why do i always hve this dream?

Question

dreaming of being pregnant?

Answer 1

a dream is an event transpiring in that world belonging to the mind when your senses have withrawn into rest or oblivion.

dreams are a way for the subconcious to express itself
it may be affected by your current situation, you worries and troubles, hopes and dreams, longings and fears...

here is the dream analysis by wodsworth dictionary for pregnancy:

for a woman to dream that she is pregnat denotes she will be unhappy with her husband and her children will be unattactive.

for a virgin, this dream omens scandal and adversity

if a woman really is pregnant and has this dream, it omens swift delivery and speedy recovery of strength.

Answer 2

That depends on how you feel about the dream. It could represent wanting to give, grow and nurture, or you could have feelings of being invaded. Or it could mean you saw an ad in a magazine of a pregnant woman.
A lot has to do with what is going on in your life right now. There is no set answer for what it means without including yourself.
Most times dreams are just the brain figuring out what to do with the happenings in your life.

Answer 3

Alot of good answers, although I would strongly disagree with whonose's idea that because we only remember fragments, that means that the dream remains 'elusive' and unknowable.

Such 'half-truths' would condemn each and every one of us to wake up and never know anything, because we would always have partial knowledge of any situation, and thus be in no position to give any sort of advice.

While a complete and total recollection of a dream could be quite enlightening, in terms of truly discovering the complex metaphorical language which your mind is building on, dream fragments, like fragments of anything, are still very important and reliable tools to help one understand why one is dreaming what one is dreaming.

This is especially true with dreams, since the fact that one person recollects certain things more clearly, or more importantly, than what another might recall says as much about the person as any other psychological profile.

As such, the particulars of the dream fragment have as much to do with the interpretation as what the dream was about. One can be 'pregnant' with many things: worries, doubts, jealousy, love, longing, curiosity, loathing, hatred, and the stimulus for the dream requires a careful examination of the person's thoughts, feelings and experiences to help uncover why such an image keeps reoccuring.

Reoccuring dreams are especially significant because it indicates a 'conflict' that the mind cannot resolve by a simple/single 'sort and dump' sleep session (sorry about the alliteration.) Sometimes, we dream about a situation at different points in our life, to better understand how different (or not) we are from our original starting point. The dream then becomes a way to take and compare a 'snapshot' of our emotional state so that we can measure our psychological progress, or to stimulate us to seek help to redress the problem (like recurring nightmares.)

Most people can understand their dreams if they take the most memorable aspects of the dream, and write them down on a sheet of paper. Then, for each element, they simply brainstorm whatever words associations come forward to them. The 'contexts' that you remember consciously will most likely also contain the context that your subconscious self is basing the dream off of.

Reading dream books can be helpful, to the point that the 'definitions' contained within resonate to what we feel the image means. Reading a book that says drinking milk in a dream is a sign of domestic contentment would only cause you confusion if, when you dream of drinking milk, you feel coerced and/or helpless. Sometimes, a dream book is only good for a few references or explanations; others can seem to fit our dreaming mind like a glove.

Try brainstorming the parts you remember, and see if any associations start to seem relevant (the lightbulb moment.) If not, then you can start sampling dream images online or at a local bookstore. I've listed Google's online results for Dream symbolism/interpretation. Good luck.

Answer 4

Hi Franchesca-Kid

How often is "always"?

To understand about dreams it is important to remember that periods of REM sleep (which is when we dream) usually last for around 20-30 minutes, yet your description would fill only a fraction of that time. What you DON'T remember could easily be as important, if not MORE important than the little bit you still retain when you wake up.

Anyone with a reasonable imagination could invent a detailed interpretation for your dream, (see the variety of DIFFERENT interpretations offered in reply to most questions about dreams in this forum) but however interesting their interpretation might be, it is VERY unlikely to be true.

Because:

The purpose of dreams, as far as we understand them, is to process the vast amount of information that comes in through your senses each day whilst you're awake.

On this basis the "meaning" of our dreams is simply that we are making sense of information which previously didn't have a "meaning", for us, because it hadn't been processed so as to fit into our mental maps of the world (all your existing beliefs, ideas, values, etc.).

Given this purpose, there will always be something in each dream, though we may not remember it, which ties the dream to recent "real life" events. However most of the things which appear in our dreams may have nothing to do with what has been happening in our life just before the dream occurs. Things can appear in a dream that have been part of the dreamer's memories as far back as they first started forming memories - or anytime in between then and now.

Nor do the things in your dreams have to be obviously related to each other. Like I said, dreaming is a process of finding/making meaning, and the brain can draw from anywhere in its huge store of memories in order to carry out that process.

By the way, there is nothing random about this process, but your subconscious mind can come up with connections that your conscious mind would never dream of (!), which is why dreams often seem pretty weird.

So when, if ever, you happen to notice yourself having what seems like a weird dream in future you can literally rest assured that everything is OK. Your brain is actually doing, with great skill, one of the many jobs it was designed to do

Answer 5

unconscious maternal issues probably. Could be related to father or mother relationship issues.

Just one idea of many. Usually intuitive reflection will reveal a lot.

The baby is probably a reflection of your own psyche as well, reflecting upon some aspect of yourself.
It's all symbolic remember.

-Rob

Answer 6

check out "pregnancy in dreams" at