A doctor in charge of a hospice center in Buffalo, New York has said long lost loved ones appearing in our dreams may predict when we will die, according to his study of patients in their final days and weeks.
Hospice Buffalo Chief Medical Officer Dr. Christopher Kerr and his team have been documenting the dreams of dying patients for a decade, he told CBS.
'It's life affirming, I can tell you that,' Kerr said, noting that the dreams seem to make passing away less scary for this patients.
'Instead of having this fear of death, it almost transcends the fear of death to something bigger.'
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Dr. Christopher Kerr of Buffalo, New York has said long lost loved ones appearing in our dreams may predict when we will die, according to his study of patients in their final days and weeks
Kerr and his team said they have documented the finals weeks of life of 1400 hospice patients over the last 10 years.
Of those 1400 people, 80 percent reported dreams or visions leading up to their deaths.
Those vision are typically of loved ones they've been missing who passed away before them, and often involved travel or some kind of packing.
One patient named Paul described a dream about a loved one, saying 'She wanted me to pack up some things for her, so I had this crazy dream, I’m packing goods.'
A woman named Jeannie shared seeing both her immediate and extended family, in vivid detail.
Hospice Buffalo Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kerr and his team have been documenting the dreams of dying patients for a decade. One such patient named Maggie (pictured) reported her pre-deceased sister telling her in a dream, 'Soon we’ll be back. We’ll be back together'
'I remember seeing every piece of their face,' she said. 'I mean, I know that was my mom and dad and uncle and my brother-in-law.'
She later added: 'I felt good. I felt good to see some people.'
Another patient named Maggie said her pre-deceased sister came to her in a dream.
'I said, "Beth, you’ve got to stay with me. I’m alone, stay with me,"' Maggie said.
'She says, "I can’t. Not now." And then she says, "Soon we’ll be back. We’ll be back together."'
One patient, Gregg Liebler, whose sister works at Hospice Buffalo as a nurse, described seeing the people who he said loved him and nurtured him the most.
Kerr said 80 percent of the patients he's talked to, like Gregg Liebler (pictured), report the dreams, which are said to feel especially real and increase in frequency closer to death
Liebler (left), whose sister Karen Paciorkowski (right) works at Hospice Buffalo as a nurse, described seeing the people who he said loved him and nurtured him the most
