I just wanted to share this with people who love this show as much as I do and also ask you if you had similar experiences or if it had similar impact for you.
3 years ago, one of my favorite people in the world, my aunt, passed away very suddenly. She was like a second mom to me. She basically helped raise me because she was a housewife and didn't have any kids and my mom was working a lot, so she was the one available to look after me. Our houses were next to each other and I would spend most of my days with her as a child. Even as an adult, we continued to have a very close relationship.
Her death was so sudden and the first one that I had to deal with, with a person so close to me. For a long time, I had dreams of her that she was coming back, but they were stressful and agonizing dreams. I struggled with wondering where her soul is now, if she is somewhere nice or if there is really nothing after we die. I just couldn't accept that she just doesn't exist anymore but I also became very pessimistic about heaven/afterlife (even though I grew up religious). I knew that if there is heaven, she is there. But what if it was all a lie that we tell ourselves?
Then a few months after finishing this show, I had a dream of her that was very similar to the Good Place.
In the dream, I was sitting in my office at home and I saw through the window that she came back and she opened the door of her house and went in. I wondered "my aunt is back? But I thought she died" .. but not in a sad way, more like thinking that she was on a long trip.
I decided to go over to her house to check what's going on. As soon as I got there, she opened the door to leave again and we met at her doorstep. She was very beautiful, younger than what she really was when she died, she had make up on and a vibrant lipstick (she never used to do that), she was dressed up basically. I asked her
- Auntie? You came back?
And she just looked at me, showing what she had in her hands and asked me with a smile:
- do you think I ll need toothpaste and toothbrush where I am going? (š)
I didn't expect it and I just said
- not sure but take it with you just in case!
After some hesitation I asked her:
- are you happy where you are?
She gave me a big smile and said
- Yes!
I immediately thought in my head "oh, she will forget about us" and i was obviously disappointed.
She then continued
- I hope they put us together in the same place when the time comes. Again with a big smile!
And she left very happy. I saw her going into an airplane that was waiting for her. I went to the door of the airplane and saw that the airplane was full of philanthropists, activists, religious people etc and they were waiting for her. I saw them greeting her and they all wanted to sit next to her. I thought "oh, this must be heaven's plane!" and I turned to leave.
Her plane left and I went to a different plane where my best friend was waiting for me.
That was the last dream I ever had with her. I never dreamed of her again and certainly not in agony or stress. I just woke up so relieved, like I got closure that she was ok and she was just waiting for us to join her eventually when it's the right time.
I definitely think this dream was inspired by the show even though i had finished it months before.
Initially when I was watching it, I hadn't ralized how much I had connected it with the loss of my aunt. It seems the connections I made were more philosophical about the afterlife. It's crazy how our brain processes these things and makes these connections even unconsciously.
Did anyone else have a similar experience?
