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Dreaming of a child: meaning and interpretation

The new thing that asks for care

A fragile potential: a beginning that does not survive alone.

Symbolic reading

The child in the dream is not only memory. It is a recent possibility — a project, a tenderness, a truth — that still cannot defend itself in the adult world. Losing sight of it is the fear of neglecting what has just been born in you.

Jungian key

The child archetype announces a germ of the Self. Its smallness is not decorative weakness: it asks for a maternal and paternal attitude at once, protection without confinement.

Go back for the small thing you left in the other room. It grows if you visit it.

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