Ever have visits from loved ones...

No, just repeating the same error doesn't make it true.

The only error here is from you not addressing the confirmation.

I cannot dismiss that which doesn't exist.

It does exist, which is why there is confirmation from thousands of sources. You only dismiss what you choose to dismiss. Doesn't mean it isn't there.

if this nonsense was confirmed, it would be accepted within the scientific community. it isn't.

And it has been, through many scientists. After all, what form of study is applied? You do not speak for the scientific community. No need to be deliberately ignorant.

these childish stories are nothing more than anecdotes,

Yet, you have no proof of that. Some may be exaggerations but others are backed with evidence.

they do not confirm anything.

The evidence suggests they do. Think before you type.

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I have.
Several times as I was growing up, I saw several and also lucid dreams my grandmother would tell me something and then it would happen next day. It has all been relatively standard fare, from what I have read, meaning thatIt wasn't scary, it occurred soon after they died and it happened to me very rarely, there would be years and years between incidents.

But then, my best friend killed himself in October. And $#it's gotten bizarre for me.
At least four times that I am absolutely positive of. During two of the four times, there was another person with me who saw it too. So, it's nice to know I'm not totally nuts, as we both saw it. Lol.

There have been other weird things happen since he died, too, that I'm 85% sure is him. But I just don't know. They were more subtle , so who knows; they could have been caused by something else. I would love for there to be a simple explanation for it, but I can't find one.

I just hope he's ok. I vacillate between being freaked out and then sad about it.
But, yeah. It'd be great with me if it stopped happening.