THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies

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Dreams of pregnancy, birth, newborns, babies, nursing, lactation, menstruation, fertility, gynecology, and contraception.

This page has an odd history. In February '97, I searched all the dreams indexed on my hard disk for themes of fertility, menstruation, pregnancy, and birth. (At the time only 5000 dreams were indexed out of the 20-30,000 I've written down in my life, so only nine entries of any length were found, compared to the 50-odd shown below.)

The motive? Pure curiosity. I'm male when awake but often female when dreaming. Few other men I've asked seem to ever dream they're female, and even fewer reported dreams of pregnancy. Have YOU read any dreams by men about birth? Yet most men are born--nine out of ten experts agree!

Birth looked like a male blind spot to me. So I printed up a booklet of birth dreams... and then found I couldn't stop looking for interesting themes ignored by society. Political dreams, psychic dreams, other lives lived in epic dreams, even shared dreams... Soon I had to face that ALL dreams, in the high-tech world, are a blind spot.

So began the World Dream Bank.

RELATED TOPICS: kids - love - sex - gender - the original book: Catalog page: Birth Dreams - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

The World Dream Bank has 1500 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2006.

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	ABOVE THE WHITE TOWER: by Wayan; 1990/1/14, a flying sex-change dream of love Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	AFTER BIRTH: by Wayan, 2004/9/29, astral acrylic painting Never mind what happens after death! What if, before we were born, we were spirits with no idea what happens after birth?...
	AMAZON A(U)NTS: by Wayan; 1997/10/28, a nightmare. I camp in the Amazon but in the morning find I slept on top of something disturbing...
	ANNOYING GODDESS: by Wayan; 1993/12/10, just another dance/pregnancy/sexchange/goddess dream . I was a pregnant dancer on the Fertility Goddess's new TV show, but I was mad at her...
	A PEEL FOR APPROVAL: by Wayan; 1990/9/24, a cautionary dream Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming... CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, BAD CAREER PLANNING
	AT LEAST HE'S A DOCTOR: by Wayan; 1982/4/7, a dreamtale. I'm a Puertorriqueña girl. I fall for an Anglo doctor, but he's not what he seems... CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX, CREEPY GUY, NASTY FIGHT
	BACKACHE DIALOGUES: by Wayan; 1993/12/10, a set of bizarre diagnostic dreamlets. I asked my dreams why my back hurt. They told me: pregnancy, marsupial pouches, snapping turtles...
	BAGHEERA SUGGESTS LOVAGE: by Wayan; 1993/7/31, a Jungle Book dream The panther in the Jungle Books was really female. I grew up with her cub...
	BEAST BIRTHS: by Wayan; 1989/9/19, a dream of family secrets. My family has a hidden gene for incest--and griffins. When I bring the family skeleton from the closet... CAUTION: MENTIONS RAPE, INCEST
	BLOOD RUNAWAY: by Wayan; 8K, 1994/8/8, a non-nightmare. Some men get squeamish about menstrual blood, but this girl's plight was extreme... CAUTION: EWWWW!
	BOOKSTORE ILLUSION: by Wayan; 560 x 680, erasable crayon 14x17", 1986? I was in the Stanford Bookstore and saw this strange visual pun across the room... or did I? CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
	BORN IN A CAVE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/4/20 to 2007/8/9, a painted series of rite-of-passage dreams. I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape...
	BRIGHT NICHES IN THE CASTLE WALL: by Jenny Badger Sultan; summer 2003. A painting of a series of dreams. Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth...
	CHANGES, or, A WHISPER OF RESISTANCE: by Wayan; 1980/9/25, a dream of identity-chaos. An identity earthquake that just wouldn't stop. I transform half a dozen times, and so does everyone else...
	CHUNKS, or, BABEZILLA!: by Wayan; two dreams 1990/10/4 and 1991/9/4 told as digital comics. I meet a giant psychic baby feared by 12-step people. So I go to the beach and find I'm a shark-bit girl who can have her missing chunks sewn back in--if I still have room for them...
	COLOSTRUM FIRST!: by Lily and Wayan; 1998/2/27; a shared dream A dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic... CAUTION: BREASTS
	DARUMA DOLLS: by Wayan; late 1994. Nondream digital sketch. One of Aline Kominsky's comix has her in a bar and a guy asks "Que pasa, muñeca?" and... CAUTION: CONVERSATIONAL FETUSES
	THE DEAD BABY: by Wayan; 1985/8/4 a dream of hope. My sister gives birth during a killer heatwave. The baby's dead. I play with the body, like a chimp... CAUTION: GROSS
	DEER JESUS: by Wayan; 1988/12/25, a revisionist Christmas dream. The Three Wise Men are a centaur, a lion-man, and a doe-girl. But there's no Christ in the manger, so... CAUTION: NUDITY
	DOCTOR VENTRIL: by Wayan; 1978/9/22, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. A doctor lures me into his office. What he turns out to be scares me less than how I defend myself... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, ARACHNOPHOBIA
	ECTOPIC: by Wayan; 1996/7/3, a tragic transsexual dream. My stomach ache is an ectopic pregnancy. The embryo's doomed. Surgery. And I'm a man...
	EGGHOPE: by Wayan; 1995. Digital painting of puzzling nondream vision Night thoughts. Are they eggs? Dreams? Worlds? Phases of the moon? CAUTION: NEGATIVE BREASTS
	THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I was a intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombie monsters from hatching out of the Earth...
	EXPLORATION: by Wayan; 1998/2/27, a dreamtale. Hide and seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF... CAUTION: SEX
	FACE-BEETLE: by Wayan; 1982/2/13, a nightmare with career advice. A monstrous Kafka beetle grows gradually out of my face. And it's a MESSAGE...
	FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 1.5M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	FOUR-EYED BABY: by Xanthe; 1989?, a Jungian dream I met some little hunchbacks in the woods who showed me a newborn baby growing from the moss...
	GIVE TRAVIS ONE MORE CHANCE: by Wayan; 1980/10/13, a desperate dream. I'm detective Travis McGee's lover, so I know I'm doomed. My solution is drastic... CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS
	HELP, NOT CURE: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on autism. Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians!
	THE HOMONKEYLUS: by Wayan; 1992/6/15, an illustrated dreamloop. A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then... CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY
	HORTA'S EGGS: by Wayan; 1984/1/17, a dream of re-evaluation. I fight to save 50,000 eggs that'll hatch psychics. But my friends want to exterminate them! Am I wrong?
	THREE-YEAR PREGNANCY: by Ithmonike of Pellene, ca. 320 BC? Two dreams of meeting an odd god. I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was. And so I stayed--for 3 years, until...
	JADE JACKPOT, or, A HEAP O' CHANGE: by Wayan; 1990/1/7, a dream of shaking down God. I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well...
	LIFECYCLE: by Wayan; 1980s. Pencil sketch of daydream The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who... CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY
	MELTDOWN BABY: by Wayan; 1996/10/13, a guilty nightmare. In a Mormon future, my baby climbs a tree and spontaneously disintegrates! I try repotting, but... CAUTION: BAD PARENTING
	A MISCARRIED LIFE: by Wayan; 1981/2/12, a short dreamfable. I'm Hattie, a pregnant girl on a Lewis and Clark expedition. I miscarry, and they tell me...
	MOM AND CHILD UNDER MOON: by Wayan; 1984? Ink, 11 x 14", nondream sketch. Slightly based on a print in our bathroom when I was growing up--Picasso or Mary Cassatt?
	THE MOOMIN COMMISSIONERS OF TIME: by Wayan; 2008/9/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #27 A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her back to Ethiopia 45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans...
	NEW BODIES: by Dreamy; around 2007/1/25, a transformation dream My best friend and I qualify for new bodies. The new me is taller, but poor Ken may take years adjusting to his new...
	OLD HAT: by Wayan; 1988/1/5, a "normal" (i.e. incoherent) dream. The Goddess gave birth in my workplace. Her fever-dreams become real around us... CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE, LIBRARIANS' ORGY
	THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 171K, a dream-comic (or 12K text version). 1996/5/29; a dream of the future. A brilliant, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or did I?
	PHARAOH HOOKS: by Wayan; 1989/7/31, a deadpan joke of a dream. My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets... CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY
	PREGNANCY FROM HELL: by Wayan; 1994/6/6, a predictive dream-farce. I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money?
	PREGNANT WITH KRYTHA: by Wayan; 1998/2/3, a monomaniacal dream My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born... CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY
	PRRL: by Wayan; 19971/17, a galactic dreamtale. I'm in the Magellanic Clouds, an ambassador to the energy-beings who rule them. Or am really their... pet?
	THE SECURITY GUARD: by Wayan; 1994/12/30, a nightmare on anger. A crazy security guard with a deadly squirt gun kills freely over and over, for the cops keep paroling... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	A SEX KITTEN: by Wayan; 1999/1/29, an embarrassing dream. A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do... CAUTION: SEX
	THE SKIN SECEDES: by Wayan; 1990/1/30, an unappetizing dream. A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
	SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 400K (17 ill.), 1999/8/1, an epic Shakespearean dream. Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm made nurse to her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
	SPLINTER: by Wayan; 1981/3/14, a dream of love and nagging. I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too... CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
	STEP THIRTEEN: by Wayan; 1997/7/8, a rebellious dreamtale. Two realities pester me like big spoiled babies to care for their mythic figures, till I go on shamanic strike...
	TAROT: BIRTH (the Empress): by Wayan; 16K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of fertility--and the pangs and effort of starting a new thing...
	TAROT: CHAOS: by Wayan; 36K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. The card of big messes, confused beginnings--and fertilization...
	TAROT: CLINGING: by Wayan; 17K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981. When the Birth card's reversed, the child clings to the womb like a burrow in a green meadow.
	THANK THE MOON I HAD THE STRENGTH TO STOP!: by Wayan; 1978; image inspired by a song. The moon as an early gilled fetus. I feel like a half-developed creature walking around in your dry air...
	THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 550K total, 15 illus., 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream. My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape, and turn feral to survive. I'm back in school now, and in therapy... but how we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink won't believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS
	TIGERBORN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a dream of an alternate life. I was raised in the redwoods in the nest of a black tiger. Only a foster child, but emotionally, I'm...
	USEFUL PIGS: by Wayan; 1995/1/2, a comic nightmare. In my nightmare, TV ads push new, supposedly eco-friendly uses for pigs, until this alarming ad...
	WHO CENSORS BIRTH?: by Wayan; 1994/5/2, a dream speculation. I'm assisting a hard birth as photos are shot for an article. Why's birth so rarely seen? What do we fear?...
	ZYGOTE: by Wayan; 104K, 600 x 640, 1999. It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?