Multiple Dreams about Annoying Children

[Hapa Honey]

Before I tell you my dreams, I think I should let you know that my partner and I have decided that we do not want to have children. We do not hate children, but we just feel that they are not for us. However, we keep an open mind about our thoughts changing in the future, even though right now we never want to have kids. This is why I am mostly interested in what the children in these dreams (and all events related to them) mean.

Dream One

This dream must be at least two or three weeks old now, so I don't remember much of it.

My family and I are on holiday in somebody's castle-like mansion. They have staircases flowing in all directions and always dress in tuxedos and ball gowns. We are somewhat enjoying our stay even though they decide to keep us prisoner in their house.

My brother and I have to share a room with all of their children (anywhere from three to five of them) and sleep on tiny cube-shaped beds. Whenever either of us enters this bedroom, all of the children follow and begin yelling, screaming, jumping over the furniture and running around the room.

After a while, the owners decide to let us free. My brother and I are taking all of our luggage down some stairs (at least seven suitcases even though there are only four of us). Suddenly, my mother keeps blurting, 'I'm pregnant!' looking as if she is about to burst into tears of joy. She continues to repeat herself even though we both heard the first time and we begin to get annoyed. I say to Ant, 'Doesn't she know it is dangerous to have a baby at her age?' (She turns 50 this year). My mother starts collecting baby stuff on a small tray.

'What are you doing!' my brother asks her, 'We already have all of this luggage to carry; we can't take any more stuff!'

Dream Two

This dream is about a week old.

I am in Japan and I am leaving a glass building through a revolving door. All of my surroundings appear to be in black, grey and white apart from other people. Suddenly, I am babysitting three Japanese children. They insist on running into the road repeatedly and I become stressed because I cannot keep an eye on all of them at the same time and they are not listening to my warnings. Soon, I get picked up and taken to prison for allowing them to run into the roads. Everything in the prison is black with grey floors and there are no details.

Dream Three

I had this one last night

My partner and I (I will just name him Owen) live in a large house with many rooms. The interior is completely white with beige tiles and wooden floorboards. Even from deep within the house, you can tell that it is a hot sunny day outside. There are a few random people whom I do not know wandering through our house, but I do not mind.

Owen appears through one of the doorways wearing only a pair of shorts; he has returned from Japan (he is in Japan on business in real life right now). I run to him and hug him, wrapping my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist. I realise I am naked, but again, I do not mind. Even when a strange man - also in shorts - wanders in and sees us, I just giggle and smile at his embarrassment (have never been comfortable being nude in my dreams before).

Owen carries us into another room where he sits on a chair with a window behind it. I lean forwards to kiss him (among other things) to welcome him home, but a bus full of children pulls up outside the window. Owen tells me that he thinks they might have seen me naked (suddenly it is not okay for me to be seen in the nude by these random people). I move back to my previous position. Before we can move, all of the children flood into the room we are located in, along with my belly dancing teacher. Owen grabs a dark green blanket that was on the chair and covers me with it. The children and my belly dancing teacher start having a class discussion, but Owen and I cannot leave quietly because they are all in the way and we do not want to draw attention to us.

There is an elderly lady assistant to our right. She looks like my uncle's (not related to me by blood; he married my aunt) mother (who passed away not too long ago) with dyed brown hair. She is wearing a hot pink T-shirt. She glances at us and Owen whispers to her, explaining the situation and asking for help. She leans over to see if I am really naked. I do not mind her seeing me naked. She raises her eyebrows at us, then agrees to help and they all move into a room next door to have a party.