Hi Connie,

You wrote,
I wonder since she must have felt like she was in a dream state, if she realized she had died.

The "conscious" mind is attuned to the physical realm. It is vibrating on the same level and is focused on the five senses in the physical realm. The body is just the lens or vehicle that the mind uses to have experiences in the physical realm, but as long as the body is functioning properly, the mind stays with that focus and functions in the physical realm.

But the mind never was confined to the body. It was always outside of the body in the greater reality. The mind just focuses on the physical realm and isn't attuned to the greater reality. That's so the mind can experience things in the physical realm without confusion.

When the body loses its functions, the mind is freed from its use of the body and opens back up to the entire universe where it has always been. The mind no longer is limited to the focus on the physical realm when the body loses its functions or dies. We can see the loss of focus on the physical realm in meditation, dreams, near-death experinces, and death. Meditation is the mildest separation; death is the most prominent.

When someone is in a coma, the body is still functioning, so the person is in a sleep. If there are dreams, the dreams may be of things in the greater reality. If, during the coma, the person's body stops functioning, the person may have a near-death experience. What happens during the coma depends entirely on how much the body is still being used by the mind. In some people, who never recover from the coma, we can assume they lost their focus on the material realm and were in the greater reality early on. We don't know because they don't come back. For those who come back, whose bodies are still functioning, they don't usually describe a near-death experience, so their minds were still focused on the physical realm, but not conscious.

All that is to say that if your mother never did come back to consciousness, then the body may have become no longer useful and she entered the greater reality or afterlife or heavenly realm quite early. She may not have been present in the body at all. We don't know. But when the body finally did stop functioning, she completely, fully, entered the next plane of life and was completely conscious.

I suspect she left the body when she became unconscious and started her new life in the next realm because the body was no longer useful to her. There, she would have been perfectly conscious of everything about her body, you, and all those around her.

Love and peace, Craig