vico, this all is totally new to me and interesting, but difficult to understand. like most people, i know many who have died, and have seen them in dreams, not as they were but different, some good, some could be a bit better, different.
souls in purgatory in one dream are in a field, in this dream, with many others with a task, physical, to complete or achieve a construction.
i believe it is true because my friend who believes nothing really at all saw the same man, her friend and my friend in an uncomfortable state, he told her, in her dream, that he did not want to be there and wanted a taxi or hotel or somesuch. to me he said nothing, only a sad expression as he stood in front of me, behind him were many men very busy hastily constructing a framework of timber, he was a carpenter. it was a field with no comfort, and work progressed without any or much rest or comfort i could see, as quickly as they could do it.
now, my friend and i had the same dream more or less insofar as he did not want to be there, to her, and to me he wanted to be anywhere else but said nothing.
a relative who died sometime later, who was an older woman appeared in the same setting but her roll was to stay wrapped up in a coat but to oversee the work in, conscientious but uncomfortable, detail which was tiring to her.
now one may speculate and define things unknown based on theories of forgotten or unknown instigation but seeing people who are dead and hearing from a friend a similar state for our friend gives me reason to think of the dead as real people, constrained and put upon to do what they can though they wish to be anywhere else.
this indicates to me that they are not some idealistic amorphous spirit but a real cohesive human in another state desiring to be free if they are not already.
