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
last night i dreamt of a baby. the baby was crying and i took it from a man… when i held the baby it stopped crying.it was trying to nurse but i didnt allow it to…. my male friend and his ex-girlfriend are pergnant.he is very excited.im the only one he told.i have feeling for him but the situation is complicate… he knows how i feel for him. his ex was at the fault. they broke up before she was aware about the pregnancy… what exactly does this mean and how does this baby in my dream connect to me? im not ready for a baby,i just 17yrs. but i had a hard time with relationships and heartbreaks and wish for love to come soon. please respond soon.thanks in advance.
Jamila – I think you are mixing up dreams with waking life. Although you feel as if you are very involved in a relationship, your dream creator is more interested in moving you toward becoming a full woman. That is because it will clarify much of your present questions as it moves you toward maturity. Of course you feel as if you are a woman at the moment, but you are still not feeding the baby when it wanted to.
And do not forget that this is your dream baby, and nothing to do with an actual baby. In our dreams we practice first so that when it comes to being a full woman we have perfected it. As you can see from the following dream, preparation and practice starts early.
“I’m 14 and had a dream of having a baby boy. I don’t know who my husband was. I am sitting in a house with no roof and all my family come to see my baby and said it was special. It was night time. When I looked into the sky there were 3 moons. Two of them were shaped like a lady with a baby in her arms”.
I suggest that you practice in your imagination feeding the baby and see if you can do it without it feeling difficult. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions/#Experiment Let your dreams guide you and the difficulties with relationships will improve.
Tony
I dreamed I was pregnant (I am 56!). I labored and delivered the baby who was a boy. I had his name picked out for him – and I bent down to kiss him and was about to tell him, “Your name will be -” and he spoke, saying, “My name is Seth”.
I know no Seth – am not of childbearing age – and feel this dream’s portent, but cannot define it. Please help, ty
i had a dream that i had a baby, does that mean that i am pregnant? should i go take a pregnancy test?
Maria – It could mean that you should have a pregnancy test; but of course you can have a dream baby –just as wonderful and without all the responsibility.
See all the comments and answers at the bottom of the page under baby. http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/baby/#Comments
Tony
Ever scene I have been enduring biopsy’s on my uterus to prevent cancer, I have been dreaming of a boy with blond hair and blue eyes. Sometimes he’s 3 or 4 other times he is a baby. Just the other day I dreamed I tried to abort a baby but after seeing a scan I knew it was him and couldn’t go throw with it. Sometimes we are trying to find each other. He has even been someone else kid in a dream but I found him and adopted him. Others I’m fighting for him (in the last dream I took a bullet for him) some times we are just happy. But In all of the dreams I know he’s the same boy and that we are supposed to be together. I’m 25 have no children and haven’t planned on any just yet. When I wake up I miss him and feel like he’s trying to encourage me to have a baby, like he wants to real not just a dream. It may sound crazy and it’s probably just my subconscious alerting me to my inner fear. That I won’t be able to have kids or because my friends have either got children or trying for kids. And my best friend is pregnant with a boy. But sometimes it feels like something more.
Emmy – This does sound as if it is ‘something more’. Sometimes, in those who have survived a near death experience, they are aware during the time they are ‘dead’, that they get to know children who are waiting to be born. Also there are lots of peoples’ experiences of this, my own where one of my children appeared to me in a dream and asked me to have sez with my wife in order to create body for him. See also http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-mysterious-power-of-children-to-be/
It sounds as if you have a very strong bond from the past with this little boy/man and he really want you in his life. If that is so don’t worry at all about how it will be or how it can take place, such things have their own way of organising things.
So keep the memory of him sacred and keep in touch with him by thinking of him often.
Tony
I had a recent dream where I was pregnant and I knew the name of my unborn child – Amelia which means work of the Lord. I like my namesake Sarah, from the bible am barren, that is I have never born a child, but then I have not had unprotected sex for over 10 years – Until recently, with my new partner. We are both Mature aged people late 40’s early 50’s. Do you have any idea what this dream may mean?
Thank you
PinkCashmere – Your mention of the Bible reminds me of pieces of The Apocrypha New Testament. “There was in Israel a man and wife known as Joachim and Anna. Although elderly, wealthy, and giving of their wealth to the Temple, they became ashamed, for they had no child. Therefore, with his unhappiness upon him, “Joachim retired into the wilderness, and fixed his tent there, and fasted forty days and forty nights, saying to himself, ‘I will not go down either to eat or drink, till the Lord my God shall look down upon me, but prayer shall be my meat and drink.’ In the meantime his wife Anna was distressed and perplexed twofold, and said ‘I will mourn, both for my widowhood and my barrenness’.”
It is the story of the parents of Mary who became Jesus’ mother.
My feelings are that you will not give birth to a physical child – although there is mystery in the dream, and some mysteries are not for my prying eyes to see. But the dream child you gave birth to will work wonders through you if you care for and nurture her. She is, I feel, a message for you, and the message is that there are things for you to achieve in your life – the work of the Lord.
Tony
Last night I had a dream that I had a baby girl. I did not see myself pregnant in the dream, I just had her and I was carrying her around everywhere. I showed her to my friends, and she had big blue eyes and red hair. I took her everywhere my friends where just to show her off. She didn’t have a name, but she looked like my mother did when she was a baby. I’m and eighteen year old lesbian, and my girlfriend and I do not want children. So I have no clue what this means.
I’m grateful to have found your online resource and hope you might chime in on a recent dream of mine. In the dream, I had delivered a happy, smiling baby boy. I was in a room apart from friends and family, they were unaware I had the child but I knew they were expecting it with joy. I was trying to name the baby. It was a baby boy, but the name that came to mind was “June”. It wasn’t right and I kept trying to consider other names but none of them felt right. Just..”June”. The baby was a lovely blond boy with a wide smile, very happy.
I am a single mother unable to have more children (I have no sons) and living a chaotic life but moving forward with help of friends and family. I have professional and moving plans for late summer but nothing in the pipe line for June. This dream was so vivid, I can’t help but wonder what it means.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you
Christy – What does giving birth to a lovely baby boy mean – and I take it no man was involved – it means that you, like any mother, can dream and create something that wonderfully adds to you. You create it from all that you have gathered of life, as if you have reached up to the sunlight, the clouds in the blue sky, and added the moon and stars, and pulled them into you and brought forth this little man. For each child, whether a dream child or one taking on the weight of a body, is a birth of the whole of creation. For aren’t we ourselves, our very bodies, formed out of the mystery of the universe, and the bodies of old stars?
But in another way your son is a new aspect of you, something that hadn’t been known to you so far, with infinite possibilities. It is still young and vulnerable, so needs your love and care for it. But it will grow quickly, and then you will see traces of it in your everyday life – the new happy you.
I think you should watch for signs of this little man growing into your life in June and flowering. Such signs are not usually very materialistic, but are new awareness and abilities that will be seen as you look back.
Tony
Thank-you very much for your thoughts.
I wanted to update you on developments that have been connected to my dream. Dates and times moved around and I find myself moving this month. A new start! On a very fun note, I also have begun a relationship with a man who looks very much like the little baby I cradled. I actually “recognized” him! It was really unusual and regardless of how the relationship turns out, it’s been a great awakening to have a bright, positive experience with a good man. Thanks again.
Christy – Thanks for your update. It is good to hear how that new thing in your life has grown so quickly.
May the Force be with you all 🙂
Tony
ive had 3 dreams in the past month of having or taken care of a baby girl, i am 17 and i have thought a lot about having a baby, i really want one now, but know im too young
Lacey – My dear lovely young woman, of course you want a baby, which is why your body is shaped the way it is. If you didn’t feel that you would be unhealthy. But as you say – in our culture you are too young – but you can still dream about having a baby, giving birth to it, breast feeding it, and watching it grow – and such dream babies tend to grow very fast and talk early – because they are communicating by thought – and have not developed the brain to speak with the mouth.
Read some of the other comments about other people’s baby dreams – Katy and Samantha’s dream for instance.
Tony
A few nights ago, I dreamed I gave birth when unaware I was even pregnant. I had a baby girl that I didn’t immediately see. It wasn’t until later in the dream that the baby appeared.
At first I was told there was no baby, that she didn’t survive. I was very upset. After a few months I found out that my baby was actually alive and I had been lied to. I was furious with my family, for they were the ones keeping this secret from me. All I wanted at this point was to find my daughter and make up for lost time. I contacted a policeman and he took my statement, at which point I was hysterical, crying so hard my nose inevitably was running. He apologized and told me he would do what he could to find her. A short time later a woman came to my house with my little girl. I was overjoyed. I immediately took her in my arms and refused to let go for anything. I just kept repeating to the baby, “I’m your mommy. Mommy’s finally here and I’m not going anywhere.”
The woman told me my baby’s name was Samantha. Upon hearing this I said I planned on changing her name. She looked up at me and said, “no, I like my name.” at that point I realized she appeared to be about two years old versus the few months she was originally. In the dream, she aged very quickly into a toddler, to a preteen and eventually a teenager all while I stayed the same age. (I never once thought this was odd.)
I was always very careful to know where she was at all times. I was seemingly overprotective. I loved her very much, although there was this strange sense that because of the few months I missed out on, she, herself, was somehow disconnected from me. I felt that I had to struggle to achieve her love even though she was my world.
Once I woke up I felt burdened and my heart was heavy. The dream was so real to me that it was mind blowing. It stayed heavy on my mind the entire day and even for a few days after.
Michaela – This is quite an unusual and lovely dream.
The dream tells me that as a child and youth you felt as if something was missing from your life. It was as if your parents kept a part of you held back, and that is why you were angry at them in the dream, because you probably did not realise it until recently. For it seems as if something happened allowing you to give birth to this realisation. And the fact there was no father shows how the baby you gave birth to was a creation of the best of you out of your own inner world.
The missing baby was an indication of how you yourself felt lost at times, which gave rise to a sense that, as already said, something was missing from your life. And it is certain you have, or you will soon know this part of you, because it has been born and is growing fast. It was a part of you that was held back by the influence of your parents, and will soon take you through several – catch up – years of growth.
Of course Michaela, you, as the baby shows you, are a special child, and intelligent and probably independent. As the name suggests, you have a gift of hearing the divine voice of Life in you, and flowering with it.
The business of you feeling that you had to struggle to achieve her love is probably another effect of the relationship with your parents, where – and I am guessing – you had to earn their love. So please see that is a thing, a habit that you can change and grow beyond.
Tony
I was wondering if you could help me with this. I had a dream that I was caring for a small sickly green baby for a family. I had no idea how it was even surviving as small as it was. I was doing everything I could to help, but I was a bit frightened, a bit of shock really. Another individual and I began to build an android to help it move around and I found myself caring for it by a riverbank. What makes it so much stranger is that I am currently working on my degree to be a neonatal nurse. I have no idea what it means.
Last night I had a dream that I was visiting a family that had several children. (I did not recognize this family, yet they seemed somewhat familiar. I remember thinking that I had perhaps met them before, but did not know their names, etc) They had an infant child that I was holding and in the next scene my own mother enters this home and begins to breastfeed the family’s baby. I remember feeling total disgust as my own mom thought it was so wonderful that she was still able to produce milk (even though she is 69 years old! The mother of the infant was shocked as well! What does this mean?
Last night I had a dream that I gave birth to a baby girl, but I didn’t even know I was pregnant. I felt like I needed to push, so I did and began to give birth, but it didn’t hurt at all…I did not feel any pain. I was home alone giving birth by myself on my couch. In my dream, my house was set up exactly as it really is. I reached down to pick up the baby and bring her to my chest. I just remember feeling how soft, cuddly and chubby she was. I held her close to me and cried, saying “I can’t believe she’s mine,” because I have been wanting a child for so long now. I remember she looked alot like my husband’s little sister and we named her Emma Marie, which is the name we chose for our first born daughter. I’m sure the meaning of this dream is just my desires for a baby playing out in my dream, but it just felt sp real. It was sad to wake up to reality.
Katy – You said it was sad to wake up to reality – yet every thing is real. Your experience of the dream baby was real, and there are at least two levels of reality, the outer and the inner. Read the story of Edgar Cayce if you doubt it – http://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/edgar-cayce-and-the-cosmic-mind-superminds/
Giving birth to a baby, whether an inward of an outward baby, is a wonderful thing. You really don’t need me to tell you that, just listen to your feelings. The baby you gave birth to is an expression of all the love you feel, and is a creative act. The baby is an extension of that love and care, and will continue to grow if you give it a little care.
In fact you can meet your dream baby yourself. Please try it – you imagine yourself as the baby you gave birth to. Literally be it and feel you are inside its body – don’t be afraid because dream images are your own inner feelings expressed outwardly, and if you listen to the feelings that arise when you are the baby you will know the wonder of what you have created. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/
Tony
Last night I had a dream that I was pregnant then gave birth to a healthy, happy little boy. My best friend that I’ve called my sister for years was there as well as the baby’s father, MY parents and my sisters. I only saw my best friend the entire dream, with the exception of about 2 minutes of my mother. Whenever the babies dad came around, I never saw his face or heard his name, but he was there for the labour and then went to get some treats for me after he was born. The name “Christopher Liam” was decided and after he was tucked away in his nursery, my best friend and I had started doing paperwork. A few minutes after I had handed it all in, I realized in my family that it’s a tradition to have 2 middle names, and Christopher only had one. So I took back the paperwork and my best friend told me I could use “Honest” as she was pregnant but didn’t know the sex. So my little boys full name changed to Honest Christopher Liam. But there was no last name. I know we were married because during labour I saw the dad’s wedding band that matched my own and everyone knew him, but no one called him by name. It was weird!
i am only 17 and have no intention of having a child untill later on in life.. first i had a dream that my cousin was pregnant with her second child, and in the same dream my mum was pregnant and it was her due date. i was really happy about it. thats all that happened.. now i keep dreaming that i have a baby girl, and shes always the same in every dream. in the dream i feel like i love her so much more that anyone in the world and when i wake up its kind of sad that its only a dream. in every dream i have with the baby girl, something happens to her. in one of them i lost her but was too worried to tell anyone. in another we were swimming in the sea, a tidal wave came and i swam off and the tidal wave took her, yet at the end i got told she is alright and other people saved her. why do i keep dreaming i have a baby girl and things happen to her? what does this mean?
Samantha – You have to remember that you are not simply Samantha the person, but you are also an expression of Life. True that Life tries to work through your personality and its culture, beliefs and decisions – “I have no intention of having a child until later on in life”.
But at your age until about mid twenties you are incredible fertile, and your dreams are partly Life telling you that. In many cultures it was the age to have children, although that is not so now. We have all sorts of other things piled on top of the life drive, such as education, getting on in the world, finding the right mate, and becoming independent.
It is probably the tidal wave and losing your baby that is shown in the dream depicting the ‘other things piled on top’.
But I also feel there are other issues shown here because of the love you felt. It is fairly common for parents to dream about a baby long before it is born, and it can be years before that birth takes place. So please read http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/the-mysterious-power-of-children-to-be/
So perhaps your little girl is telling you she is waiting for you to give birth to her when you are ready. All the things that happen to her in your dreams are normal pre-birth dreams.
Tony
Last night i had a dream that i was giving birth , it didn’t hurt , when the baby was delivered, it was a happy baby boy but at the same time very serious looking for a baby. And my reaction was the same i was happy but serious. My mom was with me and she was happy and with the biggest smile on her face. They moved the baby to the pediatric ward ( i think is called ). I was moved to a room and my mom following. When i was being moved i notice that my stomach was flat flat with no sign of a pregnant belly. When i got to the room i had little space because there was to many people staying there. A woman younger than me asked me my opinion on the butterflies and dragonflies decor that she was putting on the wall. I said i liked them. After that everyone came in the room, i didn’t know anyone and they where asking me what am i doing here. And the same woman with the wall decor told me not to say anything. But i told anyway because am an honest person by nature so in my dream i told her i have nothing to hide. I told everyone that i had a baby , my mom was smiling, and some people were angry and some happy. And than i was happy that the baby was back in the room. Then i woke up. For extra information am 25 years old, am single. Any help to what the dream means would be great.
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