Riddle me this, ASAHers (recurring dream related)

[MorningGlow]

As everyone here knows by now, I have a 6 YO son, MG Jr. I have no plans to have more children. (Besides not being interested in having another child, I'm going to be 44 in a week, so f'git it!) However, I have been having frequent recurring dreams about also having a daughter. Well, they're not exactly recurring dreams, because they're all different, but with a little girl in them. I had a dream that I was pregnant with a girl (and in the dream could feel her moving in my womb--freaky!), and in other dreams I've had MG Jr. as well as a younger daughter (around 2 YO) with me.

Talked to my mom this morning, and she said last night she dreamt that she was dropping my child--but a girl--off at school, then got lost in the school and couldn't find her way out, and the granddaughter came up to her and said, "Grandma, are you still here?"

Awright, wazzup with this? I have several theories, but I'd love to get some ASAH perspectives! :hi:

[Sanity Claws]

1. Nothing but the obvious

If the dream was yours alone, I would say the child represents a project, a creative baby
However, your mother having a similar dream makes me wonder whether Spirit is preparing you for a certain, ahem, surprise.

[MorningGlow]

3. Oops, I should have specified

Having another child is, at least at present and for as far as I can see from here, a physical impossibility. So the second option is kind of...out.

I found it absolutely mind-blowing that my mom would also dream about my having a daughter--her telling me about her dream (something she hardly ever does) was so unusual that it compelled me to post today. I've been dreaming about the little girl since earlier this year.

[Kookaburra]

Please don't take offense, but

Were you still married to your current husband? Is this perhaps a child of a new husband?

[MorningGlow]

7. I am still married to my current (first, only) husband

However, things are in flux in our relationship, and not for the good. New husband--gaaaaaah I can't even think of something like that at the moment! (Where is that smiley with the hair on fire when you need it?)
:rofl:

[Kookaburra]

8. Don't know -- I remember you saying

your marriage is going through some changes. This was what I got when I read your explanation email. Perhaps not a new husband, but a new relationship -- someone with a daughter that you come to think of as your daughter. Or, if you stay with your current husband, perhaps you will adopt? Don't know...

[MorningGlow]

12. Yes, it is

I don't know about adoption--it's not something we've considered, as we've been "full up" with just the one child.

Thanks, K. I don't know either.

[FirstLight]

10. Have to ask more detail ...

sorry, but are your tubes tied? you know those can re-grow, right?

[MorningGlow]

13. LOL no, nothing like that

Just no...er...activity. And none in the foreseeable future.

[Shallah Kali]

2. Parallel lifetime?

or a path not taken in this life, by one or both parties choice, with the soul still hanging around because she cares about ya'll?

[MorningGlow]

5. Could very well be

She started showing up when my relationship with Mr. MG started changing drastically, earlier this year. Thanks, Shallah! :hi:

[Kookaburra]

4. Honey, it ain't over til it's over

My best friend just gave birth to a surprise -- baby #3 -- at the ripe young age of 46. An adorable little girl. If spirit is sending these dreams to you and your mom, just prepare yourself.

[MorningGlow]

6. zOMG 46, really?

I stand corrected! However, please check out my addendum post to SC.

[Kookaburra]

9. No medical intervention either

She got knocked up the old fashioned way. Came as a real surprise to her & her husband as well, but that little girl is absolutely beautiful, and one of the sweetest babies you'll ever see.

[uberblonde]

33. My ex-husband had a little girl...

He was 52 and his GF, who hadn't had a period in a year, was 48! (Made me go right out and get my tubes tied!)

[FirstLight]

11. I had dreams and SAW my laney clear as day

a full year before I even met her biological father. I lived with a guy that I was engaged to, and never had a false alarm or a pregnancy scare.... then a yesr later, ONE month into the new relationship with Joe - and I was knocked up with Laney.

Goddess has strange ways of bringing us these little souls... they want to come to the planet and we HAVE to be the vehicle! When I found out I was pregnant with my youngest, i actually went and prayed "please, let this cup pass from me" and I was told loud & clear "there are too many souls that NEED to come in right now, and a shortage of enlightened mothers...you signed up for this"
So I had no choice but to "give my body to god' for the next year...!

I hate to say it, but I get the vibe that she is hanging around because she plans on coming to you, somehow, someway, and this year...(Perhaps she is telling you to prepare the way, begin looking at your life and how it would be different with another child. Is adoption or foster parenting an option that could happen?) Is there a significance with your husband issues and this starting? Is it your own inner girl that wants to come out & play and you have been stifling her?

hmmm....maybe if you can, try to ask her in your next dream "where did you come from" and see what your guides tell you?

[MorningGlow]

14. Awwww don't say THAT!

:rofl:

Any way you can promise that we won't be twins in this regard?

Good idea about asking her. I'm hit or miss with lucid dreaming, and I never know when she's going to show up, but I sure will try. I want to know.

[FirstLight]

15. I'll tell you this...twin....

My pregnancy with my girl was the healthiest, most spiritual, and amazing I have had....I was in the best shape I had ever been, and the birth was the most opening, spiritual and required little to no medical assistance. so ya, put that in your pipe & toke it! (course, i was 32 at the time...but they say that 40 is the new 20...so you should be FINE!lol)

perhaps as a precautionary measure you should begin holding your own body as a sacred vessel? I know...I say this as we eat our holiday fudge and get ready for Bday cake! :rofl:

(I was pregnant with Laney by April/May and had her in January too...she is a cap/aqu cusp)

I am sorry to keep going on as if you were going to be pregnant, as if I was 'sure' about it.... nothing is written in stone and perhaps having a little "priestess-in-training' would be good for you?

[MorningGlow]

16. Hmm now I remember something my former elder said as part of a reading for me

I was pregnant with MG Jr. at the time, so it was about seven years ago. She said that my current pregnancy would heal my body, but if I tried to have a second child it would ruin my health. Not to say that she was correct, or that circumstances can't change, but she was right about absolutely everything else she ever saw in my readings (I used to have one about every six months or so). So maybe that prediction has influenced my opinion of having more than one child--? More important, I've never had the inclination or desire for another.

Then again, as you said, sometimes it has nothing to do with what we want, but what the coming soul wants.

I still feel too goddamned old for another, though--!

[Shallah Kali]

17. Do you have any siblings that are considering having kids around now?

sometimes the soul can come through to a relative instead. A few get really impatient and come though as a pet O8)

[FirstLight]

18. well, Old is relative, ain't it?

:rofl: we ARE old souls, twin....sorry, being an ancient curmudgeon doesn't exempt us from the laws of nature.

Perhaps you are going to be finding yourself as a mentor or guardian of a small child in some roundabout way.
Your mom having a similar vision is very significant, i think.

regarding lucid dreaming, just lay down the intention for answers before bed each night and keep the notepad handy for groggy notes...you could get an answer by your Bday...? That coming Eclpise on the 31st is also supposed to be connected o the one in July, so maybe think about what links there are, esp where Mr MG is involved...

hmmm...good stuff, loves me a puzzle...especially one that doesn't involve MY life! :rofl:

[Cleita]

19. Adoption? Being a foster parent?

There could be various reasons for getting another child in your life besides pregnancy. Maybe you might adopt the daughter of a relative who died unexpectedly. Any number of reasons could happen.

[MorningGlow]

22. That's true

We've never thought about adoption or fostering a child, and as I said elsewhere in this thread, I haven't felt compelled to add to my family in any way, so it's just weird. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

[winyanstaz]

20. I saw my granddaughter a number of times in dreams before she was born..

Maybe its a little girl coming into your life in some way. :)

[MorningGlow]

23. Aw, that's nice, Win

Must've been some sweet dreams. :)

[winyanstaz]

27. I was lucid dreaming and on my way to explore someplace else when I saw her walking.

She held up a book she wanted me to read to her and asked if I would read her a story and she called me gran mama. I was in a bit of shock as I was not a grandmother yet. Also gran mama is a very french way of calling a grandmother and we use it in my family.
Of course I sat right down without thinking about what I was doing as I was so focused on this lovely little girl calling me gran mama that I didnt realize (of course) that the second I opened the book and focused on the book I would project into the book..which I did. Anytime you focus your intent in lucid dreaming it will move you and I had focused into the pages of the book which made me lose all my control as I projected.
As soon as she was born I knew her and later on..at about the same age as the dream..she was the spitting image of the child I had seen.
She is my oldest grandchild and very special to me (as they all are).
I saw her the first time several years before she was actually born.

[crikkett]

21. Aha! I see you're paying attention to your 12 Days of Christmas dreams!

I'll be starting the 2009 12 Days of Christmas Dream thread shortly.

Until then here's last year's 12 Days thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=245&topic_id=81422

and here's the post that started it all:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=245&topic_id=81336

[MorningGlow]

24. Omigosh I forgot about the 12 days of Christmas dreams!

Thanks for the reminder, Crikkett! I'll start paying closer attention. Will you be starting a thread on it for this year?

Erm, the last dream of my own that I recall (as this recent little girl dream was my mother's) was the night of the 23rd--I dreamt I was being chased by zombies. I NEVER have nightmares, but this one was a doozy. Yikes. But that doesn't fall into the 12 days, right? :scared:

[crikkett]

37. Hi! I will be posting the 12 days' thread after work (1 hr?)

I had vivid and frightening dreams before xmas (computers breaking everywhere!) but they're not technically 12 days' dreams. They started Saturday morning.

Sorry for the delay - I must must must get something else done first today.

[Myrina]

25. ... maybe its "little you" ...

... your 'sleep self' is nurturing your 'inner child' - paying attention to her, bringing her to your forefront, or acknowledging the 'child in you' as you are also raising your son and perhaps subconsciously reliving childhood memories?

:shrug:

[MorningGlow]

26. That was one of my theories, yes

I have made some conscious decisions to make some changes in my life this year, so I was wondering if it was a symbol of a rebirth of sorts.

Thanks, Myrina! :hi:

[rumpel]

28. I had a similar feel about this as Shallah

it felt like your son was not sure whether he wanted to incarnate as a boy or girl? Or it is his twin sister in a different realm - and yet you are all connected on the soul level. on edit: beyond time and space

[MorningGlow]

30. It's possible

He's awfully "pretty"! :) (Once, a store clerk didn't look at him closely and kept calling him a girl--even though he had a boy's haircut, albeit a little longish.)

My dad was a twin (the twin didn't survive the 1923 premature home birth), and when I found out I was pregnant there was a lot of speculation in the family about whether I'd have twins... Interesting to think about, even though in my dream she was a "younger sister" to my son who was also there (he looked like his current age and she seemed to be about 2).

[rumpel]

34. You know

when I was a pre-teen I wished I had a younger sister so I can gang up against my parents. My brother was almost a decade older and we did not have much in common...

Maybe your son has a "soul sista" somewhere in the ether to give him support and you all know she is there. :)

[hermetic]

29. For a different spin

I had the same dream, maybe even on the same night. Being a good bit older than you, it really freaked me out. But I sure felt it and at one point I could see the profile of its little face pushing out against my skin. All in all though, it was a very pleasant dream.

Ooooh, I didn't know about the 12 night thing. And I've been having some very vivid dreams these past few days. So much going on in them, I wake up and think, cool. But poof, they dissipate. I know, I know, pen and pad by the bed. Guess I'll do that.

:hi:

[MorningGlow]

31. Did you ever figure out what it meant

if anything, Hermetic? Dreaming I was pregnant was pleasant, and I thought it was cool I could feel the baby moving in my womb--although it was certainly freaky--until I woke up and went "No no no no--!"
:rofl:

I had a lot of dreams last night, mainly because I woke up around 3 a.m. to a horrible stink and one of the cats sneezing--apparently a skunk had encountered a neighborhood cat and sprayed near the house--and by the time I got up, went to the bathroom, found myself displaced by MG Jr. in the big bed, and retired to HIS bed, I couldn't get back to sleep till around 4:30. Weird dreams ensued after I finally fell back asleep, but I can't remember any of them. x(

[hermetic]

35. What it meant...

I think OGR nailed it there. I've been having lots of dreams about my mom these past few days. I love seeing her again. And I keep getting these "feelings" when I'm awake that the shift is really going empower (if you will) the feminine. It's the only answer I can see to what a huge mess the masculine has made here. In case anyone reading doesn't get it, I'm not saying man bad, woman good. It's more our yin and yang have become extremely out of proportion and in order to return to balance the yin is going to have to grow.

Dat's all I got. :D

[hermetic]

36. Ok, I got one more

I just read my Intenders Christmas letter and they said:

"You are called, now, to give birth to a new way of life for yourself and for all those who walk this world with you. You stand poised at the threshold of great expansion in your perceptions, your possibilities, and your consciousness. Now is not the time to settle for less or to think small. You are here to rise up and out of the prevailing paradigm of beliefs by shining your light and sharing your joy."

So, there ya go.

[OneGrassRoot]

32. Divine Feminine

I feel that's what this whole "shift" is about...returning to a heart-based, intuition-based way of Being. A return to the Divine Feminine energy.

A dream such as this -- especially if shared by so many in different ways -- could be a little nudge to pay more attention to one's Inner Goddess.

:hug:

[Grateful for Hope]

38. My understanding of dreams

is that they are more often than not wish fulfillment, or they are a working through of our fears.

I suspect you are thinking of (or wanting) having a little girl.

I hope this happens for you.

:D

[MorningGlow]

39. :)

I can say with confidence, GfH, that this is most certainly NOT the case here. F'reals. :) It might, however, be symbolic, as others have posted--my desire for a personal rebirth. I just don't know why my mother would be having a similar dream; I never told her about the ones I had.

[Grateful for Hope]

40. You might want to think of yourself as "normal"

:D