Dreams about a child: a Jungian reading

A child in dreams tends to be something in you that is new and cannot survive on its own yet — an idea, a relationship, a part of you that is only now waking up. It need have nothing to do with children.

It depends on how it looked

• you are looking after itsomething in you that you feed on purpose
• it has been forgottensomething new was left without attention
• it cries and you do not know whya need you cannot name yet
• the child is yousomething from your beginning is asking to be heard

A question for you

What in you is new and cannot yet carry its own weight?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.