Highlights of a New Study on Dreams of the Deceased

 There was recently published the paper "Dreams of the deceased: A scoping and mixed-methods systematic review" by Zulkayda Mamat and others.  Here are some highlights: 

• "Liang & He [38] reported that the theme  'a person now dead as alive' ranked among the top three most common dream types across Naxi (82.1 %) and Han (49.7 %) Chinese college students. Similarly, Yoshioka [39] found this theme to be the third most frequent in a Japanese sample (n = 559), with higher prevalence among women. In Germany, Kunzendorf and colleagues [40] found that 44 % of subjects reported at least one dream of a deceased relative or friend."
• "Yoshioka [39] found an increasing prevalence with age, rising from 0 % among youth (18–25 years) to 15 % among those aged 65 and above. Maggiolini and colleagues [41] corroborated these findings in a larger study (n = 1546), reporting higher frequencies of such dreams among older participants...Among participants aged 60+, prevalence ranged from 39.6 % to 56.1 %, compared to 8.9 %–29.5 % in those aged 18–59 [42]."
• "In Canadian nursing homes, 64 % of staff observed residents reporting vivid dreams of deceased people or pets [19]. Among Canadian hospice volunteers, 44 % reported witnessing similar dreams [18]. In India, 50 % of terminally ill patients reported seeing deceased relatives, friends, or acquaintances in dreams [20]. In U.S. hospice patients, 46 % reported dreams or visions of deceased relatives or friends, making them the most frequent end-of-life experience in this sample [55]. In Moldova, caregivers reported that deceased mothers were the most common figures in deathbed visions, with a median of two deceased visitors per patient [35]."
• "Most respondents’ dreams of the deceased were pleasant (55.3 %) or a mix of pleasant and disturbing (31.1 %), while fewer were only disturbing (6.8 %); common themes included pleasant past memories (65.2 %), the deceased appearing free of illness (40.4 %), memories of their illness (34.8 %), seeing them peaceful in the afterlife (26.7 %), or the deceased communicating a message (25.5 %)."

My frequently updated post here may well be the longest post ever published about one person's dreams of the deceased and dreams that seemed to symbolize or reference life after death. In the post I describe 555 dreams I have had that seemed to symbolize or refer to life after death. In the same post I list well over 800 dreams I have had about more than 300 deceased persons.