Our earth experience determines our afterlife destiny, but no one is locked there, and each can progress to higher and higher levels of being. Things change little in the afterlife. If a person has the fixed belief that they will sleep until the resurrection of the body, they may sleep for a very long time. If a person keeps an open mind, they will be free to adapt to the new surroundings and fit in where they belong with no unusual difficulty. This is why having fixed beliefs limit an open mind.
Time passes over there the same as here, that is, one event follows another.
But looking at it another way, time doesn't pass at all because there is not enough change to make the passage of time evident. From another viewpoint, time in the afterlife stands still because it is always now. The past and future are of equal length because there never was a beginning and never can be an end. In the earthly rat race, events follow each other so rapidly that it gives us the illusion that time flies. On the other hand, in prison with absolutely no change, the days would stretch into seeming eternities.