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.

See Comments below.

Comments

-Louise 2017-01-09 1:43:09

I had a dream a few nights ago that I lived in a castle with my parents and brother and they wouldn’t let me see or touch my newborn baby girl because I was addicted to heroin (I’ve never done illegal drugs in real life). I remember feeling despair that I couldn’t take care of my child but I was completely overcome with the addiction I even experienced feeling high after my dream self had taken the drugs. I remember knowing that my parents were doing right by my baby by keeping me from her until I was clean and being so disappointed and angry with myself for not being good enough for her but I still tried to think up ways of running away with her because I felt like my mother didn’t want me to clean up my act as she wanted to keep my child from me forever so she made sure it was easy for me to access drugs. I have no idea what this dream means, I have no children and won’t be ready for quite a few years yet, I have never taken heroin and yet experienced a high and I have a very good relationship with my mother. I can’t stop thinking about the feelings I had in the dream and how I felt complete hopelessness when I woke up.

    -Tony Crisp 2017-01-09 9:48:05

    Hi – I must take time to upgrade the dream dictionary, so must halt from answering your posts – I started revising the dictionary in 2006, and haven’t neared the end yet. I believe someone else may start giving interpretations.

    So, for a while I urge you to read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/i-am-no-longer-interpreting-dreams/ – It describes ways that can help you. And often it would help too if you looked at http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing

    Tony

    You are still thinking of your dream as an outer life (waking) event. But dreams are almost all about our inner life – http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/#MakesInner

    So the baby is an inner part of you that has been born – a new aspect of your own personality. Your mother too is not an outer person. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/mother-mum-ma/#InnerMother

    Addiction can mean – Something or someone may be influencing you in a way that undermines your ability to make choices. There may also be a connection with powerful emotional or economic dependence. These activities or influences are not arising from your will or responsibility, but from the emotions and fears, symbolised by that to which you are addicted in your dream. One can be addicted to a relationship, or to work. Your dream may be commenting on such a situation. If so, it is wise to consider how to move toward greater independence. Perhaps there is an indication of fearing loss of control in regard to something or someone.

-Constance 2016-12-26 11:38:48

Hi… I’ve had this dream twice now and the second time the story continued past me just wishing I would do something to care for the babies. In my first dream I’m looking after a distant friend’s infant twins. I put them each in a circular hat box and just leave them there curled up like a pretty photo. After which I keep forgetting I have them and to feed them. I just can’t remember and when I do I imagine all the filth that must be in the boxes but I don’t budge. They don’t cry. Now in my second dream I have lunch with my friends and apparently take the hat boxes wherever I go as a normal thing. Someone looks in the boxes and one baby is starved, infected and filthy from me never taking it out of the box. They lift it up and it begins to cry. They check the other box and the baby is much cleaner and looks as if it has been eating. Just neglected. My closest friend dares everyone not to say anything to anyone about this and they try to clean up the babies. I wake up heart racing. ME: married, 35, trouble having kids but want them, was told to stop trying, have a few God kids. What does this mean?

-Sarah 2016-11-27 9:53:01

I dreamt that I found a baby in a bag. I have been struggling with a relationship that had finished. I know we were very attuned on a different level and that I had perhaps been the one that gave the support. I also needed support. He has decided to carry on with his life and has cut me out now. He is coping much better and I am happy. I was struggling and perhaps needed more than he could give at the time. I’m sure he does care. He is just as confused as me and not aware of why we were attuned to each other jn the way we were.

-Paloma 2016-09-12 15:34:08

My real life duaghter is 15 months, intelligent, independent, advanced and very social. She gets a lot of loving attention and she is such a pleasure.

I dreamt that our family was gathered in the living room enjoying our new addition, laughing at her reactions and watching her explore. I walked back to the room and in my dream i had realized her twin was laying down. I had totally forgotten I had another baby and I felt so aweful. I immediately went to check her diaper and make sure she was ok. She didn’t talk or walk. She was big and chunky but weak. She was heavy so i laid her on her stomach and she landed on her face and didn’t even move her face to be able to breath. When i changed her clothes she had a hair clip stuck to her leg, dead skin cells came out of her socks. I felt absolutely aweful that I had forgotten about my other baby but all she did was smile. I took her out to the living room to tell my husband we had forgotten about our other baby and we couldn’t even remeber her name. We thought is was Callie but we didn’t even like the name and thought why would we name her that? We got to change it.

Needless to say, I woke up feeling quite aweful, looking for my other daughter but she actually does not exist. I cant figure out why I would dream this…can you please help guide me. Thank you so much

    -Tony Crisp 2016-09-13 12:18:32

    Paloma – I feel you are mixing up your dream baby with you real life baby – although the feelings of regret are real. 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.

    It sounds as if having your actual baby has somehow released the dream baby. The images suggest that the birth of part of you was long overdue, probably because you were not allowed to really express a part of you, which is now calling for attention.

    As the stage manager of our inner theatre – dreams – we have the most abundant props, costumes and backdrops imaginable. Yet, because a dream is our own creation, no part of it, no emotion contained in it, no flight of fancy portrayed, is other than yourself. Even when we dream vividly of another person, such as the man in our life, the dream personality is made up of our own impressions, hopes and feelings. Most people are often totally unaware of the experience they take in and how it interacts with them when we live with someone. In other words, the memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event.

    So your dream is saying that the new part of you being expressed has the feeling – from past experience – that you were not up to standard and so you held yourself back. Any the dream baby is a real part of your nature, and if you care for it, it will quickly grow and move – and astonish you.

    So in your imagination hold and love it.

    The name Callie is from the Greek and means beautiful.

    Tony

-Angel 2016-09-09 17:51:55

I dreamt last night an infant baby girl in my arms very calm. I was protecting baby from pigeons. My whole family was helping me with it, especially my dad.
I also felt that our neighborhood gets knocked at door and when they opened the door then Lots of pigeons entered their house.
I was calm in such difficult situation and was just thinking about the infant baby girl in my arms. I saved her and made her sleep on my bed after struggling. I watched her sleeping.
Suddenly I woke up and it’s rare that I remember any dream clearly.
Please guide what does it mean.

-Margarita 2016-09-08 2:12:47

Hey Tony I had a dream that i gave birth to a baby that looked nothing like me he had blue eyes and was white the doctors are telling me that he is healthy but i keep telling them that my baby’s father is black and they wont listen and keep telling me he came out of me i would not take him from the doctor and kept telling them something was wrong as im pushing him away i kept asking if they were sure and to check him to make sure he was ok i refused to hold him is that bad???

-Amy 2016-09-01 5:05:02

I constantly dream about holding and taking care of an infant baby boy and feels it’s mine. I even wonder in my dream about how I became a mother again when I never planned. I seem to be happy though. I also see my family some where present in the dream along with the baby. I feel responsible for he baby in my dream and feel it was totally unexpected. What does this mean?

    -Tony Crisp 2016-09-01 9:48:14

    Amy – Your dream baby is very special to you. Like any baby, 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? Or perhaps it is about vulnerability.

    The baby is certainly yours – you dreamt it. The baby 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.

    So care for and love this new and growing part of you.

    Tony

-Jaqueline barrientos 2016-08-24 4:37:29

Hi tony ,
So i had a dream , it involved some of my relatives. In this dream i had woken up with my brother laying down with a little newborn little girl . I was thinking to myself what is going on , it had seemed i had a c-section . ( im not pregnant at all that i know of ) and so as i get up i feel the soreness for the pain . I see my mother write on the calendar the name of the little girl and it was chelsea . I told my mother chelsea ???!!! No it has to be with a “J” can we change it and so my mother says i dont know we would have to wait and see . And so i make a joke to my mother saying well its a girl everybody has been wanting a little girl . And so i walk to the living room i see my grandmother i ask her ; oh grandma where are the blankets for the baby so i can wrap her in and she directs me & i get them i go back to the room & wrap the baby . But i dont see a face or anything close to how it would look like . Afterwards my brother & i and my mother go to the balcony and we talk amongst ourselves asking like what we gunna put her in we have to figure out , how we going to set up the crib and from there . I message my boyfriend he is at work & i send him a picture of our little girl .. And from there i wake up .
I have never had a dream like this , i have dreamt of pregnancy tests that come out negative . When i had doubts of being pregnant or not . And sure enough it comes out negative ..

And in this dream the people that are in my house do not live with me .

What would you think my dream is about ? Very curious ..

    -Tony Crisp 2016-08-25 9:16:11

    Jaqueline – As we travel through life, often we are unware of the fact we are changing all the time. What happened to the little girl you once were, the teenager learning about relationships?

    Our dreams show how we are always creating our self or destroying our own emerging self. So the baby is simply an image that holds in it the emergence of a new growing part of you. Just as the teenager found new emerging parts of her, so we all can meet new aspects of our self.

    You dreamt it was a C-section probably because you hold within you, “When I had doubts of being pregnant or not.” Our dream images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.

    Your inner baby is something created o9ut of yourself – If you are a woman it is your nature and your potential to have a baby and give birth. You developed in this way because you are a creature of evolution. If you deny that part of you – the urge to procreate – you deny yourself even if you had a hysterectomy. You do not have to become childbearing to have that creativity.

    It is because being a woman you have the enormous power of creation. Of course it can be creating a baby, but you need not use your creative power in that direction so you would be frustrated if you didn’t allow your creative power a outlet.
    The name Chelsea doesn’t have a defined meaning, so see if you can find your own associations with it. See – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/association-of-ideas-with-dreams/#Working

    Tony

-Pregnant Mummii 2016-08-21 7:56:55

Hello,

I am currently 16 weeks pregnant and i already have 2 sons with my partner.
Last night I dreamt that I gave birth to a baby boy, but I couldn’t remember it. I kept saying/thinking in the dream that I didn’t have any contractions or pain. I remember having mixed feelings, I was happy my baby was here but disappointed he wasn’t a girl, that quickly changed the longer I held and looked at him eventually not caring he was a boy and I was just filled with happiness.
My partner in the dream also said “I had to make you have a cesarean” after I told him I can’t remember giving birth.

Are you able to tell me what this means please?

-Miracle 2016-07-20 18:06:34

Hello, I have some concerns about my dream I had lastnight. Well I can’t remember how it all started but I remember at first it was like soldiers shooting back and fourth, then all of a sudden I was having a baby. So when I finally had my baby it was healthy I walked around the hostipal with my boyfriend and when we came back to go get our baby it was dead! It’s like I felt it when the nurse looked at me I ran off and started crying and a few seconds later my boyfriend came to me and I woke up crying from my dream ☹️ This really has me wondering

-the name 2016-07-16 3:14:12

I had a dream that I already had a child and I was taking care of him. We were laughing and playing around. I, in general, felt like a happy ‘mom’ and glad I had my ‘child’ in my life. It felt so uplifting.
Idk if this dream has any meaning. I’m not pregnant and had never even had sex.
Does it mean anything?

-Tania 2016-07-14 15:54:43

I have a question, I had a dream where somehow I saw I had a baby girl she looked to have been only a few months old. I knew she was mine but I had no idea how or when I had this child. Also the child had no father. I have a son and as I held the little girl she looked exactly like my son but I knew she was not biologically related to my sons father. I felt so much joy because I had a new child and more relieved because I was a single mother. I asked my mother questions about the child and she told me I had her about a year ago when she only looked a few months old and as I held her again she spoke to me and told me why did I leave her and that I took too long to come back to her. Could you please help me make sense of this dream.

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2016-07-15 11:08:57

    Dear Tania – The dream baby born to you without a father is 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, will bring a new response to yourself and your environment that can transform your life.
    This is a living relationship with the mystery which underlies your life. If you generate a child in this way, you are not held prisoner by habits of thought, stereotypes of behaviour, and you can begin to allow into your waking life what was previously impossible to know.
    This open state of mind and feelings, acts as a link between your 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 yourself that is your core self; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/core/
    It may be that you have had some form of realisation in your waking life of your core self about a year ago though time in dreams may not be exact, as dreams come from beyond time and space.
    Perhaps you did not know yet how to open up to your core?
    See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
    Perhaps you feel like exploring the question; “as I held her again she spoke to me and told me why did I leave her and that I took too long to come back to her.”?
    See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dialogue-with-a-dream-character-or-object/
    and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
    See also http://dreamhawk.com/news/my-body-is-a-moving-sea/
    Anna 🙂

-Chrislinn 2016-05-14 15:28:20

I had a dream niye before last that my sister had a baby.in the dream we was agruing about what she supposed to do with baby as far as getting wic and stuff what does it mean.

-Traci McDaniel 2016-05-07 19:23:40

Hi Tony.
Last night I dreamed of giving birth to a newborn girl. No pain at all. She just came out crying and I remember a person handing her to me. The newborn was naked but clean and healthy but little. I put next to me on the bed (where I gave birth,it was a queen size) on her stomach and she calmed and went to sleep. I remember feeling happy and relaxed but It seems that I was going to give the baby to someone but I was fine with it. I layed with my little girl and closed my eyes and that’s when I woke up feeling really good. I don’t know if the room I was in was a class room or a hospital room. I believe there was a woman there but not anyone else I remember
I am 42 have had two kids and am fixing to get married for the second time.

-melodie 2016-05-04 5:06:53

hi tony

everynight i dream i keep dropping my little boy and he hits his head, last night it knocked him out. i just feel i cant hold him thn get annoyed as i just keep dropping him

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