Life, Death and Ancestors
What does it mean that some deceased people seem dreaming or trapped in a familiar place?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
This describes a state in which someone has not yet understood that they have died. In our religious understanding, some people leave so suddenly that they have no time to grasp what happened, and their soul remains in a familiar place. The comparison with dreaming means that a person in a dream may likewise not clearly understand their present condition.
A strong shock may leave energy insufficient and even blur the sense of time, unlike the awareness of passing time during life. I use this comparison to explain that condition of confusion and being trapped. I am not saying that everyone who dies in an accident will experience it.
Nor can unusual spiritual feelings at a place immediately be attributed to a particular person who died there. In the same discussion, I also mentioned the possibility of negative energy arriving from elsewhere. We need to understand the circumstances of the place before considering it religiously. Rumours alone cannot justify fitting every deceased person into the same story.