me in my dreams (we both seemed aware that he was dead in my waking life), and I heard his voice when I was seriously depressed, so maybe he just likes keeping an eye on things still!
:)

That's deep and philosophical Chloe for a Tuesday evening :)

I am open minded, I would like to think there is a rainbow bridge but it must be a very large place!  My husband said when he was a teenager he often went round his neighbours house, where upstairs there were only two very young children iasleep.  When they were sitting downstairs he often heard footsteps walking from one room to the other.  His neighbour said it was only her dad (deceased) checking on the children, he came most nights.  She was physic in many ways, so it is possible some people are more tuned into these type of things then others.

I went to a funeral once where the wife who died was a physic, it was so comforting for her husband who knew he would see her again in another life, they were together all their lives, but he was not upset at her death because of his beliefs.  This was something quite different from religion. I will always remember this and find it quite comforting.

I do sometimes think we will come back as an animal or insect, usually as I flush a spider down the bath :)

Interesting subject

Sandra

I have always been a believer in life after death, i don't think you are here one minute and the gone forever.  I lost my mum last year and as you can imagine it hit me really hard, but i went to see a spiritualist/medium who told me things she couldn't have known in a million years and i have definitely had visits. The whole life after death thing really intrigues me.

Michelle

When my nan was in hospital she was insistant that some little girls in dressed in white were at the bottom of her bed beckoning her to go with them.There were no children in or visiting that ward.She died the following day.
I also had a freind who had a serious motorbike accident...he hit a wall and was taken to hospital by the air ambulance.He died on route and was revived.He says he remembers leaving his body and looking down on himself.He was neither a joker or a religious person..in fact a typical 'bad lad'.He was very serious..
Still don't know what I think but some things do make you wonder don't they..
Archer

Okay heres my experience My mum lived with us till she died. She was un well and in bed, the day before she died she woke up when I was sitting on the bed. She told me Dad who was already dead was having a party & my deseased reatives were there. I asked what they were having at the party and she said ham sandwiches. Mum rubbed my hand then went back to sleep.
I later got a collie pup I already had westies the collie used to start running round the room sniffing with her nose in the air and eventually stop at mums chair and look up.
Yes I believe she is here it has been a comfort over the years knowing shes around. Even Jim thinks there is something

Jean

When my MIL was terminally ill my husband was staying at her house as we lived a bit away from her.
The Doctors had said it would only be a few days.
At 8am on the Thursday my daughter got up and told me her Granma Kelly was dead. I told her not to be stupid. She was 10 yrs old.
When I settled down a bit I asked her why she said that. She said that her Granma had came and sat on her bed at 4'o'clock and said goodbye.
I 'phoned her house and spode to my husband. He was very upset. His Mother had passed away peacefully in her sleep at 3.10am that morning.
I am divorced from him now but I have never told him what my daughter had said.
He is my daughters step-father but his Mam and my daughter loved each other.
I have had what i call 'precognitive' dreams but I was still shocked when this happened.

D4wn

I do now believe that there is 'something' after we die I am just not sure what.

I'd love to believe there is something but my head tell me it's unlikely. However you may recall I told you once of my friend Gaynor who died when young (her son contacted me remember)
Well visiting her in hospital one evening no one was there. I asked where everyone was and she said "They've had a flat tyre they'll be here soon" I took no notice but 1/2 hour later her mom rushed in, complete rush, and started to fuss around I went outside and spoke to her brother and asked about the flat tyre he wondered how I'd known.  I told him Gaynor and he was stunned as they had seen no one, no where near a phone, and this was long before mobiles. We went into the room and asked Gaynor how she knew and she said "Her Dad had told her not to worry they had a flat tyre,but he'd come ahead so she wouldn't be lonely." which was amazing as he had been dead 19 months then. She looked at us and said "It doesn't matter about flat tyres when your dead you know"

She often seemed to know things, about her Mom and her baby son that no-one had yet told her, so I hope it's true. Karen

I sort of believe that when you die you are immediately reborn again as a different person. But then again I sort of believe that when you die that is it ! You are recycled and become part of the earth. If we were to become 'ghosts' or something of that nature then wouldn't the world become over crowded with them as a 'ghost' can't die :)
Hope that makes sense !! :)

I does to me , well sort of !! :rolleyes:

Rainbow bridge to me is a place that is where the memory of an animal goes which we believe is a place where we would all like to end up, bit like a fairy tale really:)

I think humans, animals what have you all go to the same place.

When my grandma was passing away she could hear the nurses in the hall talking but they were not by her room at all and everyone else in the room couldn't hear them...MY hubby and I fugure she was having an out of the body experince....MY grandma was like my mother (I still haven't dealt with her passing) shortly after she passed away I was in the tub and started hearing this song You are my Sunshine over and over again, can't remember if she ever sang it to me or not and later out of the tub the phone rang, picked it up and no one on the other end...Thinking who's number it was and then I realised it was my grandma's number (it was weird because she never had a phone for about 2 years because she moved in with her daughters). That I took really hard, I think in a way she was trying to tell me that everything was ok and to stop being so sad. Even now just talking about her brings tears to my eyes :( I was very close to my grandparents I lived with them when my dad passed away he was only 23years old.

I do believe in ghosts, and I believe in reacarnation. I like to think that if you were bad in life you keep coming back till you get better but life will not be as easy as it was the first time around

Dollface, I must of been an absolute bitch because life has never dealt me an even hand.  Why is it the good people of the world suffer and the bad have every good fortune

I firmly believe that if 'something' can't come out of ''nothing', then 'something' cannot become 'nothing'. I'm a bit woolly about how this all works out in practice,  :D but I'm fairly convinced it has something to do with human evolution - our spiritual evolution.

Jeangenie - it's interesting you should mention that your Dad has spoken to you in dreams, and you've both been aware he was dead. I've had the exact same experience. :)

Jo

Having lost someone close not too long ago I would love to believe we go on - but I don't.  I think we just stop.  Cease to exist.

So don't go thinking you can make up for your mistakes in the next life cos that won't happen.  And don't wait til you're reincarnated to get the people back who've upset you. 

Do it now - just in case. :)

I kind of have a "practical" belief and a "romantic" belief I guess. When I had Annie pts it hit me very hard, and it helped to picture her young again, galloping, or waiting at the bridge for me with other significant persons/animals I have lost. However, that is my "heart" vision. My head tells me we are all disposable and we go to sleep and don't wake up - I try not to think about that too much, its a bit bleak!

I live in a house where I man died when the oil tank fell on his head. I am very cynical about ghosts, but have sometimes felt a "presence" and the smell of oil in some rooms can be overpowering. However, its never felt oppressive, only welcoming. It also had 2 old ladies live here who killed themselves walking into a lake... although I never get the feeling they could be around. Its a tussle between my heart and my head I guess on what I believe :)

One elderly friend of mine often had the smell of fresh cooked toast in her house when I visited,even though she didn't eat toast,didn't have the teeth for it! but she said many people remarked on it and her late husband had such a love of toast he would often pop a slice or two under the grill anytime of the day?! so she was sure he was still watching over her.How comforting must that be :) ?

Guess we will all have to wait 'our time' and find out for ourselves.My hubby promises he will come back to 'haunt' me if he should leave this world first.

If that means the loo roll will be on back to front,the towels left on the floor instead of the rail,the coffee and sugar spilled over the coffee cup when it's being made,his shoes left where only I can trip on them,the milk left on the side in the heat of summer,etc etc etc then maybe I will 'go first' as it were ;)

not a great believer in a better place as such, do beleive in a spirit world though, there are so many stories like the ones mentioned here that they cant all be hillucinations. Ive had my own experience with a ghost, when i was about 13 mum asked me to go check on luke (my little brother) who was in bed in her room. As i walked towards the cot i could see a figure - head and shoulders mainly only as a shadow leaning over the side of the cot. NEVER have i ran so fast in my life lol.

We were told by a spiritualist that there were a couple of spirits in our house - one of a little girl and one of an older man. Are plenty of stories that tie in with this but never sure if its just seeing thing that arnt there because you want to.

That figure was soo real though.

Andy

Talking about ghosts in our other house my son said that there was a man all dressed in black with a hood over his head looking out his window, he said that he layed real still hoping the man didn't see him.

I seen a man dressed in a black cloak go down my stairs, called hubby and realized he's at work (not thinking), that was spookey.

I had to rehome my cats and one of our friends came over and started saying I thought you got rid of your cats and I see you got one more so now you have 3, hubby and I just looked at eachother (we seen them but never said anything to anyone). We said to Shawn that we did and he never believed us he had to ask our children. I would also feel a cat making himself comfy at the foot of our bed and thought I heard purring, I think it was Whiskey he was my baby...

Since we have moved into this house we have had the odd thing moved and we just get a real comfy warm feeling here, where the other house was kinda cold. This house just feels very welcoming :) But I'm sure the old man's wife is still here, my daughter has often said that she has seen a lady.

I had my mums house excorsised when I was younger. That was wierd.  When you where upstairs you could hear the hum of a party down staires.  When sitting in the house we heard noises as if someone was throwing gravel at the patio window. You could also hear someone running down the stairs and knock on the door.  Never used to bother me until my parents went away.

I sort of belive in it and sort of don't, After what has happened this week I very much want to believe I will see my Loubear again however I have a dog who doesn't like other dogs so how would I be able to meet up with them all afterwards, would she suddenly like all the dogs I have throughout my life?

How will we ever know?

whenever i read the "rainbow bridge" blurb i  cry! cant help it!

my dad died in 1997, to my heart just yesterday.
My dad was my life, my soul and my best friend.
He was my dad in every way possible.
i have prayed and wished since he left me and mum to find me and give me some sign hes ok and my life is as he would have wanted, hes proud of me, me new hubby he sadly didnt meet and the grandkids.
nothing, my beliefs that if life after death experiences are true id know my dad would be here .no.no signs, no visions, my prayers shattered and hope.
god bless dad where ever you are..love you never fogottonxxx

Well I don't know about humans but animals definitely are still around.  I quite often "wake" up in the night and sense my old Johnboy (cat) stretching out on the bed.  Maybe just a dream and wishful thinking but its funny but Copper (who is also on the bed) is sitting up at the same time softly whining.  Maybe other animals see the things we can't in our waking state.  I'm sure all those who have lost a pet have seen the shadow go past the glass doors in our houses or feel a tail brush our chin.  I believe it anyway.

CG

i believe that animals can sence things that we cant, in my mum & dad house, mia my rottie, goes mental when she passes that stair, she growls, barks, crys you name it, we recently found out after a bit of searching that some bloke that had lived there before hung himself on the stair, i do believe in life after death always have done after going into my nannas house the day after she died and seeing her sat in her chair.

I believe in reincarnation, but not sure yet how animals fit into that, if at all. I think we come here to learn and also to teach others, according to our own personalities, and that once we have learnt, we move into the spirit world and don't come back. But we may have to work through many incarnations to properly work out our Karmic bank balance ;)

I do sometimes feel life and death is a bit bleak, and that i am just wishing and hoping for more....but still come back to the reincarnation belief in the end :)

I have a "deal" with a dear friend; that if she is at all possible, she will come back and let me know something of the spirit world. That would be wonderful :) She has felt the presence of her departed husband and once heard him speak to her when she wanted to start a new relationship some years after he had died, which really reassured her. She is very practical, an ex head mistress, so not exactly an airy fairy girlie.... :D She does believe in Jesus, but also in reincarnation like i do.

I just want to meet my beautiful dogs again when i die....... if that happens, i will be totally fulfilled and happy :)

Lindsay
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