The Journal of Palliative Medicine has published the results of a decade-long scientific study led by Dr. Christopher Kerr by a medical team at the American Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Buffalo. After conducting relevant surveys and observations of more than 13 thousand terminally ill patients for ten years, scientists came to an inexplicable and very interesting conclusion: a few weeks before the end of his earthly journey, a person begins to see unusually vivid dreams, the plots of which are similar to each other.
"Deathbed" dreams
Specific mysterious dreams, marking the imminent end, according to the results of the study, were seen by over 80% of the dying people under the supervision of American scientists. "Near-death" dreams, the researchers say, began to visit patients about 10-11 weeks before death and acquired a particular frequency and brightness by three weeks.
Dream plots were divided into several main types. The most widespread were the images of deceased relatives and friends with whom they had warm conversations - 72% of the respondents told about such dreams, and another 29% were in a dream living representatives of their closest environment, with whom they were in a long separation. Patients said that these visions were very clear and clear, so that they could distinguish in detail the features of those who came to them in dreams, and at the same time experienced very pleasant, bright feelings. In second place in terms of prevalence were stories related to collecting on a long journey, buying tickets and packing luggage, which were also often accompanied by wires from relatives and friends - both deceased and living. Sometimes this plot was supplemented by solving those problemswho haunted the patient in life.
Similar dreams were seen by 59% of patients. Another 28% of those dying told about dreams reflecting the most important and memorable stages of their lives, both happy and dramatic, although the former, as a rule, prevailed. When it came to terminally ill children, those who attended their dreams were most often associated with the deceased pets they once loved. The faces of adults who appeared to dying children in a dream were most often not remembered or remained unrecognized.
Scientific reasoning
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What caused such dreams on the eve of death, scientists are still only guessing. However, the most probable version seems to the researchers that such dreams, saturated with bright colors and pleasant images, evoking mainly positive emotions, are produced by the subconscious of a person dying in order to calm his nervous system and reduce fear of an imminent inevitable end. Thus, “near-death” dreams are an unconditional blessing for humanity, since they give the dying person the peace of mind and peace that everyone needs in his last days of life. At the same time, psychologists emphasize, no real or mystical connection between our dreams and imminent death actually does not exist. Such dreams are just a reaction of our subconscious mind to the emerging fear of death, for example, in cases when its imminent onset is already known to a person, or in situations where such fear is exacerbated in connection with certain everyday events, information received or other circumstances that provide the corresponding psychological impact. So do not be afraid of your dreams and take them for bad omens in those cases when nothing objectively threatens your life and health. As Carl Gustav Jung also explained, dreams in symbolic form reflect the thought processes that occur in the human brain, but at the same time the symbolism of dreams is so individual that the same information can be displayed in a dream with a completely different spectrum of symbols.when its imminent onset is already known to a person, or in situations where such fear is exacerbated in connection with certain everyday events, information received or other circumstances that have a corresponding psychological impact. So do not be afraid of your dreams and take them for bad omens in those cases when nothing objectively threatens your life and health. As Carl Gustav Jung also explained, dreams in symbolic form reflect the thought processes that occur in the human brain, but at the same time the symbolism of dreams is so individual that the same information can be displayed in a dream with a completely different spectrum of symbols.when its imminent onset is already known to a person, or in situations where such fear is exacerbated in connection with certain everyday events, information received or other circumstances that have a corresponding psychological impact. So do not be afraid of your dreams and take them for bad omens in those cases when nothing objectively threatens your life and health. As Carl Gustav Jung also explained, dreams in symbolic form reflect the thought processes that occur in the human brain, but at the same time the symbolism of dreams is so individual that the same information can be displayed in a dream with a completely different spectrum of symbols.information received or other circumstances that have a corresponding psychological impact. So do not be afraid of your dreams and take them for bad omens in those cases when nothing objectively threatens your life and health. As Carl Gustav Jung also explained, dreams in symbolic form reflect the thought processes that occur in the human brain, but at the same time the symbolism of dreams is so individual that the same information can be displayed in a dream with a completely different spectrum of symbols.information received or other circumstances that have a corresponding psychological impact. So do not be afraid of your dreams and take them for bad omens in those cases when nothing objectively threatens your life and health. As Carl Gustav Jung also explained, dreams in symbolic form reflect the thought processes that occur in the human brain, but at the same time the symbolism of dreams is so individual that the same information can be displayed in a dream with a completely different spectrum of symbols.dreams in symbolic form reflect the thought processes that occur in the human brain, however, the symbolism of dreams is so individual that the same information can be displayed in a dream with a completely different spectrum of symbols.dreams in symbolic form reflect the thought processes that occur in the human brain, however, the symbolism of dreams is so individual that the same information can be displayed in a dream with a completely different spectrum of symbols.
Marianna Margovskaya