Why deathbed dreams and visions can be a comfort for the dying — and those left behind

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Why deathbed dreams and visions can be a comfort for the dying — and those left behind
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Cynthia Good, her mother Charlotte Good, and her younger sister Sherry Good, in 1961.

Cynthia Good's mother experienced a dream or vision as she was dying of pancreatic cancer. Researchers say these events can be a great comfort to the dying, and their loved ones. Charlotte experienced a dream or vision as she was dying of pancreatic cancer. As Charlotte Good was dying of pancreatic cancer in a Toronto hospital in 2007, she experienced a dream or vision of her own mother — who had died years before.

Neuroscientist Tore Nielsen says our dreams play an important role in regulating our emotions around major life events. Nielsen says our understanding of dreams, and indeed all study of consciousness, is still growing. But he pointed out that dreams and visions are very different things. Most people dream multiple times a night, while visions are much rarer "hallucinatory events that occur when you're awake," he said.

"My mom and dad were there. My uncle, everybody I knew that was dead was there," she said in the video recorded at Hospice and Palliative Care Buffalo.

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