When you are pregnant your dreams can become vivid and quite extreme, it's not uncommon for them to cause anxiety, especially if they deliver negative scenes or nightmarish scenarios. I have spoken to quite a few pregnant women whose dreams have bothered them during their pregnancy, often their nightmares are about their unborn child or about the delivery. I always start out by telling them to relax because dreams are very rarely predictive in nature and nearly always over the top with the message they bring. Your dreams can help you to work through all your fears and hang-ups regards your pregnancy and the birth of your baby, and it is not uncommon for your own fears to manifest in your dreams and serve as the catalyst for them.
There are many reasons that your dreams can get out of control at this time:
- You certainly remember your dreams easier because you are waking up more often at night. (usually, because you have a baby doing star jumps on your bladder, making you need the loo)
- You are overly sensitive and brimming with hormones, making you feel vulnerable and not in control of your life.
- Elevated hormones make you hypersensitive.
- You are worrying about all number of things and not necessarily talking about your fears with the people around you. This means that you will often face your fears through your dreams. Sometimes a bad dream might make you start a conversation with your friends and family about something that subconsciously you are worrying about, and this can help you understand that your fears are experienced by most other pregnant women.
By facing nightmares you are learning to deal with the extra stress and worries that new babies often bring, in a way you are toughening up. Being a mum requires all of your inner strength and wisdom and therefore it is common that your dreams or nightmares are helping to toughen you up and deal with your fears rationally. Many first time mums comment about their irrational thinking when the baby is here, they comment that they didn't know that they would worry so much over silly things. perhaps no one warned them what it's like to worry over a child. Your dreams try to prepare you a little bit.
Like young children, babies are closely connected to the spirit world and this is also what heightens your own psychic abilities during pregnancy. When your own psychic abilities are intensified like this you will experience the more unusual phenomenon, you will be aware of more than you usually are and this can be confusing, your dreams are helping you toughen up to anything you ‘pick up’. Not being affected by bad dreams is a way of building up your own psychic protection.
Your fears of giving birth will be explored in your dreams but that doesn't mean that there will be problems during delivery it just means that you should work through your fears now so that you can just get on with the job when the time arrives. Consider that your subconscious is pushing forward your fears so that you bring them out into the open and talk about them. When you have talked about a fear it will diminish. Dreaming that you can’t deliver your baby is a way for you to see that you are not dealing with your thoughts and feelings, you are keeping it all inside yourself. There are lots of psychological anxieties to sort through before your baby comes along and you will be fully prepared if your dreams have been busy and thought-provoking during pregnancy. Not being able to deliver your baby in a dream will link with your feelings of not being able do the job being asked of you, every mum thinks 'I cant do it' when they are in labor but in truth they don't have a choice and have more strength than they realise. Its all about the fear of not being strong enough. Pregnancy dream symbols can be translated in the usual way but consider if the dream is referring to your new role as a mum.
Dreaming of pregnancy or giving birth when you are not pregnant describes new beginnings, starting a new project that will need nurture and good care to bring it through to success. This type of translation will be highly appropriate for a pregnant woman as well, but rather than a project it will be the new baby that requires your devoted love, care, time and energy.
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