That rainbow wasn’t just for you; a million other people saw it too.
Why do people think that seeing a rainbow soon after a loved-one’s death means that the departed loved-one is sending them a sign?
After all, many of the million other people who saw that same rainbow could think the very same thing!
Recently I saw a show in which the family members of a young deceased woman were guests.
The family said they kept getting signs from her. I was hoping to hear things that had no logical explanation, that defied the laws of physics, such as all of these family members having the exact same overnight dream about her, then waking from that dream at the exact same time.
Or maybe all the clocks in the house suddenly stopped at the same time — the time that her mother learned of her death.
But instead, one by one, they recounted experiences with rainbows.
And like any story about a rainbow being “a sign,” they could all be easily explained away by a fourth-grader who’s interested in basic physics.
Rainbows Are Magical
There’s something magical about rainbows. They’re beautiful; they’re so cool.
They’re mysterious because we can never find where those enormous ones in the sky begin and end.
But anyone who’s ever held a water sprinkler by the hand on a sunny day has certainly seen the beginning and end of a mini-rainbow. I have many times.
Any child can make a rainbow by holding up a water sprinkler when the sun’s out. You can see where it begins and where it ends. Nothing mysterious.
But the giant rainbows in the sky will always be mystical because, apparently, nobody is ever standing right where it begins or where it ends.
The arc is flawless. You can never walk or drive to it. Thus, it brings a paranormal or divine quality.
So when people see rainbows soon after the death of a loved-one, they take it as a sign.
Guess what: At that very moment, perhaps 300 people out of the half a million to a million (depending on size of city and visibility conditions) who viewed that same rainbow took it as a sign from their recently-departed family member or even dog or cat.
Maybe the name of one of those dogs was Rainbow. Wow, can you imagine how convinced Rainbow’s owner was that the common phenomenon of light refraction was actually a sign from his beloved Husky that was put down a few days prior?
Meanwhile, 10 miles to the northeast, a woman who’d just suffered a miscarriage just happens to glance out a window and catch the same rainbow.
Surely it must be from the baby she never got to hold. She can now “see” that baby “speaking” to her. A warm feeling comes over her. She’s convinced the rainbow was a sign.
At the same time, another woman spots the rainbow while driving.
The day before, her sister died from a chronic illness. Her sister loved rainbows.
Make no mistake, this rainbow was certainly a sign sent from the deceased sister — at the right moment, too — while the survivor was stopped at a long light and had a chance to get a good, extended view of it.
People believe that rainbows, despite being seen by people all over the city, are meant just for them.
But if a person in spirit really wanted to send a family member a sign, don’t you think they’d send one that was extremely specific, one that can’t be easily explained away, and one that only the survivor was able to perceive?
If you died and decided to send your family members a sign, would you actually engineer one that the whole city would experience?
Or would it make much more sense to conjure something up that makes the family member think, “Gee…how on earth do you explain this?”
I knew a woman named Brittnie who once told me of something very weird that happened right after her grandfather took his last breath.
Brittnie’s family was with him, and suddenly, a gust of wind swept through the house.
However, all the windows had been closed. They checked and couldn’t find any portal through which wind from outside could come gushing in.
It also wasn’t a windy day. Furthermore, all of them experienced the same event; it couldn’t be chalked up to just one person’s imagination. There simply wasn’t any explanation for the event.
Now this qualifies as a sign from beyond because it had all the key components:
- Occurred immediately after one’s last breath
- Could not be explained away by any mechanical or physical means
- Was highly personal, occurring inside a house where only the family members experienced it
- Was an event that, unlike rainbows or a gust of wind outdoors on a breezy day, does not normally occur
- The event never occurred before the man’s death nor at any point after (other than following his last breath).
No fourth-grader or even an engineer, physicist or meteorologist could explain this. The event, in and of itself, is extremely strange.
Whereas rainbows happen all the time — and only under specific atmospheric conditions.
Even children can create rainbows by spraying a water hose or even a water-mister bottle.
But how do you create a gust of wind rushing throughout the house from inside the house? There were no fans on, either.
The family members on the show about the deceased young woman also noted that one of the rainbow events was a double: two rainbows — one right below the other.
The mother spoke of how this was surely a sign because, in her own words, “I’ve never seen a double rainbow.”
Well, many people have, and I’m one of them. I used to live in a location where I could easily see rainbows in a climate where it wasn’t uncommon for the sun to be out while it was raining.
The rain clouds would be in one part of the sky, while the other part was clear, letting the sun shine through.
Of course, there’s going to be a rainbow! I’d even think during times it was raining when the sun was out, “There’s gotta be a rainbow,” and look out the east-facing window. Sure enough, I’d always find it.
And, like every rainbow I’ve ever seen in my entire life, one end of it was the brightest. Rainbows are never uniform in intensity.
If you believe rainbows are a sign from a dead loved-one, you have to ask yourself why your loved-one’s spirit powers can’t seem to make the entire rainbow bright.
You also have to ask yourself why those in spirit can’t create a rainbow without rain.
Often, when I’d view these rainbows, there’d be a second, fainter one under it.
Yes, the double is a spectacle to those who’ve never witnessed this phenomenon.
But many people are used to seeing the double and think nothing of it. In fact, I’ve even seen a triple rainbow.
I don’t mean to be a Debbie Downer, but I’d been hoping that the family members on that show were going to say that the signs were things such as all the lights in the house suddenly flickering — while they were talking about their deceased family member.
Or perhaps all of them, while away from each other, at the same time suddenly catching a whiff of her perfume.
I was quite disappointed to hear yet another rainbow story.
