Wait, What Do We Mean by Shared Death Experiences Anyway?

Narayani Bhardwaj
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There lies an unaccountable phenomenon known as Shared Death Experiences. This phenomenon is rare but the world is huge, so even if an SDE is rare, many people have experienced them frequently around the world, out of which, some came out opening up thoroughly about it to share their unusual yet true experience.

According to William J. Peters, the world’s leading researcher of SDEs, a person’s experience of sharing a dying journey of their loved one or someone they are deeply attached to is regarded as a shared death experience. His statement is incredibly accountable as he had two near-death experiences in his past and after that when he found some similarity between them, he started researching about SDEs.

Types of SDEs

Further, William J. Peters has mentioned the four types of SDEs based on his years of research and he concluded them as “modes of participation”. Accompanying someone in their dying journey is somewhat associated with spirituality, where sometimes people forget about their surroundings and live the experience.

The journey starts with sensing, which is like having a feeling of your loved one’s transition phases to their afterlife. Sensing is common among SDEs, however, this is mostly a remote feeling that can occur to anyone even when they are far away from them. Nevertheless, this feeling can also occur at the bedside of your dying loved one. This is more like an intuitive feeling, which is extremely energetic.

The second kind of SDE is witnessing, witnessing the death of someone in front of your eyes, which sometimes can lead to feeling or having the heavenly visions of light, in which people often have varied experiences, including witnessing your loved one going to heaven, some spirit has come to bring the person with it, and so on.

The third and genuine one is accompanying, which people often take as hallucinations, who have never been through it and this is the reason why SDEs still have a long way to be researched about. Anyway, if you haven’t experienced it, doesn’t mean – it doesn’t exist and that’s why it’s rare. Accompanying is the part of moving along with your dying loved one, feeling their transitioning phase, and accompanying them in their journey to heaven.

Finally, the last type is guiding, in which the experiencer acclaims that they have guided their loved one in their pathway to heaven.

Pre-Death Dreams and Visions

SDEs are the shared death experiences that can happen to someone with high energy and great intuitions that can leave them with an incredibly strong sense of sharing a death experience with their loved one or it can occur with lowly feelings, in which people often ignore it in the name of stress or hallucinations.

Regardless of the firm feelings and intuitions about an SDE, pre-death dreams and visions are quite common that most people around the world experience but are generally ignored. According to the research of Dr. Chritopher Kerr, 80% of his patients have experienced pre-death dreams and had visions about them. The term “dream” is often used roughly, which can easily be avoided as it has no evidence of experience. The only evidence of a dream is the person who has experienced it and opening up about it.

His numerous patients reported that they had pre-death dreams, in which their deceased loved one came up to them and they found themselves conversing with them. This is concluded as somewhere the journey of transitioning into the afterlife has started. The SDEs start when this transitioning journey begins. Also, as per physics science, energy cannot be destroyed, it changes forms rule can exactly be applied here.

How Similar Are SDEs to NDEs

It has been observed that NDEs are similar in some ways to SDEs, which improved the analysis of the reality of SDEs. SDEs are rare and NDEs as well, however, most people have been through near-death experiences, which they experienced themselves and came back to life. NDEs are evidence about the afterlife. Involvement of both the phenomenon in the concept of the afterlife has made the scenario and reality about SDEs more clear.

A slight difference between an NDE and SDE is, in an SDE, a person’s mind and body remain strong and they do not undergo any physical changes, it is more like a sensation, feeling, experiencing something, or witnessing a sacred experience, which feels more real than the world we live in and it is a statement that many SDEs’ people have given.

Whereas in a near-death experience, a person lives it mentally as it is not about any of your loved ones with whom you are sharing a death experience. No! NDE is about a dying person who experiences this phenomenon themself and there is no involvement of a second person in this experience.

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However, the involvement of the NDEs in research made the research about SDEs stronger and set a standard that yes SDEs are real. Further, people who have gone through SDEs reported it as an unusual yet profound and energetic special experience that can only be experienced rarely once in a lifetime.

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Narayani Bhardwaj is a young and ambitious Web Content Writer with more than a two years of experience. She writes with her passion and desires of travelling the beautiful places in the world. The places merely not include only travelling, the articles she writes, are strictly professional with a touch of an individual's sincerity and feelings on what they are looking for. She has upskilled herself in the field of writing for her audience, and ensures the quality of the content which is relatable in executive as well as distinctive manner.

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