Hi everyone,

I hope anyone would feel free to give me his or her honest opinion.

Recently, I had this dream and I hope to hear those so inclined to give their opinion as to possible dream interpretations.


(I am aware of Milarepa's --- Tibetan Dream Yogi and Guru --- advice not to take dreams too seriously. Nevertheless, I feel I should ask this question in this board to gain a broader perspective)

My dream went briefly like this:

I was lying down on the cement floor in the front of my grandparents' old house (this was the house I had spent my childhood in, right up to my teenage years; this house has since been sold). (I was lying down outside this house in the dream).

I was lying down with my face facing up (which I suspect to be my actual sleeping position on my bed in the waking world).

I then noticed this vision (I suppose I could call it that) in the sky:

I saw 2 clouds being parted, like showing a gateway or portal in its middle. The clouds are of a shade of blue (even the sky is of a shade of blue, if I recall correctly).

In the portal or centre of the parting of the clouds is an image of the upper part of a mountain, which is also a certain shade of blue in colour (quite bright blue, I think).

If I am not mistaken, at that time, I was thinking to myself in the dream: "Is this a vision of the Purelands?"

Notes:
1) This is not a lucid dream (that is: I wasn't aware I was dreaming in this dream)
2) I have quite frequent lucid dreams, which naturally occur.
3) In many of my dreams, the dream location is at the house where I spent my childhood in.
4) In my waking life, I did have the wish to see or visit the Purelands in my dreams, I think.
5) I am Buddhist and tend to interpret my dreams in accordance with that framework. (Non-Buddhists please feel free to give me their own interpretations, whether agnostic, atheist, or any other religion)


Thanks for your time.

Karuna (Compassion)