I HAD BE WATCHING  A HORROR MOVIE BEFORE GOING TO BED, I AWOKE WITH A JOLT AS SOMEONE WAS CHASING ME IN MY DREAM. I FELT SLIGHTLY HOT HEART BEATING AS YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE A NIGHTMARE, MY HUSBAND WAS LAYING ASLEEP NEXT TO ME AND I FELT A LITTLE FRIGHTENED BECAUSE OF THIS DREAM SO TURNED OVER TO CUDDLE HUBBY WHO WAS SLEEPING ON HIS SIDE FACING THE DOOR.  THE DOOR WAS AJAR. SUDDENLY I COULD HEAR BIRDS SINGING REALLY LOUDLY IT WAS LIKE IT WAS IN MY HEAD RATHER THAN EXTERNALLY AND I LIVE RIGHT ON A MAIN ROAD SO VERY UNLIKELY TO BE OUTSIDE AS VERY LOUD AND INCIDENTALLY WE HAVE DOUBLE GLAZING.

THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN A COLOURFUL SMALL BALL OF LIGHT IN MY BEDROOM I AM SHORT SIGHTED SO I COULDN'T EXACTLY SEE WHAT IT WAS BUT I THINK IT WAS EITHER A BIRD OR A BUTTERFLY IT WAS A ORANGEY LIGHT BUT WITH BLUE IN IT AS WELL. IT WAS EXTREMELY COLOURFUL ALMOST CARTOON LIKE COLOUR. THIS FLEW DOWN THE HALL WAY TOWARDS MY FATHERS ROOM. IN THE SHADOW OF THE HALL WAY I COULD THEN MAKE OUT AN OUTLINE OF WHAT LOOKED LIKE MY MUM CUDDLING SOMEBODY.  THE ONLY WAY I CAN DESCRIBE THIS WAS SHE WAS LIKE A SHADOW AND THE MOVEMENT WAS IN THE FORM OF AN OLD HOME MOVIE STYLE FOOTAGE FROM A KIND OF PROJECTOR CAMERA MOVING BACK AND FORWARD KISSING A CUDDLYING THIS PERSON .  I COULDN'T MAKE OUT WHO SHE WAS CUDDLYING. THEN IT WAS OVER IT PROB DIDNT LAST MORE THAN 5-10 MINUTES. 

I LAY THERE IN AMAZEMENT FOR QUITE A WHILE WANTING TO WAKE MY HUSBAND BUT THOUGHT HE MIGHT THINK I WAS MAD AND THEN IT SUDDENLY DAWNED ON ME TO PUT MY GLASSES ON AND LOOK AT THE TIME IT WAS 04:30.  I SUDDENLY REMEBERED THE NIGHT MY MUM PASSED AWAY. NOT LONG AFTER THE DOCTOR ANNOUNCED THE TIME OF DEATH AROUND 0400AM OFFICIALLY BRITISH SUMMERTIME WE MADE OUR WAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL SHOCKED AND OBVIOUSLY DISTRAUGHT, I VIVIDLY REMEMBER COMMENTING TO MY HUSBAND ON THE BIRDS SINGING SO LOUDLY BEFORE WE GOT IN THE CAR TO MAKE OUR JOURNEY HOME.  IT THEN HIT ME THAT PERHAPS THIS WAS HER WAY OF LETTING ME KNOW SHE IS OK I HAVE SEVERAL RELATIVES WHO HAVE PASSED AND JUST MAYBE THIS WAS HER WAY OF TELLING ME THEY WERE THERE TO MEET HER THAT IT WAS ALL OK NOW.

Details of location of experience and your activity at the time of experience: 

SLEEPING IN MY BEDROOM AWOKE FROM A BAD DREAM.

Degree of bereavement for deceased immediately prior to the experience:    

Moderate sadness and/or grief feelings

Degree of alertness immediately prior to experience:         Slightly drowsy

After your experience, did you consider the contents of your experience:      

Mixed

 Did you hear the deceased or hear something associated with the deceased?        

Yes

            Describe what you heard, how clearly you heard it and what was communicated:  

BIRDS VERY CLEARLY MORE EXTERNALLY

            Did the voice or sound seem to originate externally or outside of you, inside you, or did you not hear a voice or sound, but had a sense of knowing what was communicated? 

EXTERNALLY.

            Is there any possibility what you heard was from any other source present in the surroundings at the time of your experience?          

NO VERY UNLIKELY

Did you see the deceased?        

Yes

SHADOW BUT SIMILAR TO WHEN LIVING AS FAR AS I COULD MAKE OUT.

            How clearly did the deceased appear?            SHADOW FORM

            How much of the deceased did you see?       HEAD DOWN TO WAIST

            Did the deceased appear or not appear to be the age at which they died?       ABOUT SAME AGE

            How healthy did the deceased appear to be?            UNSURE LOOKED FINE

How long did the experience last?       

APPROX 5 - 10 MINUTES

Was the beginning and end of the experience gradual or more sudden?        

MORE SUDDEN

Could you sense the emotions or mood of the deceased?          

Yes

CALM, PEACEFUL

 How do you currently view the reality of your experience?         

Experience was probably real

            Please explain why you view the reality of your experience as real or not real:         

VERY UNLIKELY TO BAE A DREAM AS A REMEMBER WAKING STARTLED FROM MY NIGHTMARE SO UNLIKELY TO BE A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM.

            Was the experience dream like in any way?  

No

What did you feel (while awake) immediately prior to your experience?           

Happy

Describe in detail your feelings/emotions during the experience:          

TAKEN BACK IN AWE A LITTLE FRIGHTENED AT FIRST AS NOT OBVIOUSLY EXPECTING IT, AS NOT THINKING ABOUT MY MUM AT THE TIME.

Was there any emotional healing in any way following the experience?          

Yes

ON REFLEXATION I THINK IT MADE ME FEEL BETTER ABOUT MY MUMS PASSING THAT SHE WAS OK.

What was the best and worst part of your experience?     

JUST FEELING LIKE SHE WANTED TO GIVE ME MESSAGE, THAT SHE MUST HAVE FELT MY PAIN AND TEARS AND WANTED TO TELL ME THAT IT WAS OK.

Did the experience give you any spiritual understandings such as life, death, afterlife, God, etc.?           

Yes     THAT THERE MUST BE MORE TO

LIFE IT SELF ON THIS PLANET WE SOMEHOW MUST LIVE ON.

Death Compacts are when two or more living people promise among themselves that whoever dies first will try to contact the other(s).  Have you ever made such a compact?       

Uncertain

NOT OBVIOUSLY BUT HAD TALKED ABOUT PEOPLE CONTACTING PEOPLE AFTER DEATH A MUTUAL INTEREST IN THE AFTERLIFE.  BUT DIDNT MAKE ANY PLANS TO DO SO.
 
What emotions did you feel during the experience?           

REALLY HAPPY & EXCITED WANTED TO TELL EVERYONE.

 Did you meet or see any other beings other than the deceased?          

Uncertain

AS DECRIBED UNSURE OF OTHER FIGURE.

Did you see a light?          

Yes, NOT AROUND MY MUM BUT BALL OF LIGHT AS DECRIBED PRIOR.

Have you shared this experience with others?        

Yes     A LITTLE MYSTIFIED

AND INTRIGUED.  NOT REALLY INFLUENCED RAISED A FEW EYEBROWS.