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What does it mean to dream about a baby?
Babies appear in dreams for parents and non-parents alike. Here is what Miller's dictionary says about babies and infants, quoted exactly.
What Miller wrote (1901)
To dream of crying babies, is indicative of ill health and disappointments. A bright, clean baby, denotes love requited, and many warm friends.
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To dream of seeing a newly born infant, denotes pleasant surprises are nearing you.
Read the full entry for “Infants” →
Your dream is not a dictionary entry
A dream about a baby comes with a place, other people and a feeling, and the old books read the same image very differently depending on those details. Dreamlore takes your whole dream, spoken or typed, finds the passages that fit it in Miller and Freud, quotes them word for word, and leaves you one question to reflect on. The journal stays on your phone.
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What does it mean to dream about a baby?
Miller's 1901 dictionary reads a crying baby as ill health and disappointment, and a bright, clean baby as love returned and warm friends. His entry on infants reads a newborn as pleasant surprises. Dreamlore offers these as prompts for reflection, not as a statement about your life.
Where do these quotes come from?
They are quoted verbatim from public-domain books: Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901). Each quote on this page is checked word for word against the source text before the page is served, the same check the Dreamlore app runs on every quote it shows.
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Dreamlore and these pages are for reflection and curiosity. The books quoted here are old — Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens, and many of Freud's ideas are disputed today. Take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.