What Does It Mean to Dream About Paradise?

To dream of paradise represents feelings about life being perfect, trouble free, or that everything in your life is working good. Perfectly stable relationships or family life. It may also reflect your desire for perfection in some area of your life. A desire to retreat from stresses in your life. Spiritual perfection or daydreaming about what your life would be like away from an abusive situation. Feelings about vacations.

Negatively, dreaming about paradise may be a sign that you are too concerned with the future being perfect to the point of not enjoying your life in the current moment. Preferring to feel good in the present instead of acting responsible for the future. Alternatively, it may reflect unrealistic fantasies or expectations for the future. It could point to problems with hiding from your troubles with drugs, alcohol, or bad habits. Pleasure or hiding from your problems in dangerous ways.

Alternatively, paradise in a dream may reflect your feelings about how easy or perfect a time in your past used to be.

To dream of something bad happening in a paradise setting may reflect feelings about a perfect situation being ruined or a stable relationship facing unnecessary troubles because someone couldn't simply be happy with the way things were.

Elderly people often have dreams about paradise settings. These dreams most likely point to their hopes about death freeing them from the unpleasantness of old age, living in heaven, or getting a new life after death.

Example: A man dreamed of being in paradise with his wife when a huge anaconda snake showed up. In waking life he was having a very happy marriage with his wife long after an infidelity occurred. The topic of the infidelity came up causing tension ruining the stability of their relationship.