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Why mourners sometimes see or hear the dead

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When a loved one passes away, the human brain often struggles to instantly rewrite its predictive models of reality, causing up to 60% of grieving individuals to briefly see or hear the deceased. This psychological phenomenon is entirely normal and stems from the brain automatically filling in sensory gaps with expected patterns rather than clinical madness.

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