Dreaming of child

Artemidorus · Oneirocritica

Drawn up, it speaks of Children at play foretell ease returning to a troubled house, and small ventures that will grow beyond their size.

Drawn down, it warns of A child lost or weeping warns of a promising thing neglected, and calls the dreamer home to obligations quietly slipping.

Jungian · the collective unconscious

Drawn up, it speaks of The child is the self before the armor, wonder and unguarded want, and to walk with a child in a dream is to be reunited with the part of you that still plays. It often arrives when life has gone too gray and orderly.

Drawn down, it warns of A lost, crying, or endangered child is the young self in you gone untended, needs from long ago still unanswered. It is not asking you to fix the past, only to stop leaving the room.