[GeorgiaGirl413]

I lost my son a little over three years ago. He was a special needs child, and even though he was 33 when he died, he had always lived at home with me. It was a traumatic experience, but I thought that I was working through the grief pretty well. Then last night I had this just awful dream. The worst part was that I would wake up, realize it was a dream, go back to sleep, and be right back in the same dream. In my dream my son was missing. I knew that he was dead, as I had not seen him in a very long time. But I did not have his body. I was certain that his body was buried in a field that I was in and I was frantic to find him. I had several people helping me look, but I was just walking around screaming my son's name over and over, as if he would answer me. I even woke up screaming his name at least twice. Any thoughts?

[Thunder Bow]

Part of your grief process. You know and feel that he is really gone now.

[Petra5ed]

I'm very sorry for your loss. I agree, this is your unconscious mind grieving the loss. To me it sounds like your feeling frantic to find him, and feeling that he is lost is all part of the confusion that surrounds the death of a loved one. The confusion rests the most in your unconscious mind, it is so painful that you cannot fully process it. I lost a very close friend not long ago, and I've had dreams of her, a part of me still feels like she's in my life so she is not really gone.