Baby Babies

General

Aborted baby

Adult body with baby head

Adopted baby

Baby body with adult headBaby Boy – Baby Girl

Crying baby

Dead Baby

Do I need a pregnancy test if I dream of having a baby?Dream BabyDropping a baby

Gifted or holy baby – Girl babyGiving birth

Happy baby – Hitting the baby

In a man’s dreamIn child’s dream – In woman’s dreamLosing/not finding a baby

Man giving birth to a baby

Neglecting or forgetting babyNursing a baby

Pregnancy – dreaming of baby during

Sick babyStarving baby

Twins or twin

When appearing with a couple

 

If you cannot find what you want in the first section, there are a lot of questions answered at the bottom of the page under Comments.

If you have given birth to a baby in a dream, it can represent a new phase of life; a new idea; new activity – as when we say someone has a new baby, meaning a new project or business. This ‘baby’ might be part of you that did not have a chance to be ‘born’ or express before. Or it may be things learned in a rich life that you could not put into practice because of circumstances. The baby in this aspect is the ‘you’ that could have been if you had been free from problems and past hurts.

In real life a baby is a blending of mother and father, and all they represent. A baby is a new thing that has been ‘born’ out of them and the circumstances they are involved in.

Example: My wife and I were walking out in the countryside. I looked around suddenly and saw my four year old son near a hole. He fell in and I raced back. The hole was narrow but very deep. I could see water at the bottom but no sign of my son. I didn’t know whether I could leap down and save him or whether it was too narrow. Then somehow he was out. His heart was just beating.

The dreamer had an argument with his wife the night before and was frightened it had killed his marriage. The baby son represented their marriage and his fear of the end of their life together, but the dream went on to show that it survived.

But the dream baby can also represent one’s own feeling urges at that level of development – such as possessiveness, joy, curiosity, responding to the world without words or formed concepts, innocent love, infant trauma; intense dependence; feelings of helplessness; vulnerability; lack of responsibility; and being cared for. Even as adults many of these early feeling responses still dominate the way we meet relationships and events. It is quiet common for instance for adults to feel intense and destructive jealousy about their sexual partner. This is exactly the sort of feeling we experienced naturally as a baby and child. Unfortunately in adulthood we seldom see such things as an emergence of baby feelings which we have not grown beyond. Instead we accept them as adult behaviour and justify them, often blaming our sexual partner for them – i.e. ‘You made me jealous by showing affection for that other man/woman’. The baby or child often feels murderous rage in connection with such dependence and jealousy, but it is too small to effectively act on the rage. When an adult feels such rage however, it is highly dangerous and irrational. See Beware of Love; victim; personal growth.

Aborted baby: In general something that was developing, a new facet of self, or a new opportunity that has now been lost or rejected. If in a pregnant woman’s dream, usually it is an expression of fears regarding ones ability to carry the child to full term – but it is wise to have a check. See: pregnancy.

Adult body with baby head: Suggests that the way one approaches life, ones thinking, is still immature, even though one is physically mature.

Adopted baby: Adopting a new stance in life, perhaps conceived by, or seen in someone else; taking on the responsibility of something or someone that needs care and help to grow; if you are trying to adopt a baby it would reflect feelings or intuitions about that activity.

Baby body with adult head: Suggests that while one has developed an adult intellect and rational thinking, or an adult self, aspects of ones feelings, hungers and sexuality remain at the baby level of development.

Baby Boy: If you have given birth to a baby boy, it is usually about the principle of maleness entering your life. Maleness is like the sun, it expresses most of its energy outwardly to give life. Whereas the female is like the earth, receiving and nurturing life.

Birth or emergence of a new phase of self expression in terms of activity or achievement. In a males dream may suggest a new self emerging, or new aspect of self.

Baby Girl: If you have given birth to a baby girl, it is usually about the principle of femininity. Femininity is about having the power of creating life within and nurturing its growth.

Baby Dying: The anxiety dreams include such images as giving birth to a baby who is only a few ounces in weight – the baby is malformed – the baby is born dead – the baby is blind or deaf or injured.

Castle was able to follow the dreams of over 200 pregnant women, often from about the time of conception through to their post natal situation and experience. One of his interests was to see if dreams showed signs of information about physical conditions that were not apparent at the time of the dream. He says that many dreams did in fact show that small shifts in the physical state, such as conception, were shown in appropriate symbols in the dreams of some women. So if you have a worrying dream about your baby it is worth making sure you check out its condition, something that with modern equipment is easily done. To quote Castle, “The unconscious mind of the pregnant woman seems able to monitor and detect biochemical imbalances, tissue abnormalities, or structural defects in the uterine environment and communicate an awareness of disturbed functioning through dream imagery, which is sometimes fairly literal, sometimes symbolic.”

Seeing a baby die in a dream can suggest many things. It can suggest that the most vulnerable part of you has been killed by your hidden emotions. Also I have received, over 40 years, many dreams of mothers who dreamt their baby or child was dead, and not one of them died. One woman who explored such a dream with me found that a death had taken place, represented by the child, and the death was that of her love for a man. She had ended a relationship that had lasted for years.

Dead baby: Dreaming that your child dies can have several meanings. In some dreams a parent, much to their horror dreams of killing their child. But our dream 

child can represent many things, and it is useful to realise that any person, object or scene in a dream is not a symbol – it is not dead thing that has to be interpreted – it is a living part of you and can only be understood by relating to it.

So in this way I have found that a child can represent whatever our strongest feelings about them are. It can represent your marriage or partnership because it is what you have created between you. In that case the death of the child can depict something like an awful argument that feels as if it the marriage has died.

A child and its death can also show you how you have killed out the growing or adventurous side of you; or if you see your child as vulnerable and needing protection it could show you the death of that part of your feeling.

If a dream seems to predict the death of your child, it is wise to remember two things. the first is that a said above many dreams about our baby are actually about injury or death of our vulnerable self – See Characters and People in Dreams.

That predictive dreams are very uncommon. But if you are feeling it is predictive remember that the future is not set in stone.  But you can pray for protection for your child and it can change the outcome.

 

Gifted or holy baby: Often shows the dreamer having given birth to parts of their personality which are connected with wider sympathies, or wider awareness, than their own personal ego or self. It may show an awareness of the universal processes of life. It is the same sort of meaning as Christ in symbolism. It can show the emergence of awareness of the levels of existence beyond the senses. See: esp in dreams.

Example: “Was in a basement where my wife and a woman I loved was giving birth to a baby, but I was somehow the one who gave birth to it without a doctor being there. It was a lovely boy. Its lower face was covered by a tight caul, but I pulled this off and it began to breathe. It opened its eyes and looked about, fully conscious; then said something about Jesus, and, “It is gone!” I asked what had gone, and it replied, “The other ego; where has it gone?” I explained that the spirit self it knew before birth was now gone so it could live in the body. The baby was then taken upstairs, and I felt it was a holy and wonderful baby. I was going to rest from the rigours of the birth, but on looking around saw how dusty and dirty the basement was. I began to clean it, and felt I would go upstairs and rest afterwards.”

The man who dreamt this said that he felt afterwards that at the time of the dream he had given birth to the very best of him. This became more and more obvious as years went by. Also he realised that his inner life, his unconscious, needed cleaning, and then began to go upstairs to his wider awareness. It could be helpful for you to use the following Talking As.

If you have given birth without any man involved, it suggests it is a virgin birth – i.e. no male partner was involved at the time.

Many women dream of giving birth without any man involved. Virgin birth is normal part of dreaming. It means that the woman or young girl has conceived as a process of Life. Being a virgin represents the human soul or psyche and its possibility of dropping pre-conceptions, thus attaining an inner virginity and through that being receptive to the unseen or unconscious side of self. Joseph Campbell in his book “Myths To Live By” says – “There are myths and legends of the Virgin Birth, of Incarnations, Deaths and Resurrections; Second Comings, Judgements and the rest, in all the great traditions. And since such images stem from the psyche (from you and your dreams), they refer to the psyche. They tell us of its structure, its order, and its forces, in symbolic terms.”

For instance, the story and events surrounding the virgin birth, when looked as if a dream are not about a biological miracle, but about how as ordinary people, we can drop our preconceptions, our fixed ideas and beliefs and allow an entirely new and creative impulse into our life. This truth has been so venerated that we find virgin figures all over the world such as Maya the mother of Buddha born 500 BC; the virgin mother of Osiris, and of course the story told of Mary.

Being a virgin in this case is about having a mind free from previous ‘conceptions’ and so being open to Life itself fertilising you for a new and precious thing being born. If you are not a virgin because you have had children, that is not what virgin birth is about. It is about conceiving without any mental preconceptions, having an open and receptive mind or soul. it is about a wonderful human possibility.

So the dream baby born to you in this way a wonderful creative act between you and Life. It is a new part of you that if you let it gradually grow into your waking life as a new force, a new way of feeling about life and acting. Being pregnant like that is very important. Obviously you are not going to give birth to a physical baby, but dream babies are important too.

Only a ‘virgin birth’ can bring forth the birth of an intuition, a new response to oneself and ones environment, that transforms ones life. This is a living relationship with the mystery which underlies our life. If we generate a child in this way, we are not held prisoner by habits of thought, stereotypes of behaviour, then we can begin to allow into our waking life what was previously impossible to know. This open state of mind and feelings, acts as a link between the identity or personality, and the deep unconscious life processes. This link allows a birth of realisations and inner change that brings healing and a possibility of experiencing the aspect of oneself that is our core self.

Crying baby or helpless baby: Your fundamental needs are not being, or were not in the past, met. These include basic things like feeling happy and relaxed in ones environment, feeling wanted and loved, having a sense of connection with other people. There may be something distressing you at a feeling/needing level that you are not acknowledging; a new project or aspect of self needing more care.

But it is part of inbuilt wisdom in babies to cry and act helpless of injured to get their needs or a parents love. So if you dream of such a baby it may well be showing you that you are using the same tactics to get people’s sympathy.

Example: Baby pelicans can produce a false epileptic fit; they do this because it is a way to get their parents to carry on feeding them. The alternative is that they must get off their butt and feed themselves.

Dream Baby – i.e. one you gave birth to in your dream. Dream babies are usually special and are a way that you give birth to either parts of your personality that have developed over time and  are now ‘born’. They slowly become obvious to us as new talents, a new direction, or even a new way of life.

Such babies are easy to give birth to, and usually are beautiful and speak soon.

Do I need a pregnancy test if I dream of having a baby?: If you are having unprotected regular sex or if you are trying for a baby, then yes have a test.  But if you know you had not had sex with a partner, then it is a dream baby. See all the comments and answers at the bottom of the page.

Dropping a baby: Carelessness in dealing with your basic needs, especially in relationship; mishandling an opportunity; betraying trust; feeling you have been ‘dropped’ by someone, perhaps in a relationship. It might also at times suggest a miscarriage or the lack of support in caring for a pregnancy.

Example: I turned and ran with the pram at a small boy on a tricycle who was pedalling toward me playfully. We laughingly collided. Not a bad bump, but enough to send the baby over onto the ground on its head. The baby cried but didn’t seem badly hurt. I realised it was the second time I had dropped the baby, and felt I must be more careful and responsible. We were then preparing for a storm on the ship.

It was during the past few days that my wife told me that her period was late. She thought she was pregnant. This caused an awful situation between us. I was out of work in an area that offered me no work. I suggested she had an abortion. As it turned out it was a false pregnancy. However, the damage had been done. (Apparently I had dropped the baby?)

Girl baby: Birth or emergence of new aspects of feelings and feeling relationship with others. But in a females dream may mean an emergence of a new phase or a new start in her life.

Giving birth: A healthy woman is designed by nature to create a baby.  But it is also true that at the heart of a woman’s being is the power of creation, and that creation can go in any direction – a mother, an artist, a dancer, a poet, a social worker, or even an alcoholic or drug dependent.

But in our dream world the image of your creation is usually in the form of a baby. But as you may not be pregnant you have produced an image of your creation and creativeness. It is new so you do not know what it is. That you have dreamt this at all shows you need to take note of this extraordinary creativeness and investigate it. You can do this by imagining your self as the baby –  remember that dreams are showing reflections of your own inner world so the baby is an expression of your creativity – and talk as the baby describing what it feels. Use Talking As.

If it is difficult or a C-section then you are anxious or have fears about having a baby, or else there is a history of difficulty that you need to work out. Try using Carry the Dream Forward.

That you have dreamt this at all shows you need to take note of this extraordinary creativeness and investigate it. You can do this by imagining your self as the baby –  remember that dreams are showing reflections of your own inner world so the baby is an expression of your creativity – and talk as the baby describing what it feels. Talking As

And do not dismiss this as a silly dream, such dream babies have a very real purpose and life of their own. They are your creation out of the wonderful creative process that is a woman, and your own ideals and longings. If you nurture them you will see them grow – I call the spirit children.

Happy baby: Feeling at ease with oneself and surroundings. It may be that something has happened in a relationship or environment that brings a deeper level of relaxation and sense of security.

Hitting the baby: Usually a sign of not being able to cope with ones own childhood pain, and so it ends in hitting. See: hitting.

In a man’s dream: The same as general definitions, but also may be oneself at that age; desire for parenthood; weight of responsibility; fear of inability to produce. See Man Giving Birth to Baby.

In child’s dream: Themselves at that age; feelings about a baby sibling.

In woman’s dream: The same as general definitions, but also may be oneself at that age; desire for a baby; responsibility of caring for baby; worries about having healthy baby; worries about baby’s welfare.

Losing/not finding a baby: Losing contact with or not caring for your fundamental feeling responses to life; losing an opportunity or mishandling a delicate relationship; feeling lost and abandoned in ones own child feelings.

Man giving birth to a baby: Often happens during the pregnancy of the mans partner; shows the man bringing something to birth in himself. This is usually a new understanding, or a new sympathy or viewpoint. It can show the emergence of awareness of the unconscious. See Special Baby

Neglecting or forgetting baby: Many baby dreams, as in the example at the bottom, have this theme of neglecting, or even starving the baby. This is usually because we need to take care of, or be more aware of, how much personal need we have for things like care, appreciation and love being given to us. If as a baby our need for being held and given attention were met, then we can move into the next phase of our growth. But if these needs were never met, one is often stuck emotionally at this level of development. See Beware of Love.

If you are a parent with a baby, the dream may represent natural anxieties about ones ability as a parent – i.e. the dream may reflect a fear you are not giving as much to your child as you wish, or that you find yourself wishing for a break from parenthood.

Example: ‘I have my own baby who is lying in a cot in a bedroom looking very weak and pathetic with eyes closed. I know that he or she is getting weaker and weaker through lack of food and care. In fact the baby seems to be dying. The feelings of guilt are terrible because I know it is my responsibility to do something to make it well. I keep saying to myself I must go and feed that baby – but I don’t. I just keep worrying and feeling guilty.’ J. C.

Because of circumstances we may not have been able to satisfy all our babyhood needs – we may have been weaned earlier than we wanted; our need for attention may have been unsatisfied or we felt rejected or unwanted – and these are shown as a baby in our dreams. Dreams such as the above show how we sense the need of this part of us to be cared for and nourished. If some of these earliest needs are not met in some way, the development of our enthusiasm, our pleasure and ability to be involved and self-giving, may be diminished, giving rise to dreams suggesting the need for nourishment, as above. See: baby – healing and helping; baby in my dreams.

Nursing a baby: Caring for ones own infant needs which still exist in ones adult life; giving care and love to someone who is relating to you in a baby way; wanting a baby, or needing to express the depth of your own ability to give and love.

Pregnancy – dreaming of baby during: Most women dream about their growing baby during pregnancy. These dreams are vary varied and often anxious or frightening. Such dreams are not to be taken as signs of a problem other than natural anxiety. Occasionally a pregnant woman dreams of the identity or personality of her unborn child, perhaps even before it is conceived. This can of course occur to the father too. See: pregnancy; birth dreams during pregnancy; fifth example under penis, in the body section.

Sick baby: Our babyhood experience builds the foundation of all relationship with other people and the world. If for instance we are punished for being curious, or are traumatised in our need for love and support, it will show in our adult relationships. Perhaps we will lack explorative curiosity, or avoid or have difficulties in a close relationship. The sick baby usually depicts such difficulties. Exploring our feelings in connection with the sick baby, or being the sick baby as in Gestalt dream-work, will help uncover the details and intense feelings involved in such unsatisfying emotions and habitual responses.

Starving baby: See: Neglecting or forgetting baby: above.

Twins or twin: The many polar opposites or splits in us – the split between waking consciousness and sleep or the unconscious; the split between what we want in our deepest desires, and what we can allow ourselves socially; the split caused by infant trauma; the split between our sense of eternity and the facts of physical mortality; introversion and extroversion; something of self which has got split off; the lack of balance in our being; twins can represent duality, conflict, or two sides of an issue, but also the emergence of something new, something that was denied, or born with one, but never acknowledged as part of oneself; ones unconscious relationship with another person, such as occurs in a telepathic link; separation.

Or perhaps even ‘died at birth’, or one died, leaving us feeling only half a person; the lack of balance in our being. When one of the babies died and the other survived it might be as happens often that the situation wasn’t right for one perhaps because of health issues. See Tony’s Inner Voice

When appearing with a couple: The marriage – what is created in the relationship; the life process in us based on reproduction. What you have produced and care for or neglect together

Quoted from Dreams and Dreaming, by Norman Mackenzie.

Then I went back in my mind to being two years old when I felt that a terrible thing had happened to me, the realisation that my mother had no love for me. I saw her holding a male baby and I felt in that instant that I hated males. I had just this fundamental feeling, a terrible feeling, and it grew and I became full of hate and I realised that it was directed toward the opposite sex. I felt that this had begun at an early age when I felt that my mother had given affection to the male members of the family and not myself. I was the only female. I realised that at that age she didn’t love me and I must have felt jealous of the male This grew up within me.

This graphically describes the depth of feeling we often carry from our earliest years, feelings which deeply influence our adult behaviour. In this case it made the woman’s relationships with her husband strained and tense.

Example: I have my own baby who is lying in a cot in a bedroom looking very weak and pathetic with eyes closed. I know that he or she is getting weaker and weaker through lack of food and care. In fact the baby seems to be dying. The feelings of guilt are terrible because I know it is my responsibility to do something to make it well. I keep saying to myself I must go and feed that baby – but I don’t. I just keep worrying and feeling guilty. J. C.

Because of circumstances we may not have been able to satisfy all our babyhood needs – we may have been weaned earlier than we wanted; our need for attention may have been unsatisfied or we felt rejected or unwanted – and these are shown as a baby in our dreams, as with J. C. Dreams such as the above show how we sense the need of this part of us to be cared for and nourished. If some of these earliest needs are not met in some way, the development of our enthusiasm, our pleasure and ability to be involved and self-giving, may be diminished, giving rise to dreams suggesting the need for nourishment, as above. See: baby healing and helping; baby in my dreams.

Example: I am 48, have two children in their late teens and definitely DO NOT want another baby. Nevertheless I have a recurring dream in which I am always in labour, experiencing no pain, and although there are nursing staff I am in some sort of laboratory, although everything is very pleasant. I never actually give birth and when I wake I always have a vague feeling of disappointment. V. I.

This dreamers conscious decision to have no more children may be in conflict with her biological urge for another baby. But the dream might also suggest there is something she deeply want to give birth to in her life but has not yet achieved. Her creativity did not end with her children, there is still more for her to bring out of herself in some way.

Example: My mouth was full of what looked like liver. It was also coming out of my left ear. When I turned away from the mirror I saw medical people in caps and gowns who kept telling me to bear down. I then gave birth to a baby out of my mouth. I am an invalid and very sick at present. Mr. M. S.

This mans dream is about preparation for death. The baby is the extraction of all that can live on after his present life is left behind in death. See: death – is there life afterwards.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Useful questions are given in baby in my dreams.

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Comments

-Desi 2015-10-27 14:11:41

Last night my boyfriend and I were watching water births and then that night I dreamt I had s child but never saw the child after I gave birth to the baby in my dream. All that kept appearing was a huge c section scar that was squiggly from right shoulder blade down to my stomach and then I woke up .

-Choin 2015-10-02 13:27:21

I had a dream that I was on a boat and I gave birth to my baby and no one was letting me see it but I was insisting to find it and I couldn’t .. I was pregnant at the time.
A few days later I found out my baby’s heartbeat stopped ..

I do believe dreams tell you things so if you have a smiler experience to this. Make sure you find out if everything is okay.. Very hard and sad time for me

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-10-19 11:01:52

    Dear Choin – I am sorry to hear about the loss of your unborn child. It is true that a dream can give insight into what is happening inside your body and so with your unborn child.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/function-of-dreaming/
    On the other hand I wonder if there is anything you could have done for your unborn child. Sometimes there is a chromosomal abnormality and then it is nature’s way to stop the baby/foetus from developing further, because it would not have a chance to live outside of the womb.
    See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/pregnant-pregnancy/
    Anna 🙂

-Lely 2015-09-30 15:55:49

I had a dream last night that I had a infant boy and I kept hurting it on accident. I would drop him or leave him behind and I would find him crying and I would soothe him but the accidents kept happening. I felt love for this baby but couldn’t understand why I kept letting it get hurt. Thanks!

-Shamia 2015-09-21 13:37:55

Hi I’ve had a dream last night of me hiding in my closet. But as I was hiding I started hearing a light child cry. I thought it was my three year looking for me in the dream. But as i started moving things around in the closet I found a 1-2year old baby boy in pajamas. I picked him up and removed us from the closet.he wasn’t crying any more.very peaceful acting but I didn’t know who son he was??? I can tell he was dehadrated so went to get water for him. His pamper was barley wet! Cause I checked. And then I woke up.but I could not understand why he didn’t cry more? How long he was in the closet? And who child?? He was a boy child

-Peeps 2015-09-11 10:23:22

My significant other recently had a dream that we were both at dinner with swaddled newborns, one boy and one girl. We were each bottle feeding one while at dinner. Not sure which of us was feeding which baby. Thanks!

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-09-20 15:42:03

    Dear Peeps – It could mean that your significant other is enriched by sharing life and experiences with you and other people.
    This sharing enables him/her to give birth to something new in his/her life and he/she is capable of caring for it so it will grow.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-baby-in-your-dream/
    Anna 🙂

-C.B 2015-08-30 7:35:05

Hi, i am a single female with two girls, last night i had a dream that i gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy at my auntys, the labour was quick an md painless, what does this mean please?

-Dani 2015-08-30 4:19:12

I had a dream that I had sex with my partner and I remember taking a pregnancy test but it turned out negative.. And I got upset and tried finding someone to have sex with me so I could have a baby.. But I was scared of giving birth, I still really wanted one though. I don’t understand?

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-09-02 16:42:24

    Dear Dani – Your dream could reflect that you feel that your relationship with your partner is not giving you what you want or need.
    A dream baby can be seen as a result of what the two of you are creating together and your dream suggests that you feel unfulfilled.
    The solution you are exploring in your dream is to try to find someone to have sex with, yet you are also aware that you are scared of giving birth.
    I think it will be helpful to explore if it is “the fear of giving birth” that is withholding you from creating a lasting relationship with your partner and if choosing another partner will dissolve this fear.
    See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/birth/
    Anna 🙂

-Tiffany 2015-08-12 5:31:30

Thanks for your site! I feel so enlightened as to these “baby dropping, and baby losing” dreams I have had. I often dream I am holding a tiny baby boy with only a diaper and he falls out of arms, almost as if I am weak or he is slick or falling. Once the baby was not mine but a person I knew in dream, not in my life, and he fell to get a bump on his head, I felt fear like I was responsible nfor him being ill, and his mother would hate me, I held him and cleaned his face, there was no bump, however I gave him back to his mother and he threw up, my heart started beating out of my chest ,I knew I had to tell her he was dropped in case he needed help, then I awoken drenched in sweat…(I know..crazy!!).
Then in other dreams, I have my baby boy and a family (unrelated to my own in life) are trying to take my baby away..like I am not worthy. This has no bearing on life, as I am not pregnant and my two boys are 17, and 9. However, these dreams relate to the explanation you gave..I am now looking more inward to myself. Thanks again!!!! (34 yr old female)

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-08-17 13:07:32

    Dear Tiffany – Thank you for your appreciation of Tony’s Life Work; I will pass it on to him.
    I am glad that you are aware now that you are the creator of your inner world and that the beliefs you hold about yourself – like “I am weak” or “I am not worthy” – make this inner world into a difficult place to heal and grow and live in.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/#MakesInner
    Looking more inward to yourself is a good start to allow for transformation in the world you have created; that is if you learn to not judge whatever you see;
    “and his mother would hate me” is a form of judging yourself which is not helpful.
    See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/self-observation/
    Dreams about dropping your baby can also express the insecurities that are part of the way you perceive yourself. By learning to meet these, perhaps by using Secrets of Power Dreaming (http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/) you can heal your inner child and give birth to a new you.
    Anna 🙂

-Rash 2015-08-11 17:12:04

I had been in a relationship which has been ended like 2 years ago..neither i was thinking about him or anything..last night i had a weird dream.
It was like i was pregnant before marriage..and then i had a baby girl.i didn abort.my family was unhappy. I didn tell my famly.thr guy whom i was in relationship with was the father.i just tried to kill my baby by wrapping cloth around her body.
And then i went.i dont remember..after days it was like i hadnt seen her face when she was born..ao i went to the place where i killed her literally.. I was opening the cloth..and she was alive..she was so pretty.i took her in my arms and she called me mom.
I took her to my home where i live with my parents.they loved her.they were unhappy and angry because of the fact that i had a baby before marriage.but keeping care of society..they decided to get me married wid my ex..
I didn know why this dream came? It was for first time..and i was a bit scared too..what does it mean?

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-08-17 10:48:48

    Dear Rash – Everything you see as outside you is coming from you, your emotions, your fears, your beliefs, your joys and explorations and are all you, clothed in the dream images and drama. So often when you dream of someone you should not feel you are dreaming about that actual person. As with most dreams, the person in the dream is not the person themselves, but is a collection of memories, associations and feeling about him or her.
    What can also create some confusion and fear is that it seems that you fail to recognise the difference between your inner dream life and the demands of your waking life. In your waking life it is good to recognise that your actions and deeds can hurt others and change the way they feel; like your parents being unhappy and angry about you having a baby before you were married and where they would decide to get you married to your ex.
    But in dreams you are nearly always facing yourselves, and what you do is always a virtual reality that you can experiment in and try out all manners of behaviour; including killing the baby in your dream to discover that she is still alive in your inner world, for you cannot be killed in a dream.
    See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Hurt
    I trust it that you have read this part in this entry:
    Your ‘baby’ might be part of you that did not have a chance to be ‘born’ or express before.
    In real life a baby is a blending of mother and father, and all they represent. A baby is a new thing that has been ‘born’ out of them and the circumstances they are involved in.
    So I believe that your dream suggests that you are now able to express this part of your potential which had a chance to develop while being in a relationship with your ex-boyfriend.
    Tony wrote another article on this subject and I think it will be good to go through the questions to explore the baby in your dream;
    http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-baby-in-your-dream/
    Anna 🙂

-Anna 2015-08-04 16:06:02

Hi! Hope you can help me, had baby dreams 2 consecutive nights already.
First, I was carrying a baby of a friend and surprised to see it is a girl, when in fact, my friend’s child is a boy! He/she was wearing a white flowy dress.
Second, I was again carrying a baby girl (not mine), so pretty and well-behaved. She was all smiles and so cute.
Thank you!

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-08-06 10:38:50

    Dear Anna – Your dream baby could reflect what is important to you, because in both dreams you carry the baby girl.
    So I believe it will be helpful to ask yourself what feelings are so much a part of you that you constantly carry them around? (You could also ask someone who knows you well.)
    See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/whole-2/
    If we take away the images and events occurring in a dream and simply look to see what feelings or emotions are evident, the dream is often more understandable than if we try to interpret the symbols. Feelings in dreams are nearly always undistorted. We therefore do not need to interpret them, simply to recognise them and see if we can recognise where they occur in waking life.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/emotions-and-mood-in-dreams/
    Does that give you a start?
    Anna 🙂

-Tawanda 2015-07-25 11:10:31

I had a dream that i had given birth to a babygirl. She was absolutely beautiful. Then in the dream it seemed to fast forward and she was 3 months old and we were in a hotel room and me the baby and my fiance were n the bed and i looked to be sleep and i smothered the baby and stating crying. Then morning came and i woke up the baby was toddler size but dead but she looked sleep. Then this lady walks in and she tells me shes a witch. And my daughter was not dead then she and my daughtr body disappears and i start crying. Im not sure how to interpret this dream..

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-08-01 10:08:43

    Dear Tawanda – Our dreams can graphically illustrate our beliefs and what influence they have upon our decision making, responses and relationships. The importance lies in the fact that many of our beliefs are unconscious. They were absorbed in childhood and often remain without any conscious evaluation. Dreams also tend to explore where such beliefs lead us, and what the outcome of holding them may be in certain circumstances.
    The way I see your dream is that you are passing through different forms of love which cannot last, because there is not enough “space to breath”.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/relationship-sex/ages-of-love-2/
    The baby in your dream I see as a symbol of what you have created in the relationship with your fiancé and I believe it could be partly influenced by the relationship you had with your mother.
    Did/do you feel that your (inner) mother gave/gives you enough personal space?
    Many people do not realise that they have an inner mother equally as powerful as an external mother. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with your mother, and they are what makes you the person you are. Because of the connection your baby has with the past, I feel it will be helpful to read and explore two other links too:
    See http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-baby-in-your-dream/
    and
    http://dreamhawk.com/health-and-healing/inner-baby-and-child/
    It will be helpful to explore this dream for yourself as well – especially “Being the person or thing” and “Talking as a dream character” to get a better feeling understanding of what is going on in the subtle areas of your relationship with your fiancé.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/
    Does that give you a start?
    Anna 🙂

-Leah 2015-07-08 17:16:20

Hello,

I hope you can help. I have two family members who are young adults and I feel are going down the wrong path in life. I worry about them and think what I can do to help them regularly but can’t seem to think up a solution. They have been popping up in my dreams more and more. I had a dream last night that they were both babies again and I was hugging them and crying because I was remembering how sweet and innocent they were. I got the feeling that their adult lives had ended. Thanks very much gor your time,
Leah

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-07-09 15:52:39

    Dear Leah – The way you perceive these two young adults in your dream – “I was remembering how sweet and innocent they were” – reminds me of the approach of an African tribe I once read about.
    I believe that what you do in your dream is that you reconnect these two people with their inherent goodness and innocence; you are able to face “the worst” in them, and you also see within them what was once whole and it is the same approach that these African people use.
    QUOTE:
    I was recently told of an African tribe that does the most beautiful thing.
    When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him. For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.
    The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as Good, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.
    But sometimes in the pursuit of those things people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help.
    They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he’d temporarily been disconnected: “I AM GOOD”.
    Anna 🙂

-Jazmin 2015-06-22 17:26:17

Hello, latley I’ve been having dreams about being pregnant or having a baby, my partner and I been trying to have one, it has been over 7 months and I still can’t get pregnant! Last night I had a dream my mother in law and I were taking care of my baby. I was so happy and I couldn’t believe I had a baby. My partner as well been having dreams about me being pregnant. I am starting to wonder are we over thinking about having a baby or is this a sign that it’s really going to happened? Need your help. Thank you!

– Jazmin

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-06-24 17:16:22

    Dear Jazmin – Because you are all hoping for a baby, the baby in your dreams may be reflecting these hopes or your intuitions about pregnancy and so only “time can tell” if these dreams are about being pregnant.
    Perhaps this article – in case you did not read it yet – will be a helpful read?
    See http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/communicating-with-your-unborn-child/
    Good Luck!
    Anna 🙂

-Cassandra 2015-06-09 10:13:00

I have been having lots of dreams about pregnancy and giving birth lately… last night I had such a vivid dream that I’ve been thinking about all day… I was pregnant and with my partner and sister when my water broke, I was in my house (the house I live in now) and I stood over a plastic bucket inhaling and exhaling… My partner was trying to call someone on his phone for help and my sister was holding my arm firmly. I gave birth in a matter of minutes to a teeny tiny baby girl. She was perfectly healthy although she was small, the way she looked was phenomenal, a perfect combination of myself and my partner. The experience was what I imagine it would be like in reality, we were all crying tears of joy and I held my new baby in my arms and felt love that I have never felt before. We drove to the hospital to have her looked at and everything was fine, they sent us all home and my partner, myself and our baby “Ava-Lily” we called her, got changed into some comfortable but nice clothes, and my sister took a photo of the 3 of us that we posted to all of our loved ones and announced the arrival of our daughter. I even remember that she weighed 6 pound 8 and the weather was cold but not winter. I felt every part of this dream, every emotion, every thought and even the physical pain of giving birth. What does this mean? I often analyse my dreams and can have some sort of answer but this dream was spiritual and my body experienced it! I haven’t been able to get it out of my head all day and I can’t say I have any intentions of having children just yet but since I saw this girl I feel like I want her, I feel like she will be my child in real life one day but why do I feel this? And so strongly at that? Please share your thoughts, thank you!

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-06-11 9:00:58

    Dear Cassandra – The way I see your beautiful, touching dream is that it has different meanings on different levels.
    When we allow our Core Self to take care of our growth, we can dream of giving birth over and over again.
    When we give birth to a baby in our dream it is something new and vulnerable that has come to life – come to your life. The important question is, what is it that is new and growing in your love, in your work, or in yourself and how can you take care of it?
    So please read http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-baby-in-your-dream/
    The baby can also be a symbol of your relationship with your partner; so what is created in the relationship and what you care for together.
    Your sister’s presence in the dream can be a symbol of your feeling self and perhaps of the lesser expressed parts of yourself like “and felt love that I have never felt before”.
    Allowing and touching our Core Self or LIFE is also about allowing this love that LIFE is.
    IT cares for you and it is forever willing to help you heal and grow.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/the-core-experience-part-1/
    On another level this dream of giving birth could be about a “dress rehearsal”; even if you have no intentions of having physical children just yet, in your dreams you are able to explore what it is like to give birth.
    Dreams often stand in place of actual experience. So through dreams we may experiment with new experience or practice things we have not yet done externally. For instance many young women dream in detail of giving birth. This function of what might be called ‘imagination’ is tremendously undervalued, but is a foundation upon which human survival is built.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/function-of-dreaming/
    and
    http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/imagination-and-dreaming-2/
    You wrote “since I saw this girl I feel like I want her, I feel like she will be my child in real life one day but why do I feel this?”
    There are many stories of parents who meet their “children to be” and so I suggest you trust your intuition and you continue to use this time to prepare yourself to “receive her” when you feel ready for her.
    See http://dreamhawk.com/category/pregnancy-childbirth/
    and
    http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-mysterious-power-of-children-to-be/
    Anna 🙂

-cortney 2015-05-01 16:06:55

Last night I had multiple dreams connecting with eachother about me and my family. I’m an engaged 22yr old with no children. But my dream was about me going to a family function and introducing a baby boy to my family, except i kept forgetting his name. He was adorable and I loved him it seemed so natural and perfect. What does this dream mean?

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2015-05-03 6:49:01

    Dear Cortney – If you have given birth to a baby boy, it is usually about the principle of maleness entering your life. Maleness is like the sun, it expresses most of its energy outwardly to give life, whereas the female is like the earth; receiving and nurturing life.
    It is the birth or emergence of a new phase of self-expression in terms of activity or achievement.
    To get a better understanding of the baby in your dream please read http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-baby-in-your-dream/ and explore the questions.
    What you feel and think about the baby gives an indication of how you are relating to the new or vulnerable part of yourself, or what worries you are discharging (like forgetting the baby’s name). Clarify them to recognise what may be helping or hindering this new experience in your life.
    Good Luck!
    Anna 🙂

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