Birth in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi

8 passages from 4 sources, quoted as written, every one linked to its page.

Freud and Jung, a separate view

_The act of birth, moreover, is the first experience with fear, and is thus the source and model of the emotion of fear._

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, Dream Psychology, ch. V Sex in Dreams

Kinds and conditions of Birth

Aqiqah (birth sacrifice)

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

It in a dream is glad tidings of the arrival of one who is absent, or the recovery of a sick person, or the release of a prisoner.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 242

And perhaps it indicates an increase in faith and the upholding of the Sunnah.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 242

birth of a boy or girl

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

And among people there is one who sees that a boy has been born to him while his wife was pregnant, and she gives birth to a girl; and he sees that she has given birth to a girl, and she gives birth to a boy.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, p. 134

And perhaps the natures differ in this, so he sees that a boy has been born to him and it is a boy, or he sees that a girl has been born to him and it is a girl. So ask about that from the natures, for they will inform you.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, p. 134

birth of children and weddings

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

dreams which are of the generation of children, or of weddings, foretel that our children being in a farre Country, shal return; especially the wife and children, if by chance any one hath took them from us:

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Fourth Booke of Artimedorus.

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