another perspective on a dream, please

[Laurelayn]

Over the last several months I have been having recurring dreams about being pregnant and/or having babies to care for. (there is no chance of an actual pregnancy)
Many times I am having to defend my pregnant self and babies from something destructive that other people or things say or do. I do have a few champions in these dreams, sometimes it is my husband or my adult sons or friends from my distant past.
I am always happy to be pregnant but worried when there are babies.
I have never had a series of dreams with recurring themes like these that has gone on for so long and have this nagging feeling that there is something very important that I need to decipher.
In my reading of different dream interpretation books/sites/etc... I find that being pregnant in dreams often represents creative aspects of oneself, being "pregnant" with "ideas" and giving "birth" to "concepts"
I have been doing a lot of reading and trying to "remember" and doing the "Work" on myself, Weeding my emotional garden so the beautiful and beneficial plants (ideas) can thrive and grow is how I like to think about it.
Have you ever had something on the edge of your awareness that seems profound but elusive? It feels like it "should" be obvious, right in front of my face but I just can't bring it into conscious awareness.
What is your experience with dreams of this nature? I am hoping others views on this might help bring the percieved int awareness for me.

Thank you all,
Laurelayn

 

[Craig]

I had many dreams like that - and I'm male - after becoming familiar with Laura's work, the Fourth Way concepts, and putting them into practice. There was always a theme of something dark and oppressive coming to take my little baby away, and it was so incredibly vivid. Sometimes I woke up sobbing because they were so intense!

So the symbolic meaning you posted seems to be spot on. I think it deals with the "ideas" and "concepts" being sowed into the inner life, and something emotional - a new way of feeling and being - is beginning to grow.

 

[RedFox]

Have you ever had something on the edge of your awareness that seems profound but elusive? It feels like it "should" be obvious, right in front of my face but I just can't bring it into conscious awareness.

Yes, all the time!
I've always liked to think that everything has a simple/elegant/obvious solution. As I am learning that is not often the case, and this is more of a mental trap I use to avoid Working at the solution. That's not to say the solution isn't in the end simple/elegant/obvious, its just that the concept may be twisted to divert from the answer.
Its the "should" that may be the clue.

Try flipping all your ideas/concepts/beliefs upside down and play through the dream. What can you learn about what you believe should and shouldn't be?
Perhaps (and this is just my idea) you need to let your 'children' grow on there own, by facing danger themselves?

It could be something negative is trying to get at them (negative introjector/self talk), or perhaps you are being over protective of letting them be 'knocked down' by logic? i.e. they are unable to stand without your support. If they represent new found ideas/beliefs etc that may be important to consider, what is actually 'after' them?

On an emotional level, what feelings does the dream bring out, and can you remember having those feelings in real life? What happened then to cause them?
It seems like anxiety as well as fear.

Hope you find the answer! :)