Is it common for people to visit their dear ones moments before?
It commonly heard that that people see in dreams or vision in waking conditions any of their close relativesor friends around the time of their death. When someone dies it is common that some one close to the deceased would report that the person appeared in their dreams or vision just before or just after the time of death. This phenomenan is explained by elders. The soul leaves the body a little before or at the time of death. And it enters subtle physical plane the just next to physical plane. Having been liberated from the physical body but with the other four sheaths( koshas )yet to be dissolved, the being hovers around the persons the dear ones as also those against whom it nurses deep grudge during its physical existence. Because the visit happens in the subtle physical world , which almost is inseparable from the physical world , some of the persons visited by the being can see the deceased.