Thread: Piglets

Hi I'm kerena, I'm 34 and currently pregnant with my 3rd son, (4th including my partners son)

I had a really odd dream last night that has left me quite disturbed today, I wondered if someone could interprate it for me please?
I went to this place for a job interview, it was like a grotty sports pavilion, there were 3 other people there 1 lady 2 men, this man who worked there shouted through to the back that they needed 4, it turned out that I was actually the only one there for the interview, and that the others were there for fun to kill piglets? Rather than just leaving I sat round the corner, I could see what they were doing, they had to wash and pamper these piglets then get them to sleep tucked up under little blankets, they looked so sweet and peaceful, they then had them stood up and to hit them over the back of the neck with a spade to kill them, the first man was a really cocky guy really up for killing the piglet he came across as a nasty person, he did it wrong and the piglet was squealing I was crying my heart out,l aying down and sobbing into a white pillow, the other 2 didnt seem to have a personality, or any kind of indifference to doing it both killed them correctly with just one swipe of the spade, then I got into a mass discussion with them about it apparently it was kinder when it was done right because the piggies felt loved? Although I was mortified at what had just happened I could see how the piglets died at a really happy point because it had been so loved and had a quick end. I then woke up
TIA xxx

Interesting dream! First you take a passive observant perspective. Then you start a inner discussion. It's a discussion about right and wrong. If you do the right thing then the pigglets can feel loved. How do you feel about being a mother? Many parents are worried about not being good enough for there children. That can easily start thoughts about what is right and wrong as a parent.

Do you have any relation to pigs? Did you mayby grow up on a farm?

They are three and need four. So this could relate to your familys sons. It is important to note that it is you who are watching yourself do these things. Do you feel that you have done something wrong against the oldest son (yours or your partners)? The piglets are being treated as babies and babies can look very sweet and peaceful.

The man shows cruelty. This could relate to a projection of aggressive destructive feelings (mayby towards your own vulnerbility). Could your father mayby show aggression in a harsh and cruel manner?

The dream seems to say that something has come to an end. Mayby it also says that you could show more love and kindness toward yourself.

These are just my associations. If you give me some feedback, I can give some further thoughts.

Thank you for the reply, firstly the man that shouted we need 4 didn't realise I was there for the interview rather than what the other people were there for, I also had no idea it was going on at the place so I don't think the job had anything to do with that, I felt sick and upset by what was going to happen although I didn't have anything to do with it I didn't leave which confuses me, I've never had any thing to do with pigs, not even visited many farms in my life, I'm really excited about being a mum again I have a 7 year gap between each of my natural children so I guess there is that natural worry about being a mummy to a baby again?
I don't feel that I have done anything wrong towards any of our children, and I have a good relationship with my father
Thanks again x

I am wondering whether this makes any sense, but I had this thought that a birth is kind of like a death in that the unborn child must feel a transition into a completely different world that may be akin in difference to the difference between life and afterlife (assuming one like me believes in an afterlife).

So did anything go wrong during the first birth or during any birth of any of your children? And even if there did not, an expecting mother will always naturally worry about the burth. The heartbreaking crying if the piglet could be a metaphor for that first cry of a baby "Wa. No, you did it all wrong. I want back inside where I was safe and cozy!" The fact that the remaining piglets are peacefully lovingly slautered may be an indication that this time around you have a good feeling about this pregnancy coming to a successful end in a peaceful unproblematic birth.

Of course, if that does not sound right, feel free to discard it.

Joanna I love that thank you I did indeed have a very traumatic birth last time and my second son spent time in nicu scbu and in mother and baby ward for almost 2 weeks of his life xxx

Btw, I have a strong belief that expected mothers often have good intuition about problems in pregnancy and birth ahead of time. Oh, sure, it is quite likely and natural to worry unnecessarily and incorrectly (so I am not saying an expectant mother is always right), but there are many times when an expectant mother's intuition is quite on target because we are in tune with what is happening inside us and have instincts about it.

I had four pregnancies but have only two children, the other two pregnancies ended in miscarriage. And I swear I knew there was something wrong before the doctors did. Whereas with the successful pregnancies I had a strong feeling that these were going to be all right, which was unexpected given how each of my successful pregnancies followed a miscarriage so you would think if I did not have some intuitive sense of it that logically I would have fretted more since my previous experience would give me cause to worry, but I just knew that the successful pregnancies were ok.

Of course, as I said, since it is natural for a mother to worry, this instinctive intuition is not 100% right always, but I do think there is more intuitition there than possibly at any other point in our lives. On the flip side, pregnancy is also the time of weird hormonal, physical and emotional changes resulting in some of the weirdest dreams that we are ever likely to have.