Hello all,
Not sure if this is the right category for this discussion but I’ve recently come across something that I find fascinating. There has been a rather large uptick in discussions within the Hospice community around nurses and their patients having deathbed visions. I’ve listened to a few talks, books and interviews on the subject and have personally chalked up these visits from loved ones as hallucinations. Now however, I feel differently. Nurses in hospice have described in great detail why these experiences are so much more than hallucinations. Ultimately, they classify hallucinations as strange, confusing and fear provoking. They describe visitors from dead loved ones as visions. One well versed in the materialistic view could see how this could easily be dismissed but when you listen to the stories and documented accounts, it leaves you wondering. Often, these visions come when the patient is very lucid and aware (they do also come when the invidividual is not). Nurses have even begun to use these visions as a measurement of time on someone’s life. Visions and “visits” from passed on loved ones begin to indicate that the person is within days of dying. Anyways, I wanted to get your guys’ take on all of this. Is anyone familiar with what I’m talkig about? Not quite NDE’s but in the same ballpark. I can post links if needed.
Not sure if this is the right category for this discussion but I’ve recently come across something that I find fascinating. There has been a rather large uptick in discussions within the Hospice community around nurses and their patients having deathbed visions. I’ve listened to a few talks, books and interviews on the subject and have personally chalked up these visits from loved ones as hallucinations. Now however, I feel differently. Nurses in hospice have described in great detail why these experiences are so much more than hallucinations. Ultimately, they classify hallucinations as strange, confusing and fear provoking. They describe visitors from dead loved ones as visions. One well versed in the materialistic view could see how this could easily be dismissed but when you listen to the stories and documented accounts, it leaves you wondering. Often, these visions come when the patient is very lucid and aware (they do also come when the invidividual is not). Nurses have even begun to use these visions as a measurement of time on someone’s life. Visions and “visits” from passed on loved ones begin to indicate that the person is within days of dying. Anyways, I wanted to get your guys’ take on all of this. Is anyone familiar with what I’m talkig about? Not quite NDE’s but in the same ballpark. I can post links if needed.