Ian Wallace Interpretation:
Births and deaths are among the most profound events that we experience in our waking lives. When we dream, we use those intense experiences to represent significant beginnings and endings in our waking lives. Dreaming of birth and pregnancy reflects a situation in your waking life in which you are experiencing a new beginning. Dreams of death and dying symbolize the ending of some activity, a time when you are leaving behind what no longer nourishes you so that you can step into fresh new opportunities. As you do so, you will find yourself beginning anew, as the natural cycle continues. In this chapter, you will discover the significance of how you explore potential opportunities in different dream scenarios: why death dreams are never really about death, how starting something new is connected to giving birth, the difference between birth and death dreams and why birth and death dreams are part of a natural growth cycle. To take your birth and death dream work further, try the exercise on this page.