Islamic view, I was drinking in a dream and saw a vision?

Dreams are not visions, they're merely manifestations of things going on in your subconscious mind and nothing else.

I'm not an expert on dream interpretation. (Hey, at least I admit it.) But I'll tell you what I think.

Children who are told their whole lives NOT to do something often fantasize about it and are very curious about it. Decades ago, when I was a kid, there were a number of fires in Catholic schools in the US, and my dad suggested that it might be because Catholic schools taught so strongly against smoking that kids wanted to do it, secretly, in closets or whatever.

You've been taught all your life that drinking is evil and haram, and naturally you wonder about it. Why do so many people do it? What's wrong with them? Why do governments even ALLOW it? How could someone be so uncaring of his own health to pollute his body with alcohol, especially when Allah himself says so clearly that its wrong? Why did Allah make alcohol in the first place, if it's so bad for us and he didn't want us to use it?

Then, very naturally, you wonder what it must be like. What would it feel like if YOU did it? What would be the consequences? Some Christians believe (almost as a joke but not entirely) that if you commit certain sins, God will strike you with a lightning bolt or something. Do Muslims believe that? That would make you even more curious, don't you think? Would Allah really be mad if I just took a sip to see what it tasted like?

This curiosity can exist at a level where you're not even aware of it. But dreams are how we address questions like that, by imagining things. Children imagine flying, or other 'super powers'. Teenagers imagine sex. Young adults might imagine drinking, and the delicious feeling of guilt, and the consequences of Allah's justice!

I'm not Muslim and it's not easy for me to think the way Muslims think, so consider all the foregoing as just speculation. And please forgive me if I've said anything to offend.

Whew.

I DO drink, day and night... and have never had a dream as trippy as that.

Mine are more moderate... like introducing my crush (who I can barely talk to) to my grandparents.

Maybe the drink ain't so bad.