I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying | Dr. Christopher Kerr | TEDxBuffalo | YouTube | Published on December 2, 2015
I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying | Dr. Christopher Kerr | TEDxBuffalo | YouTube | Published on December 2, 2015
If I make money selling tuna fish, I see tuna fish.
When my wife’s sister (now in her 50’s) was around 7, and the family lived in Chicago area, this happened:
The family is around the kitchen table talking, and she is in bed. This is around 9 or 10 p.m. She comes out of her room and wants to see grandpa because she didn’t get to say goodbye. They explain that he lives in California and he’s not there. She insists that he was just in her room saying goodbye but she didn’t get to say goodbye because she was so sleepy. She is so insistant that they call his number so she can talk to him.
At the other end of the line a friend (or grandma) answers and says they were about to call because grandpa had just passed away.
Make of it what you will. My wife will never forget that night.
While I don’t take a firm position on the topic of messages from the dead, I note that science has adopted a materialist bias. Molecules and chemicals exist, and science is happy to talk about such things.
You want to talk about God? You want to talk about what came before the Big Bang? You want to talk about the origin of Life? You think some people have received messages from the Dead?
Science has a very closed mind toward such things. It’s all “crazy talk”.
If we able to discuss the possibility of non-material things having an impact on our material world, we might actually get somewhere. But it’s mostly not allowed.
When it comes to near death experiences specifically, there seems to be two general categories.
One allows for subjective interpretation, such as lights, tunnels, feelings of love, etc.
The other category is very strong objective evidence, as documented by many and described by historian Gary Habermas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSW6CPTPG0o
In the last weeks of his life, My dad swore that shadowy figures dressed in “old-fashioned” garb were frequently coming into his house. He said they were not frightening, but not helpful either. When I asked what he thought they were he’d just shrug and say “beats the sh*t outta me.”
In the two days before my father passed, while in the hospital with a very weak heart, he saw childhood friends at the foot of his bed, and a choir singing outside of his window. He said it quite lucidly, but without any sense of fear or bemusement.
3 of my kids have been nurses in end care hospice for years and years. They were not believers before they went into this field. Now experiences are so common it is just another day at work for them, I enjoy them sharing some of these with each other as one professional to another while I listen.
Anna & Elizabeth - Greenwood Sidey
It should be the theme song of the Pro-Life movement. It's about a woman who goes into the woods to give birth to kill the kids. The thought of the kids torments her forever afterwards. Really excellent music and powerful message.
I wonder if those who have had abortions encounter similar regret as their own lives come to an end in old age.
My wife’s father was on life support. The second day when we visited my wife held her dad’s hand and said, “It’s Ok dad you can go.” He immediately flat lined.
While missionaries Nate Saint and Jim Elliot were being murdered by the Auca Indians, the Indians heard “foreigners singing above the trees”. Decades later, when Saint’s son went back to the Aucas and Christian choir music was being played on CD, a native recognized the song. He said, “ That is what I heard, just like that, when your father died” even though there was no “human” music during the massacre.
http://christianitymiracles.blogspot.com/2013/05/operation-auca-miracle-of-five-martyred.html
She was sound asleep and was awakened by a few knocks on her bedroom door. A voice she recognized as her best friend said, "Goodbye, Nell, I'm leaving." She noticed the time, 4AM, and fell back asleep. Later that day she learned that her best friend had passed away at 4AM. ????
Some of this can be written off to Charles Bonnett syndrome. I experienced some strangeness this summer myself, couldn’t quite understand it. The doctor’s video cleared up a lot. He is dead now. He experienced these music and lucid hallucinations himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOTaXhbqPQ&app=desktop
In the last week of his life my father “saw” long departed family members standing just beyond the foot of his bed. He mentioned them to me and pointed to them as I sat in a chair beside his bed.
Something basically the same happened with one of my aunts. Like my father she was in her late 90s, and as death approached she began speaking to her younger sister who had passed away a couple of years before. What made it even more unusual is that this aunt hadn’t spoken for some years prior to this end of life event.
You like to hope that they are indeed seeing their departed loved ones. It seems to comfort them all the same.
Transcendence is hard-wired into the human psyche. It makes for interesting conversations with yourself.
Thanks for an interesting thread
My great grandmother died when I was a child.
She came to say goodbye to us. I was in bed. After seeing the other children in the room she hovered above me then walked out through the wall.
Where she walked out of the room had been a door. It was blocked during a remodel before I was born.
I’ve never seen a suspicious UFO so I don’t believe in them.
I do believe in ghosts though.,
We joked that she was the only person who would dream about taking a survey rather then hunky guys on a tropical beach.
About a year later she was contacted by her biological family. She had always known that she was adopted so this was no big surprise. They told her that her cousin had tracked her down as a memorial to her favorite aunt who had been my friend's biological mother. Her bio mother had passed away about a year ago.
When they showed my friend a picture of her bio mother it was the lady from her dream.
Did my friend's bio mother get to make one last stop before moving on to see if her child was happy? Don't know. But it was very strange.
Ok here’s a few I can’t explain
After my mil died (she lived almost next door
to us) we were talking about her
we saw our kitchen paper towel roll unroll ...no window was open
After my fil died I smelled funeral flowers in my
bedroom ...no air freshener was in the vicinity
One of my sil sister very nice 45yo lady professes to be psychic
and says she can sense deceased relatives. The oddest occurrence was
At my recent 6x milestone birthday party in my home
this sister was there but my 9 yo niece also in attendance
with no knowledge possible about my mother who
passed in 93 andtold the psychic, then me
very seriously in the middle of the party (but
privately, not in front of everyone) that my mother had a message
for me, that I was her favorite. Now it was a sort of
injoke that my mom favored an older brother
(who passed in 17) but I was at once pleased and
completely shocked to the core that this young girl could
or would deliver such a message to me. Was my mom
teasing me or giving me a loving positive message from
beyond? How does anyone have psychic abilities and why
those people in particular, and how early in life?
I have been interested in this topic for most of my life but I have never experienced anything like an NDE or visitation by a loved one. I’ve had dreams of my late parents but they were clearly dreams and not visitations. I recall some stat which said those who have NDEs are about 20% of those who have been near death and not died so most people don’t have them but they are fascinating to read and hear about. To me they are suggestive of things to come. Sort of like a much anticipated series of movie trailers of coming attractions.
A couple of weeks after my mom died, my father was sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee when he saw a white shadowy figure floating across the next room. Then his dog saw it and starting growling at it. The figure then disappeared.
