Man Finds Half Brother He Never Met After Dreaming About Him

Retired Air Force Chief master sergeant Juan Lewis grew up in Katy, Texas, and followed in his late father’s footsteps by joining the military. His father Melvin Lewis served in the Army in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, but would never talk about his time there, so Juan never knew his father had a son in Vietnam.

According to ABC 13, while in the hospital being treated for COVID, Lewis dreamt that he had a brother he’d never met. "When I was in the hospital, in the ICU, I started having weird dreams that I had a younger brother," Lewis recalls. So he took a DNA test and soon learned some shocking information. Not only did he find a match, his half-brother, Phuong Doan lived less than three hours away.

Doan had moved to the U.S. in the early nineties, just a few years after his and Juan’s father had passed away. He’d been searching for his family for all these years, but had never found them until his brother matched with him.

The two brothers met for the very first time earlier this week. “It feels like a part of me has been missing, and now I'm connected with my brother,” Juan says, “I look at him, and I see my dad.” The brothers are looking forward to making up for lost time and making new family memories together.

Long after a breakup, when you think you’ve moved on from your ex, you may find them showing up in your dreams. Does this mean you’re not totally over them on a deeper level? Not necessarily, according to Dr. Jenn Mann, a marriage and family therapist. She says it also doesn’t mean you’re unhappy with a new partner. If you have one. She says “dreams and the unconscious mind are far more complicated than that.”

It turns out, dreaming about your ex is incredibly common and these are some reasons it might be happening to you:

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Even when your breakup was a good thing, Dr. Jenn says you have to grieve the loss of the relationship and that person in your life. And if you don’t do it when you’re awake, it may get worked out while you’re asleep.

Dr. Jenn explains that it’s common to process a break up in stages and that the more distance you get from the split, the more awareness you tend to have. Dreaming about someone you once loved could be a way of helping you take those lessons from your previous relationship into your new one and she says that’s a sign you’re evolving and growing.

People, places and things are often symbolic in dreams, so your ex could be representing something else you need to deal with.

You could be dreaming about your ex because you’re not at peace with how things ended. But that doesn’t mean you need to wake up and text them, Dr. Jenn says you don’t actually have to talk to them to feel resolved.

Even if you’re happy, there could be things you’re not getting from your current partner or things you wish were different with the relationship. The dream could be highlighting those so you can talk about them with your boo and no, you don’t need to mention that you dreamed about your ex to bring it up.

This is the least likely scenario, according to this expert, since people who aren’t over their ex are typically aware of it when they’re awake. But it happens, especially when people idealize a relationship after it ends.