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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When trying to understand your dreams it is important to know that your dreams are… your dreams. As such, you are the best person to figure out the true meaning of your dreams.
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.
My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” gives you a great foundation for understanding (and recalling) your dreams.
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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.
Dream dictionaries are a very helpful tool when interpreting dreams. However, generally learning how to approach your dreams, will give you a better foundation for understanding them. My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” teaches you how to much better utilize – recall and understand – your dreams.
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Also read: Why I no longer interpret dreams for free
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 where I had three babies and two of them where not my boyfriends’. In the dream it didn’t seem to phase him that all of the babies weren’t his. He continued to help as if they were his. I’m so confused on what this means.
December 13,2019
I had a dream that i have a 5years old daughter in my dream i saw a big plastic that full of different slippers,when my daughter come to me i saw her crying and have dirt on her face so i wipe it,then i ask her why are you crying?but my daughter in the dream didnt response my question infact she told me that,Mama i didny yet take the payment from the woman, And i saw women coming to us and the woman give the amount of the slipper to my husband and the woman told to my husband your daughter dont want to accept the over amount of the slipper price and the woman was so amazed to my daughter and she said that your daughter had a genuine heart,suddenly my husband going to left and he put on my hands a roll of money from the woman and lot of money inside my hand,but my daughter still crying and want her fathers cameback.
Just i want to ask a sort of meaning about my dreams
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Lately I’ve been having dreams about two albino kids a boy and a girl they were at least 4 or 5 years of age, they were talking to me but I can’t remember what they were saying. Could you please interpret my dreams
Hey i have a question. So my sister had a dream of her sitting in a hospital room and my mom is there our brother is there dad is there im in a hospital bed introducing them to a baby what does that mean
I dreamed I went to my cousin house to see why she had not come over, I walked in her house it was full of babies and children she looked at me and said where do I start I said just pick one and go from there. I was wanting to know the meaning of a bible verse Matthew 13:41 she kept telling me to look up in a different bible. Babies and children were everywhere my cousin in real life dose take in foster children.
I dream I was in the church singing after I saw a toddler in my hand
Hi Michael thanks for this article.
I have been dreaming about babies for many years, each time in different scenarios but they are the only repetitive factor to my dreams – I’m 24 I don’t want and am not thinking about having children. Because babies are a recurrent feature of my dreams and it bothers me not to understand. Last night I dreamt I had 3 (I was in the hospital they were new), one was happy and running around and another was breathing strangely and had a strangely shaped head, the nurse had to install a breathing thing and people were holding her wrong.
Another example is when I was in a very deep swimming pool, many babies were slowly crawling over the edge and falling to the bottom. I would dive all the way down and get them and put them back outside, but more kept coming, I could only carry a few at a time and it was difficult – I wasn’t fast enough to get them all and put them back out. And the ones I did save would crawl back in. So I knew they would drown.
If you have any thoughts about these recurring babies please let me know 🙂 Thank you.
Last nighy I had a dream about me having my own house and the doorbell rang. It was night time and I didn’t feel like answering. I waited until the lady was gone and I opened the door to find THREE babies left at my doorstep in a basket.
what does it mean? when i dreamed of my best friend 3 times,,she was carrying an infant in her breast with their face shining,,my best friend was wearing her GOA uniform as a police woman, she is half way on the entrance door of the church, but still half of her body is still outside..it happened 3 times within a month with the same scene. thank you
I started to have dreams about babies a couple years ago. I am single and currently 18 years old. Most of the time in the past those babies were not my biological child, yet I felt like such a motherly figure to them and I knew I had to protect them and love them. For example, the first dream I started having was in this house/building. I was some type of detective looking for something. And all of a sudden I started to hear a baby crying and I ran to him. More things happened which I can’t remember, but the house started to flood, out of nowhere water were filling up the house, fast and crazy and I knew I needed to get out of there. I took “my son” and ran out. When we got outside we were on a parking lot and “my son” (I called him that in the dream) had turned into a toddler who could walk. Somehow I knew there were people after me so I took him and ran until we got to this wooden bridge and everything felt calm. I put my son down and I held his hands as we walked. I started to hear beautiful orchestra music in the back (almost like a movie) and I looked at the boy and said “my son”, but right at that moment someone woke me up from my sleep and I just felt so heart broken after that because I didn’t finish saying “my son” and it was like he disappeared forever. Last night though, I had a dream that I had a biological daughter. She was a toddler and I could speak to her. In the dream though, I didn’t raise her. My best friend did. But I still saw my daughter and I was speaking to her and teaching her some things and she was such a good listener and she was kind. I don’t know why I keep having dreams have babies, especially when they’re not my biological children, yet I feel like their mother anyways.
I had a dream that I had a baby girl with my ex. He suddenly shows up one day and tells me I have a daughter I wasn’t even aware of. But I immediately taker her in and care for the child and surprisingly everyone around me is suportive. I am holding her but skmetimes she becomes a barbie doll and sometimes she is a 1 year old girl. This change happens subtly and I can feel myself wishing in the dream that thr doll would change back into the girl, but that feeling is coming from conscious me, as in I am lucid dreaming. And we are all just sitting around and talking about me having the child. It’s all very positive and I am very happy. I woke up feeling bereft… Like I missed the child. I still do. I really loved her, but she was nothing more than a dream. I don’t know what this means. Please help. I only know that it is very important.
I had dream that i was having a party in my house for the little ones my bbys birthday party an i had extra kids rooms in my house with big toys that i new the kids would like the parents where with the kids so each room i brung them to they would get happier an happier the was running in a line like ten of them prob the age of two an three they seem happy..now in my waking life this is my house but these rooms dont exist an one room i felt real bad feeling about like it was a ghost in it. I kinda left that room shut off but when i open the door the kids loved it.
A week ago I had a dream that I had a three month old baby and he was cooing, smiling, and talking to the ceiling. I look at him and stare and ask him what hes looking at. He looks back at me and says with a childlike voice tia stella. My tia passed away in 2016 so I don’t understand what this means.
I had a dream that I had a daughter. I saw her as a baby then as a toddler and then all the sudden she was dead. I was crying and trying to desperately find a picture of her from my x partner. I do not have any kids in real life. It was so real… what does it mean,
I’m twelve and have a reacuring dream. In that dream I am only 19 (which is told to me by a man who I think is my boyfriend) and I’m sitting alone in a kitchen on my phone drinking coffee at about 9:00. Twin boys who are probably 3 come running to me with dinosaurs. I always instantly know they are my children. Then a little bit after, the man shows up and I ask a ton of questions. I long for these little boys as I know they are mine. What could this mean?
I was pregnant 17 years ago with my first child and at the time I was 3 1/2 months pregnant when I had a miscarriage. It was a very traumatic and devastating loss, however something happened 2 days before I found out that I was about to miscarry. I had a dream that I had a little girl and in my dream I saw her playing at our ranch when suddenly a pack of coyotes came and attacked her killing her before I had the chance to get to her. It was a horrible dream but I took it as simply a nightmare. Then, days later I miscarried. I never knew the sex of my child and I always wondered if that nightmare had anything to do with my miscarriage.
I have a dream i was escaping a guy and the ghosts of a flooded town, I was escaping through a scrappy boat with a child.
Hi,maria and I am 30.I had a dream about my 9 year old child that I have not seen in a long time because of family,in my dream she was lost and I was looking for her,when I did find her she was crying and hold.I got up
I had a dream that I had a 3 year old son and a 2 year old daughter, and an abusive husband. But only abusive to me, and reckless with my children.
He had my son tattooed, and wouldn’t let me take care of him. He wouldn’t give me my babies, so I ran away from him with them when he wasn’t home. He was apart of the mafia or something that gave him a lot of power. I always had to keep moving to stay away from him.
This is just really odd to me because I’m not in a relationship nor have I ever had children. Yeah
Hello,
My boyfriend had a dream that me and him were running around a field with a daughter.