Dream Interpretation

So...I've had my second dream about killing a baby. Well..I didnt really KILL the baby, I was the cause of the baby dying.

The first time - I had a  baby, brought it home..and left it in the car. I totally forgot about it for like..2 days..until I saw the cops giving me a ticket for parking and I remembered. The baby was almost dead or dead.

LAST NIGHT - It was a wierd dream all TOGETHER..butt..in one part of it..the baby had a big  insect leg or something. It broke the leg and I didnt know what to do with it so I just put it in the aquarium for the scorpians to kill it and put it out of its misery. Surrely enough..the scorpians did their job.

What does this mean? I know I dont want kids..is this just reinforcing my "not wanting kids" ?

Disclaimer: I view dream interpretation as silly and fun and with no bearing on reality. And I'm going to do it anyway : )

Babies can represent new things, optimism, or vulnerability (or I suppose they can represent... babies). A new insight, new project, new feelings, etc. Killing something is typically pretty straightforward, interpretation-wise. However, the fact that you seem to be killing unintentionally is an interesting twist. It adds the factor of guilt and trauma. Perhaps you are resisting changes/new things and you are subconsciously unsure as to whether you should be?

Also, many traumatic dreams are simply responses to stress/trauma (current or past).

I had a very similar dream when I was pregnant for my first child. I dreamed I brought the baby home and then my mom came over to see it. At that moment, I realized that I had left the baby upstairs for weeks and hadn't checked on it. I had an overwhelming sense of terror and ran upstairs to find the baby alive, but emaciated. I think the dream was just my anxiety about whether I would take good care of a baby.

Since it's so similar to your dream, I wonder if you have a new responsibility or are about to take one on (or lordy, are you pregnant?)

It's stress.... You're worried about something that you're responsible for.  I have similar dreams only, instead of a baby, it's a wriggly cat that I've got to take care of but fail miserably because it escapes and runs into traffic... splat. 

My theory on dreams is that your brain has a lot of 'loose emotions' running about when you're asleep.  And because we're human-beings that work on a visual level, we attach pictures to the emotions so that it hangs together a bit better. 

In my case, I once did have to transport a cat and the bloody thing escaped from the cat box and went mental, running all over the inside of the car.  Now that was a stressful situation that obviously I conjour up a version of in my dream.  Did you ever have a panicky moment babysitting for someone?

Its stress, the question is did you forget something that needed to be done or did someone say something to you this week that really bothered you. The brain will never put anything in black and white you need to read between the lines.

Maybe Shoe1200 has a point, do you have a boyfriend and maybe?

Nieto 

I still have dreams about not being able to find my locker between classes in high school.  I forget the number and the hallway and can't find my stuff.

I'm pretty sure this reflects my current lack of direction, not sure what I should do next.

Your dream, I agree you're probably stressing about some sort of responsibility that you have.

Not to hijack the thread, and I certainly don't believe that dreams "mean" anything (other than random synapse firings influenced by memories and experiences), but I've always heard that when you "die" in a dream, you die in real life.  I'm here to announce that this is absolutely NOT true, as I have died 3 times in dreams, and twice in the last week!

Once, as a kid, I was torn to pieces by a vicious ringtail.

Last Sunday, I was on an underwater salvage operation, my scuba regulator failed, and I took a deep breath of seawater before I could swim to the surface.

And Tuesday night, I received a rifle bullet through the skull.  Gene Hackman was the shooter.  It was a solid hit, and though I clamped my hand over the entry wound to stop the bloodflow, I didn't make it to the hospital.

Just thought I'd share.

I watched myself die in a dream two nights in a row a few weeks ago.  Got hit by a vehicle both times.  Weird.

lol, i've never died in a dream luckily..

only my baby :(

But nah I'm not pregnant. I think whoever said "resisting to channges/new things" and "unsure whether I shuold be or not" probably has it right on.

That..and its probably reflecting the fact that I DO forget to do alot of stuff, I'm very absent minded.

Original Post by se1289:

lol, i've never died in a dream luckily..

 

only my baby :(

But nah I'm not pregnant. I think whoever said "resisting to channges/new things" and "unsure whether I shuold be or not" probably has it right on.

That..and its probably reflecting the fact that I DO forget to do alot of stuff, I'm very absent minded.

Bingo,

Now go see what you forgot to do and do it so the nightmare stops.

Nieto

uhh

everything? lol

I forget to grab stuff, I forget to put lotion on, I forget to do homework, I forget to do this that and all of the above

Original Post by se1289:

uhh

everything? lol

I forget to grab stuff, I forget to put lotion on, I forget to do homework, I forget to do this that and all of the above

Wow!! lol Time to get yourself a planner or even one of the magnets that say: Stuff I need to get done today. (Really, I have one in my kitchen)