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It is often reported that you can feel when a loved one dies. But is there really a connection that we can perceive at this moment?
Psychology: Can you feel when a loved one dies?
The loss of a loved one is a profound experience that is often accompanied by strong emotions and intense perceptions. Many people report feeling a sudden intuition, a sense of unease or even physical reactions at the moment of the death of a loved one.
- From the point of view of psychology, the subconscious mind plays a role here. This is because it is often deep emotional connections that trigger such experiences. Our brain is programmed to recognize patterns and link emotions with certain events.
- When someone is seriously ill, we unconsciously expect the worst. Your subconscious can then suggest feelings or thoughts that match the actual event.
- Sometimes we think of a person by chance and later it turns out that they have passed away at that time. This can be based on pure coincidence, but our brain particularly remembers such cases, while other moments are forgotten.
- Sometimes people feel an inexplicable sadness or inner turmoil before they receive the news of a loved one’s death. This can be a form of premonition, but it is usually based on a mixture of intuition and emotional attachment.
Spiritual and esoteric perspective
Whether you can feel when a loved one dies is particularly interesting from a spiritual perspective. In many cultures and religions, there is a belief that a soul can say goodbye to its loved ones in the last moments of its life. People report sudden visions, dreams or even physical sensations, such as a shiver of cold or the feeling of an invisible touch.
- One spiritual theory is the soul connection. Particularly close relationships are said to have an energetic connection that makes it possible to sense the moment of death. For example, you should be able to sense when a parent or someone very close to you dies.
- Esotericism also sees this as a sign of farewell. Some people report that lights suddenly flicker, clocks stop or they feel an invisible presence. This is explained by the fact that the dying person is saying goodbye.
- There are also reports of people dreaming of a deceased person at the exact moment they died.
- Whether these experiences indicate a deeper connection or whether they are generated by our own subconscious remains an open question that everyone must answer for themselves. From a scientific point of view, there is no verifiable evidence that people can sense the death of a loved one. The experiences described can usually be explained by psychological mechanisms such as coincidence, intuition or selective perception.
