A dream state I've never felt before that let me communicate with my recently deceased mother

This happened 3 days after my mom passed away from sepsis, pneumonia, and brain cancer January 3, 2021. Sleep wasn't an easy thing to come by right after losing your mother, and I finally must've started to fall asleep from exhaustion.

You know that state between awake and asleep? I remember it feeling very similar to that. The difference was I felt fully "plugged in" to that state of being, like all time had stopped and someone had paused the moment between being awake and asleep to visit me.

I felt a familiar presence I immediately recognized as my mom's, and some of the more pressings feelings I remember from my mom's side was she didn't have a lot of time to talk, she knew I needed her, and I could only ask yes/no questions. The conversation went something like this.. "Are you mad at me for how things turned out?" "No" "Could I have done anything different to help save you?" "No" "Is everything going to be OK?" "Yes"

Then I felt like I couldn't waste this opportunity to just talk with her and began asking what I should do about my older sister. I remember feeling rushed like I had to say goodbye in 3 seconds I felt like I broke the one rule in that state of being, the one thing that if you did you would be sent back to your reality.

I woke up and was more at peace with it, I ate for the first time and that night I slept a lot better. I still always try to make that connection, but it's been almost 2 years I haven't had any luck.