“…On the side of the moribund person, they include visions of deceased loved ones or religious figures who appear to prepare the dying for their transition (near-death visions or deathbed visions), vivid and usually comforting dreams of similar content, perceiving unusual luminous phenomena or hearing inexplicable music, and an unexpected appetite and desire to eat. On the side of the bystanders, they include the sharing of near-death visions (shared death experiences), perceiving unusual lights or music as well, noticing synchronistic events such as the stopping of clocks and malfunctioning of electronic devices, or in case of absence, the distinct sensation that the moribund person has just passed away (for a selection of academic sources on ELEs from only recent years, see e. g. Claxton-Oldfield & Dunnett, 2018;Claxton-Oldfield & Richard, 2020;Depner et al, 2020;Grant et al, 2020Grant et al, , 2021Klein et al, 2018;Levy et al, 2020;Lim et al, 2020;Renz et al, 2018;Shared Crossing Research Initiative [SCRI], 2021, 2022. Although some of these phenomena are likely to be dismissed as irrelevant or hallucinatory by some, building bridges between the field of research into paradoxical lucidity in dementias and the field of ELEs is essential for facilitating knowledge exchange.…”