Baby Babies
General
Aborted baby
Adult body with baby head
Adopted baby
Baby body with adult head – Baby Boy – Baby Girl
Crying baby
Dead Baby
Do I need a pregnancy test if I dream of having a baby? – Dream Baby – Dropping a baby
Gifted or holy baby – Girl baby – Giving birth
Happy baby – Hitting the baby
In a man’s dream – In child’s dream – In woman’s dream – Losing/not finding a baby
Man giving birth to a baby
Neglecting or forgetting baby –Nursing a baby
Pregnancy – dreaming of baby during
Sick baby – Starving 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.
Comments
I had a dream that my mum gave birth to her sixth child and I was angry at her for it. In this dream, I was yelling at her all these horrible things about my new sibling and even said I didn’t want to be part of the family anymore…of course, the baby did belong to my birth dad who is still my dad today, but in the dream, the rest of my siblings were cool about the thing that we had another new sibling coming along into our family and I was the only one there who wasn’t at happy at all about this drama. Does this dream mean I’m not made to become a mother myself because somebody else in the future would do this to me?
Dillen – No it doesn’t mean anything about your ability to become a mother. But it is an interesting dream showing how unconscious we are about our passions. It is about your feelings of being overtaken in the receiving of love. You showed a great deal of passionate dislike for anybody else coming into your family life. If you become aware of those feelings it may help you to meet them in a way that doesn’t disturb you.
Tony
I woke up from my dream lastnight kind of freakingout. Even though I am not pregnant and never have been I had a dream that I was with a baby girl and I could feel her move and kick. I started to go into labor and I could feel all the pains.. I was takin to the hospital and when I got to the hospital room and started pushin to have the baby I woke up.. What does this mean?
Alex – It sounds like very realistic practice run.
The part of us that causes dreams is an expression of Life within us. As such it tries to ready us for the main actions of life – childbirth. So it happens often that young women dream of giving birth. It enables the person to know what it is like and feel easy about their ability to be a woman. It also reduces any tension and anxiety they may have felt. As some dreamers say, “It was so much easier – after all, I had done it all before.”
Tony
My nan advised me that she never remembers her dream , she advised me she had a dream that i had a baby boy what died, she advised he seemed very realistic and that she seen the dead baby boy.
Lisa – This could be a very serious dream, and so I have done my best to understand it. However it seems that this dream is about your Nan’s desire for a grandchild. In the dream and in herself she suffered doubts as to whether the grandchild will be born. The doubts translated into seeing the baby dead.
So if you do get pregnant please do not think this is a prediction. Love can change many things, so hold the image of any baby you would like to have with love.
Tony
I had a dream that I was pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy (I already have 3 boys, and not planning anymore). The only thing about this dream that bothered me, was the fact that I could not choose a name for the baby. Then the hospital told me I couldn’t leave until i had a name. I called my xhusband to help name the baby (we have been divorced for years-he is the father of my 3 boys). We finally decided on a name, but when i left the hospital i realized I didn’t have anything for the baby, no car seat, no clothes, not even a diaper. I woke up in a panic….
Rae – I was quite mystified by your dream and so went in search for a meaning.
Do you know the song ‘There is an Ocean’ by Donovan? In it he says that “There is an ocean of vast proportion And she flows within ourselves. …. The abode of Angels, the mystical Promised Land, …. Is but the closing of an eyelid away.”
So I closed my eyelids and found that your dream probably came about because of feelings you have about your three boys. You have given so much of yourself, your time and love to raising them, and that love and self giving has formed a new being in you – the baby boy.
This baby is a culmination of all the memories, the struggles, the years of being with them and the life you had and what you gathered and learnt from your husband and the father of your boys. Dreams have a function of taking all our experiences and putting it together in a new form; in fact a new you. That is how we grow and matured if we listen to our Life.
You had not suspected the feelings were so intense with so much that you had gathered together and given birth to in yourself. If I am correct you will recognise these feelings. That they were unexpected were the search for a name, a quality of recognition. And your unpreparedness was also was the cause of the panic you woke up with. The reality of this new aspect of your life needs looking after as it is still a vulnerable baby part of you, and the dream was a wake up call of recognition. The recognition is of how much you have gained form being a mother – so much. So look after this new you and watch it grow.
Tony
i had a super werid and just creepy dream and i want to know why. i was 8 months prego. which im not at all! and i didnt kno i was prego. and i went to the docter because my stomach hurt and come to find out i was prego and i had to come back in a month to have the baby. and i didnt want to know the sex of it. then i was at the hospital and i had the baby but no one was in the room and i didnt even push it just fell out and i put it in my arms it was a baby girl but it looked like me when i was born. and it started doing a finger twitch ( that i do from aniexity ) and then it looked at me and smiled. and then i went home and my dad asked what i named her. and i said paisley marie. but the werid thing is i didnt even have like a boyfriend and i didnt know who my baby daddy was or nething. it was like a baby me but im just super confused and it just werids me out. so want to know what that was pose to mean!
Kaitlyn – You didn’t have a boyfriend because you do not need one to become pregnant in dreams. As you so clearly say, you gave birth to yourself – as a baby.
What it is supposed to mean is that when we are growing the first time there are often a lot of problems. So then some people go through again in their dreams and inner life, then they can clear away a lot of rubbish that stopped them being the person they can be. As it says in the Bible, “Except ye … become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
So you have a chance to bring up your own child self again. So many people have done it. “If you cannot allow your playfulness here, then you will not be able to allow it anywhere in the world. Allow it totally-let it go out of control; and once your child is really alive and dancing within you, it will change the very flavor of your life. It will give you a sense of humor, a beautiful laughter, and it will destroy all your headiness. It will make you a man of the heart.
The woman who lives in his head does not live at all. Only the person who lives in their heart, and sings songs which are not understandable to the head, dances which are not in any way relevant to any context outside you… just out of your abundance, out of your affluence: you have so much energy that you would like to dance and sing and shout… so do it!”
So enjoy bringing up your new self.
Tony
I had a dream that I was walking my baby son in a stroller around the block. The stroller was one of those red and yellow play things. He looked so real. Almost a prediction of what my bf and I’s sound would look like.
I had a dream that I had a baby girl with someone that I am dating, for a few months now. We are in a hospital room and I am complaining that I have not seen her in 2 days and that she is probably hungry. A nurse comes in with a baby and I can’t see her face yet. Then she hands her to me and asks me what her name is and I said i didn’t have a name yet. She tells me you should name her Giovanna (which is my mothers name) So I tell her,”weird that is my mothers name” and i think to myself I could call her that or my mothers middle name Natividad, then I think hmmm I’m not sure and walk away with the baby. Then the nurse talks to the guy i’m dating now, in my dream telling him that the doctor was away on vacation. So I sit down on a rocking chair and I’m observing the baby and she smiles and has 1 dimple, then I realize she is not a newborn, she seemed a few months old. So I ask the guy to hand me the bottle and he hands me one that had a little milk in it, I tell him “No, this is old. Hand me the new one that the nurse left on the table.” He tells me that the baby should finish the bottle and we argue back and forth for a bit because I wanted to give her the new bottle so he finally listened. I noticed in the dream the baby looked more like him then she did me. I’ve had dreams with babies before and they are always girls at different ages and different looks, and a guy is never there, but this one was the most realistic. What does it mean, and why is the guy i’m dating the father?
Ingrid – There are three natural things here.
1. It is natural for most healthy women to want a child.
2. It is natural for young women dream about having a baby. This is a way they can practice giving birth and caring for their baby. Such dreams are almost as good as the actual experience for giving confidence.
3. It is natural for a woman to look for a mate that will be a good provider, companion and father – and this will depend upon what she has to offer her mate.
I see your dream as the result of these three things – you have the baby; you care for her, you have a mate. But I think that the reason the guy you are dating is in your dream is because he is the nearest to what you feel is a good mate – so far!
Tony
I just had this dream this morning. (Please note that I am of the age 16 and am Not pregnant.) In the dream my mom was pregnant and she had just hit the 8 month mark when we moved to a new state. I was going to a new school there when mom went into labor. I remember rushing to the hospital as soon as school let and when I got there I saw my little sister, that I haven’t seen since she was very small, standing outside of my mom’s room. I could hear the baby making a fuss through the open door so I went in. I saw my mom and she was smiling, then I looked down. I couldn’t see the baby very well so I moved to where I could. The baby saw me before I saw him and he quieted down. Then I looked down at this beautiful little boy, and something that felt like recognition registered in my mind. I felt like I knew this child, then I woke up. Can you help me figure this out?
AJ – You could see this dream as meaning that your mother will become pregnant and give birth to a baby boy. But I do not think it is that. My best feeling is that this is about you. As you said very defiantly you are NOT pregnant!!
You see AJ, such definite feelings are like real things in dreams. So they are here acting as block against you seeing something very wonderful. The little sister represents you at that age, and even then you felt your destiny was to become a mother for this special child.
Most great seers say that we all need a body to start life in, but also the soul may have known us in the past, and through love wishes to be together again. “We all seem to stay together with the same people that we felt close with – birds of a feather flock together. We may have different parents, our brother or sister could be our parent next time. But we do seem to stay with the same other souls that we feel a certain affinity with, or a good vibration with.”
So your dream may be a way of saying that when you are old enough you will become a mother for the child you held in the dream. What a wonder to feel that continuity through life and death.
Tony
I have had this dream repeatedly for 3 times and am quite disturbed by this..In ny dream i suddenly wake up but i am not able to see anything around me..i am very tensed and scared since i am walking but not able to see anything..m searching for my daughter 2yrs old and m worried about what she will do without me..m desperately trying to find her and praying to god..
Sometimes i realise in dream that i am dreaming and try to wake up saying to myself that i must wake up..Then also i can wake up only after a lot of mental struggle telling myself to wake up..When i wake up i cannot believe that it was a dream..it seems so real and i become haunted by this for nearly 2hrs
Please do reply..
Sowmya – You obviously have a lot of love for you daughter. But sometimes it is a fear of not being able to control everything. But we cannot control everything, and you are not the only one who cares.
Also you must understand something about sleep – especially because you become partly awake in your dream state. When you dream the muscles that enable you to move are paralysed. So this might explain your struggle while you try to wake up. Also when you sleep you go through several levels of awareness, the dream state being only one of them. Every day and night you swing from focussed awareness to the opposite end of the spectrum, where you sink into your core self. When we approach our core awareness it is like undressing. We lose body awareness if we do it while asleep. We pass through the realm of thought governed by language – so we lose thoughts. We lose all the things consciousness ‘clothes’ itself in while awake – yet we still exist. It is a very different form of existence, beyond the limitations of the body, and even time and space, but we still exist as an incredible creature alive in a world with almost no boundaries. We are godlike. In fact it seems to many when they experience this, that they are meeting God.
But for many the meeting – and it only happens while we are awake in some degree in sleep – seems horrifying; partly because we believe we are just the waking self. The core self we usually enter while we are unconscious in sleep. So your worry about what will happen to your daughter while she is without you is like the fear of death – probably because many people feel like slipping into the awareness of the core self is death. It isn’t, for we do it every time we go to sleep.
Here is a woman’s dream that shows it:
The bombs were her fear of dying as she approached her core self. Then she knew she could survive death. If you take this into yourself and realise it is a natural part of life it will gradually reduce the fear.
Tony
I had a dream where my cousin had lost her baby n she was crying this has happened before in real life that she lost a baby but she was okay with it she didnt want the lilttle baby but this time on the dream she looked really upset and crying n then on that same dream a lady run over another lady n you could just see her head and i can also remeber my mom telling my lil cousin to go in so he wouldnt see anything do you by any chance have an idea of what this meant i just woke up and went straight to the computer cause this really caught my attention
Kimberly – I have a strange feeling that you are very sensitive and are picking up other peoples dreams. Because it reads to me as if this is the dream of the woman herself, who is very worried about where her life is taking her, and of course worried about the future. Because of her past experience she has awful feelings about a baby that might be born to her – a sort of conscience – and so she worried about the consequences of her actions.
The woman being run over is yet another picture of her, and her feelings. This is in no way a prophecy, but it might occasionally depict a self-fulfilling incident. In which case it is wise to be aware of any events suggesting what is portrayed in the dream. The dream may also be showing feelings of stress or tension that could lead to events best to be avoided. Again, defuse the situation by being aware of the tensions or stress contributing to the dream accident. Deal with the stress of tension, and thus avoid its possible consequences. An accident in a dream may also suggest feelings of being out of control, or not being able control events occurring around the dreamer, perhaps heightened stress.
But Life/God can forgive us of anything if we are willing to learn from it.
Tony
I had a dream where I was excluded from a party and left behind to care for everyone’s dogs. I locked them in the garage along with a baby that was dropped off. I found out the baby was my ex-husbands (my husband in the dream) and no one would tell me who the mother was. Anyway I put the baby in a box and left it there. It was not crying, it was quite happy actually. The dream really stuck with me and I am trying to figure out what it means. I have been divorce for a few years and my ex and I are on good terms, we have a daughter and infidelity was never an issue. Any insight you might have would be great!
Christine – This is an interesting one.
You may have heard or read that Freud made a great breakthrough in understanding dreams by seeing that you could get at the meaning by association of ideas with the dream images. But Jung and then others took this even further by saying that if you really identify with the image you find that it is only a front, an icon; and behind it is enormous amounts of personal memories and experience. So this goes against the way most people relate to their dreams. The person you dream about is not the person, but a massive synthesis of experiences and memories.
So your dream husband was all the things you absorbed in the relationship and after the divorce. Therefore the father of the child is the good things you got from the relationship. And the reason no one would tell you who the mother was is because you are the mother of your own dream child. So something good has arisen now out of the past. Maybe you have digested something about the relationship that now opens up a new part of – the baby.
Perhaps you parked the baby in the garage because you did not realise its importance in your life – for it is important.
The dogs are your helpful instincts – again parked. They are your links with the rest of the natural world. It is an instinct that may people lack, so they cannot see they are an integrated part of the world. Evolution, as with any species, has fitted us for a very narrow niche, one that fails to see the larger picture.
Tony
I dreamt of caring for a baby. The baby was dirty, sticky like he had candy all over him. He was in a walker and i was watching him. At first it felt as if he was someone else’s baby. Then I went to wet a towel to clean him up. I picked him up out of his walker, held him in my arms, ran the towel over his face, then realized he was mine. At first he was cranky, but when I picked him up we was very happy and so was I. What could this mean?
Natalie – It means that you are caring for your own infant self. At first you didn’t recognise him because he was your cranky feelings that arise at times. By picking him up you gave him care and love, so of course you could recognise him.
It doesn’t matter that he is a boy because dreams see the baby as your outgoing self that was probably held back because of difficulties in your childhood. Sometimes we are not encouraged to grow, but need to adapt to the way of life of parents and teachers.
Tony
Christine – Everything in a dream is an expression of you the dreamer. So the baby is yours, born out of all the past influences left in you from your ex-husband. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#SoulMate to get a fuller understanding of this.
But your dream shows you being distracted by a party and entertainment, and not giving enough time to really care for your inner self – shown by the dogs – and also the new part of you that has grown out of you through the influence of your ex. You are the mother of all you bring forth in your dreams, and that baby is a very precious part of you. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#WomCreative – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#SoulMate
So imagine giving it some love and care.
Tony
I just woke this morning from an intense dream. It started with me in the bathroom of my parents’ house. I am standing in the bathtub looking at my pregnant belly in the mirror that covers the opposite wall. The bathroom is golden and filled with light (but it has always had a golden colour scheme in real life). It’s surprising that I’m pregnant, but I don’t feel anxious or worried about it. I’m just trying to understand it and decide how I feel about it as I look in the mirror. then I look down at my belly and suddenly my skin becomes transparent, and I can see into my womb. It’s like one of those old science class models made of plastic. I see the baby inside of me and it’s smiling up at me. In fact, it’s speaking to me,telling me it’s all right, I can pick it up and hold it. So I do, I reach inside my belly, which is still transparent and now pliable like a membrane, and pluck the baby out and hold him in my arms. As soon as he’s in my arms I feel this overwhelming sense of joy and love and wonder which just gets stronger the longer I hold him and look into his eyes. I call up the man currently in my life to tell him the good news – I know the sex of the baby – it’s a boy! There’s a pause. He asks me if I’m ok with it, as if he thought that I had wanted a girl. I say that actually it’s perfect, I might have been expecting a girl, but really, long ago I had always wanted a baby boy and now this one will be perfect. My partner on the phone sounds relieved, and suddenly he’s there in the bathroom too. Then I seem to feel that it’s important to take this baby out into the world, and suddenly I’m on this city street, dressed in purple, holding the baby and waiting for a friend. It is a sunny, windy day. I only have eyes for the baby and he only has eyes for me, and I feel this smile across my face that is permanently there and my connection to this new life in my arms is growing deeper by the second. We’re on the middle steps of a cobbled stone stairway. across the stone dividing fence one one side (to my right) is a field and rolling countryside hills. Although I can’t see it, I know there is some sort of old, important, perhaps even sacred building at the top of the stairway. from where I am standing, looking out, there is a modern street with rushing traffic. Some friends come by to congratulate me on the baby. My mom also comes by, staying a bit longer, but she too then leaves. I feel a strong urge to protect my baby from the wind that is blowing, but I also know that the sun and fresh air are the best things for him. And I still can believe how much love I feel for this person, I keep holding him closer to me, and he curls right up against my chest and I can feel my breast swell with something almost beyond love it feels so strong. I want to hold onto this moment forever. Then I am awake in bed. No baby. The partner from my dream is beside me. He wakes up and I tell him I dreamed I had a baby boy and he reminds me that I’m not pregnant. i sigh as I realize that the love I felt for my child was in the dream, even as I can still feel the weight of the baby in my arms. My partner doesn’t seem worried or alarmed that I dreamed about having a child. He puts an arm around me and we go back to sleep.
Then I really wake up and realize that not only did I dream about having a baby boy, but that I dreamt that dream inside another dream. I can still feel the tremendous love from the first dream, but the sense of loss is also doubled through having to realize TWICE that it was only a dream.
Some background: I have never been pregnant, and there is absolutely no possibility of me being pregnant now. I also live in another country from my parents, though I am planning on visiting them this summer. The man I dreamed was my partner is someone I have been have a casual relationship with for some months now. We live in different cities but usually see each other each month. I know that I have feelings for him, but my pride has kept them in check because I am never sure exactly what his feelings for me are (and often after we’ve had sex, if it’s without a condom, he double checks that I am on the pill, which I am, his main concern being pregnancy rather than any stds, which is my main concern). Last night before I fell asleep I made an intention to swallow my pride and open my heart up to love and the possibility of loving him. I said this intention out loud to myself. Then I had this intense dream.
Hannah – What a truly wonderful dream – and thank you for taking the time to really describe it and your feelings to me.
The great truth you can discover is that when you open yourself to love, you open yourself to Life. It is like when you are cautious with yourself, you are cautious with the possibilities that Life offers you. And I believe the second dream about your present partner is a clear indication that this is your baby, and has nothing much to do with your partner.
This contact, this meeting between you and Life, comes to us because there has been an inner shift, an inner change of heart. Put simply this means that we drop preconceptions, we melt away fixed opinions, rigid attitudes, perhaps through prayer, meditation or perseverance. In your case the meeting took place because you opened your heart – and when that happened you become pregnant with a divine child. In a sense it is the real virgin birth, and you could feel that in that the baby was able to speak to you and you could hold it. The story of the virgin birth is not about history, it is about a wonderful human possibility.
So please do not think this is simply a dream. Dreams are about real inner events, a momentous event in your life. So hold your baby often and watch it grow. Quite quickly it will grow into a mature and wonderful man. And you will feel his impress upon you and will dream or see him as you grow. Please do not close the door that you opened. It is an ancient story and a wonderful one that is appearing in your life. So treasure it.
Tony
I had a dream about giving birth to a baby boy last night in a bathroom (a smaller bathroom, but had a yellow glow to it). This baby boy had beautiful eyes, blondish hair. It was very happy and perfect in every way. And I remember feeling so much joy just holding him in my arms — even though having a baby right now is far from my mind. I tried to bathe the baby in the bath tub, and told my partner to turn the water on. My partner’s father was also in my dream. He was the only other person who was there for the baby’s birth. I remember he rarely spoke, when he did — he asked me about a scab I had on my back, while I was trying to care for this new baby. I ignored him, as I was more concerned about the intensity/temperature of the water coming out of the water tap. I adjusted it quickly, and unwrapped the baby from a soft cloth. The baby is still beautiful, but now, he has longer jet black hair. And I noticed it was missing a foot. It was rounded where his foot should be, but he still seemed perfect to me despite his missing limb. And I asked my partner, why is his foot missing. He simply told me he is a baby, and the foot will grow out eventually. I agreed with him and bathed him…. After I bathed him, I saw myself introducing this new life to the rest of our family. When I woke up, I felt the dream was still hanging over me. It felt more real to me than this moment in time. But, why a baby with a missing limb? And why did the hair transform? Why are those feelings so intense and so real?
Angela – Most dreams hide such intense feelings under the mask of the images we use. You felt so much because your heart was open and feeling at the time of the dream – and of course the subject of the dream is so important to you.
The yellow glow suggests that there is a great and lovely life shining into you, and bathroom seems to say it is a cleansing process, and he first thing you wanted to do was to bath the baby. So has there been a change of heart recently, or a change in you?
The baby is a wonder, and is about love, a love that is being born to you. In other words this is a part of you, you are giving birth to. Such births occur when a woman’s creative instincts are lifted up and expressed in another way than through giving birth physically. Such births give you a fuller and richer life. But remember that it is a baby and quite vulnerable, so care for it and hold it and you will see it grow.
The hair changing hair suggests a more powerful person, a change from a European type background to one with dark hair. Is it something in your family background? It can also suggest a person who is okay with the inner life and can speak from it.
The missing foot, I would like to have known which feet it was. But such lameness can suggest something carried form the past. But as your partner suggested, it can grow out.
So overall this is a great promise of things that can grow into your waking life; something that involves your family.
Tony
I dreamt that a sort of ghost baby was following me and all I saw was its footprints on the ground chasing me around. I got the feeling that something was wrong with it (maybe it was damaged when it died) and it was just following me around. It was not menacing but just very odd. What could this possibly mean?
Brooke – Well I could mean what you say; but only if you were somehow connected with it.
But there are many other reasons, and I think it would be a good idea if you had a conversation with your ghost baby. You can do this by sitting quietly and in your imagination see the baby – or its footprints – and ask it what it wants with you. Allow thoughts feeling to arise and see what happens.
Apart from that read http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-mysterious-power-of-children-to-be/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-mysterious-power-of-children-to-be/
There may be an answer to your dream.
Tony
my daughter is about to give birth to her 2nd baby, and i saw my niece who we dont see often, holding my daughters baby! What does this mean??? Baby still due in 2 weeks, will it come early??
Christine – I don’t see any signs of the time of your daughter’s baby. What it does seem to indicate is a family connection with your niece. It is probably that there will be a good connection between your niece and the new baby.
Tony