I had a very vivid, but odd dream about a month ago and just decided to lookup webpages about dreams. So here is some background on me before I tell about my dream. I have had a ton of experience with deja vu in my life. It comes and I and I feel like a have been in that exact moment before in life. When I have this happen I feel it is a warning against something about to happen, never as a premenission of something good occuring. I suppose I just wanted to mention that b/c it seems almost impossible to me that you can have already been in time before, I've read this happens to people and I don't have some gift, but thougth I would through it out there. A little background into an event that happens once a year with my father and all his brother's(my uncles) They all get together once a year to go to an event called the Stag. Which is basically just a day for the guys with beer drinking, horse shoes, gambling, etc...with about 1k people attending. My father is the oldest of the boys(5 of them) and had just lost his 1st brother my uncle a year before. So I am having this dream and we are all sitting at the picnic table at the Stag, and everyone is talking having a good time etc and my uncle that had passed away was there with us. I thought it was very odd, but just continued along with the day. In my dream I thought maybe I was just imagining him being there, so finally I got up and pulled my dad to the side and said do you see uncle .....here. He didn't say anything to me, but just looked at me without saying a word I got the message from him that he knew he was there and I could also tell the rest of my uncles around the table knew as well. In my dream this wasn't like he was there in spirit, but physically sitting there with all of us. I began to just think to myself in this dream this is not possible and they are all just sitting here like this is no big deal at all. It was finally time to leave, I have no idea how i was traveling to my next destination, but I wanted some answers on how this is possible. I remember arriving at a church that looked like it was from the mid evil times, construtcted out of rock and had those huge woodend doors with the black wrot iron cladding and door handles. I walked up to the church and didn't have to knock on the door or anything, and there was this gigantic priest staning in the doorway, I'm am about 6'5 by the way and this priest seemed 8 or 9 feet tall. I asked him how it was possible that my uncle was there sitting with us, and kept telling him he was dead but no one cared or found it odd he was there. I can't remember if I ever got an answer from him or not. This next part happens outside of my dream fully awake and concious. I came home from work the day after my dream, and my wife wanted me to call my aunt who is my father's sister and sister to my deceased uncle to ask her about coming over that weekend. So I went about talking to her to see if she wanted to come over for dinner one night, not thinking at all about the dream I had early, and I think it had totally gone out of my mind all together and I had forgot about it, when she said to me today is a year from when uncle .....died. Then boom, the dream came back to me, I told her about the dream I had. I had no idea it was the date he had passed on the year before. That freaked me out when she told me that. Her response to me was that he was just saying hi or something. Anyway don't know if anyone will have an insight on my dream, the dream itself didn't bother me as i always have had odd dreams like this, it wasn't until my aunt told me that day of my dream was to the date a year after his death I felt something was up with the dream i had had.

Since you say you have a lot of experience with deja vu, it seems like you use your intuition a lot. You hold a lot of information in your unconscious, and it is revealed to you all at once at certain moments - you don't consciously think things through.

This is a characteristic of creative people. Do you have any creative interests or hobbies or have you thought about having any?

I think the fact that you feel these instances are warnings against things has to do with tending to focus on the negative - I can be like that, too. You will probably have about as many good things as bad things happen to you in life, but we can tend to worry about negative things and not pay attention to the good things. When you've had the feeling that something bad was going to happen, did something bad eventually happen, and was it something that would have been expected (like somebody who was old or very sick dying).

A dream about a deceased person being with you is a very normal dream. Some people don't realize that the person is dead and couldn't have been there till after they wake up; sometimes, like you, they figure it out while they are having the dream.

Death and grief can raise a lot of questions about religion and God, so that can explain why you went to the church and were asking the priest all those questions. I think the priest being so tall in the dream means that he wasn't really a priest, but represented a supernatural being or God, so you could have been asking God these questions. (Even if you are an atheist or agnostic you unconsciously may have kept an idea of God or the supernatural from when you were a child.)

Even though you consciously did not remember that it was exactly a year after your uncle's death, the memory of the date would have remained in your unconscious. Memories stay stored forever unless you have some type of problem with your brain; you just don't access them consciously because you wouldn't be able to function if you constantly had to think about every single memory you ever had. Old memories come up when something triggers them in your unconscious.