Baby Dream

[kaykay]

Hi all,
This is my first time, but this looks like a fantastic place! I'm hoping that someone can shed a little light on the dream that shook me up a little last night.
Here goes:

I was visiting friends (not anyone I recognize awake) in their beautiful, elaborate home. They had a baby and I spent some time cooing over the baby in the nursery with the Mother.
Then suddenly it was daytime and I was in the passenger's seat of my fiance's car with him, and I was holding the baby on my lap!
I don't know if it was a boy or a girl, but I can still see it. He/she was wearing overalls and no shirt and I just kept stroking his/her back and forearms, commenting on how soft his/her skin was. Then I said, matter-of-factly, to my fiance, "I took their baby."
He didn't seem bothered by this at all, but just kept driving.
I kept holding the baby on my lap.
And then I started thinking that his/her Mother was going to go up to the nursery and see that her baby is gone and be horrified. That's when I started to feel panicky and guilty, and told my fiance that we needed to take the baby back.
He kept saying no.
I kept insisting, pleading with him, telling him that the Mother would be so, so upset.

Then I woke up.
No resolution to the dream, and the whole thing has left me very, very unsettled this morning.
Does anyone have any ideas? I mean, I have my own thoughts, but I'm curious about what someone else would say or think. Thanks so much!

[Athanor]

Although it would be best to know about you and what was happening just before the dream in order to provide an accurate interpretation, one way to approach your dream is to view the baby as representing some new attitude or value that has “started to grow”, perhaps visible in some striking incident on the day before the dream.

Unfortunately however, there seems to be a strong hint that this particular “baby” might not be totally positive since the dream shows you stealing him from the parents, your fiancé doesn’t seem to mind, and also your reaction in the dream and upon waking as well as your continuing feeling are also full of guilt and apprehension.

Another less-than-favorable image is that of your fiancé driving you in his own car. In the language of dreams, this would often point to the idea that some values or outlook of the person driving sometimes tend to control the direction and tenor of your own energies (the car). Also, as you mentioned, he goes along quite comfortably with the idea of a baby theft. Overall this could mean that whatever the baby might symbolize is tending to lead you too far away from a balanced enough approach to your own ultimate self development as a person.

A clue about the nature of the baby might lie in the idea of the “beautiful, elaborate home” from where it came. One reliable way to determine what the house may symbolize is to gather all of the spontaneous thoughts, memories and feelings that come to mind about its image in the dream. You could try doing the same with the image of the baby itself. Then by looking through everything that emerges, certain related themes should tend to stand out.

As a very general example, when focusing on the image of the baby, a person might suddenly remember how they had decided just before the dream to buy a car that they can’t really afford and which they felt guilty about doing, but their brother has a similar expensive car and they would tend to feel humiliated by their parents’ questioning why they’re still driving a VW Bug.

This of course is just a general example of how the method works, and everything depends on what comes to your own mind. However, it will hopefully give you a good enough idea of how to work out the personal message of your dream.

[Varzandeh]

Hi,
A baby means an unexpected benefit is on the way for you.
Driver gives support and advice in the waking life to the passenger seat.