the body, parts of self
Dreaming of Womb
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To dream of pregnancy signifies increase, for the poor it foretells profit and hope arriving where there was none.
For those already burdened with cares or lawsuits, the swollen belly predicts burdens multiplied, more to carry before anything is delivered.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The pregnant belly is gestation in the psyche, something real growing in the dark on its own schedule. It is rarely about a child, it is a work, a self, a life not yet born, and the dream is telling you it is alive.
Fear or dread around the belly means what is growing has gone unattended, a creative life carried but never delivered. What is not birthed in its season grows heavy.
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