Child in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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

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

And whoever sees that he is a boy while he is a grown man, he has committed some ignorance and childishness.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 756–759

Kinds and conditions of Child

boy / small child

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

As for the boy in interpretation, he is a weak enemy who first shows friendship and then shows enmity.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 130–133

If a man sees as though he has become a boy, his manliness has gone; except that his dream indicates relief from a worry he is in.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 130–133

small child

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

Whoever sees that a small child with a handsome face was brought before him, then it is interpreted in two ways: sovereignty and glad tidings, provided he is not carried in the arms.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 42

And it is said: whoever sees that he is carrying a small child, then it is worry and grief.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 42

child (offspring)

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

(And whoever sees) in a dream that a number of children were born to him, seeing them indicates worry, because children cannot be raised except by enduring worries. And it is said:

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 366

(And whoever sees) that a small child was born to him, then it is an increase he attains in his worldly life, and he will be grieved.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 366

little one (child)

Freud and Jung, a separate view

In this connection she now herself offers the interpretation that the little one is the genital, her little one (she has a four-year-old daughter) her own genital.

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

The "little one" has been noted as a symbol for the male or the female genitals by Stekel, who can refer in this connection to a very widespread usage of language.

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

dead child in a coffin

Freud and Jung, a separate view

the dream of the girl who saw her sister’s little son lying dead in a coffin, but who, I may now add, felt no pain or sorrow thereat. We know from analysis why not. The dream only concealed her wish to see the man she loved again; the affect must be attuned to the wish, and not to its concealment. There was no occasion for sorrow at all.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, The Interpretation of Dreams, ch. VI The Dream-Work

little one (small child)

Freud and Jung, a separate view

2. The little one as the genital

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

dead child

Freud and Jung, a separate view

A girl dreamt that she saw lying dead before her the only surviving child of her sister amid the same surroundings as a few years before she saw the first child lying dead. She was not sensible of any pain, but naturally combated the view that the scene represented a desire of hers.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, On Dreams

16 more passages on this symbol are in the database and used by the interpreter.