Pregnancy

Dreams of pregnancy in people who are not pregnant are almost always symbolic — a creative project, a vocation, a new phase of the self gestating below conscious awareness. Jungian analysis reads pregnancy-dreams as one of the most reliable signs that something important is coming into form. The dream often precedes waking recognition by months. Notice how you feel about the pregnancy in the dream: welcomed, denied, frightened, unsure. The feeling tone is usually a better guide to waking life than the imagery. Pregnant dreamers, of course, dream vividly of pregnancy itself; those dreams are worth attending to on their own terms, often as the psyche’s preparation for the enormous transition ahead.