The nest may exist outside of our time and space so that everyone goes there at the same time (which was why Dean and Bobby saw each other, but does not explain why they didn't see each other until the very end), but time does pass within the nest, perhaps at about the same rate, so once a soul arrives and its body dies in our realm (perhaps when its mouth turns black, or maybe that's when the soul starts being consumed), it can't return (and hopefully just went to heaven). But yeah, lots of big holes here, too, like why then doesn't every soul arrive there at the "start time"? ....
But as for why they can't see the others there at first, I assumed it's because they're fresh and not near death themselves and so can't see the other souls in their same state or the state they're drawing near--it did last, for both Bobby and Dean, less than a minute before they could see the others, more and more the closer they came to being past the point of no return.
Or maybe the black-mouthed people are like "ghosts/husks" of consumed souls? That would make the most sense of all (if you can get past the problem of something non-corporeal leaving something ELSE behind once consumed), but yeah, it's pretty much the same inconsistent mess as the monster stuff usually is, alas.
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The nest may exist outside of our time and space so that everyone goes there at the same time (which was why Dean and Bobby saw each other, but does not explain why they didn't see each other until the very end), but time does pass within the nest, perhaps at about the same rate, so once a soul arrives and its body dies in our realm (perhaps when its mouth turns black, or maybe that's when the soul starts being consumed), it can't return (and hopefully just went to heaven). But yeah, lots of big holes here, too, like why then doesn't every soul arrive there at the "start time"? ....
But as for why they can't see the others there at first, I assumed it's because they're fresh and not near death themselves and so can't see the other souls in their same state or the state they're drawing near--it did last, for both Bobby and Dean, less than a minute before they could see the others, more and more the closer they came to being past the point of no return.
Or maybe the black-mouthed people are like "ghosts/husks" of consumed souls? That would make the most sense of all (if you can get past the problem of something non-corporeal leaving something ELSE behind once consumed), but yeah, it's pretty much the same inconsistent mess as the monster stuff usually is, alas.
Great poll, dear.