Susan, what a great story–btw, not to jack my own thread, but I still listen to the robot songs playlist you made for your kids and sent to me. It’s a go to favorite when I need a pickup. :)

Ray, I agree. I think we think we know a lot more than we actually do. I also think we make a lot of stuff up….

Mike, that’s really interesting, and your psychologists analysis is pretty interesting too–although I too don’t really put too much stock in the whole idea of dream analysis.

Tracy, yeah, I think there were some gentle answers there. :) I also think that it helped to clarify for me what some of my questions are…and 90% of the time good answers depend on asking good questions. Or so I tell myself….

Karen, what a lovely dream, I think it gently answered a lot of questions.

Recently I had a vivid and disturbing dream about my deceased maternal grandparents. I was close to them and miss them very much.

In my dream I came upon them wandering in an empty parking lot, looking lost and forlorn. We made eye contact and then the dream ended without any words being exchanged.

They weren’t LDS and since the dream I’ve had the strongest desire to get temple work done for them. (Something I won’t be doing for them myself, obviously.) I just want to connect with them again somehow, someday.

FWIW, a psychoanalyst colleague insists my dream means I feel guiltly about not spending enough time with my parents, who live 2000 miles away and are getting older. I steer clear of dream interpretation, however.

I am absolutely certain of few things relative to the afterlife, but I am convinced of one thing: My concept of theology is limited severely, and what I will understand there will be quite different than I understand here. I think your question was spot-on, especially given the stuff that was obvious to you without having to ask – and I think those obvious things were presented as obvious for a reason.

Susan, I also love your daughter’s answer to your question. Some things really are that simple.

When my daughter was about four years old she told me she had a dream that she flew to heaven in our minivan and saw Heavenly Father. I asked her if he said anything to her and she told me he said, “I’m happy to see you.”