My understanding of dreams is that their specific content, their details; are much less important than their general theme and emotional tone that they leave behind. This is why many people (including me) don't remember their dreams, or else have only hazy and partial memories.
Indeed, the unreliability of memory - its fading, distortions, and apparent loss; its second-rate quality compared with lived experience - is something that seems to threaten even the possibility of a meaningful life - at least, if memory is regarded as necessarily a physical, material thing.
A dream last-night seemed to be "about" memory itself; and that way that - somehow, in some part of our selves - the joyful essence of the very best of our past life experiences (even of decades before) is alive.
Such a dream was every bit as real and powerful an experience as anything material in the waking world - indeed it seemed to surpass "real life".
Such a dream reveals that the best memories are not lost - nor even faded or distorted; but significant memories are powerfully and actively present in our minds and spirits, here-and-now.
This fits-with and makes-sense-of my understanding of Heaven; because some dreams (not often! - at least not often for me) can be a foretaste of what Heaven is like and how it "works".
I interpret the way a dream can be experienced as the best of ourselves, the best of others, and the best of this world; and that during the dream we can really respond fully to such things - as a practical demonstration of what resurrection will do fully and eternally.
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