Being raised from death
When a person dies, his soul goes to either heaven or hell immediately. In the Bible a number of people were "raised from the dead." See 1 Kings 17:17-24, Acts 20: 7-12, Matthew 27:51-53, and of course John 11:43-44. I'm assuming that each of these people were righteous. My question is this: Were these individual's souls actually brought back out from heaven to be reunited with their bodies? Imagine going from perfect bliss back into this vale of tears. Or could it be that I'm just not reading those passages correctly?
You are reading those passages correctly (and there are additional accounts of people in both the Old and New Testaments being raised to life). While death is the separation of body and soul (with the soul going to heaven or hell), resurrection is the reuniting of body and soul. The Bible is simply silent on what kind of memories those who died and were raised to life might have had about their experiences.