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Womb Dream Meaning

Dream interpretation from 11 unique sources about Womb

The state of existence or consciousness from which we have grown; the state or condition prior to our develop­ment of personality—this can be personal, but it also relates to all human creatures, so is historical or evolutionary.

It is a condition without ego, with a sense of being life itself. Going back to the womb, to the condition of withdrawal or autism: regression to the ‘womb’ state of awareness—therefore per­haps a time of not being able to meet the stress of having a personality with self awareness, a time of gaining respite and perhaps touching one’s roots of being in order to gain new strength.

So much of our foundations of experience are connected with our experience of prenatal life and birth that we may need to touch these experiences to heal or free pans of our nature for further growth.

See also: vagina under body; individua­tion; see also balloon; nest under birds; breath; catacomb; blue under colour; dark; deep; descending; hole; hollow; example in room under house, buildings; igloo; receptacle; recurring dreams; river; sack; under the sea under sea; suit­case; tank; tunnel; water. [1]

A womb is often represented by a symbol (e.g. a room) but sometimes it is itself a symbol.

(1) It may symbolize (new) life; (the potential for) a new development.

(2) It may also symbolize (a longing for) death, a wish to retreat from life’s pains and problems.

See also: Tomb.

(3) It is just possible that you are reliving your prenatal existence in your mother’s womb. In this case your unconscious may want to draw your attention to the origin of some irrational attitude or behaviour- pattern; or it may be that you are looking for - or being invited to look for - your ‘original’ and true self. [2]

The womb represents a return to the beginning. We all have need of basic security and shelter, and perhaps to do away with responsibility. Dreams of the womb can signify our need to satisfy those requirements. On a slightly more esoteric level the womb represents our connection with the great mother or mother earth. Dreams of returning to the womb suggest our need to reconnect with the passive, more yielding side of our nature. We may need a period of self-healing and recuperation. [3]
The womb is where all life is created and prepared for birth. This is a powerful symbol of gestation, whether what is about to be born is a life, an idea, a creative impulse, or anything that you desire to manifest. An empty womb indicates a sense of loss or lack around your power to create something new.

If there is indeed something growing in the womb of your dream, patience will be required to allow the process that you are engaged in to run its course. [4]

To dream about seeing or being a fetus inside the womb, symbolizes a newly developing relationship or idea in your waking life. Something creative is happening. Alternatively, you may be expressing difficulties in some situation or relationship, and your dream is a way of escaping back to a time when you had no worries or cares.

If you are pregnant when you have this dream, it is a simple reflection of your thoughts and concerns about your baby. [5]

Dreams of a womb signify a desire for protection, nurturing, and a supportive space to grow, heal, be taken care of and give birth to a new idea, project, relationship, or aspect of yourself. You may be craving connection with your mother, child, or with the Divine feminine.

See also: Goddess. [6]

Safety, security, nurturing with no responsibility. One may never return to the state of dependency without responsibility; but may recognize the security in creative power, and the loving protection of the divine, or God-self within. [7]
1. Heart or spirit;

2. Foundation;

3. Place of conception;

4. The place of faith;

5. The place from which one is sent out;

6. Fruit (offspring); Jer. 1:5; Matt. 1:18; 13:23; John 18:37; [8]

A dream about being in a womb could represent regression—or a desire to regress—to one’s childhood. Alternatively, it could reflect the feeling that one is being reborn in some way. [9]
Figurative of the creative origin which brings new beginnings; see “baby” [10]

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The womb represents a return to the beginning. We all have need of basic security and shelter, and perhaps to do away with responsibility. Dreams of the womb can signify...

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(1) A tomb may symbolize death, literal or figurative.See also Dead / Death.(2) It may symbolize (death and) rebirth, literal or metaphorical (e.g. a new lease of life, or a...

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Gives gender-specific: In a woman’s dream a bag can represent her feelings about pregnancy, while, interestingly enough, in a man’s dream it is more likely to mean some kind of...

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(1) Cupboards may symbolize the womb, and therefore represent either your mother or women in general (in a man’s dream), or a desire to return to the womb - that...

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In a dream, these can describe various parts of our personalities or levels of understanding, but often signify either the womb or the mother figure. Thus the kitchen would be...

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(1) Underworld - Hades, hell or the like - may symbolize despair. You need to talk to someone.(2) Descent into an underworld may have a positive aspect. It may symbolize...

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Example: ‘In last night’s dream the baby I dream about incessantly had been locked in a suitcase but was quite unscathed when taken out, except that it was very dirty,...

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(see also Black)(1) Darkness is a common symbol of the unconscious.If the darkness is frightening, this represents your fear of the unknown forces in your psyche.If the darkness is warm...

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1. Going back to the womb.2. Safe.

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The womb; female qualities or sexuality.

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1. One is protected.2. The desire to go back to the womb.

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1. Longing for sex.2. Need for relaxation.3. Womb simulation.

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1. One is keeping secrets.2. Female body, particularly the womb.

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1. Female sex organs (e.G., Vagina, womb).2. Feminine qualities.

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Caves are rich and thought-provoking dream symbols. At times, a woman with reproductive issues may have a cave dream, in which case it represents the womb.The cave, as the womb,...

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Some dream researchers believe that birth dreams lead us back to life in the womb and the traumas associated with our own experience of birth. The psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor has...

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Party mood; breasts; desire for sex (similarity to condom); the womb.

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1. Joy or celebration of life.2. Longing to return to the womb.3. Childhood and innocence.

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This is a womb symbol: the principle of containing and enclosure and, therefore, an aspect of femininity, fertility and intuition.

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1. Future generation;5. Heritage from the Lord,6. The fruit of the womb;7. Reward; Psalm 127:3-5

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The womb; our store of resources; sexual potency; memories; unrealised wisdom.

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(see also Luggage)Being a receptacle and therefore womb-like or vagina-like, a bag mav be a sexual symbol. What may determine for you the meaning of the bag in your dream...

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Shells may represent the womb and the desire to be once again sheltered, nourished, and protected from life’s problems.

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1. Long journey (to open a box).2. Containing emotions or as­pects of personality (as in “keep a lid on it,” “boxed in” or “pan­dora’s box”).3. Death (as in coffin).4. Womb.

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A cold and perhaps unloving home environment. Also the womb; frigidity; a sense of uncaring parental influ­ence.See ice.

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(see Darkness, Underground)The subconscious or hidden nature within.Archetypal: The womb of the earth—e.g., Earth as our mother who gave all humankind birth and nourishment. Also an emblem for a woman’s...

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Closed in; living in a limited reality. Seed of new life, ready to open.See Womb. Used humorously, you laid an egg; re-evaluate and clean up your act.

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Are symbolic of the womb, and also of feminine life. Called the vesica piscis, it is the halo that completely encircles a sacred figure.

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For example, a jar, cup, bottle or kettle: recep­tive state of mind; our body and what we put into it; what feelings or thoughts we ‘contain* or pour out; the...

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(1) A room may represent the self, or some aspect of yourself.(2) It may be a symbol of the womb. Freud tells of a dream in which a girl (the...

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Experience of being in the womb; feeling in har­mony with self.See heaven. Idioms: fools’ paradise.

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See Container, Tin. Female sexuality. What is in the can and what can you do with it? According to Freud, cans, containers, and boxes all symbolize the female womb.

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Feeling of emptiness in one’s life; womb feeling or memories, feelings about the vagina.See hole.

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Dreams of a bathtub symbolize a womb and that you are feeling contained as you are cleansed in a healing environment.See Water.

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1. Slang for the womb.2. Desire to have children.3. Not want­ing to have children (empty, cold).4. An upcoming project may be very difficult, but it can be managed.

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Womb, receptivity; our ability to contain something. With flowers: sense of beauty and growth emerging out of receptivity; could be brothers and sisters.

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As an appliance used to cook food, a stove may reflect concerns about nurtunng others as well as yourself.The oven may represent the womb of a female and may announce...

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Swimming is an archetypal dream image. It suggests that spiritual energy is being used as we are moving towards a particular goal.It is said in dreams to symbolize the womb...

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Defensive aggression. Water tank: the womb, espe­cially if fairly small and containing fishes or tadpoles; one’s inner feelings and processes.

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1. An escape from the outside world, usually emotional.2. A womb.3. Sexual discovery.4. Business project or partnership (to be in bed with someone not a lover).5. Sense of security.6. A...

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The bucket as a hollow object has all the symbolism of the womb and the feminine principle. In its guise as a household tool it suggests pragmatism and a down-to-earth...

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Pockets, like pits, warn the dreamer to be cautious lest a serious mistake be made.The pocket is symbolic of the womb. This may signify a desire to retrogress or retreat...

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Universally, a cauldron signifies abundance, sustenance and nourishment.The magic cauldron points to the womb and therefore suggests fertility and the feminine power of transformation.

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In a dream a crypt or a catacomb can represent the womb. Alternatively, a space beneath the ground often represents the unconscious mind. (See also Burial, Coffin, Dead / Death,...

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In common with other types of coat, a raincoat holds the symbolism of protection, but more specifically this time against other people’s emotional onslaught. Very occasionally it may suggest some...

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Dreams of a uterus signify your feelings and attitudes about pregnancy, motherhood, nurturing, and creativity. Perhaps you are pregnant with a great idea or you are in the beginning stages...

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Caves often represent a place to hide or seek refuge. Coming out of a cave may mean the emergence of the self.A cave may also symbolize the womb, childbearing, new...

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Symbol of transition; going from one situation to something different. Alternatively, a corridor can represent a route to one’s unconscious mind. In psychoanalysis, a womb symbol. (See also Hallway).

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The belly is the seat of the solar plexus, a spiritual centre or chakra which carries vitality. It can, therefore, also be a focus for appetite and earthly desires. At...

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(1) A hole may be a sexual symbol, representing vagina or womb.(2) A deep dark hole in the earth, or one that feels like the bottomless pit may symbolize the...

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(Butter, Grease, Milk) In a dream, cream represents a fetus in his mother’s womb.(Also see Butter)

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To see a pear in your dream, symbolizes the womb and fertility.The dream probably refers to a female in your life. Or, it could be a pun on a “pair”...

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1. Overcome by life, unable to fight back.2. One needs to learn how to navigate one’s life better.3. In “over one’s head.” 4. If breathing underwater, one has returned—temporarily and...

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1. The womb, motherhood.2. A kind of cleansing, usually emotional, after difficult challenges.3. A new beginning (as in “baptism”).4. A need to rethink a plan or project if the water...

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Bubbles can represent anything from a womb (especially if one dreams of emerging from a bubble), to merriment (a glass of “bubbly”) to disenchantment (bursting one’s bubble). Any one of...

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1. If clear and clean, indicates that problems can be solved.If water is muddy the problems are more difficult to solve.If dirty, then much difficulty lies ahead.4. Birth.5. Rescue.6. The...

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(see also Corridor, Crossing)Freud lists four meanings of the bridge symbol:(1) It may represent the male sexual organ, which ‘bridges the gap’ between male and female sexual partners.(2) It may...

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In a dream, a water jug means travels, or it could represent a woman who becomes pregnant then have a miscarriage or abortion.The water represents the fetus and the jug...

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In dreams, a bowl symbolizes the womb and your sense of security. Consider the condition of the bowl and how it is treated or handled in the dream. This may...

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A valley can represent the gifts of feminine wisdom acquired by descending into the womb or the bosom. Traveling from the peaks to the valley represents moving from inspiration to...

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An empty cradle is a sign of nostalgia, low self-confidence, and self- dissatisfaction. In contrast, rocking a child is, without a doubt, conjugal happiness.Symbol of the womb, the cradle in...

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Pathways you have created into your unconscious; ways you have evolved to deal with innermost feelings and memories; vagina or being in the womb; strategies developed to reach our inner...

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If a persons dreams that a sword is given to him in its sheath and it breaks in the sheath it means his son will die while it is in...

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Material aspects: In pregnancy, a baby ‘quickens’ when it makes its presence felt in its mother’s womb.A project or idea in workaday life takes on a life of its own...

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As a symbol of the womb, if a woman dreams of a basket in which there is a baby, this points to a possible pregnancy.If it is seen by a...

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Dreams of the letter ‘U’ signify you and that you are looking at someone else as distinct and separate from you. You may be taking an objective look at yourself....

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(see Flowers, Garden, Vegetables)Seeds represent untapped potential, being the semen that fertilizes in earth’s womb. Each type of seed holds a wealth of promise, if properly sown, watered, and cared...

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1. Ambition.2. Sexuality.3. If in the backseat, one’s life is out of control.4. If in the front (passenger seat), one is retreating into the safety of the womb.5. If car...

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