A person had a dream in which Heaven and Hell were pictured as two banquets.

In Hell the tables stretched for as far as the eye could see, and they were all filled with every possible good thing to eat and drink. People were seated at the tables, but they were all starving, emaciated, skin-on-skeleton figures. A closer look revealed that they were chained in such a way that they could reach the food and pick it up, but the chains prevented them from bringing the food to their mouths. In the ultimate cruelty, they were dying of starvation with food in their hands.

In Heaven the tables also stretched for as far as the eye could see, and they were filled with all the same wonderful choices as in Hell. And just as in Hell, the people were all chained in such a way that they could pick up the food but not bring it to their own mouths. However, in this banquet hall, the people were all healthy, laughing, singing, and enjoying themselves. The difference? In Heaven they had realized that although they couldn’t feed themselves, the chains allowed them to feed each other.