My mom has had two strange dreams since my dad passed away. Can someone help tell me what they mean?

Everybody dreams every night. It’s not unusual.

Your mother is most likely grieving and under a lot of stress, which can cause dreams to seem more vivid or unusual. They don’t mean anything. They are just the brain’s way of processing information that we’ve gathered throughout the day and in the past. Sort of a neurological filing system. They may not always make sense for just that reason.
Your mother would know better than anyone else what the dreams “mean,” because they are really a manifestation of her own thoughts and emotions. There is no magic way to read dreams, because they are different for everyone.

I guess I’m thinking they’re my mom’s way of assuring herself that my dad’s looking over her and he knows she’d be frightened by a man. I’d like to think they’re angels my dad sen to watch over her. Either way, they’re not threatening and that’s a good thing.

@hasters well then you answered your own question. No one else can tell you what your mother’s dreams mean. Perhaps these dreams are her mind’s way of self-soothing.

In my personal experience with dreams while grieving, my dreams often reflected where I was in the grief process

It may be wise for your mom to journal her feelings prior to bed, to help her move along in the process.

I happen to agree with @JmacOroni. Sometimes dreams during this period are a form of self soothing. Although, I have also experienced horrific nightmares while grieving. That is why I recommend journaling, poem writing, or having her get out to lunch with some friends.

There is not much to go on here, but I take it your mother thinks the dreams are significant and relate to the death of her husband. On the face of it the second dream means your mother can’t remain grieving forever. Her life hasn’t ended and new opportunities will present themselves if she goes and looks for them. In the first dream, the woman looking down on your sleeping mother may be your mother herself. She may represent how your mother used to be and how she might be again.

This is my first time on Fluther so not sure how to thank all of you for your responses. All were such an affirmation of what I hope will reassure her as well. Thanks again.

I had a dream like that once, there was someone sitting at the end of my bed telling me to wake up before an important exam, and then I did wake up. Maybe it was her guardian angel.

When my grandfather died, I dreamt of him so vividly. He was cooking in our kitchen in our old house. I ran to him and hugged him from behind. I told him, I love him. He happily responded he loves me too. Then he faced me and removed my arms wrapped around his tummy. He said with a smile, don’t touch my tummy, it’s not real anymore…The I woke up crying. My grandpa died of stomach cancer and lymphoma.

Did the first woman, the fashionably dressed one say anything?

To dream that you are being watched, suggests that you are feeling confined in your everyday environment or personal relationship. You are lacking privacy and feel you are being scrutinized or criticized. That’s the general meaning anyway – sorry I can’t be much help on this half of things.

To see a housekeeper in a dream suggests a need to sort out your problems and emotions. Judging by what is said (by the housekeeper) your mom may need to find somewhere she can relax and think and gain an outside perspective on what’s happened and how she wants to live her life now. That part of her life has ended, and now she has the opportunity for a beginning even though it will be difficult to move on at first.

Everybody mourns differently and at their own pace, some get over a loss pretty quickly, others it takes longer. Just let things take their natural course I guess.