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Before each person goes to sleep, he sees the souls of all his dead relatives. He also sees the souls of all who share his soul root.

It is taught that when one dies, one sees all these souls ( Ma’avar Yabok , Siftey Tzedek 32) . Sleep is one-sixtieth of death ( Berakhot 57a; Zohar I, 169b) . Therefore, one also sees these souls before going to sleep.

When you see these souls before sleeping, you see them only vaguely and in passing.

Even before death, there are many levels of seeing souls. A great tzaddik will see them very clearly. But the average person only sees them in passing, like a spark flashing before his eyes.

Sleep is only one-sixtieth of death. The vision is therefore only one-sixtieth of this flashing spark. It may be only subliminal and not actually sensed. People are not aware of the vision before sleeping because it is only one-sixtieth of the already vague vision that one has before death. But the truth is that every person has this vision.