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About eight hours before my father died he was having a conversation with his unseen mother, who died when he was 14. I asked him "Who are you talking to?" and
by rpaddock 2y ago
About eight hours before my father died he was having a conversation with his unseen mother, who died when he was 14.
I asked him "Who are you talking to?" and got a rather rude response, not like him, "My mother" in a tone you give a five year old "go away kid you are bothering me".
The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) is worth checking out if you have interest. I've never had a NDE, however I've spent a lot of time in their library in Durham North Carolina.
https://iands.org https://iands.org
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago>About eight hours before my father died he was having a conversation with his unseen mother, who died when he was 14. Anecdotally, my grandad did the same thing a day before he died. Except he was talking to his best friend who's been dead a long time.
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- hibikir 2y agoWe don't even need to be all that close to death for this, just suffer sufficient brain damage. I have a family member that had enough mini strokes that, whenever they have something like an urinary infection, they disassociate from reality and start talking to dead people, and they understand reality as if they were children. It's how we detect infections, as the hallucinations come in pretty early. A course of antibiotics, and they are their normal elderly selves, remembering little of the previous week
- pipes 2y agoWell this is a holy shit moment for me. My grand mother was having really strange hallucinations, like explaining how she was talking to people on TV and the neighbours came round and joined in too. I had never heard about the infection thing before. It was really upsetting my mum and no health care professional ever suggested it might be infections. This was ten years ago and she's dead now, but I wish I'd known then. It sounds very similar to your experience, they'd just randomly come and disappear after a while.
- devilbunny 2y ago> no health care professional ever suggested it might be infections Acutely altered mental status (without specific findings suggestive of a stroke) is, first and foremost, assumed to be a metabolic issue. I've been a practicing doctor for twenty years and it wasn't a new thought at the time. I don't know why nobody suggested it to you. It's been basic understanding for, well, ages.
- pipes 2y agoEven more amazing, is one of our friends is a doctor (general practitioner) and she never suggested it. Though she did say old people tend to just develop dementia and it's probably that (my gran lived to 97). It's the coming and going nature of it that no one seemed to pay attention to.
- ultrarunner 2y agoMy understanding is that this is common with UTIs, and isn't necessarily predicated on having previously had strokes or brain damage.