Natalia Snider is a certified dream practitioner living in
Carbondale. She works with people’s dreams and imaginations to facilitate self-healing. Every month, she will analyze someone’s dream in The Sopris Sun. Anyone can submit a dream for personal analysis or inclusion in this column by visiting:
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While celebrating Mother’s Day, I asked some mothers if they had ever experienced a shared dream with their baby in utero. This is a magical phenomenon that has no scientific explanation, yet becomes pure truth for a mother once her baby is born and the dream is validated. For the mothers, these dreams are not only prophetic but telling of a connection between the dream world and the spirit world. To further understand this connection between mother and child, let’s look at three dreams that were shared with me.
Dream 1
I dreamed about my daughter for 10 years before she was born. She was adopted — I started dreaming about her as soon as I came in contact with her birth mother. Ten years later, I had a dream that her birth mother told me she was pregnant and she was! The rest is history.
Dream 2
My seventh child told me his name three times in dreams while I was pregnant with him. I tried to come up with another name, but when he was born, there was no denying it was his name.
Dream 3
When I was near to giving birth to my last child, I had a dream where I was brought by someone to a ballroom and asked if I was ready to see my daughter. When I said yes, they brought me to the middle of the room where lots of people were, and then I saw her. I knew right away it was her, although she was all grown up into a beautiful young woman. We spent time together, talking, laughing and getting to know one another. Then she had to leave. She hugged me and said that she had to go, but not to be sad. Some kind people came and walked her away as I watched. I didn’t know what she meant, or what that dream meant, until I went to my doctor’s appointment the next day and got the bad news that she wasn’t going to make it past birth. This dream helped me through that hard time knowing I had met her, and that she was well and safe, on the other side.
Analysis
Let’s dive right into Dream 1. This prophetic dream is incredibly interesting because the mother is not the birth mother. So, this rules out that the mother needs to be biologically connected to the child to experience a shared dream. In a book called “Spirit Babies” by Walter Makichen, there is a section discussing adoption. Makichen’s theory is that the spirit of the baby will choose their mother far in advance of birth. If that mother cannot conceive, then they will choose a birth mother that will lead to their adoption from the originally chosen mother. It is wild to think that our world could be this magical and yet dreams such as this provide proof, at least for the mother.
Dream 2 is actually a very common dream reported by pregnant women. I’m sure most readers know of someone who says their name came to their mother in a dream. What’s fun to think about here is that this person is unaware that they might very well be the one who spoke their own name into existence from the other side. If only we could remember the other side, right?
I want to propose that we do remember, or that we can become aware of the other side and can access that place within our dream realm. Yet most have defined this dream space as fictional. So we go through life unaware of the messages that are being sent to us nightly or daily through our imaginations. I urge all who want to experience a more magical life to consider that understanding the language of your dreams can help you understand your connection to all that is. This brings me to Dream 3.
Dream 3 is a beautiful example of how believing in the truth of your dreams can help your waking life by easing anxiety, worry, grief and whatever else this mother may have gone through after learning the grave news the next day. As well, this dream could be categorized as a shared death experience, by which the mother and daughter experienced the send-off of the daughter to the other side together. Dream 3 brings up the question: If we were familiar with the other side, would death be so hard?
The dream realm is an incredible place. Words struggle to describe the vastness of its ever-expanding possibilities. Yet, the most magical aspect of all is us. We have the power to access this place as well as the power to deem its worthiness. We choose what is real and unreal, and then it becomes so in our reality. So, to all those in search of more magic in their lives, not knowing where to start, ask your mother if she dreamed of you. Perhaps the answer will unlock a door.