The dreams of the dying can be called a kind of psychotherapy that helps to accept the inevitable.
Hospice workers in New York shared an interesting observation they made while working with hopeless patients whose days are numbered. As it turned out, most people begin to have very similar dreams before they die.
About four months before they leave, hospice patients start dreaming about trains, airplanes, and other vehicles in which they board. At the same time, they are accompanied by already deceased relatives or close people who urge not to be afraid of the upcoming trip. Many say goodbye to their family and loved ones before the trip. Every day, such dreams are becoming more vivid and realistic, they are well remembered and cause pleasant feelings.
It is noted that children, who are also on the verge of death, dream of more fantastic stories. They do not contain people from the other world known to them. In dreams, unfamiliar people and animals appear. After such dreams, there is also a feeling of warmth and peace.
Psychologists believe that the dreams of the dying are a kind of self-psychotherapy that prepares people for death. It helps you accept the inevitable and stop being afraid.
Doctors also noted that dying patients, from whom they do not hide information about their hopeless condition, feel much calmer in recent days. Moreover, their life expectancy in their last period is much longer than that of those from whom a fatal diagnosis is concealed.