What Does Dreaming Of Going to Paradise Mean?

Reaching the gate without entering is counted the reminder of a preparation left incomplete; the interpreters read it as guidance, not threat. Ibn Sirin reads waiting at the gate as drawn near to good but not yet complete.

In the Jungian approach too, remaining at the gate marks a step toward inner peace not yet taken. The dream does not reproach; it calls to effort and completion.

Seeing acquaintances in paradise is read by the interpreters toward the goodness of their state; Al-Nabulsi takes it as a call to pray for that person. Seeing a departed close one there is counted a consolation descending on the heart and is read with good in the sources. Being led into paradise by the hand marks a righteous guide and a true companionship; the interpreters say to look well at whose hand it is.

By Ja'far al-Sadiq's method the dream is read in four directions: a good end, repentance accepted, longed-for peace, and a preparation not to be deferred. Entering and walking is the best of the readings, remaining at the gate the image of a call to effort. Going on foot points to reaching good by one's own effort, being flown there to an unlooked-for favor; being invited and not going is a good deferred.

The dream of paradise is the most complete scene of what the mind calls peace, and it tends to come at the darkest stretch of weariness. In the Jungian approach paradise is the archetype of wholeness: the inner garden where fragmentation ends; going there shows a person drawing near their own peace.

From the Freudian perspective it is the voice of a deep need for tension to subside. Those settling accounts with conscience see it often.