Do babies dream of lactating sheep?

[beetiger]

Rhys was dreaming this morning, just before he woke up. I could see the little rapid movements of his eyes under his eyelids, and he was making nursing motions with his mouth. It's known that babies dream, even before birth, but it's not really possible to know what they dream about.

Leaving out any past-life memories or tapping into the collective unconscious or getting messages from gods and aliens or something, you'd have to figure that baby dreams come from baby experience. But do Rhys' dreams mimic his daily life exactly?

I dreamed Mommy was cuddling me and then I nursed and got milk and it was good. The end.

Or could they be more like this?

You know that part in the Baby Einstein video with the farm animal toy? Well, it was like that except I was the pig climbing up the plastic stairs, only it took way longer than in the video. When we got to the top, it was a big room painted with black stripes, and I looked around and it was weird because I wasn't wearing a diaper, so I pooped on the floor and Omaha the cat came and looked at it. Then my toy octopus was there, except it had Mommy's face, and when I grabbed one of its legs there was a nipple on the bottom. So I nursed on it, and the milk came out, but it was strawberry-flavored, like the tummy drops I get sometimes. Freaky, huh?

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[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Well, your second version of baby-dreams sound a lot more like the baby-version of MY weird dreams, so that's got my vote.

[lavablu.livejournal.com]

hahaha... I'd definately say it was the second based on most of my dreams, which are just never quite as simple as, ooo mommy, ooo sucky...

[auliya.livejournal.com]

rotfl!

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[ubiquity.livejournal.com]

whoa, what are you doing here? (:

-p

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[auliya.livejournal.com]

What am I doing in Vicki's journal? Well, it all started in 1991, when I met her husband on... Uh. A MU* thingie. Islandia? I don't remember. Anyway, when I found out that an acquaintance of so many years kept an LJ, I added him. And then, heck!, I added his wife too. :-)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain that Elizabeth dreams of playing with mommy and daddy, at least some of the time. When she was younger, she used to shake her head to tell us she wanted us to tickle her face with our hair.

From time to time when I was holding her as she slept, she smile broadly, and slowly shake her head.

Of course, now the head shake means "Please stop feeding me mush."

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

I imagine they're more abstract than the 1st or second, probably with less concrete visual information but a lot of nice (or not nice) auditory or tactile information.

Dreaming anything are cute :)

[atroposnomore.livejournal.com]

That was so incredibly funny. I've wondered the same thing....

[beowabbit]

Thank you for sharing that wonderful image!

[serenainverse.livejournal.com]

I once thought, like Wordsworth (http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html), that babies thought in the universal language, possessed of a wisdom we can neither connect to nor comprehend, still tied to the universal soul they occupied before their conception. Once they begin to learn our vulgar languages, they replace their connection to God with a connection to the world, not to regain that wisdom until they have passed once again from this world to the next.

These are not my thoughts now, but they once were.

Book recommendation: City of Glass, by Paul Auster

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[serenainverse.livejournal.com]

And, to make that actually RELEVANT *sigh*, it would thus follow that the dreams of those who are pre-lingual would likely be something we as adults don't have the mental vocabulary to even articulate.