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
Im 36 weeks pregnant, since 30 weeks, been experiencing constant strong contractions without pain. Since then iv dreamt nearly every night of labor…which is always instant, and pain free- just similar to the contractions iv been experiencing…or i will walk into a room, and the baby is already there.
In the first few dreams, the babies always cold, but average size, as i struggle to protect her, it rains, and i become drenched in water, as my baby slowly dies.
As time progresses (my more recent dreams) my little lady seems to be getting smaller and smaller, every time i hold her, and although shes small, she seems somewhat healthy now, and im more confident in looking after her, but instead of changing her or bathing her, i find myself waiting for my partner to come home from work so he to can share the experience of her first bath etc, and feel guilty in doing so, coz i know shes uncomfortable, and shes begginging to get cold again, especially the feet, so i try to find her “socks/booties” but their all gone.
This is quiet a common dream iv been experiencing recently, but most common of all is the instant birth, in which i never experience or feel, the baby just seems to appear, or be handed to me without pain.
Stephanie – Nearly all dreams of giving birth are instant or without pain. So no guarantees it will be like that on the day.
But the good news is that the other dreams where there is worry and death is a good sign. They are ways that the mother rids herself of stress, and then the labour is much shorter and easier.
So between the two I think it will be a good birth without the stress.
Tony
what does it mean when u dream about your husband having a baby. and it was a girl.
Angela – It means that the inner man in you has given birth to a new aspect of you. A man in your dream can also represent all the influences taken into yourself from the important men in your life as you matured from childhood. It is an important dream.
Here is an example of a man giving birth. “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.”
This was a dream marking a real change in the man’s life. It could be helpful for you to use the following http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-exploring-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Tony
Hi, I had a dream that I had 3 nippels on each boob it sounds weird to me asking but it doesn’t make sense one moment there was just 1 on each then the next moment there where 3 on each I remember thinking it was because I squeezed it and I remember thinking of a baby, may this mean something about pregnancy, I may be I am going to find out next week. Thanks in advance
Ryetjie – It sounds like your dream is saying that you are a super mum.
It does seem that this is linked with your desire to be pregnant, and may also be sign that you are becoming a Mum. I have not heard of this dream before, so it might just be worth seeing if you have more than one baby your are carrying.
Tony
Ok so, for the past 2 weeks I have been dreaming about me having or taking care of my baby every night. I’m not pregnant, as far as I know. Then this morning after waking up from a dream with a beautiful blond baby boy that was mine. I woke up feeling nacious and holding my stomach. I’m just curious what all this means?
Brooke – It means that dreams and body functions are closely linked.
A healthy young 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 your dream world the image of your creation is usually in the form of a baby. But as you are not 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 been having the dream for ages shows that 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. See this to clarify http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-exploring-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Tony
Ok so, for the past 2 weeks I have been dreaming about me having or taking care of my baby every night. I’m not pregnant, as far as I know. Then this morning after waking up from a dream with a beautiful blond baby boy that was mine. I woke up feeling nacious and holding my stomach. I’m just curious what all this means?
I dream i found out i was pregnant and as i about to acknowlegde the situtation i have a pain in my stomach the doctor keeps telling me ill be fine but i knew that the baby was coming out i was in the hospital with my fiance (we have 2 kids already )and then i look doen and a baby girl a baby girl came out and i couldnt believe it but here she was so beautiful and i woke up with stomach pain ?
Maria – You have had a dream baby. Such baby are easy to give birth to, and usually are beautiful and speak soon. Also, dreams are tied up with body and psychological events, so that was why you had stomach pains.
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.
Tony
I had a dream that I was in the hospital with my fiance and I was in labor trying to push a baby out. When the baby boy came he didn’t cry, he came out completely dry and clean (no blood, no anything) the doctors handed him to me he was pale white with black straight hair (his face had the mixture of my 3 childrens facial features). He held him in my hands and said “open your eyes baby look at me, wake up” he didn’t do anything, I then said “come on you can do it open your eyes look at mommy” he then opened his left eye then both his eyes and then he closed them and went back to sleep, but he never cried. I remember having a horrific emotion come over me when he didn’t cry or open his eyes… I just don’t understand what this dream is trying to tell me.
Jess – The dream is telling you that you have not understood your dream/inner world and mistook your experience for an outer world experience where babies can die. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/ where you can see the world that you live in during dreams.
You had given birth to a dream baby, a special child that is a real extension of you. It is a part of you created out of all you love and wanted to bring into life. Of course it is vulnerable at the moment, but will soon gain strength.
Perhaps you can find out in greater depth what your baby is in you life. Try http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#Talking As
Tony
ok um only 19.last over few years i have had some scary weird baby dream,,i dont know why i often see so many violence stuff in my dream..i like kids but um not that much fond of them..
so that night i had a dream again,first i saw a geraffe,was sitting under the water and he had no head,,its like somone had cutted off his head,,but it was alive,,he was moving around under the water, then i saw myself sitting on a bed(maybe tht was my old home place)..and all of a sudden a baby came towards me,she was smiling i guess.not sure about it,she was so cute and adorable,,i found some similarity between her and my niece,,,then i dont know what happend next,,i was so desperate to kill her..i just took a blade and have tried to cutted off her veins ,,i have tried so many times but it dint work out,,and then i had just grab her head and pushed it on wall,,but the more i tried to kill her the more she recoverd herself immediately.i gave my evry possible effort to kill her but i couldnt,,i know tht was totally insane but,,um not a murderer at all,,how could i do this to a baby..when i saw that vision in my dream i got suffocated,,i couldnt able to breath…i dont know what if it represent,or what does it mean,,some guilt is killing me inside that um a cruel person orelse why i did this to her,,,i hope u will help me out.to understand the situation.
Shama – In the first place you have to understand some things that are best explain in http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/
So you should not see your dreams as reflecting your outer world, but it is a picture of your inner world. And yes, we have a massive inner world.
Your dream is about a hurt you must have had as a child and you are trying to stifle, kill out, and repress the memory of it. Of course it keeps reappearing because you cannot kill yourself in that way; so instead of trying to kill it try imagining caring for and loving it. It may provoke some emotions. Try also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-exploring-your-dreams/#Talking As
Tony
ok so I am only 19years old and i dont know why over last few years i have had some strange baby dreams. Strange because not that i am very fond of kids or something.
Anyway, so this morning i had a dream again. I saw myself leaving for my class in the morning, a friend was with me. She was already on the door telling me to hurry up. So i grabbed my keys, muffler and the thick jacket. But just when i was about to get out, i saw a baby playing on the floor of the room near the corridor. I dont quite know if the baby was a girl or boy. May b a boy. Its just…….the baby was so beautiful! Leaving my keys in the keyhole i just run toward the too adorable infant and picked him up. The kid was quite happy. Laughing. I had a sure feeling i was the mother and he was my baby. But then i held him tight to my chest and started crying! I felt so terrible that how can i even thought to leave my baby alone! And the baby was staring at me with big amusing eyes, still smiling. My friend was behind standing behind, shocked. However I continued sobbing and said, ”we are taking him. Im not leaving him.” She said, ”ok, ok but dont cry.”
But I was still crying and feeling very, very awful. So awful that it felt like i was gonna die in guilt holding my kid. It was dreadful, i could barely breath. It went so worse. Then suddenly i woke up, desparate for oxygen. Found my cheeks were all glistened, and my eyes still teary.
Farhana – Many girls or women often dream about having a baby without any man involved – like a virgin birth. And it is usually a lovely and special child.
So, as your friend said, “Don’t cry”. For you now have a special new part of you to care for, and if you do it will quickly grow into a new ability, a new you. But it is a deeply felt event, special as every baby is.
Tony
Thank you very much Mr Chrisp. Thanks a lot for paying kind attention on my matter.
Additionally if its not too much, i would like to tell you one thing that all of my dreams do orbit over a almost same situation. Like either I am about to leave or standing at a distance from my main object. Then i am ALWAYS returning or reaching to it, desparate.
The object has been a baby 5-6 times so far, but it is way more often a man(age like 25 or so). The baby and the man(who seems to have a strong body but appears very wounded, vulnarable and even dying) both either in trouble or not, i find myself far from them. But i do always reach to them, and it gets AWFULLY frantic, specially when one is dying. Though thankfully its never the baby. The infant is always happy. But the man…..
I first saw when i was like 15.
But I am from a happy family. Raised in enough love as only child. I have no idea why i have been seeing someone in so much pain, for years. Trust me I tried to account them as mere dreams. But these days i don’t feel good…..
Farhana – It seems from your dreams that you are reaching out to something you are trying to be conscious of. The man in pain is probably some part of you that was held back from developing properly. It doesn’t matter that it is a man. It may be your love for a man that was injured – but that is just a guess. Please try this technique to see if you can clarify it. http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#TalkingAs
Tony
well, thanks a lot again, Mr Crisp. I follwed the link that you gave.
Stay well.
the night I dreamed that I was nursing a baby, with a very good feeling, was a boy, but when I realized my chest was bleeding, it was not milk but blood WHAT skirt and the baby nursed, when I woke up the blood in the chest. has only one man and detali’m being kept in the dream man.
Juliano – You have a new part of you that you are nursing. A boy part that can grow into a new ability if you continue to care for and think about, an ability to create in the world.
The blood instead of the milk suggests that you are giving the child all of you – your love and your pain – your very lifeblood. That is good nourishment.
Tony
I’ve just awoken from a very vivid dream in which I had a newborn baby, but no recollection of a birth, but for the moments that it took to realize that I had a child, I was filled with joy and happiness. I studied it face ever so closely, and it neither resembelled myself or my partner very much, but it was perfect, with almond shaped eyes, and soft brown hair, and the cutest lips.. It contrasted from the enivornment so well, the place that we were in was so gray, with tall monsterous creatures with glowing eyes, they just walk around going about their daily business. And the living conditions we were in were horrid, it seemed as though we had taken shelter in an abandoned bus, and it was not just myself and my partner but other people that we had grown to know over the years, as well as my mother and sister. I remember feeling that you were not supposed to be outside after a certain time of the night, and that I had grown cold toward my partner because he didn’t show affection or spend time with our baby. A part of me feels like I didn’t let him explain himself, I shoved him away and made him leave. Soon it became dark and I wanted to hold my baby, but my sister was rocking it to sleep and I caught a glimpse of my partner standing under a tree outside, he looked cold and scared; I beat on the window to call him in from outside, but soon a figure led him away and he saw me, he told he’d be back soon. I remember feeling confusion at one particular thing during the dream, the sex of the baby. I remember confirming its sex as a little baby boy and it resembling one, soon the baby looked like a 2 year old and had long black flowing hair, and my partner approaching her and calling her his angel, we’ve talked about kids before and we would both like to have children, as of now we have not had any, he would love an older girl and a younger boy, and I want the opposite…But I have no idea as to what, if anything, this represents. I just remember thinking that was his little girl…and I need help understanding this.
I had a dream where I was getting fat not pregnant fat but chunky I went to the doctors and they told me I was pregnant and due at any moment. They got me on a table and told me to relax I remember a slight pain in my pelvis and then a baby came out of me I saw the chord and everything it was a beautiful baby boy. The doctors gave him to me. Telling me “What are you gonna name him?” I named him Kai it’s Japanese for Ocean. They took him form me and clean him up and handed him back I held him in my arms his warmth coming to me (Since I’m always cold) I looked into his eyes and they were icy blue and he Asian looking I kissed his little head and talked to him….I’m not Asian at all no family what so ever and for me to have an Asian boy. With Blue eyes when I have brown…..made me think and I’m only 16….weird…
Faith – In the language of the unconscious that your dream is an expression of, this is a beautiful dream. You are lucky to have a dream like this so young – maybe not lucky, but you have earned it in some way.
The baby, which obviously didn’t have a father, is a special part of you that you have allowed to be born. In other words you must be quite a receptive person open to the influence of Life. And it is Life that gave you the baby, a new part of you that is still young and needs your care and love to help it grow. Such a baby is developed in you from all the loving and uplifting thoughts you have, and will become an influence in your life as it matures – and it often grows quickly.
It is Asian because it represents the inner, intuitive part of you that has been born. In your dream the Asian person can represent intuitive wisdom of great insight. This is usually obvious and felt as such in the dream.
Example: I was on a plane or a journey. On my right sat an American, very flabby, with a paunch. I was eating an apple, and my elbow sometimes touched his paunch. It felt lifeless, lacking vitality. I told him he ought to eat only apples for a while, and all the dead flesh would fall off him.
Then a young Chinese man came to me and pointed out a line marked on my apple, on the green, less developed side. He said every apple had it if one looked, and under the line was a hair. He said it was the “hair of discontent.” He said this was poisonous, and best not eaten. I slid my fingernail under the line, and pulled out a long hair. I thought this was wonderful, and that I had been given real wisdom of the East
I think the dream says that you have a great gift of wisdom, but it will only be known if you treasure the little son you have and aid its growth. Other dreams will instruct you.
Tony
What does it mean if i dream i am pregnant and can grab the baby’s head?
Andee – I think I need a bit more description to really work on your dream. Was the head poking out of you, and what did you feel and do when you held it?
Tony
A Guy who cares a lot about me and wants a relationship has been having the same dream about me having his baby for a week now….what does this mean..I care a great deal for him as well.
Amy – Some guys really want to have children. I did and now have five – all adults now. As it is his dream it is all about him, but he must feel you are a good woman to want to have a baby with you.
But it is a time of decision, so find out what his track record of relationship is. It can be a helpful guide.
Tony
I keep having this dream where I just gave birth but the baby is 3 months old and my ex boyfriend is holding it and smiling, what does that mean?
Taniqua – It means that you have dreamt of giving birth to a 3 months old baby!
Many such dreams show the baby as much older than a new born, and sometimes they can speak and also grow up much quicker.
You must realise that every dream image is an expression of functions, feelings in you. So dreaming about giving birth to a baby is bringing a new aspect of you to birth. It shows you are growing as a person – for with every new experience we are growing – and maybe bringing a new aspect of us to birth.
Here is a lucid dream that really spells it out.
In my dream I was watching a fern grow. It was small but opened very rapidly. As I watched I became aware that the fern was an image representing a process occurring within myself, one I grew increasingly aware of as I watched. Then I was fully awake in my dream and realised that my dream, perhaps any dream, was an expression in images of actual events occurring unconsciously in myself. I felt enormous excitement, as if I were witnessing something of great importance.
Tony