Nearly the same experience with my campus life.

> Do you know how sometimes there are articles that have a 2000-word introduction to that one sentence that you need to solve your problem? That’s what over-documenting can feel like.

Good reminder.

> If this is universally true, then the religious beliefs about death & heaven are shaped in part by the dreams and not vice versa.

However, it seems not explained why we will have this kind of dream.

So people that dream a lot or remember their dreams will often dream about dead loved ones, This can explain why we would have a believe or hope that there might be something after death.

Also some people can feel they are not well and they will die soon, it is normal to then have visions or dreams about something your mind is obsessing. We do not have a number here , so I expect the percentage of people that have such visions or dreams not too be to big.

Some people tell about life flashing before their eyes, but for me when I had an accident and I thought I will die in that moment I just thought "fuck, what a stupid way to die", there was no flashes, but I was not injured too much so maybe those come after some chemicals are released in your blood.