Dreaming that you are pregnant without being pregnant: what does it mean?

Let's see what relationship there is between the dream world of dreams and ideas about pregnancy.

The world of dreams is one of the areas of the human mind that has generated most interest throughout history. throughout history. When this topic is coupled with one as universal as pregnancy and motherhood, it is only natural that a sense of having questions to answer arises.

In particular, it is relatively common for many women to dream that they are pregnant without being pregnant. These experiences are capable of provoking a state of understandable uneasiness considering the emotional charge that pregnancy has, so the most common thing is to try to understand what that means.

So... ¿what does it mean to dream that you are pregnant without being pregnant? and why does this idea appear while you are sleeping? Let's see it at the same time that we are unraveling several concepts related to the functioning of dreams.

Dreams and their link to motherhood

First of all, let us examine what dreams are and how they appear. Dreams can be understood as hallucinations, given that they are experiences that apparently come to us captured through our senses even though none of it is happening on the outside of our body; everything happens behind closed doors, in the operations of our brain.

The key question is... why do we dream? It is now believed that dreams are the product of the process by which the nervous system reconfigures itself while we sleep so that all its component parts can rest and prepare to face a new day of energy expenditure during the day.

We dream more frequently when we go through the REM phase, in which our degree of consciousness is relatively high but at the same time we are disconnected from the outside world.when our degree of consciousness is relatively high but at the same time we are disconnected from the outside world.

On the other hand, dreams often refer to experiences that are familiar to us in some sense, and therefore pregnancy in some sense, and therefore pregnancy is an element whose appearance in them is not exactly uncommon.

The fact of being pregnant is something relatively easy to be included in practically any story devised by the brain during the stages of dreaming, and this experience can occur in a multitude of fictitious contexts: in a moment of calm at home, in a dangerous situation in which you feel that you have to protect both your life and that of your baby, etc.

In any case, when examining what it means to dream that you are pregnant is that it has absolutely no relation to the fact of whether you are really pregnant or not.

The body has other, much more direct ways of revealing that, and none of them depend on the dream world, but are embodied through hormonal changes and their physical manifestations in the woman's body. So if this is something that worries you, don't worry: having been pregnant in one of your dreams does not mean that you will soon have the baby. does not imply that you will soon have the news that you are going to be a mother..

The relationship between dreams and pregnancy is purely psychological, and not a clear Biological link between them in the style of the one between fertilization and the interruption of menstruation.

What does it mean to dream that I am pregnant without being pregnant?

In view of the above, let's move on to the main thing: what it means to be pregnant without being pregnant. As dreams embody ideas and ideas are basically something that we analyze by looking for concepts and symbols in them, there is no single solution to this enigma: there are several routes of interpretation of this kind of dreams..

However, in practice these possible interpretations are not infinite, and the most frequent psychological causes that explain why this experience has been lived are the following.

1. Concern about the leap into adulthood

A pregnancy does not have to be seen only as the beginning of motherhood. It can also imply the real beginning of life as an adult..

It is not for nothing that we often define the meaning of the word "maturing" to mean our ability to take on responsibilities, and pregnancy is one of the clearest expressions of this; we are trying to make room in our lives for one more person who will depend on us.

Naturally, this involves radical changes in women's lifestyles, and the anticipation of this new way of life is capable of generating stress even years before the actual transition to adulthood occurs.The anticipation of this new way of life is capable of generating stress even years before the actual transition from adolescence to adulthood takes place.

2. Eagerness to be a mother

This is possibly one of the meanings of dreaming that you are pregnant. Dreams are a kind of playground in which we are given room to fantasize. We are given room to fantasize, and therefore it is normal that we tend toTherefore, it is normal that we tend to want to imagine pleasant situations when we are allowed to do so.

3. Concern for physical change

Growing up implies changing physically, and pregnancy is one of the experiences with the greatest capacity to change the body in a shorter period of time. That is why, behind this kind of dreams linked to motherhood, there may be an interest (either optimistic or pessimistic) in the change that time leaves in the body. for the change that time leaves in the woman's body..

4. Dreaming that you are pregnant and you don't want to be pregnant: social pressure

Another of the frequent meanings is that there is fear and anxiety before the social pressure that is exerted against many women to push them to be mothers regardless of their true motivations and desires.

For this reason, that fear can become a nightmare, whereby the worst nightmare whereby the worst-case scenario has been fulfilled and one has become pregnant (even many months pregnant, with a very swollen belly) despite not wanting to be so.

Bibliographic references:

• Coutts, R. (2008). Dreams as modifiers and tests of mental schemas: an emotional selection hypothesis. Psychological Reports. 102 (2): 561-574.
• Hartmann, E. (1995). Making connections in a safe place: Is dreaming psychotherapy? Dreaming. 5 (4): 213-228.