Grief Dreams, Nightmares, and Visitations: How to Understand Their Messages, Meanings, and More…

Grief Dreams, Nightmares, and Visitations: How to Understand Their Messages, Meanings, and More After LossPhoto by Alexander Grey on Unsplash

Grief doesn’t stop when we sleep. For many of us, loss shows up in our dreams—sometimes in beautiful ways, sometimes in ways that leave us unsettled, even overcome by despair.

These nighttime experiences, often called grief dreams, can connect us to people and pets we love, reawaken our pain, or reveal truths about our emotional state we haven’t yet faced in...