A gruesome or unsettling physical sensation can occur when hearing certain death dreams, which comes from the nervous system's sympathetic response and seems to indicate that 'this really means death,' though this cannot be proven scientifically.

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Marie-Louise von Franz

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Sometimes, one gets a gruesome shiver when people tell you a death dream. And then it's as if your nervous sympathetic system would say: 'Watch out, this really means death.'

Source

Carl Jung’s Near-Death Experience & Marie-Louise von Franz on the Mystery of Death-DreamsThe Jungian Aion
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:43:30 AM

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