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What are baby dreams about?

A baby is a lifeform at the very beginning of life. There is so much potential in babies. They have their whole lives in front of them. At the same time, babies need protection. They need love and support. This symbol is identified by words like infant, neonate, baby, etc.

Babies in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 4.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams.

What are the major highlights of baby dreams?

Babies is a normal dream symbol. Having babies in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Baby dreams seem to lack places or locations

Dreams of babies frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of babies simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include miscarriages, seeing a dead friend, relationship events, insights, possessing, break ups, recurring dreams, wasps, toenails, and tiktok.

Baby dreams are very social

Dreams of babies contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of babies are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include old friends, enemies, grandfathers, people's ages, monster, places, robots, snakes, ghosts, and queens.

Baby dreams are about family

Dreams of babies are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of babies will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include lodging, abortions, uncles, Congo, nephews, living rooms, ancestors, crying, weddings, and Lebanon.

What are the symbols that help define babies?

The symbol of babies in dreams is highly related to peoples_ages.

How does the dream symbol of babies affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of babies

Who is in babies dreams?

Overall, dreams with babies are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of babies are more related to animals, much more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, less related to fantastic beings, and less related to distant people.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

much more than usual
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What are the emotions in babies dreams?

Overall, dreams with babies are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of babies are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to embarrassment, less related to confusion, and less related to fear.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in babies dreams?

Overall, dreams with babies are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of babies are less related to work, less related to human places, and less related to transportation.

Home

the same as usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

much less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in babies dreams?

Overall, dreams with babies are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of babies are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do babies in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with babies are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of babies are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do babies in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with babies are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of babies are less related to hearing, less related to vision, and less related to touch.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of babies in dreams?

Baby dreams are relatively common. Among other things baby dreams are normally interconnect, lack places or locations, very social, and family oriented.

Do you think this is true for your dream of babies? How might your dream of babies be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience babies in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about babies in dreams. See how you feel about babies now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of babies?

When decoding the symbolism of a baby in a dream, begin with the simple fact that a baby is new life. Ask yourself what’s new with you: a relationship, an idea, a feeling, a development in your character or personality?

A dream about finding a baby can symbolize finding something new within yourself, such as a burst of creativity or new wind in your sails.

A happy baby is the image of pure joy, and that too is a possibility for the symbolism. Do you feel happy just to be alive? Do you see the world with awe and wonder?

It’s common to dream about happy babies when in a rut, when life is tedious or boring, as a way of rediscovering the simplicity of laughter and giggles.

For example, a man dreams about saving a baby drowning in a pool. It symbolizes attempting to keep the part of himself alive—meaning conscious—that enjoys life but is drowning in adult responsibilities. He’s drowning in the personal sense, and in the dream his desperate attempt to save the baby shows how he feels about the possibility of losing his happiness.

People are known to dream about babies—especially crying ones—in relation to caring for basic needs: nutrition, comfort, protection, warmth and so on. A crying or neglected baby sums up the idea and the feelings involved. See: Crying

Ask yourself why the dream storyteller would choose a baby as symbolism over a child. One way to look at it is, a child is needy, but a baby is helpless. In a pinch, a child can figure out how to survive, but a baby can’t.

A baby is vulnerable, and in dreams a baby left alone or neglected can symbolize being in a vulnerable state. It implies the need to create a safe and stable space to live in, or a basic routine of care and attention. Most dream characters connect with your inner life. A vulnerable baby might symbolize a need to protect yourself emotionally and psychologically. If you don’t take care of yourself, who will?

If you don’t do it, something else might just step in and take over your life, namely, an archetype such as shadow or anima. A dream can express this idea as a bad person holding a baby captive. Kidnapping a baby can have similar meaning of helplessness against something much more powerful. At its simplest, it means something important is being taken, and what’s more important than your freedom and independence?

A baby can symbolize a sense of being entitled to have someone else take care of your needs. Fussy babies, pacifiers and highchairs are good symbols for childish fussiness or entitlement. For example, you dream about your fussy co-worker with a pacifier in his or her mouth. The symbolism is rather obvious. But what if the co-worker has a fussy baby with her at work? It’s not so obvious that the dream is still an observation about the person. The baby sticks out in that setting so it must be symbolism unless you really do have a co-worker who brings his or her baby to work.

For women who can bear children, the first thought after dreaming about having a baby is often, Oh, shit, does this mean I’m pregnant? It’s possible, yes, but less likely than pregnancy being symbolism.

For example, a young woman dreams that she gives birth and immediately realizes she doesn’t have time to care for her baby. Her work schedule won’t allow it, which is true—her job at a fast-food place doesn’t include maternity leave. After thinking over the situation, she puts the baby in a carrier bag and leaves it behind her workplace, symbolizing putting off having a child until she has a job that allows it. Keeping her job is her number one priority. Her desire to have a baby is behind it in the figurative sense. Putting the baby in a carrier bag is way of saying she’s putting off fulfilling her desire till the future.

If the thought of having a baby has been on your mind, it’s likely to be expressed in your dreams. Dreaming about a baby can be a way of saying you can start preparing. You can find the right work, mate, or living situation. You can prepare your body, save money, and get maternity coverage. See: Pregnancy

Your reaction during the dream shows how you really feel about the idea of having a baby. People who believe they don’t want children, swearing it will never happen, are known to change their minds after holding their “dream” baby in their arms. It’s an incredibly realistic experience that demands an honest response. They feel, smell, and hear their baby and even know its name. Then again, dreams can affirm a person’s decision to not have children.

Dreams can address decisions parents make about having more children. For example, a mother dreams about three dead fetuses connected by a string dropping out of her uterus while riding on the back of her husband’s motorcycle. The fetuses symbolize children she can’t have, now that her tubes are tied. Her hope was to have more children, but her husband doesn’t want to and he influenced her to have the procedure done. The dream shows her on the back of his motorcycle because he controlled the decision to make sure she’d never again get pregnant.

Parents dream about the care of their children and the responsibilities of parenthood. It’s particularly common for parents of young children to have anxiety dreams, often involving scenes of their children harmed or in danger. It’s usually just an exaggerated reflection of a parent’s diligence and concerns.

It’s possible to dream about the children you are going to have. Thousands of reports are on record of mothers and fathers seeing their future in children in dreams, sometimes years beforehand. In one case, a woman dreamed about the children she could have had. She had three miscarriages, but in her dreams the children are alive and well and a joyous part of her life. Perhaps they really are alive somewhere out there in the big universe. It’s not such a strange idea when you consider that every possibility exists in the quantum world.

Gruesome dreams involving babies hurt or killed can connect with fears, anxieties, emotional turmoil, and treacherous life conditions. Don’t take it literally when you have such a dream, but do take it as a sign that something really needs to change. In most cases, it’s a sign that the highly sensitive and vulnerable parts of yourself are going through the meat grinder.

Babies are immature, and the idea of immaturity extends beyond behavior to mean underdeveloped. In the image of the baby in your dream, you see something that will grow and develop if you put the time into it.

For a discussion of breastfeeding in a dream, see: Breast.

See also: Adoptions, Breasts, Caesarean sections, Children, Giving birth, Crying, Fetuses, Kittens, Smallness, Love, Miscarriages, Orphans, Pregnancy, Puppies

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.

Examples of dreams of babies

Read some real dream reports of baby dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

My 13 year old dreamed that we were all murdered, apart from his baby sister.

So in his words:
We were all walking back from somewhere in the dark (mum,dad,little bro and baby sis) and a man was waiting on the corner with a knife and jumped out and stabbed and killed us all apart from his little sister who was still in her pushchair, but they pushed her away in the pram so she was rolling down the street.
Any ideas atal what this is all about ? It terrified him so much that it actually woke him up on a weekend day before lunch time lol.

So in his words:
We were all walking back from somewhere in the dark (mum,dad,little bro and baby sis) and a man was waiting on the corner with a knife and...

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Flowers growing from vagina and lower abdomen

Hi had a dream that I had vine like plants growing from my lower abdomen. At first, it seems like it was normal and then I started to realize how long they were and then I saw flowers. I was confused but though my seeds must have gotten onto me when I was gardening. My husband saw them and didn’t make a big deal of it. Then I started to pull them off. There were so many and I just wanted to get all of them off of me.

I saw an extremely similar dream in here but it was archived. Since it’s obviously more common, anyone have any insights?

In real life, I have 3 kids, including a 7 month old. My husband keeps bringing up having another baby at some point. For context.

Hi had a dream that I had vine like plants growing from my lower abdomen. At first, it seems like it was normal and then I started to realize how long they were...

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really really weird dream- help pls??

last night i went to bed as normal next to my boyfriend. partway through the night i woke up and, in the midst of a dream, thought i saw a baby sleeping between my boyfriend and i. i just accepted it because i was sleepy and fell back into sleep while being somewhat aware of this baby sleeping between us.

woke up in the morning and forgot about it until i was doing my period tracker and remembered. mentioned it to my boyfriend and he dreamt the EXACT SAME THING. a baby sleeping between us had disturbed his sleep but he had continued sleeping and remained semi aware of it. how the fuck did we dream something so specific at the same time??? we do want kids but we haven’t spoken about it recently and definitely not last night. any thoughts on this??? is it weird or am i just overly excited about coincidences??

last night i went to bed as normal next to my boyfriend. partway through the night i woke up and, in the midst of a dream, thought i saw a baby sleeping between...

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I want to know what this dream means, can you give someone a hand.

Context: this dream revolves around me a baby and a ex female friend. Me and her aren't friends after an argument. But keep her in mind.

Dream: I am napping in my bed and I hear some crying, but I ignore it. The crying increases and I look beside me and it's a baby girl (blonde hair, and brown eyes) and I grab the baby and carry her until she goes to sleep (surprisingly in the dream I didn't react until in the morning). The next morning I show the baby to my mom and I don't remember her response, later on I found out where my friend lived (let's name her J) and I knock on her door, she answers. And I remember I got super emotional and hugged her really tight, I hugged her and told her "thank you" the baby had her hair and both of our eyes (brown colored)

What does this dream mean? I can't find anything that is close to the situation I had in this dream. Me and a ex best Friend had a baby and had our eyes and her hair.

Context: this dream revolves around me a baby and a ex female friend. Me and her aren't friends after an argument. But keep her in mind.

Dream: I am napping in...

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Suicide and murder? Please help!

I had a dream about my family not accepting me because I am gay so I started to cut my throat with a knife but then decided to stop and kill my mom instead. I cut her with the same knife.

And then I was a baby cow eating pudding in a supermarket while hiding from an evil wizard.

What the fuck is even going on here? Where did this violent part come from? Why did it shift to nonsense so quickly?

I had a dream about my family not accepting me because I am gay so I started to cut my throat with a knife but then decided to stop and kill my mom instead. I...

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