posted 09-29-2006 04:56 PM            

I just posted a topic in Fitness & Health about how sick I have felt lately. Monday night, I felt horrible and went to bed early. I felt too sick to even sleep, so just lay there in the dark. I was facing away from my bedroom door... and all the lights in the house were out. My daughter had turned her light out maybe a half-hour before.

I remember hearing sounds-- I thought my daughter was up again. I thought I was hearing my own dresser drawers open and close... but it sounded kind of far away. I turned over onto my back and saw a light from the hallway go out... it looked like her bedroom light had just gone out. I thought she had gotten up and was just going back to sleep.

Within just a couple of minutes, I opened my eyes and she was in my doorway asking me, "What are you doing?" I was lying in bed and said, "Nothing, what are you doing?"

She said, "I saw that your light was just on and was coming to see what you're doing".... I said, "Your light was on, not mine, what are you doing?"

She also said she thought I was in the bathroom looking for something; she heard the opening-closing drawer sounds, too.

We were a little spooked and alarmed.... went downstairs to look around. All was secure... storm doors locked, double bolts locked, bolt to basement door locked. My nose is so sensitive, I can smell if someone strange has been in a room. Everything was fine down there.

We are so freaked out. How could we have had had the same dream or hallucination? I know I saw that hall light... heard my drawer sounds. How could she have heard the same thing??

Okay... here's the heart of it. I inherited a big, fat diamond ring from my mother when she passed away 3 years ago. She loved that ring, but I have been thinking of selling it because, well, I am broke and need to pay some debts!! It was a really tough decision. It seemed like something always stood in the way of me actually selling the ring for about a year. I finally sold it 2 weekends ago.

Get this. My daughter pointed this out to me.... I kept that ring in my dresser drawer!!

We are pretty crazy, I guess. We're wondering if my mother (a ghost!) was searching those drawers for that ring! What do you all think? Isn't this weird? It felt sooooo strange... we both saw and heard the same thing, but neither of us had been up out of bed.

p.s. The night my mother died, someone tried to break into the back door at her house.... at the exact moment her heart was stopping, the door was jiggling like someone was trying to get in. We've always wondered (other family members wondered, too) if she had tried (in spirit) to come home to take care of her beloved puppy).

I've since talked to my mother... told her that I love and cherish the jewelry she gave me, but that I would never wear that big diamond... that it should be on a happy bride's finger, rather than in a safe deposit drawer at the bank (where I kept it when not planning to sell it).

If I'm crazy, please send help.

[This message has been edited by Bluebird (edited 09-29-2006).]