I am now one seriously conflicted Atheist.. Help???

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Expect chain of coincidences in near future. God is communicating with you. That's how I became a theist

OP. Ignore this silly comment from this very silly individual. He is trying to sell you snake oil, specifically oil that he himself peddles.

As to your elucidation, and the others that have commented here, it is more than probably simply a coincidence. They happen all the time, and whilst sometimes a pattern can be derived, more often there isn't any pattern to discern (see: Jenny's comment above).

Consider that dreams are a way for the brain to compartmentalise the information that you've assimilated during the day (or over a given time period) whilst dismissing the irrelevant material. Often this can be information that you didn't notice, but your brain did. Again, Jenny above elucidates on some of this potential but really the time scale between his death and your discovery is effectively irrelevant. If you want to discern a pattern to the time that you father died to the time you learned about it,you could. Time wouldn't matter.

Also we need to consider the relevance of what we have observed collectively as a species over time. People communicating from the dead is, thus far, an impossibility. It's never been proven to happen, & contravenes the very nature of reality that we know to this date.

Also consider, finally, that being an atheist doesn't entail not believing in woo and spiritualism (etc). Others have already pointed this out so I'll just touch on it, but atheism is simply a lack of belief in deities as a minimum. I know some atheists who swear blind by homoeopathy and reflexology for example.

Anyway, regardless of what you conclude, I hope you and the rest of your family are ok.