Glad to see you've had such a positive experience, regardless of it's meaning. Always nice to read about some like that
Anyway, there are roughly two possiblities (with many 'sub reasons' of course) in my eyes:
1- From a logic point of view:
I know from experience that it's possible to enter a dream or (day)dream-like state from meditation. I know it's possible to WILD from a trance(like) state as well.
Now, what you could have done is entered a (lucid) dream or dream-like state from your meditation, while remaining aware of your friend's voice. Now, as you know in a regular lucid dream our minds make up the world we are in, and every aspect is brought forth from your own thoughts and mental world (I'm talking regular LDs, not spiritual experiences).
Through expection, your mind made the visions you saw. This could be comfirmed by the fact that you saw red hawk as soon as he mentioned and you looked. Your mind was sparked by his voice and you thought about the hawk, and there it is. Something that happens frequently in a LD.
Everything that followed could have been a LD of some sort. While lucid dreaming we often see landscapes and views magical, colorful and beautiful. Much like the one you described The fact that it is a dream (or meditation induced dream like vision in your case) does not make it less beautiful, or peaceful. In fact, we should enjoy it all we can!
That's one explanation, most likely most people would go with this. However..
2- From a more paranormal/spiritual/symbolic point of view
From this point of view, I suppose it could have been anything.. this is a very open field that requires you to work with your heart, and then translate those feelings with your head. It's hard to say, what it could have meant. And many different people will give you many different explantions.
One might say you visited another plane, or had an OBE. Which a lot of people say is perfectly possible from meditation. Birds represent freedom, as does flying of course. But also, being up in the clouds and detatched from reality. There are many meanings possible. A lot of people say colors have meaning, and if the general theme in your dream was orangy-yellow indeed, that would go with happiness and freedom. Orange and yellow are happy colors
If you feel this was more than just explanation 1, then that's ok. It'll just be hard to tell you the real meaning behind it all. Just consider it a great experience, and continue exploring this wonderful world when you have the chance. Maybe you'll learn something, or find out what it means to you. Like I said, follow your heart in this and you'll learn eventually.
Who knows really knows what it's like 'on the other side'? Good luck
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