The Nature of Dreams

According to dream researcher Claudia Carlton Lambright, dream visitations can be clear, recalled in vivid detail, and contain messages the visitor would characteristically have given to the dreamer.[i]

I hope I’m adequately expressing how amazing this dream experience was—it was as if there were a play in progress, and I stepped onto the stage and asked one of the actors to hug me in the middle of the play! My family was going about their day as if nothing was unusual…but, it was a dream, and I was the only one who knew it.[ii]

[i] Claudia Carlton Lambright, Just a Dream Away: After-Death Communication through Dreams (Self-published, December 7, 2020).

[ii] Lambright, Just a Dream Away, cited in Raymond Moody, “Dreams as Communication from the Afterlife,” April 27, 2021, https://lifeafterlife.com/blog/dreams-as-communication-from-the-afterlife/.

Claudia Carlton Lambright’s Account of Her Dream Visitation

Exactly a year after Rusty’s death, he came to me in a very special dream. I dreamed I was at a business meeting. After getting checked in and moving into my hotel room, I went down to the lobby. There were lots of people there but they all seemed to be engaged in conversation, so I stayed in the fringes. Suddenly, I looked slightly to the right and there was Rusty, standing very close to me and smiling. I knew immediately that it was a “visit.” Surprised and elated as usual, I cried, “Rusty, you’re here!” “Yes,” he said, “I felt you really needed me, so I came.” I think he asked me what’s wrong, why was I pulling on him so hard. I told him I missed him and wanted to see him. He said, “Do you need help with the questions? If they ask you what’s the most important thing, tell them ‘kindness,’ because it’s not at all forthcoming.” I hoped I would be able to remember everything he was saying. Then our son was there with us and the three of us were standing close together, holding hands. Then my consciousness faded and I opened my eyes, back in bed.[i]

[i] Lambright, Just a Dream Away, cited in Moody.