The Dreams That Precede Death

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As the dying approach their death, up to 88% of them experience certain vivid, moving dreams — though "dreams" isn't even the best word for these experiences, as they can happen to people when they're both awake and asleep, and are described by them as being "more real than real." My guest today has studied these visions and dreams for many years and thinks they have important insights into the nature of life and death. His name is Dr. Chrisopther Kerr, and he's a hospice physician and end-of-life researcher, as well as the author of Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End.

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:07.4	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:10.9	As the dying approach to death, up to 88% of them experience certain vivid, moving dreams.
0:15.9	Though dreams isn't even the best word for these experiences, as they happen to people
0:19.2	when they're both awake and asleep, and are described by them as being more real than
0:22.9	real.
0:23.9	My guest day has studied these visions and dreams for many years, and things they have
0:26.6	important insights into the nature of life and death.
0:29.0	His name is Dr. Christopher Curve, and he's a hospice physician and end of life researcher,
0:33.0	as well as the author of Death is But A Dream, finding hope and meaning at life's end.
0:36.9	We begin our conversation with Dr. Curve's efforts to study end of life experiences
0:40.3	on an objective, scientific basis, and how his research into these visions and dreams
0:44.1	doesn't attempt to find their spiritual or paranormal origin, but simply cease to catalog
0:47.8	the phenomenon from a clinical perspective.
0:49.8	We then discuss how long before death people begin having these dreams, the content of the
0:53.3	dreams, and who shows up in them.
0:54.8	Dr. Curve describes how pre-death visions and dreams are typically positive and comforting,
0:58.4	and how even the rare disturbing variety can it be transformative.
1:01.5	Andy shares what the dreams do not only for the dying, but for their caregivers as
1:04.9	well.
1:05.9	Out of the shows over, check out our show notes at a-wim.is slash death dreams.
1:15.4	Alright, Chris Curve, welcome to the show.
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