This dream dictionary uses a bank of hundreds of real dreams to show how dream symbols translate into real life thoughts and feelings.
THE DREAM I dreamt that I had a baby and that she was having some sort of shakes and muscle issues on her back. Some doctor then said she had autism and the muscle things were somewhere that they could operate on. She was amongst a few babies in the operating room, and then the next thing I know the operating staff said that 'that's it, call it' and she died. Obviously I was devastated, crying with my husband. Then I saw her as a little girl about 5 on a hospital bed and I cuddled her.
THE REALITY The dreamer was working in a
childrens intensive care unit. They had a baby staying who
would have to be on life support for the rest of his life because
of a brain problem whilst sleeping. Whilst awake he needed help breathing but smiles and interacts like a normal
baby. The previous day the parents decided that they did not
want this life for their child. The baby was the subject of major
ethical discussions amongst the staff. The dreamer even talked
about it with her husband. She trying for a baby herself.
THE INTERPRETATION Many dreams are linked to
the previous day. It is easy to see how this dream links to a
major ethical issue the dreamer was thinking about the
previous day at work. In real life the dreamer was thinking
about a child whose parents had decided to turn off the life
support machine. In the dream a child dies.
The moment in the dream when the operating staff say 'that's
it, call it' clearly mimics the act of turning off a life support
machine.
The dream is mostly emotional. The child is seen as a five year
old - that is the dreamers way of thinking about how the child
would have grown up.
Clearly the dream is about this one event. We can never truly
understand what a dream means but we can always guess. In
cases like this the dreamer is thinking about what might have
been. Often we use dreams to present us with an alternative
point of view. In this case the dreamer is looking emotionally
at the situation. She is thinking how the child might have
turned out. She is thinking about all the reasons the baby
should live.
The dream also features an operation. It this sense the dreamer is also thinking through what can be done - represented by the operating room. Its likely that the dreamer has thought through the various ethical arguments but really the emotional sided of things.
Dream Dictionary Symbols
AUTISM : "Symbolic of diseases that the baby at work
suffers from"
OPERATE : "Thinking that the baby in real life could live - that something could be done"
CRYING : "The dreamer is crying because this issue touches
her personally as she was trying for a baby"
BABY DIES : "The baby in real life - nothing could be done for it"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following
emotions within the dreamer - "The parents of a baby at work
have decided to turn off his life support machine. I found it sad
because he is able to smile. It makes me very emotional
because I am trying for a baby myself. Its probably true that nothing can be done for the child but still its all very sad."
See how the different symbolic meanings join together to
capture a key feeling from the night before
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