Finding pets who have died

Lucid Adventures
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Has anyone tried to reunite with pets who have died in a lucid dream? Were you successful? What did you do?

I ask because last week my dog died completely out of the blue, just took her out for her morning run, threw the ball, looked down to pass through a gate, and when I looked up she was on her back with her legs in the air twitching. The ball in her mouth. I rushed her to the vet and tried to do cpr the whole way there, but it didnt matter in the end, I’m pretty sure she was dead before I could even run to her. She was a beautiful chocolate lab and she was only a year and a half old. I’m so torn up I really don’t know what to do, I work as a dog trainer so every day of work is filled with constant reminders of what I lost, and the morning of that day plays over and over in my head as I search for some sort of rhyme or reason for the eventshat unfolded.

I feel the desperate need for some sort of closure, I feel as if a huge part of my world is missing and I feel so numb without her. Has anyone has success reconnecting with past pets? I have not had much success with lucid dreaming yet, a couple small ones in which I quickly lost lucidity, but if this could really offer another chance to spend time with my best friend then I will work as hard as I need to in order to get there.

Thanks

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Hey Natezilla, I’m really sorry about your dog :sad: . I never tried reuniting with a pet because well…I never really had one that I was closely acquainted to. But I did have this one very deep experience shortly after my aunt died. About a few days after she passed away, I had a dream where she appeared, which pretty much triggered my lucidity. I had the chance of speaking with her and also meeting my deceased uncle I never met before. I had one last embrace with her and said our final goodbyes as both of them had to get going.

So, I’m sure you could reconnect with your dog through lucid dreams! :happy: Your dog may be gone in reality, but she’s still with you in spirit. I encourage you to try, and I hope you’ll find closure.

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That must have been so hard, especially considering she was only one and a half.

My dog Molly died last month at the age of 13. She was with me for over half of my life, so it was hard to take even though I knew it was coming. I can remember two non lucid dreams where I saw her again.

In the first one I was outside with her. I was petting her and playing with her and I was so happy to see her. She seemed really happy and healthy. She was able to walk and run fine, even though IRL near the end of her life her back legs were really bad. At the end of the dream she ran away, at this point I fully remembered she’s dead IRL, and I was yelling “NOOO, COME BACK, DON’T LEAVE!” but she was gone. I was really sad but I guess it could be seen at a symbol that I needed to accept she’s gone.

The other one was really weird. I was in my house and Molly wasn’t doing too well. For some reason my mom was saying we needed to send her to my cousins in Toronto but I don’t know why. I don’t remember the rest of it.

I think whether or not you try to find her in a dream, you’ll eventually have a dream where you see her again. She’ll find you.

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:cry: OMG…when it comes to animals ,my heart tenders…
I have a pet…she’s a duxian…well she was a 2 months old puppy.I got so close to her than any of her siblings because she was cute, and when I whine like a puppy ,she replies…and I love it and when I put her in my hair,oh she massages my head.But she got sick and I was sad. I tried to play her but she was weak…then I made her angry and she bit me in my thumb…just a little though. :content: . then after a 1 or 2 days.She always lit her head up and start whining… it was a heartbreaking sound because you know she was in pain but you couldn’t do anything to make her better…( Im crying now…)When I come close to her she stops and look at me…but I can’t be long with her because I’m going to school when I come back .I checked her .there was silence and I ask mom, my mom said she was OK but when I look at her eyes, it was jittery moving up toits eyelid, I called mom and told her bring her to the vet…but after a mins ago …I received a phone call and said “she had passed away…”… :sad: I go …“what?..huh…no way…!?”…It made me feel sad very sad…the veterenarian said it was due to her cracked skull which was infected by a virus then a remember she fell several time in the stairs…but I thought to myself she remains with a little scar in my thumb…well I did it in purpose… :grin: but it was very unfair… I want her back…even just in my dreams… :cry: :help: :cry:

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Hey guys, thank you for all the support you have given me and stories you have shared. My heart goes out to you guys who have lost pets too, it truly is the hardest thing I’ve gone through and I know that there really is nothing to say to make the pain go away, but I understand how it feels.

I made progress though. I didn’t see her in a LD per se, but I did finally see her! I had had a couple lucid moments since posting my initial post, most notably I used the WBTB method, realized I was in a barn, and thought “Wait a second, I was just in my bed, OH WOW THIS IS DEFINITELY A DREAM” and did a breathing through the nose RC, but got too excited and woke up.

Anyway, more to the point, last night I finally saw Hailey again. It was during a ND, and it was bizarre because I was exploring through some kind of temple or cave with my dad and sister. At some point I found Hailey, and I asked her to bow for me to make sure it was her, and she bowed just like she used to. I can’t even explain how fantastic it felt just to see her bow like that again, and I’m getting choked up just writing about it. I sat with her and pet her, and my dad and sister were telling me to keep going through the cave but I just wanted to stay with her. They started going across a rope bridge, and I almost went, but it looked rickety and I was scared and I just went back to Hailey and told them I didn’t want to go.

At that point I don’t remember anything else from the dream, but I woke up at 5:30 (set your alarms, kids!) and had the dream in my head, and immediately texted what I could of it to my girlfriend so I could preserve it. When I went back to sleep I tried so hard to get back there with her, and it almost worked. I managed to get back in the same dream, but it was at a later point in the “story”. My “dream mom” told me that Hailey wasn’t here, and I just remember crying for most of the rest of my dream.

Even though that happened, I still woke up feeling better overall. I know that she is in there, in my heart and therefore in my dreamspace. I know that this is just the first time I will reconnect with her, not the last, and I’m excited at the idea of future dream adventures with her. I hope that my story could provide at least a little hope to anyone else out there who is struggling with grief and loss like I am, and take heart in the fact that this does work, you might just need to give it time. Also, she died a month and a day ago, so that probably had a lot to do with her finally showing up.

Good luck guys, and thank you.