Dreams and Pregnancy

(Sing along to Dream a Little Dream of Me)

Dreams during pregnancy provide a window on the dreaming process: they sometimes symboize the pregnancy, the anxieties, the relationship to the husband, the relationship to the new child…

These dreams provide a sense that the dreaming process represents both the physiological and psychological processes within the person…

Patricia Garfield provides an excellent review of the symbols and processes of pregnancy and childbirth:

http://www.patriciagarfield.com/publications/pregnancy-dreams.pdf

(from Women’s Bodies, Women’s Dreams).

Other sources of information about pregnancy and dreaming include:

http://www.babycenter.com/0_deciphering-your-pregnancy-dreams_7569.bc

http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/symptoms/a/pregdreams.htm

http://www.essortment.com/all/pregnancydreams_rbft.htm

The Mother-to-Be’s Dream Book, Raina M. Paris

Dream Wisdom, Alan Siegel, Ph.D.