What does it mean to dream about babies and/or children? (dream interpretation baby, child)
Dreams about babies / children – what do they mean?
They’re often portrayed as cuddly and lovely little creatures, as in the picture – but what does it mean when we dream about babies and children? It can be about several things depending on our life situation, but often it is the potential, undeveloped sides of ourselves, or “priming” projects we are working on, to grow. However, there are several approaches to the dreams of babies and children.
A baby in a dream can be like an image on the new opportunity of a lifetime, a new side of the personality or a new project. Babies are the little creatures that can grow up to be all sorts of things. When we are in our dreams and see babies or children, an important interpretation can be: could this baby or child (in the dream) be an expression of a new project I not long ago let go of? Or is it simply sides of myself that I did not spot and which I should increasingly grow/develop?
I myself had a dream when I at a point in my career said yes to a job in the United States, about a woman who devoured hundreds of dead babies into a grave. It was for me a clear picture of how I closed down for other development opportunities by saying yes to the job.
Similarly, children and babies in your dreams can be pictures of opportunities for you to grow and develop – or not. Some psychoanalysts/therapists talk about the fact that we need to keep track of our inner kindergarten – the immensely many aspects of ourselves that would like to be addressed; we have to do our best to accommodate everyone – in the right quantities and at the right time.
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However, it is important to learn how to generally approach your dreams. Dream dictionaries like this one are only a supplement, and if you want to fully utilize the potential of your dreams, you should start at a different place.
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Children and babies in dreams as reflections of our own childish sides.
Another angle of the presence of children (or babies) in our dreams are the direct forthright that they can be pictures of our own childish (baby-like) sides.
If you dream of a child who behaves unreasonably and may not accept the “framework and structures” that are being foisted on him/her, even then, a good question would be whether you might sometimes, in an almost childish manner, excuse yourself over the inevitable requirements and frameworks such as your work, or your new life as a mother/father etc. But that is not to say that having childish sides is a negative thing.
Perhaps we unconsciously restrain a positively “childish” approach to life in ourselves – such as it could be an indication of a tremendous openness towards others, towards the ones who can see the fun in almost anything, those who think and act more freely, etc. These are good “childish” qualities. It is important to know how “the child inside you” thrives. So as always in dream interpretation, it is important that you go see the dream from several angles.
The importance of the child’s age.
In addition to the above, there are some very interesting meanings of the child’s age in dreams. The child’s age in the dream can be a picture on the age of a project you have launched/started (for example, a two-year-old child as an image of the store that was opened two years ago, or the relationships you initiated two years ago). Another very important aspect to the child’s age can be that it also reflects the age you were when something important (perhaps traumatic or intense) happened to you in your life.
Dreams of babies and children in pregnant women.
For the record, I should also mention here that it is perfectly natural and supported by research that pregnant women dream immeasurably more about babies and children than non-pregnant women.
Have you had a dream about babies/children that you would like to share? Or have you interpreted a “baby dream” you’ve had and reached an exciting interpretation? Then do comment in the field below.
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NOTE: Dreams are 100% individual, and when you dream about babies or children, it’s almost certainly about something else for you than it is for your friend, who also dreamed of babies or children. Dream interpretation is sometimes a difficult art, and a particular interpretation of a dream is only correct if you feel “affected” by it. Therefore, it is not certain that the above mentioned interpretations are relevant to you.
I had a dream of being in labor (at the moment of birth) and deliver a beautiful blue eyes child. In my dream I could see how the baby came out in my last push and my husband in the dream (i couldn’t see his face or recognize him as someone who I know) was with me and it was an amazingly happy momen. The I was walking with the beautiful baby again with that husband in my dream and behind us there were a group of beautiful children walking with us. Then we all stop a looking at something wonderful in front of us we were amazed and smiling the children and us. The last image was me holding the baby and commenting about what we were looking at with that husband
How about dreaming of holding a newborn baby (feels like mine) showing it to my mom and close people. And that the baby is actually an adorable cat, and everyone loves it and looks at it and acknowledges it as though it is a baby.
I have a dream a few weeks ago where I was breastfeeding a baby girl and my other girl child she no other than 3 years old running towards shout her father which is my ex and now last Saturday I dream I was pregnant , and I am not working on anew job wondering if am going to make it for my new jobs
To make it easy I don’t have any children right now
Hello,
I have been having different dreams of my son who is 25 years old is a baby or toddler. Ive had at least 4 or 5 dreams in the past couples of weeks so I’m sure it has a meaning.
I dreamed that i am often carrying my own child in my dream and it’s a baby girl but i don’t have a child in real life, i also dreamed about my cousin’s friend who is my husband in my dream.
I am eighty two years old and find that over the last year or so I dream nearly every night about young children or babies. They are nice dreams but ususally one child will never mind. Any thoughts on this.
I have repetitive dreams about the same two children. A male 6-month old black eyes blond hair. 2-3 year old female light brown hair blue eyes. I’m their mom and we live on a bay area in California. Very vivid details of cold lime stone tiles flooring 24-inch. White Chinese plaster walls. 2 stories. 2 staircases. I’m very protective of them..and I feel very joyfull in my heart. The dream takes too much time to write out..but it’s been the same for 7-years.
Hi Jackie – and thank you for your highly interesting dream. Unfortunately I have decided to no longer help out via these comments, as I simply get too many requests everyday, not only on this blogpost, but on all the other ones too, via e-mail etc. – and I cannot keep up with them. In general the most important question you can ask in order to understand a dream you’ve had is the following; how – in any possible way – might this dream be an illustration of something happening in my waking life / in real life? In other words; what (inside yourself / outside yourself) might these children resemble? Best regards – Michael
I had a dream where I lost my phones with very important files and accounts in them and when I was trying to get them back I came in custody of six children when were being fought over then their dead father appeared in the dream and requested I took the children. I instantly forgot about my missing phones and was more happy of having those children. What does this mean
Hi Mazi,
and thank you for your comment. As I get many comments every day, I simply cannot keep up with answering all of them. That is also the reason why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Hello!
I had a dream, just last night, that I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He’s got dimple and his hair is curly. 😍 He’s so lovely that I was overly happy in my dream. I had a very smooth delivery in that dream, too.
What could be its meaning?
Hi Laiza,
and thank you for your comment. As I get many comments every day, I simply cannot keep up with answering all of them. That is also the reason why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream last night; I could see myself had two wives but one of the two had no children, I then decided to divorce her though she tended to revolt by trying to fight the other one but I beckoned her to stop and she calmed down. I had resolved to retain the one with children and do away the childress. End of the dream.
Hi Joe,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I was young again around sixteen and was inside my ex boyfriend house it seems. I was looking for him every where and I saw his younger brother and ask for him and he didn’t know where he was .I saw his younger sister she was going to get married to him I ask her for him ,she olso said she didn’t know they all seem afraid to tell me of his where about the feeling that I got from them is that he taught that I betrayed him.i looked in different room till Icrownerd him inside a room there was a bed unmade and was inside the room back turnfrom the window and was facing me, he didn’t want to talk to me and he was upset because he taught that I betrayed him .I started to plead with him telling him that I look for him all over and why was he marrying her when he knew that I was the one he loved I was grabbing shirt color and I fresh kiss him I was so Bing histercally and he started to kiss me to and was olso crying
Hi Michelle,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I recently had a dream that I had a baby and the father was actress romeo miller which is pretty weird but im being truthful. One of the main things I found really weird was that the baby was small and clear, it had no skin color , it was just clear. I never understood that though.
Hi Dana,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Had a dream that my first love was back at home with his wife and his kids and I was dropping some of his and the kids stuff off to the house. While I was driving off he was trying to get my attention I had a bible on the car seat beside me then at the bottom of a hill there was this beautiful house for sale $363,000 the man offered me a tour as I was waking around isaw pictures of the man and his family… Then I ended up being in a room with a bunch of toddlers that played on and around me giving me so much love. Then next thing you know my ex showed at the door asking for me once I talked to him and went back to the kids then he knocked a second time preceding his love for me and how much his kids missed and loved me as well. I offered the owner $150,000 in cash for home and the rest in a check
Hi Tia,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream about a kid coming out of a mirror into me i felt him coming inside me and talked to me the kid said :”listen to me and to no one else ok?” After i replide ok he went straight out and my dream ended
Hi Wendy,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I am a man. I had a dream of a baby drooling and playful that was handed to me by a woman. The woman is blurry in my dream but not connected with me. I was in bed and I held the baby and drooled at me. The baby was happy also. What does this baby dream means in my life?
Hi Josh,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
If you’re married and that could be a chance that your wife is gonna pregnant and expecting for a baby,the blurry women in your dream means that she wants someone to look after her baby so she could have moved forward .
the interpretation of the dream help me and i need more thanks
Hi Esther,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream there were lots of happy kids around me and a man i just met…i asked them to go and get me some candies and we kissed…he then left and said he had to go and would be back. Please what does it mean?
Hi Abena,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Hello, ever since my adult son passed away last year, I’m often dreaming if him as an adult and as a child. He had no kids, now I find myself from time to time, dreaming of little children, I don’t understand what these dreams mean, but they are recurring ever other night for the past week. Can anyone interpret it please?
Hi Seliner,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
If you’re dreaming about children it means that, there’s a chances you’re gonna pregnant again, the children in your dream is waiting for you to be your daughter or a son .I also had a dream many times about holding a baby soon after that I got pregnant.
I had a dream where I was in my home, yet it was being remodeled no Sheetrock, I was in my garage which was being made to a bedroom, I was in my bed, I had to go to the Restroom so I walked and the toilet was a large paint bucket, I was sitting on it and beside me the wall turned to a door and a bright light was behind it, a cute young construction worker appeared and was looking at me on the bucket, I told him ” how dare you come in while I was using the restroom it was disrespectful and he should be ashamed, I went on and on, and he said ha was sorry, he will knock next time, my father who passed, came in with my daughter, I couldn’t tell which, they would change from one to the other, they were talking and walked past the construction worker, I told him where did they go, he said I took her to the mall, I then stated why didn’t you take me, he said I will take you next time, I said there won’t be a next time. You were never there for me, your not a good father, I was about to say I hate you but something stopped me from saying hate, I walked to the living room and there was a hole in the ceiling from a leak, the ceiling was opened and I said I have to fix that, my father said I will take care of it, the next thing I knew I was floating and there was a lot of reporters around me asking questions, I knew they were there but I didn’t see them, we went around the house and I was answering there questions as we floated around the house, the home was opened because it was being remodeled, we got to a room and my sister was asleep in a bed, when she saw the people around me she slipped away out of the room, we came to the living room again and I looked at the ceiling it was patched up like a puzzle I can see how each piece fit together, I looked at my father and said thank you for fixing it. He said your welcome. I woke up.
I had a dream that I was at my old job, I was parked in the garage, I went to the elevator and it went straight up, when it opened the building was being remodeled with walls that had no Sheetrock’s a woman was beside me, keeping people from bothering me, do worker who tried to day hi, she will tell them not to talk to me, they need to set a appointment, if I didn’t want to see a certain person she will guide me away. We went to the elevator, and S woman ran trying to talk to me, she said can you please let her know that the client we have if better, the woman stated she not interested. We went to the elevator and it went to the top floor. We were outside, I can see a beautiful building up in the sky, she guided me to another elevator and It was ln a glass casing, it went was like a roller coaster, going straight up to the building I look at the distance the elevator has to go and it was shaped like a backwards L, she walked me to the elevator and we went straight to the building in a flash. I then woke up.
Hi Lois,
thank you for your highly interesting dream! Unfortunately I no longer offer help for free, as I get very many requests every day. Instead I offer the following (interpretation of your dream, with payment): http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael