I know Mother's Day is over, but I started this drawing on Mother's Day morning, so I decided to finish it anyway and make it a late Mother's Day picture. This was based on an actual dream I had not too many nights ago; I was in what appeared to be a heavenly illusion of the first apartment we ever lived in together in Vegas shortly after I was born, and it looked like my mom was redecorating the place. She was a lot younger than she was when I last saw her, and because I didn't realize I was dreaming, I thought she was alive, but she reminded me that she's dead. I was saddened by this, but not too much because I was just happy to see her again after so many months. I still had my phone on me somehow, and I sat on the couch with her to show her some of my recent art and funny videos from Earth.
I don't know if it's just a familiar feeling, but that moment kind of reminded me of that scene from Avatar: The Way of Water where Jake reunited with the spirit of his late son Neteyam in Eywa, and because his last recorded memory was during childhood, he was a kid in the afterlife. Some people who have seen Heaven were told by God that people age normally in the afterlife, but from what I saw, it seems possible to revert to an older version of yourself and relive past memories. Whether or not you believe in Heaven, it's still a memory that I'll hold onto for life.