Catching a decent night's sleep when you're pregnant is tough, especially when your nights are filled with hormonally charged dreams that can be comforting, scary, or just plain weird.
Katie Smith, of Denver, recalls being awakened by the kookiest dream in her first trimester: "I was running down the freeway with my jogging stroller, chasing after a pickle. I finally caught up with it in the pickle shop and took it to the counter, where I realized I didn't have a quarter to pay for it. As I searched the stroller and my pockets for money, I woke up and went to the refrigerator to eat some pickles."
In Smith's case, her stereotypical hankering for the salty snack simply played itself out in her dreams. Sometimes there's no deeper meaning. But our rich and vivid dreams -- even the scary ones -- can serve a purpose. In fact, pregnancy dreams are often our mind's way of preparing us for birth and motherhood, experts say.
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im 29 weeks pregnant & I have been having nightmares lately. The last one i had i had just had my son 2 mo early & we were being chased by a bunch of petifiles, they just kept popping up out of nowhere & we couldnt get away. Does anyone know wat this might mean?
10/26/2011 12:04:52 AM Report AbuseI have very vivid dreams, even when I am not pregnant. During this pregnancy (currently in my 15th week) I am having a lot of nightmares. Weird but I know that it's just my insecurities playing out through my subconscious. During my pregnancy with my 2 1/2 year old- I had a dream about my son- about what he looked like and when he was born, it was uncanny how identical he was to how he appeared in the dream.
9/23/2011 09:54:25 AM Report AbuseI am 27 weeks and 2 days and i have been having dreams about going into labor but no one paying any attention. One time i was in labor but i was dead and it seemed like everyone was going about their day. Or another time i'm in labor and i have blood everywhere and it didn't seem to be a big deal. Is it just anxiety about labor? It's weird and slightly scary..
9/5/2011 08:19:19 PM Report Abusecontinues@--jenni01tx1--if you miscarried the feelings get easier to cope with over time but wont ever leave your mind,i am now 27 weeks and 6 days along with another baby but this one is healthy as a horse,and i still think of the one i recvently lost a year ago this july.anyways id like to hear your story,hopefully you were able to continue your pregnancy with a clean ray of health:)
6/6/2011 07:05:54 AM Report Abuse@-jenni01tx1---you never posted again ,i was wondering how your pregnancy turned out .was it a miscarry? or just first trimester spotting?i hope you the best ,i know what its ike lossing a child even if you havnt met the child your mother thoughts kick in with the "i wanted that baby so much thoughts and i wont ever be ables"walk them to school,hold there hand crossing the street ect"
6/6/2011 07:04:50 AM Report AbuseI am 12 weeks along and I have not stopped dreaming about my ex boyfriend!! One night I had a dream that my ex was telling me how much he loved me and that he wanted me back. I told him no because I was in love with my husband and that I was pregnant. I found out the very next day I was pregnant!! Now I dream about him at least twice a week. Wouldnt be so bad but I see him when he come to pick up his son from the daycare I work at!!!!!!!!!!
6/5/2011 01:20:09 PM Report AbuseLast night I dreamed that I killed my brother in a car wreck and ran away to a hospital. I pretended I was hurt physically and mentally so they let me stay for several months. My dad found out that I killed him on purpose and called the hospital to talk to me. I felt like I had nowhere to go because my parents hated me and my brother was dead. I woke up very unsettled.
5/30/2011 11:54:24 AM Report Abusei found out that i was pg on thanksgivening and went to the dr a few days later. there were 2 sacks and that ment we were haven twins.. when i went back a month later all was good then the moth after that the 1 baby joined the other and 1 didnt mke it threw.. well i have these dreams that im in the hospital and im holding 1 husband has 1 and my sister has 1 ... WOW! where is that comeing from
5/12/2011 09:40:06 PM Report AbuseI had an odd dream I gave birth to a boy and a girl and when I looked up at the father and back down the beautiful babies turned into rat things and in my dream i was so scared that my mother in law would hate them because she hates rodents...
4/29/2011 02:38:25 AM Report AbuseJust the other day I had a dream that an old witch came up to me and told me that the only way I would give birth is if I put the still beating heart of a flying zebra into a blue volcanic glass bowl full of the worlds purest spring water. The bowl then turned into an egg, hatched, and then rapidly began to grow from a rainbow colored chameleon into a baby. Top that!
4/17/2011 05:21:46 PM Report AbuseWHEN MY SISTER WAS PREGNANT WITH HER FIRST CHILD,WICH TODAY HE IS 14YRS OLD,OUR MOM HAD A DREAM HE WAS BORN BUT HE WAS A "CANOLOPE"cant think how to spell it but close enough,the fruit"mellon" but this mellon had a spine on one side of it,and a face,my sister loved the mellon thought it was a perfect"baby"and noone seemed to think it was wrong in the dream but my mom ,
4/11/2011 12:10:22 PM Report AbuseCONTINUED FROM MELLON DREAM--she kept telling the drs and my sister that it was not right something is wrong you dont give birth to mellons,lol,,so now when if one of us get preg we remember that dream of the mellon lmao..
4/11/2011 12:10:05 PM Report AbuseCONTINUEING---or court at all,and have never cheated on one another.talk about strange,i am almost 20 weeks pregnant now with what will be our 5th baby but our 6th pregnancy,i think it was a dream that just meant that i am still greaving my miscarried child while preg with another child.---MOMMY OF 6 ONE IN HEAVEN,
4/11/2011 12:00:22 PM Report AbuseI had a dream a magic pony was chasing me....... I kept running cause I thought It wanted to eat me
4/11/2011 11:59:32 AM Report AbuseCONTINUEING----i woke up freaked out but sad cause i couldnt hold my lil boy we miscarried any more,he was with me in my dreams,and when i woke he was just a figment to remember..the dream was realy strange to me cause my husband and i have been together for 10 years and have never had to go through custody agreements ,
4/11/2011 11:59:02 AM Report AbuseCONTINUEING----i then acted as if i was kidding around and waited for him to go to sleep,then got my boys and left,my girls were all with my mother in this dream,it was so wierd,and to mention the house we were in was our old house we lived in 3years ago.
4/11/2011 11:58:11 AM Report AbuseCONTINUEING----things were said between the hubby and i and we got into a huge fight and i told him i was taking both my babies from them and going to get a dna test done and prove that the babys were indeed mine and i was taking there A,S,S'ES to court to get custody,well the ladie was sleeping and my so called hubby in this dream tried to stop me as i got the boys ready to leave,so i couldnt get out,
4/11/2011 11:57:25 AM Report AbuseCONTINUED-----well later in the dream i had another baby with my husband but some where along the way my hubby and i had seperated and he went with the ladie that adopted our son then tried to steal my newborn baby and try to tell me he was theres,
4/11/2011 11:56:38 AM Report AbuseOMG!!LMAO!! i had a crazy freaky wierd yet sad dream the other night,i have 4 daughters we had a miscarriage back in july and after the miscarriage we decided to try again for a boy(still dont know what we are having yet though,5 days to ultrasound)well my dream the other night was the baby we miscarried was a boy(in dream was alive and healthy) and my husband thought because our best friend couldnt get pregnant it would be very nice to give our child to her (let her adopt him)
4/11/2011 11:52:34 AM Report Abuseit seems like alot of people have dreams about there husbands/boyfriends cheating while they are pregnant. im 23 weeks pregnant and i had one last night where my boyfriend cheated on me. and acted like he only cared about the baby and hated ME all of the sudden.
3/6/2011 12:59:23 PM Report Abuseomg...I've been having vivid, scary, funyn and crazy dreams...but this page with all the comments has given me quite a laugh and put me at ease about the scary ones...lmao
3/1/2011 12:38:01 PM Report AbuseGlad to know I am not alone with all these crazy dreams. I am 29 weeks pregnant with my first baby. I recently had a dream that I was given the chance to save a man's life (a complete stranger, mind you) by cutting out another man's eyeballs under water and then eating them....And I did it. So weird!
2/24/2011 12:00:36 PM Report AbuseI think my little guy must move around a lot at night because I keep having the same dream over and over again. I keep dreaming that he pushes so hard on my tummy with his feet that he pops them through my skin and all I do is push them back in. Like it's a normal thing!! I'm only 21 weeks and I never had these dreams with my first 2 kids. So crazy!!!
2/23/2011 05:58:45 PM Report AbuseI have been having scary dreams about being chased and people trying to attack me. I'm just about six weeks pregnant and recently started bleeding. I went to the doctor who then told me that there is a 50/50 chance of this being a viable pregnancy. Maybe dreams do mean something and can actually tell us something. I will find out Monday if this is a 'good' pregnancy or if it just going to turn into a miscarriage. I sure hope ya'll are having much better dreams than I am. :(
2/11/2011 04:19:24 PM Report AbuseWell my dreams have been scary and some what crazy. I have also been dreaming that I was having a girl, but my boyfriend swears it's a boy because that's all he has, but i want another girl personally, boys are so rough and this one being my third i need something gentle for the time being, my oldest daughter is 6 so she's into her own thing and more and isn't as FUN!hahaha
1/27/2011 01:00:10 PM Report Abusei have had a dream about my baby daddy thinking that the baby is not his..and hes always being mean to me or hes always in the other room with some other girl..idk what thats about cuz hes very excited about our baby to be!
1/27/2011 10:57:13 AM Report Abusei seem to have a reacurring dream where ive had my son and he skips to being like 5 yrs old he is a beautiful child looks almost exactly like his daddy ... the dream makes me smile but i hope he doesnt grow that fast lol
1/20/2011 12:11:04 AM Report AbuseI am glad to see that I am not the only one having crazy dreams. I dreamed my man's ex-wife lived with us and her new husband. Then my man decided he was gonna take her side and so I told them both to get out of my house. Crazy right! The other day I dreamed we took all our kids to vacation at Disneyland and these women were hitting on him so I beat all of them up. I am really having some insecurities and there is no reason.
12/28/2010 01:44:44 PM Report AbuseI'm 34 weeks and I just had a dream recently that a little monster was on the end of my bed and was hissing at me EEP! Then I had a dream a couple days later that I was punched in my tummy :(
11/30/2010 11:08:06 AM Report AbuseI myself have had plenty of crazy pregnancy dreams. I am just a couple weeks away from my 3rd trimester so my dreams are really interesting. I have had several dreams of what my daughter will look like (always the same, red hair and blue eyes), I've even had the alien dream where one minute she was in my stomach and I was watching her move then she was coming out through my belly button (talk about weird).
11/28/2010 07:28:13 AM Report Abuseii had twiin dreams butt ii wentt to the doctors nd theirs only one in their
11/26/2010 10:36:44 PM Report AbuseI had a dream this morning that I gave birth early to my child at 4 months pregnant (which I currently am) and it came out of a hole in my tummy. We raced around trying to find a dr. to help my baby live. then I dreamed I went to the dr.s and they couldnt find a baby in my tummy at all. I wont up scared, nervous, and worried and started crying. Am I just being paraniod??
11/11/2010 06:05:10 PM Report AbuseSorry, that posted the first time but didn't come up so I thought I had to write it again real quick.... I'd still love to know if anybody else has had twins dreams!!
11/9/2010 07:42:05 PM Report AbuseI had a dream last night that I was having twins.... I went to the doctor today and was told I'm a little more than twice the size I should be at this stage in my pregnancy, so now I NEED to know... did anyone have twins dreams? And if so, did you end up being pregnant with twins?? I'm dying to know if I've got two babies in there!!
11/9/2010 07:40:30 PM Report AbuseI'm 9 weeks pregnant and last night I dreamed I was having twins... I'm a little bit more than twice the size I should be this early into the pregnancy, so now I'm worried! Has anyone else had a twins dream? And if so, is it likely to mean I've got two babies in there?!?!
11/9/2010 07:38:09 PM Report AbuseI told my husband and he couldn't stop laughing...I was just so scared...
10/19/2010 02:18:22 PM Report AbuseI dreamed my baby and I were part of FARC in Colombia trying to fight for some ideology and my baby was the future generation, so everyone was after us. Totally weird.
10/19/2010 02:17:01 PM Report AbuseWhen I was nine months pregant this past spring - I had a dream that my baby girl was born with a mouth of sharp pointy teeth and I had to breastfeed and was terrified. Then in the same dream they realized it was not my baby and it was actual 6 months old - very strange. Safe to say, she was born with no teeth and was mine and all crazy dreams stopped following delivery:)
9/29/2010 09:42:46 AM Report AbuseI had reoccurring dreams of me on board a plane that was crashing. It never crashed but it was falling from the sky. I never used to be afraid of flying but now I am.
9/29/2010 09:12:19 AM Report AbuseI have had some pretty weird dreams lately, the first one was really sweet, it was of little baby boys,(I want a boy by the way) with my first one I had dreams of little girls and barbies and i had a girl; and my latest one was an erotic dream, i dare not say anymore lol. I am 14 weeks preggo and have had dreams anywhere from funny to sweet to scary and of course erotic!
9/17/2010 10:33:11 AM Report AbuseMy husband has children from a previous relationship, since we became pg, I've been having dreams that my husband neglects this baby b/c it's 'not okay' like his other three & all I do is yell at him telling him that I'm sorry that there's something wrong with me even. I can't tell you how many times I've woken up crying and my husband had to reassure me that everything's going to be just fine and he would never do that.
8/25/2010 05:11:12 PM Report Abusei keep having iether wierd dreams or scary dreams. like i have gory dreams. and ones where the father of my baby is cheating on me. leaving me or just plain ignoring me. which is wierd cuz he is not that type of guy. and then my wierd ones are dreams about people i never see or just unfortunate events that would never happen in real life. since ive been expecting i have had the craziest dreams in my entire life. and they all feel so real. sometimes i wake up crying or talking out loud.
8/23/2010 02:12:46 PM Report Abuseim really going throug a lot of thingd. im 21 weeks and the things i go through i end up having a dream about the situation but its far more advanced like me and my fiancé are kinda not seeng eye to eye and i dream that we completely break it off. its really emotional.
8/19/2010 08:23:42 AM Report Abusei had a dream that i was at my mom's house layin on the couch watching my baby moving in my stomach. all of a sudden it was like the alien movie and she started coming out of my belly through the skin. but it was a lizard that came out instead of a baby. so i put it back or so i thought cuz i look back under my shirt and the lizard was gone and i wasnt pregnant anymore....weird.
8/16/2010 12:38:17 AM Report AbuseI had a dream the other night that I was driving on of my sisters somewhere after i had given birth to my baby boy and as i was going to park the car around the block i couldnt stop the car. the breaks were out. so i was crashing into everything, the cops pulled me over and when i went inot the back seat to check on the baby he had turned into a puppy, a very cute black and brown small dog....weird?
8/14/2010 02:50:44 PM Report AbuseI always have craazy dreams, even not pregnant. But every dream I have that has to do with my baby being born, she can always talk right away. One dream I had, she was satan's child, it was so scary. Another time I had a dream I left her at home while i went to my boyfriends sisters house an hour away. But no matter what, she can ALWAYS talk.
8/2/2010 04:35:59 PM Report Abusei'm about 7 months now and i had a dream about someone i used to babysit for. we were inside wal-mart after they had closed and just sitting on the floor with some other people i know and i asked her how her kids were doing and she started to cry and said that they had to go away for a little while. a couple weeks later i told my dad about the dream and he told me that she was living in her car in a wal-mart parking lot and her kids got taken by dcfs.
7/19/2010 12:09:48 AM Report AbuseI keep having dreams about my ex. I even had a crazy dream that the baby was his! since im al emotional these dreams make me think about the happy past we had. I love my husband dearly and dont know what to do. He's my best friend and I cant tell him about obviously so im stuck with these dumb dreams and even feel quilty some times when i wake up next to a great man. why cant i dream about my husband...
7/1/2010 03:16:16 PM Report AbuseI am 15 weeks pregnant and last night I had the best dream. In my dream I had just had a baby girl, I was laying in the hospital bed, holding her. I was so happy and crying. Beside me was my boyfriend laying next to me, holding us. I woke up and wanted to feel him next to me so bad. I just remember looking and him and my brand new baby and feeling such happiness and so much love for the both of them. Thing is, we want a boy lol. Hoping to find out in 5 weeks.
6/17/2010 02:06:17 PM Report AbuseThe other day, I dreamed i went to work and I wrapped and put my baby in a shopping bag. At the end of the day, I realized I left my baby on the BUS! I dont even catch the bus!!! I happened to get back on the same bus. Took my baby out and realized I didn't have any food to feed her!!!! Then I breast fed her. Now that felt beautiful! Ahhh, these dreams!!!!
6/15/2010 07:56:05 AM Report AbuseI'm six weeks, but about the third week...I had a dream that I gave birth in a hospital, but the nurses would not help me. I pulled the baby out myself and kept saying, "isn't someone going to help me"? My baby was all covered in "gook". So as I wiped away the "gook" the baby wasn't moving...then the baby's neck dissolved to the spinal cord and it disappeared and the head was severed from the body. At the end of the dream I was cradling the body of the baby! Scarrrrry!!!!
6/15/2010 07:54:09 AM Report Abusei had a very scary dream the other night.. im only 6 weeks along and in my dream i knew i was pregnant but i started my period in the dream.. i have been having low fevers everynight before bed and been having either weird dreams or nightmares.. i guess im so affraid of having a miscarriage that its affecting my dreams..
6/10/2010 12:39:51 PM Report AbuseI had a very strange dream the other night. I am 28 weeks and I dreamt that I had my baby then packed her in a suitcase. I was shopping for formula in the store and she was crying the clerk asked me what it was and I replied "it's just the baby." I then opened the suitcase and kissed her then I woke up. This weirded me out.
6/10/2010 11:55:33 AM Report AbuseI have dreams about having a little girl all the time. I have had some really strange dreams myself. Everything from being in a forest festival during Samhain to being the only human with a cure for a Zombie outbreak and protecting my newborn baby and my husband's and my new puppy. My dreams always seem to be so vivid and almost story-like. As if my brain is telling me stories in my dreams. At times its fun and I love thinking about my dreams when I wake up or I wake up scared.
6/5/2010 02:37:39 PM Report AbuseI found out I was pregnant right after our husky gave birth to a litter. About a month later I dreamed that I was trying to nurse the pups. I also had been having dreams that we were having a little girl but could never see the face, and found out it is a girl. And I dreamed that she ripped herself out through my belly and no one would help me. Now sadly at 35wks, Im having dreams that my hubby finding someone else and the women usually looked like me when we first met. Poor self esteem, I know.
5/25/2010 02:00:38 PM Report AbuseI keep having dreams of premature birth. I had a dream in my first trimester that I gave birth and had to put my daughter back in. Now, in my second trimester and I had a dream that I could see the baby's foot clearly against my stomach, then she came out of my belly button feet first, couldn't breathe and died. Then i woke up and dreamt it again when i went to sleep.
5/7/2010 01:36:13 PM Report AbuseRecently a colleague's wife had a baby boy. That same evening I dreamt I was at a funeral. I woke up soaked in tears, thinking the baby inside me (at 11 weeks) was dead. I later learned my colleague's baby died 20 hours after delivery. I've been terrified since and can't seen to get over it. He was healthy. The mom's pregnancy was smooth and healthy. Autopsy resulted in nothing. It was SIDS. It's so devastating.
4/28/2010 11:03:35 AM Report AbuseI have some of the weirdest dreams as well. The latest one is with me being adopted by a nice family. When I was 18, my adopted parents told me that my birth mother wanted to meet me, but I had no interest in it. Well, long dream cut short, my birth mother set up a plan to kidnap me using one of my bff that happened to be my long lost sister that I didnt know!! I was swimming in a pond and ended up in a mansion kidnapped by my birth mother...then I woke up!! Super weird!
4/25/2010 06:19:15 PM Report AbuseI think I know what this one means but we have had a good laugh over it. After delivery I was missing for a week when I returned I picked up the baby to feed him and he said "no daddy feed me". I looked at my husband and he had a huge set of boobies. I asked him what was up and he said the Dr gave him a shot so he could breast feed while I was gone.
4/22/2010 08:27:13 AM Report AbuseI have the weirdest dreams. A few times they wake me up and i'm crying or nervous. The latest one is that I wanted food and nobody would go with them I ate by myself and then my husband and kids showed up so I ate again with them. I've had dreams that i'm in labor and forget my camera and make my hubby go back while I hold the babies head so our child is not born in the car. People try to attack me and I beat them. Sometimes its funny to remember how bizarre the dreams are.
4/19/2010 05:40:58 PM Report Abusemy first pregnancy i kept having dreams about a little girl but i could not see her face, weeks later i found out i was having a girl. she is now 2 years old and i am in my second pregnancy and keep having dreams about a little boy but i cannot see his face! i wonder if i am having a little boy....hmmmmm
4/18/2010 11:53:59 PM Report AbuseI had a dream that i beat my ex up with a baseball bat, then a golf club...and he looked mad and was yelling at me, but he wasn't injured at all. And someone was standing behind him and I couldn't see who it was. Then he walked away down a street and I followed him. It was a place I didn't recognize. After following him for what seemed like a long time he stopped and turned around and we started talking like nothing happened. (??) Weird!
4/15/2010 10:26:17 PM Report Abusei have had many dreams, as of now i am 26 weeks pregnant. My first dreams were about people breaking into my house & stealing our baby while we were asleep. it was quite scary & i would wake up crying. lately my dreams & my boyfriends have been more wild. i had a dream the other night i gave birth to a kitten & tried to put it back in my belly cuz it wasnt a baby. my boyfriend had a dream that i brought home a bunny rabbit & put a tshirt on it and he had to give it baths & take it 2 school.
4/11/2010 10:18:04 AM Report AbuseI am now 18 weeks along and this afternoon during a nap, I dreamt I was driving down the highway and a HUGE tornado formed next to me, I was to scared to act and save my family, I was awaken by a phone call. When I fell back asleep, I was at home n my 4th floor penthouse apt, we were all n my livingroom talking when my mom calmly pointed out the patio doors and said, WOW there's a circle forming, confused, I looked outside and another HUGE tornado was forming I was too scared to move. :-(
4/8/2010 02:29:24 AM Report AbuseI have been happening strange dreams; last night I dreamt someone hit in my stomach while pregnant and the baby cried out. I dont like that dream one bit
4/4/2010 06:07:09 PM Report AbuseI had a dream last nite that my husband & I drove to Queens n.y. to get our 3yr old some soles for his shoes. But the shoe repair shop no longer exsisted. So instead we went into a store & brought champaign & cheese cake. Now that dream was crazy. I told my husband & he could not stop laughing & if that wasnt enough we had our 9yr old in a car seat. lol so silly.
4/2/2010 10:57:28 AM Report Abusei keep having dreams that i give birth to a orange tabby kitty and later on it talks and brings me dead birds on my bed but i feel so in love with my little cat that i dont care what it does...lol that sounds crazy but im glad that im not the only one having wierd dreams.
3/29/2010 02:19:23 PM Report Abusemy most recent dream was that my baby turned into a rat and attacked me so my husband had to squirt it with the spray bottle we spray the cats with when theyre bad. thats not comforting it scared me a lot
3/18/2010 11:29:35 AM Report AbuseWell I keep having dreams about me and a child, but the child is never mine, crazy right. I'm 15 weeks pregnant by the way. Two of the times the children have been little girls and the other time the child was a boy. The only time I knew who the parent was of one of the children was when it was a boy and it belonged to the father of my soon to be bundle of joy. This is weird seeing that this is our first time as parents.
2/25/2010 07:14:30 PM Report AbuseThanks! I am just worried about my unusual dreams and my baby. But after reading this I feel comfortable and hope everything goes well.
2/18/2010 02:03:12 PM Report Abuse