Dreaming of being pregnant Does it mean that you really want to have children? Or is it a metaphor for another area?
How to interpret your dreams?
“There have always been dream dictionaries, in all cultures. But that doesn’t make much sense, because one dream can only be interpreted according to a person’s problem.” explain Maria Hejnar, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Paris.
“When we interpret dreams in psychotherapy or in psychoanalysis, we ask the dreamer to tell your dream with as much detail as possible. There dream meaning and its elements depends on the person.” It is therefore complicated to establish general dream interpretations without taking into account the person’s past and their personality.
What does dreaming of being pregnant mean?
“Dreaming of pregnancy is not so common, except when we encounter a particular problem” notes the psychologist. “If you are a woman who is having difficulty having children, dreaming of pregnancy does not have the same meaning as for a mother of several children. It all depends on his situation, his anxieties, his history.” This dream can represent a desire or anxiety.
So you need to think about what pregnancy means to you. Is this a wish on your part, or on the contrary something that scares you? “We ask the dreamer what he associates his dream with, and we favor his associations, even if the therapist who knows him well also has his own idea on the question. says Maria Hejnar.
“A dream of pregnancy can also refer to a project, if the person has been working on something for several months, it is like a gestation period. We can also dream of giving life, whether in the biological sense of the term, or of understanding a mystery of life, or of taking an initiative..”
The dream is therefore not necessarily to be taken at face value. You need to think about what this means to you, in relation to your situation. Do you have a move planned soon, a new job? It is also possible that the progress of the pregnancy, in a dream, corresponds to that of your project.
“Finally, pregnancy is not necessarily represented as such in the dream, it can be evoked by the image of an oven, for example, symbol of the womb, in which life is created.” You will think about it the next time you make a cake in your dream!
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Maria Hejnar, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst