This Is Why You Dream About People You've Lost | Mel Robbins #shorts

What does it mean to dream of a loved one who's passed away?

Well, yeah, this is a— this is an interesting one. I think it goes back to processing trauma. My dad passed away 7 years ago. You know, I had this sort of like my pops comes back during times of like momentous occasions, maybe where he should have been there in the beginning when— because it was a— it was an unexpected passing. And so in the beginning, Yeah, you know, the dreams were filled with a pit in my stomach. And so I, I think grieving as a bigger theme of loss, uh, the power of attachment, the pain of losing that attachment— I think there— I, I think, uh, when loved ones return in our dreams, there's probably a pattern that mirrors how you're coping in real life.

Well, that makes sense to me because if you're the kind of person that also is like, I'm not gonna allow myself to feel this, I gotta get through the day and I'm not going there, I'm not going there. And that's the executive awake brain.

The CEO. Yes. Has to keep things on the rails. Yeah, you gotta keep things going.

So I'm not gonna break down right now, but when— Then the dreaming brain. You got your dreaming brain and the imagination network comes online. And the emotional structure. And the emotional structure. It makes sense to me. Yeah. Yeah. That your brain is working out all the stuff that maybe the awake brain has been suppressing all day. Yeah.

You know, if the neurons when you're running in your dreams are firing the same way as when you're running in real life, you know, maybe, maybe the, maybe the most romantic thing or the most like sweet thing to think is like when you, you know, connect with your loved ones who've died, maybe that is a real experience or as close as you can get to it.