Phil began seeing dead people in dreams, people he had known who newly passed away, people he knew were recently deceased but had never known. Each night, he saw a parade of the dead passing through his eerie dreams. He tried thinking of pleasant things before falling asleep with the hope of derailing the dreams of the dead but unsuccessfully. He estimated in the course of a month he saw 30 or more dead people in dreams.
It was worrying to him that in those dreams the dead seemed inanimate and an ashen color, as if in death people remained dead in spirit corpses.
In one of the dreams, he saw an ex-girlfriend who looked the same as the others, and who always wanted to get back with him. He tried to communicate with her but there was no response, like trying to talk to a corpse.
From these dreams, he deduced that when you die you are dead in body and in spirit and there are no heavens or hells, and that all the talk about moving on to other existences in the afterlife was disturbingly untrue. The dead were dead in the here and hereafter.
And when Phil died shortly after those dreams, he lost consciousness of himself and awareness of where he was. A month later, like waking up from sleep, he regained his consciousness in a pristine paradise and saw that his soul took time to resurrect from the death of the body that housed it. He saw all those dead people in his dreams all come to life again in that spiritual paradise as well.
Bob Boyd