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
My best friend that is a girl has been having a dream of having 3 babies, one with a person she doesn’t recognise, one with me, and one with my best guy friend. Her and I used to be together but then we thought it would be better just to be friends, in the dream she has my child first its a baby boy, and then my best guy friends child and its a boy to but smaller than mine, and then the person she doesnt recognise and its the smallest baby. She says that she feels a connection to my child like its really there.
She had another dream the night after about going to a public bathroom and finding my child on the counter and she picked it up and held him for about an hour then two young girls came in and said that its their baby and said thank you to her for watching the baby for them.
If you can please help out with what this mean it would be really appreciated.
Hi, I am 18 and have no children, I have had a few dreams about being pregnant in the past couple of months and they both involve my current partner that I have been with for 3 months now. The dream was about me being pregnant for a short amount of time then giving birth in the bath, not my bath, a bath in a house that me and my partner was looking to live at in the dream, the baby was healthy and I was happy, I Remember getting out of the bath and wrapping him/her up in a towel and laying on the bed cuddling him/her then my partner came over and cuddled him/her as well; we all then went shopping and it was like my baby had grown up really fast, he/she was walking and talking. I then woke up: (I was utterly disappointed that it wasn’t true). Is this something to worry about as me and my partner don’t use any protection and have regular sex, every month? When I’m due on my period I’m disappointed that I have come on but I don’t know why. Thanks.
Shannon – You ask if this is something you should worry about – well yes it is. For a young woman and young man having regular sex without any protection you should have managed to become pregnant by now.
So many young women are finding it difficult, and this might be because most people insist on eating white rice and white bread – and also of course pasta dishes – all of which lack the vitamins and minerals we need for healthy procreation.
So try taking 1000 mlg of vitamin E and a good multivitamin and mineral supplement. If that doesn’t work in a couple of months get medical advice.
Apart from that your dreams show you have a good healthy attitude to becoming a parent. Sometimes dreams like there are practice dreams, getting you ready for being a mother. But also the baby is a new expression of you. Find out what exactly your baby is by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/
Tony
My friend had a dream about me. I was five months pregnant and giving birth to a stillborn baby girl. She was waiting in our waiting area when my husband comes out and shows her a baby girl. He was crying and asked her what to do, she told him that she didn’t know. He then asked her what to tell me, he wasn’t sure what to say. My friend was so sad about the news and she said then woke up crying really hard.
Could it have anything to do with a miscarriage I had about a year ago. She was the one that was there for me when I found out.
I’m not sure what to think about this dream and nor do I know what it means. I hope you can help me figure this out.
Sabrina – This dream is not about you, it is about your friend. She has probably experienced a loss of something precious to her. And because we have the tendency to not face our own pain, we put it in the symbols of other people. She was crying hard because of her own pain, not yours.
Dreams are a magical mirror in which our innermost hopes, longings, fears/terrors and genius are made real. They are made real as external environments, people, animals and relationships. Unfortunately this wonderful virtual reality world is usually felt as dealing with other people, as externals, like something that can damage us, or something like the Devil that can possess us. But the greatest truth I have found in exploring dreams – not interpreting them – is that we are alone with ourselves in the world of our dream. If we can acknowledge and admit that our terrors we dream are actually our past hurts that we have not faced presenting themselves for us to heal; that the ghosts and demons that can rampage about our night are embodiments of our fears and ideas presented to us as truths; that our wonderful visions and insights are an expression of our own infinite potential, then we can walk a pathway to finding what we really are.
Tony
well i had this dream of my ex boyfriend jordan its really weird his penis was in front of me and there was a really tiny real baby hand poking out of his pants and in the dream i touch the baby hand with my hand and it sqeezed my finger and i looked up at jordan with cheerful tease.
Im not sure wat this dream meens can somebody help me???
Rhiannon – I think that you really want that baby hand to hold yours. In dreams we are not actually dreaming about someone outside of is, but about our feelings put into images. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/
Because you are creative – after all, your own body is a wonderful creative thing – you create a fun loving dream.
Tony
Had a dream that there were too babies that were playing with me and I badly wanted to touch them and care for them. I knew I was dreaming, but I badly wanted this to be real and after some effort, I managed to make contact and it felt real.
No idea what this means…can you please help?
I am 24. Female. Single. No plans of getting married yet.
Bewafa – In some cultures the female sexual organs are seen as the divine creative out of whom all life flows. So you are a creative woman not matter what you think you are. And it is seen as you playing with two babies. Do not think that dreams are not real, they are real at the level of mind and feelings, and that is where all real things spring from. Every house, every book, every bicycle had its start in someone’s mind.
So go ahead and actually give birth to a dream baby, it is what you can do with your creativity. In doing so you are creating the baby that you may have one day. If not you will allow your creative impulse freedom to express. (Please read some of the answers to the dreams on the bottom of the Baby page.)
Tony
I had a dream about my boyfriend denying that the baby I had was his even though she looked just like him with the black hair and blue eyes. He wouldn’t let his mom in the delivery room even though she was there for his brother’s kids being born. I was crying in the dream and when I woke up I had tears streaming down my face. I reality, my boyfriend is so caring and loves my daughter as his own. Why would I dream he abandoned his own child?
I have a recurring dream where I discover I have a baby, but don’t remember having given birth. The baby is months old at the time I see it, and I am worried as I think I havent changed its diaper in all this time, or bathed or fed it and feel so inadequate that I haven’t remebered it, or cared for it. I alwayws look frantically for clothes and food for the baby. I myself had a baby that died at 2 mths, and feel it may relate to this chapter of my life perhaps. I have this dream approx every 3 months?
I dreamt last night that I suddenly became heavily pregnant at a family’s party in my own house. I was trying desperately to conceal this from everyone so went outside to the back step. I was on my own but suddenly was surrounding by people and animals and I had unexpectedly gave birth to twins-one boy and one girl. There was no labour just the appearance of a boy and girl. I hel the boy and would not let anyone near him as he appeared to have a very limp neck and no matter how tightly I held him his head would not stop drooping to the side and his neck seemed to continuely grew longer. A man who seemed to be my partner (I’m single in real life) was holding the most beautiful baby girl with glowing blonde hair but all this while I stayed put on my back step trying to protect his neck while a mass amount of people and deer who appeared to have no faces gathered round me. I tend to have very vivid dreams quite often and epic dreams as I call them (ones were I can remember every detail to the very smell and feelings I felt) but none of them have made me feel quite as uneasy as this one so I just would like help interpreting it. Many thanks!
I dreamed that I gave birth to a baby girl who was about the size of a kewii when born but was surviving without macines or help she constantly grew every hour til I was able to carry het like a hip baby she was very happy and helthy and it was very sunny and beautiful outside then I woke up I explained this to my future hubby and also my baby’s father he says it means im having a boy but im not sure
Ive been dreaming for almost a month now that my 2mo old son dies in his sleep. The dreams are so intense I wake up in a frantic and have to check and see if hes breathing. Is this a sign of something? Can I make it stop?
Amanda – It seems that your love and care for the new baby has triggered your mothering instincts with a vengeance. Being female and a mother holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about the baby. Mothers see all manner if things that might be a threat to their baby, and I believe that is what your dream shows.
This is natural in all mammals. When my son Leon was working for a year prior to entering Cambridge University, he met people who owned wolfhounds, and often walked the dogs. I went with him a couple of times. The dogs were kept in a large pen, but one of them, a bitch, was kept in the house. When we went to the house to let the owner of the dogs know we were going to walk them, the bitch came to the door to look at us because she had pups. As soon as she saw we were strangers she rushed back to her pups to check they were okay. Then, for the short period we were there she continued to come and look at us with obvious tension, and then run back to check her pups.
But you can help if you imagine yourself in your dream – while awake – and hold the baby and see if you can change what happens to you, hold the baby till it is okay and healthy. You might need to do this a number of times to succeed. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/peer-dream-group/#carryforward
Tony
i had a dream that i was in a park and i saw a little girl she was about the age of 3 ish and her name was julie. julie was a little angry girl with pigtales. so i held her tight and was mothering this little girl and asked her whats wrong she didnt respond. so i made a pinky promise that her secret would be safe with me so she told me she wants to be born. and 3 in half years ago i terminated a pregnacy i dont know what this means.
Lizette – To help understand what your dream is about I want to quote a piece in my book Mind and Movement. It is about a woman I worked with who was sent to me by her doctor because she felt depressed.
“The movements – which were part of her therapy – were much stronger this time and her whole body became involved. Her knees drew up and her abdominal area domed. She made very little sound – some people are extremely vocal – but she was intensely absorbed in the movements for nearly an hour before they stopped and she lay peacefully. She then sat up and told me she had experienced something extraordinary. She said that four years earlier she had been divorced and went to live in Spain with her children. While there she had an affair with a Spaniard and became pregnant. Because she already had children and was not wanting to stay with the man, she had an abortion. During her body movements it had seemed to her as if the life in her had said the abortion had hurt it. It then led her through the spontaneous movements to complete the process of birth of that baby, and in that way she now felt whole. The process of birth which had been cut off had been able to complete itself.”
It seems to me the soul still wants to be born. The whole thing shows how sex should not be done without care. It is an enormous thing that involves us in worlds that are usually invisible to us.
I think you should speak to that little unborn girl and ask her is there no other way? Could she find another woman to bear her and give birth to her? Imagine yourself in the dream, while awake and talk to her. Tell her you are sorry you put her in such anger with you, and ask her to help you understand the situation.
Tony
Hello… I had a dream I hd a baby boy but I was constantly scared there was something wrong with him… I would always think he was blue or purple can someone tell me what it means?
Christy – This is obviously about your anxiety about caring for a baby, and it might have a link with feelings you have about something that happened to you as a baby.
It might help if you imagine yourself in your dream – while awake – and hold the baby and see if you can change what happens to you holding the baby till it is okay and healthy. You might need to do this a number of times to succeed. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/peer-dream-group/#carryforward
Tony
Last night I had a very clear and strange dream. I dreamt that I had just given birth to a baby. I was naked holding my baby and alone with the midwife in the hospital room. The nakedness did not bother me at all, in fact, when i looked down at my body my breasts were beautiful, and i felt extremely beautiful and feminine. I was standing up and started to feed my baby. As it was drinking the milk, i felt a painful but thrilling sensation in that breast and also in my wound.. Then my ex boyfriend called me and asked how the birth went. I was annoyed at him, because he was not there, and only called instead.. But I was very serious and happy about my baby.
At the moment I’m going through some difficult things, and I’m very insecure about my future. I’m 22 years old and have always wanted to have a baby. I’ve been waiting for the right time though. Right now everything in my life is unstabile, and I’m in doubt as to which way to choose in life. What does my dream mean? I hope it can help clarify some things for me..
Zubaida – I love your explanations and the way you are looking at your dreams.
Yes the baby represents all that you have learned and summarised into a new you that needs to be cared for. It is vulnerable and needs care and attention, but usually such babies grown up quickly.
The beautiful body is a way dreams often show us an inner characteristic – that you are a beautiful woman – no matter what you think of yourself – and you should feel that feeling and let your body respond to it. The part about the strong feelings when you fed the baby are a normal response to breast feeding. It brings the womb back into shape and is also thrilling – more so as you continue feeding. It can become a wonderful experience. So you dream is showing you something true, and is a sort of thumbs up that the baby is important to you. And it is, as you say, your baby, born out of your essence and strength.
“Is it “just” a dream?” I believe that dreams are a half way meeting between our Core self, the part of us that grew us an now continues all the work of our body and mind, and our tiny little yet precious self. I often write to people saying that we ride upon an ancient creature, our body, which is an uninterrupted flow of Life from the beginning. And behind that is the Great Life that we grew from as seeds.
So a dream is a part of that great river from the depths of our being. When we understand our dreams it doesn’t often produce an immediate effect, but it more like how we grow, little by little, until we can look back and see how we have travelled.
Yes, sometimes we do see what we call the future, but I like to think it is our Core self which exists beyond time, and so can advise us. This is especially so when we learn to really talk with Life by entering our dreams as described in http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/
Your dream was a wonderful example of that.
As far as your ex is concerned, remember your beauty and let it shine out of you.
Tony
I am having this dream for the last 4, 5 years that I have a baby but I don’t know about that and someone is giving it to me that it’s your baby and you don’t care about that.I always take that baby and feels very happy. I am 46 my family is complete. In my life I am struggling to get back in my career after a 10 year break, but facing failure again and again but when ever I think about giving up my goal, this dream comes. please help me I have to decide whether I should quit or not. I feel that God is sending me some massage in my dreams.
I had this dream twice in a row about my best friend’s five month old boy baby, who I absolutely love. In the dream: I was babysitting in one and I had custody of him in the other and I lost him both times. I was frantic and crying and worrying he was either starving to death or suffocating for some reason. In both dreams I found him just before I woke up and he was alive, but I woke up before being able to feed him or hold him. This seems so disturbing to me! What does it mean?
Katie – First of all I want to assure you that you needn’t worry about waking up and not feeding the baby. All you do is to imagine yourself holding that baby and feeding it. It doesn’t matter that it is not your baby, you can still breast feed it. The fact you are awake does not interfere with the feelings you generate by feeding the baby. And in fact it is a good idea to carry your dream forward when it is not a satisfying ending. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/peer-dream-group/#carryforward
It seems that your love and care for the new baby has triggered your mothering instincts with a vengeance. Being female and a mother holds with it an enormously increased anxiety about the baby. They see all manner of things that might be a threat, and I believe that is what your dream shows. This is natural in all mammals. When my son Leon was working for a year prior to entering Cambridge University, he met people who owned wolfhounds, and often walked the dogs. I went with him a couple of times. The dogs were kept in a large pen, but one of them, a bitch, was kept in the house. When we went to the house to let the owner of the dogs know we were going to walk them, the bitch came to the door to look at us because she had pups. As soon as she saw we were strangers she rushed back to her pups to check they were okay. Then, for the short period we were there she continued to come and look at us with obvious tension, and then run back to check her pups.
Don’t worry. You have a very well developed caring nature, but don’t think that is unnatural. And satisfy it by visualising being with the baby satisfy yourself by feeding it. In dreams you can do anything.
Tony