Thanks for your excellent response post, Dawn. It's great feedback. And sorry that you've already lost both of your parents.

Wow! I actually hadn't guessed that you'd had a similar dream(s) about your Me-ma, Jaime. When will I learn!

I think it was "real", my dream. An astral visit like you said. And in the dream that the dog barked was really significant to me, as if to give me additional proof. Dream logic.

I loved reading your explanation! "The green elephant came in to clip my toenails then handed me the banana to receive the call on." It reminds me of how I always loved the line from Pee Wee's Big Adventure where he was asked if he'd ever had a dream (as in a lifetime ambition), but he took it literally and said, "Yeah, there was this snake wearing a vest rolling a donut..." I love that! Now I can add the green elephant clipping toenails and start a collection of great quotes about "visits to an ethereal carnival on a bad hit of acid."

Wow, your recurring Mema dream is amazing! I'm so glad you shared it! It seems the very same message as my mom gave me. I really, really enjoyed reading it.

I have to say that I have called out to my mom quite a bit during the day over the past year. I'll spontaneously blurt out "Moooom" like a mini wail. It will kinda surprise me and kinda not. It's like the anguish sneaks up and escapes from me. And then I'll think a big surge of love about her and it's almost like a release, like the child in me that is still upset and has to be heard.

But I'm intrigued at the moment at the thoughts that my dream and yours has given me. Is she really simply there? I wonder as this idea sifts into the many layers of me.