Gruesome dream of baby dying - interpretations?

These things are so involved and to get to the root takes more than just a forum post….but you asked and I am game.

You say how you don’t like your boyfriends car and perceive it as unreliable…so perhaps you may see him as unreliable as a persons car is often very much an extension of that person. You have your son, and he was put at risk because of this “unreliable car” due to the accident and thankfully your son was unhurt yet you are still in this awful ongoing saga of wow shit the car in a ditch and an innocent baby about to be run over by a truck could reveal a lot of uncertainty with your own ability to provide safety to your child and brings into question your boyfriend.

IMO I think you are afraid of your own ability to provide a safe and secure environment for your child and that child getting squished by the truck is an talisman struggle of your insecurities of allowing another man into your life to be a apart of you and your sons lives.

I think that you are aware that something you are putting together for your security is doomed. No protections are in place. Look at your life and see if you can set something you are building or wish to build on more solid ground.

@Cruiser

Wow…I’m impressed!

Will you sleep with me?
I mean..ya know…just as an interpreter, in the name of science? lololol

@Coloma I have not been really all that fond of science…white lab coats and all…but if it is an opinion you seek I am more comfortable helping you through interpretive dance or kazoo! Very therapeutic I am told! :))

@Cruiser

Okay..well if I have any kazoo playing dancing dreams I’ll drop a note.

No nightmares on my Elm St. lol

I’ve had this dream!! Obviously not exactly, but the part with the baby and the road, and the truck, thinking it would miss, but it doesn’t and blood and guts go everywhere. I talked to my friend’s mom, who’s a Psychologist, afterwards and she said it’s normal for women around my age (22) to have catastrophic baby dreams. Basically for people either feeling a maternal instinct or who actually care for children, we have subconscious stresses about things going wrong, and these dreams manifest all that. I imagine since you already have a kid it could be related to worries about him, or general concerns about responsibility. I hope your mind is cleared soon, you must fear bedtime for these horrible dreams.

I had another dream where I baby I was babysitting drowned in the toilet and I had to tell the parents. No thanks.

@JTSTs2003
This is a great topic, very difficult to really tackle this in a forum.
I think paying attention to dreams is critical because they are a window (albeit muddy and very difficult to look through) into a person’s subconscious emotional life.
Also, there is no rote dream interpretation. Each person’s dreams have symbols that have specific meaning to that one individual person, and while similarity between different people’s dreams can be interesting, one can never be certain that the underlying meanings are vastly different.
I think the most important thing to consider in a dream is the emotional content. From your description, there appear to be strong undercurrents of anxiety, anger, fear, and powerlessness (the makings of a perfect nightmare). The first questions to consider is why are you feeling these emotions and during your waking hours what are you doing to suppress these so that you are not allowing a conscious experience of all this negative stuff. Why repress these emotions? How long have you been repressing them? What psychological defenses are you employing? What benefits do you derive from this emotional repression?
The individual items in the dream should be examined separately. Each may have symbolic content that may or may not be related to the underlying dream narrative, but is likely related somehow to the emotional content of the dream. The underlying meaning these items have for you may help you understand why you are having these dreams. Items could be tangible like the car, the ditch, the water in the ditch, the truck, the divider yellow line or intangible like your relationship with your sister, your sense of motherhood, the presence of a competitor for your boyfriend’s love/his betrayal. I don’t know. These are guesses from your narrative. All the stuff that appears in the dream is fair game for having underlying symbolic value for you.

I would also be curious about other dreams you are having and if there are any similar items that appear or if you have other nightmares that have similar emotional content with a different narrative.

Of course, if I were your psychiatrist, I would also like to have a thorough understanding of your current state of mental and physical health, a detailed history of your childhood and adolescence, understanding of your important relationship (parents, siblings, significant others, friends, etc), your occupational/financial/educational/social/racial/gender/etc background, any potential trauma history.

So none of this is very practical advice. If you can, it may be useful to you to keep a journal or a taperecorder by your bed and develop the habit of immediately recording dreams when you wake up. you may find important themes that can also help understand the meaning of these awful nightmares.

good luck. It’s possible to do this. I have been keeping a dream journal for about a year and I have discovered a lot of wacky and unexpected things about myself.

Hi everyone! I’ve been having “dying people dreams” for a while but I’m gonna tell you about my last one and hopefully you’ll be able to help.
I was walking in the street and saw a woman throwing away her baby ( who was much smaller than a normal one). The baby ended up under a parked car. While I was approaching the baby, whom I thought was dead, my father (in real life is an engineer, in the dream he was a doctor) came by asking me to check if he was still alive. When I checked, the baby was alive, so I picked him up and took him into what seem to be an industry. The baby was near death and, with the help of others, I was caring for him; giving him shots, oxygen via mouth to mouth etc. After a while,we all got separated and things got crazy. We where running up and down the stair and all doors started to automatically close and we started to run out of O2. The door opened up, the baby’s mother died of asphyxia. A moment later another woman who was helping with the baby got lost, and when they found her, she was dead (don’t know the how). I still had the baby and was constantly checking if his heart was still beating. Then, I woke up.

Me again…I came here to ask a question about something else. I had completely forgotten about this dream.

This is kind of spooky…but I got pregnant 2 weeks after I posted this. I chose to abort, which was an extremely traumatic experience. Basically the feelings I described once the baby in the dream died, I went through. I’m sitting here in shock…

Now I wonder if the feeling that I won’t have anymore children is actually going to come true also…

I guess to decipher the dream now, I would say that the sister I was with, I took to two abortions myself. I had always been against them, but I supported her as my sister. The boyfriend at the time and the girl…I believe he cheated, but when I was pregnant he was still supportive.

The car that I am driving that went into the ditch – i think represents our previous efforts at getting pregnant (we couldnt). I got pregnant by someone else (drama = the crash) who pressured me to abort. The truck barreling through…the morning of the abortion I was sitting in my car debating going to the ultrasound without him (I was intent on keeping it), when he came driving up the street like a bat outta hell to pick me up…the same way the truck was in the dream. The baby ON the line – my decision.

I dont know what else to think…but this is freaky as hell…

I think that random memories (old and new) swim around in our brains, then while we’re asleep, just take turns floating to the top. How else to explain dreaming about some kid you knew in 2nd Grade, but hadn’t thought about once in 40 years (and hardly knew him back then) ?

These memories somehow crash into each other, making it perfectly believable in the dream that someone’s father is a doctor, when in reality he is an engineer.

Once my wife woke up at 3:00 a.m. screaming like a crazy person, then ran into our 2-year-old son’s room to check on him. She had a dream that we were on a boat, and King Kong was next to us, waist-deep in the water. He began pounding his chest, and when he opened his mouth to roar, our son was in there, apparently….you know….dead.

What did this dream mean ? I say, probably nothing.

Just random memories, crashing into each other in the mind of the dreamer…...