I’ve dreamed about three pregnant women. Two of them were my cousins. They are not married but someone told me that they were pregnant in the dream but they are not in real life! The other woman was me. This has happened twice. I’m not married or engaged, but I dreamed I had a little girl, my daughter. The first dream I was pregnant, but the next dream she was about two years old. I don’t have children on my own, but it was so real, I knew she was my daughter. What does it mean?

--Vanessa, Age 21, Quito, Ecuador

Hi Vanessa -

I think you are looking forward to that time in your life when you and your cousins, who probably are about the same age as you, will become pregnant and start having babies. It’s a very common dream for young women, even women who have never had sex before. (Read some of the other dreams in this section). I am curious, though, if your first child will be a daughter. Then your dream really will have come true!

It is true that women often first learn that they are pregnant through a dream. In these cases, the body has sensed the successful conception of the new child and is simply reflecting this awareness in a dream. But in your case it sounds more as if you are simply looking ahead in anticipation to the beginning of your family - and so you dream about it - just as you often must daydream about it during the day!

Good Luck!