# 4 A dream I could never forget

Do the dead communicate with the living through dreams?

I never believed the dead could communicate with the living for most of my life and that was because I had never lost a loved one in death. As the years passed though and I lost my very closest friend, and for a long time I never dreamed of him and had nothing to happen to make me believe he would communicate with me. From the day of his death, I wondered was he happy in the place he was going to and it bear on my mind a lot. He was taken away from this earth at the age of sixteen years and I felt he was cheated in life. Many times I asked, "Why did he have to leave us so soon in life?"

Many years had passed and one night out of the blue, I had this dream about him. It was as real as if we were together for a nice cordial visit. We were both elated to be with each other and we told each other how much we loved to be together. He looked just as though he had in real life. He was happy and conversed with all who were there as though he had never gone away from this earth. After many hours of enjoying ourselves, he said it was time for him to go and I immediately got up and asked him why he had to leave? He looked me in the eyes, and said, "yuchii, I'm so happy where I am today...I have "no" troubles and I'm no longer tired and exhausted all the time like I used to be and I'm happier than I've ever been."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing him saying, and I said to him, "You don't want to come back home and be with us...we all miss you and our lives is missing someone special." He looked at me and smiled, and said, "No, I'm happy where I am and I don't want to return to this earth." In an instant, he was gone. It was like in a snap of a finger. I felt a loss but I felt a freedom from constantly thinking about why he was taken from us at such a young life?

To this day, I honestly believe he came to me to allow me to rest and not to fret my entire life about him having to leave this earth so young. I don't worry anymore about him and I know he is in a better place because he told me so. I don't question why he was taken from us anymore, I believe it was the plan God had for him in his life. When I think of him today, I feel a peace in the core of my soul and I can see the smile on his face and him repeating, "No, I'm happy where I am and I don't want to return to this earth." Now, people might say this was just a coincidence that I dreamed this but I know it was a message from him to me to give me peace.