I've had soooo many of these dreams, and I'm kinda looking forward to sharing them with you.

Anyway, I'm starting with this one, and I'll write more later.

I remember her so well, because she was so off the beaten path for me. I typically am contacted by local ghosts who have passed within the last few months or years. This ghost was about 700 years old, and took me out of my safe place (a house in Maine) and brought me to Italy. Being an opera singer, I think a large part of me was eager to go. Maybe that's the reason that she came to me in the first place, even though she haunts an area very far away. Who knows.

She lived around the time of the Medici family, and came from some sort of small wealth. She contracted an illness which she insisted was cureable, and instead of having a doctor come to her home, she was sent to a clinic of some kind. There she contracted a very serious disease that killed her within a few days. Worst of all, there was a mix-up about who she was, and she was buried in a mass grave. [I have the suspicion that her family may have lied to her about their financial situation.]

A lot of the details didn't make much sense to me, and she was also showing me something about her body floating in water or in a fountain.

I told her that time had moved on and forgotten nearly everything about when she lived, and urged her to cross over. She insisted that i try to do something about the undiginity of her passing.

Well, 6 months or so passed, and I found myself sitting in a dressing room in upstate NY. We were doing a show set in the renaissance, and as I put on my green gown, and black wig and hat, I realized that I looked just like her. It kinda creeped me out! My hat was even the same color and shape.

Two weeks later, visiting my parents in Maine, I had a night of half-sleep. This is a state of sleep when I sometimes have OBEs, or occasionally sleep walk. I started to have a really powerful OBE, and I felt myself lifting out of my body. My eyes physically opened, but the OBE continued. Suddenly she was there, floating above me by about a foot, looking down at me. I can't remember the expression on her face, but only the vague feeling of being startled and feeling a little weirded out at our resemblance.

Feel free to comment, or even suggest that this might not have been what I think it was. =)

After reading this, my first thought was that it was a past life experience. Have you ever done a past life regression?

I haven't actually! You know, it's quite possible that you're right. It seems so obvious, but I never really thought about this whole thing being a past life experience.

Hmmmmmm....

Hmm, unusual.

Seeing her while OBE suggests that she is not a part life. But being 700 years past and from Italy (travelling to New York to contact you) strongly suggests past life.

Possibly an unresolved part personality. Do you experience any kind of unusual fears? Preferences? Thoughts that do not pertain to your current life? Feelings that don't pertain to the situation at hand?
Do you do renaissance fair shows just to make money or do you do it because you are drawn to dressing up that way?
As you may know (probably do), unresolved issues in past lives carry over to the current one seeking resolution, learning a lession, working out the issue, etc... . Often causing unconscious fears, feelings, preferences, personality traits, life choices, etc.. .
She(you) may be showing up as someone else so that your current mind/personality can deal with it.
It is unusual for a spirit to travel across the ocean to find someone open to it. There are plenty of psychic/open people in Italy and the region.

Thanks for sharing that umpazumparoo.

Hey, Nakis.

Answering your questions: I've always feared dead bodies, frogs (especially dead frogs), and flying. I'm pretty sure that the frog thing happened in this life, when I was a kid.

I've always loved water. As a baby, I would immediately come out of crying fits if my mom gave me a bath. I love to swim, and my mood always improves if I take a shower.

I've never done a Renn fair. I am an opera singer, and the show I was in this summer was a musical that ended up being costumed in the Rennaissance.

My first strong impression was that this woman was definately you...Your subconcious mind is taking you back to this time (it may even be around the same calendar time then, as today!) Sometimes when something has happened during a certain period (Calendar dates) then the person today will start seeing, feeling and even smelling things that don't make sense to them. But it has to do with what happened in another lifetime. Cell memory is what makes us go through this and I feel it's a wonderful tool..
If you ever have the opportunity to ask her, get her name because you can definately research this great information. =)

oh wow, ghostwatch. Thanks so much!

Your welcome! I'd be very interesting to find out what your/her name was back then. Oh please keep us informed if you find out anything....I'm so interested..

I meant "it'd" be very interesting. The fingers get away from ya sometimes! LOL!!!!

OK, will do. You know, I think she told me her name in the first dream 6 months ago, but I've forgotten it. Details in dreams escape me, the further away from them in time i go.

Yeah that's normal to forget. When you get up in the morning after a dream, jot things down that you remember. It will suprise you of what you will read later.