A dream of life on another planet

It's funny how most people in the "civilized" Western world tend to think intelligent life exists only on Earth and that our physical reality is all there is and that we only live once. It's funny, but it's also a burden when you think otherwise and you don't fit in.

I had a realistic dream decades ago where I was living with a group of people on a very inhospitable planet. The days were hot as hell and the nights were dangerously cold, just like in an Earth desert environment, but ten times more extreme. We lived in a huge stone structure. The stone blocks the building was made of were easily 12 ft long and 9 ft wide. This was necessary to keep the living beings inside comfortable.

You see, when the planet's sun was up, it would fry everything on the ground. A normal Earth stick-construction house would've almost caught fire. However, the stone blocks acted as effective insulation. Because of their thickness, the heat from the outside would seep into them slowly and make them hot. Then, when the night freeze came, the inside of the house would stay warm because of the stones' warmth, but the blocks would be cooled from the outside in as the night progressed. The sun would start warming the stone in the morning again, but the inside of the stones would keep the people inside the structure comfortably cool. I also had a vision of the building from the outside and saw a column of smoke coming out of a chimney. 

I had a lot of questions after I had the dream. Where did we get fuel to burn? Why did we need to burn that fuel? What did we eat, if anything? Did we need clothes? How was the building built? Where did this happen? Was I a human being or a humanoid or some other type of being? 

The first hard frost of the fall for central Pennsylvania rolled in last night and the sun is shining brightly today. I'm glad this planet is more hospitable than the planet in my dream. This place is worth raising up. Praying for peace today.