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I would say that by their very nature, their experiences in the otherworld are simplified expressions of something happening beyond their very reality, but that takes shape using their experiences from the physical reality. So even though anything that happens there is by all intents and proposes beyond the measure of physical reality, it can be translated into examples of physical reality.
That is to say, transcendence over physical reality can still be translated into physical reality, or even is needed to be, since it's all we have as a frame of reference, so transcendence is only shown by its conceptual difference with the lower world, and not by anything normally depicted in the higher world.
Such an idea isn't anything new, even in actual metaphysics like in Proclus' Metaphysical Elements there's this notion that a transcendental infinite is only infinite to those below it, but can be seen and measured as finite by those on a similar scale or above.
That is to say, infinite and transcendence are local phenomena that describe things on different levels of existence and can be seen as not infinite or transcendent if you are on the same level. (And of course, the notion of a metaphysical realm beyond time and space that looks and has space-time descriptions is often very common in fiction, as they need to be translated into something that needs to look spatiotemporal even to have a story, so often beyond space-time translation into space-time isn't unusual).
That is to say, transcendence over physical reality can still be translated into physical reality, or even is needed to be, since it's all we have as a frame of reference, so transcendence is only shown by its conceptual difference with the lower world, and not by anything normally depicted in the higher world.
Such an idea isn't anything new, even in actual metaphysics like in Proclus' Metaphysical Elements there's this notion that a transcendental infinite is only infinite to those below it, but can be seen and measured as finite by those on a similar scale or above.
That is to say, infinite and transcendence are local phenomena that describe things on different levels of existence and can be seen as not infinite or transcendent if you are on the same level. (And of course, the notion of a metaphysical realm beyond time and space that looks and has space-time descriptions is often very common in fiction, as they need to be translated into something that needs to look spatiotemporal even to have a story, so often beyond space-time translation into space-time isn't unusual).
