Belly can sometimes appear in the dreams as a sign of an illness which still cause no complaints in the awake state, or point to wrong eating habits which can endanger our health. The belly is often interpreted as a symbol of physicality, sensuality, sexuality or the material things of life.

• Sometimes the belly also indicates the repressed experiences and the unconscious should finally processed them.
• The sunken belly and hunger feeling indicates that the dreamer is unfulfilled and unsatisfied sensually.
• A repulsive fat, bloating belly points to surfeit also this indicates sexual supersaturation or, more generally meaning the debauchery.
• To have a nice, smooth belly and the feeling of being full, this is a sign of physical and sexual satisfaction, but can also express the desire for it.

Psychological Meanings:

Restrain yourself The “kitchen” of life in which – the experiences of everyday life processes are digested. Sometimes, dreams of the full belly is as warning sign to restrain yourself.

Wish for psychological satisfaction In the dream the belly is bloated, then this requires the psychological relief in the form of an outburst of anger or an open talk.

Rising emotions Also the belly is as a symbol of fertility (pregnancy). To see a pregnant belly shows emotions that want to come to the surface. They can not be suppressed. The big or huge belly also shows that you are integrating your desires and feelings/emotions from the unconscious to the conscious.

Spiritual Meanings:

The belly is a place of the solar plexus and it is a vital center. It usually indicates sensuality and sexual passions.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Trust your intuitions if see an abdomen (belly) in a dream – This dream means that your emotions and feelings are in the first place , you have to trust yourself;
• Desires if see a healthy belly – This dream shows that you have morbid desires;
• Worries of health if lie on a belly –  In the dream you lie on a belly, this signifies that you will health problems;
• Increase of property if a large, thick or looks full belly – This symbol will bring you rising property, money, profits, earnings;
• Illness if a pathologically swollen – This is a warning which prophesies serious disease;
• Worries and a warning if see a thin, empty belly – In the dream you have a thin belly, signifies losses, money losses. Also you should look closer to your eating habits;
• Attention if see the belly of person you know – In the dream you see the known person belly, this dream shows that this person needs your attention;
• Shame if something is moving on it – You can see something moving on the belly in your dream, this indicates the humiliation and hard work
• Expectations if see own belly – You are dreaming that you see your own abdomen (belly), this shows that you will have big expectations, but you must start with stubbornness and double your work;
• Betrayal if unclothed belly – In the dream you see your own unclothed belly, indicates an unhappy omen for lovers or even betrayal of loved people. Do not be too trustful, because this may harm you;
• False friends if see shrivelled belly – To see your own shrivelled belly in the dream, you are pursued by wrong friends and you are slandered by them;
• Pleasure if swollen belly – To see a swollen belly in the dream, this points to suffering, but you will defeat this and will have a pleasure of the fruits of your own work;
• Unfortunate incident if bloody belly – The blood from your own belly, this announces an accident and  in the family.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Prosperity if see a healthy belly – The belly is healthy in your dream, it means included wealth for you and your family;
• Illness if belly became shrunken – When in the dream the belly became unusually shrunken or got smaller, this prophesies the disease of children and lack of finances;
• Richness if bloated and fat belly – The belly became fat and bloated, this dream shows that you will have many children and plenty of money;
• Bless if belly is empty because of hunger – Dreaming of suffering of hunger, this dream indicates that because of hard your hard work you will be blessed;
• Fulfillment of wishes if someone was hungry and ate enough to full your belly – This dream announces that you will instantly get everything what you seek for, because you seek for this with;
• Warning if belly is thick – This dream is a warning that you have to be careful in conversations, think what you say;
• Bad influence if see thin or meager belly – This dream signifies that someone does you a wrong influence.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Increasing expenses if fat and large belly (abdomen) – To dream that an abdomen had become fatter and larger, shows that your household and property needs more money and values;
• Respite if thin and weak belly – The belly became thin and weak, the dreamer will be freed from worries;
• Worries if belly colic – A stomach colic torments somebody in the dream, means that you will have to handle at home with trouble and concerns;
• Warning about health if a belly burst – The stomach had burst and there was no hope of recovery in the dream, this indicates that you have health problems;
• Concerns if thick layer is growing on a belly – This dream indicates that you will have temporary concern in your life;
• Earning if see a very thick belly – This is a good sign that you will have plentiful merit;
• Discord if lean and thin – The belly is becoming lean and thin, this dream announces strife in your family or at work.

Contexts’ Meanings:

* Please, see meaning of abdomen pain, body, stomach.

– New Life and Fertility.

Question:

– Where I am going? Am I in the process of the creation? What I am going to create?

General Meanings:

Achievement – Pregnancy usually symbolizes hopes and plans, that are maturating in us and eventually become successfully achieved.

Finalization or Development – Becoming pregnant in a dream often indicates the long period of waiting, which was necessary in the dreamer’s life, and after which a specific project become completed. Pregnancy also denotes that the dreamer is developing a new range in his potential or in his personality.

Actual Pregnancy – The dream of a pregnancy is rarely an actual pregnancy of the dreamer, sometimes it is, but more often it can indicate such condition in his environment.

Psychological Meanings:

Fulfillment of Wishes – According to Artemidoros and following psychoanalytical methods in interpretation of dreams, explanation of pregnancy in a dream have one simple  meaning – pregnancy means the fulfillment of wishes.

Wish for a Child – For a woman to dream that she is pregnant indicates her wish for a child or it can denotes that she has the wish to find a man.

Wish for a Man – If a woman is dreaming about pregnant man, then such dream clearly shows her wish for a man, which can bring a lot of things in their homes.

Love or Wealth for a Man – If a man is dreaming about being pregnant, then such dream indicates his wish to give a birth in his life for something. It can be related to professional activities that brings money or it can show his wishes related to riches, maybe the dreamer has desire to get new property or anything materialistic and valuable. Other meaning of pregnant man foretells that there is the desire to have loving wife.

Real pregnancy – But it is very possible that vision about pregnancy in a dream is an actual pregnancy or the wish for it.

Rebirth and Development – Pregnancy in a dream also points to a spiritual rebirth that gives us happiness in everyday life. Pregnancy can also be a symbol for a new orientation or development of new thoughts, feelings or interests.

New Qualities – When dreaming that another person is pregnant, it indicates that the dreamer is able to observe the part of himself that develops new skills or characteristics.

Wish for a Leader – The pregnancy of a man in a dream is a wish, especially if a woman dreams this, that this man takes responsibility in their lives.

Spiritual Meanings:

Patience for Transformation – On the spiritual state the dreamer is always in a period of some kind of transformation. This quality or condition of being in significant spiritual development can be expressed through dreams about pregnancy. In such case dream foretells that patience is required for final stage of the metamorphosis. To give a birth after pregnancy in a dream shows that long awaited natural process has reached the end and the dreamer is gifted with very fruitful outcome.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Fortune for a Woman if She is Pregnant – If a woman finds out herself pregnant in a dream: it shows her expectation for something new from the life; success is coming into her life;
• Success for a Man if His Partner is Pregnant – If a man finds out that his woman is pregnant in a dream: it shows that his plans is transferred into next level and are going to succeed; Also shows that all creative plans and new ideas have matured and now are taking place in the realization;
• Happiness if Being Pregnant – In a dream to be pregnant or to get positive result of pregnancy test (or becoming pregnant for both, for men and for women): indicates happiness and spiritual joy; foretells that a wish will come true; Or such dream is a call for action – to start acting and put plans and ideas into practice;
• Riches if Others Pregnancy - In a dream to see that someone else is pregnant (unknown woman or man, or close relative, friend): represents wealth and promises material happiness;
• Slander if Young Person is Dreaming- For young girl or virgin woman to dream about pregnancy: predicts defamation and anger;
• Good Health if Pregnant Woman is Dreaming – For a pregnant woman to dream pregnancy – to see herself pregnant or to see someone else is pregnant or to dream about positive pregnancy test: it is a sign of easy childbirth and speedy recovery.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Plans if Being Pregnant – To be pregnant in a dream: the dreamer has bold plans;
• Problems if Seeing Pregnant – To see someone else is pregnant in a dream: the dreamer will get into trouble;
• Riches and Worries if Seeing Big Belly – If the emperor is dreaming that his wife became pregnant and her belly became bigger: he will accumulate gold in its vaults, but worries and sorrow are inevitable;
• Success if Wife with Big Belly – If common man is dreaming that his wife became pregnant and her belly became bigger: he will achieve outstanding results in his affairs.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Broken Friendship if Being Pregnant – In a dream to be pregnant (same for both, woman and man): means that the dreamer will lose a good friend.

Artemidorus:

Dreams of pregnancy meanings accordng to Artemidorus Daldianus

Meanings of the dream about pregnant man, significance by social status

Fortune if Poor is Pregnant- If a poor man is dreaming of being pregnant, so he will earn a handsome fortune, he’ll make money in abundance and will be thick and round in this way.

Marriage if Bachelor is Pregnant – If a single man is dreaming of being pregnant, then he will marry a good woman that he will share with her everything of pleasure and pain.

Misfortune if Rich is Pregnant - If a rich man is dreaming of being pregnant, then for him such dream means trials and sorrows.

Disaster if Married Man is Pregnant – If a married man is dreaming that he is pregnant, then such dream shows possibility of losing his wife and a future without kids, no woman will be able to bring children into the world for him.

Disease for Others – Dreaming of being pregnant for other men shows chances of diseases.

For everyone, as internal stimulus is a full bladder. Unavoidable need to use a toilet for peeing makes a dream of water. Your subconscious mind follows physical state of your body and calls you to wake up by giving you a feeling of wetness. Thus it can be achieved by dreaming about swimming in ocean, sea, river or even being in a rain. Any kind of a liquid that touches your body, especially if you are sinking in it, may remind about a time for urination.

For all, a shortage of liquids in a body can be a cause of drinking water dream. This physical dependency is the meaning of a dream and it is represented by any kind of giving or taking water, like fetching it from a well or a tap. An additional need for energy is another meaning, but only if drinking sweet drinks in a dream. Drowning dream can happen because of an excessive consumption of liquids. See full bladder explanation above. All these causes are also internal stimulus, which works as an alert to reassess waking life habits.

For everybody, the Full Moon is a cause of dreams about waves and tides, currents and streams or torrents, floods and waterfalls – or any other movement, the rise and the fall, of water. This meaning comes from the Full Moon influence on the physical World, where the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth combined together exert the gravitational forces to make water levels changes. Thus bodily liquids are being affected as well. It prompts subconscious mind to recreate water movement, like flooding or waves of ocean or sea, in a dream. The Full Moon and its activity alone is external stimulus, but effect of it on physical body creates internal stimulus. This combined power is affecting all beings.

For a woman, various physical changes brought by fluctuations of liquids before and during the period are a cause for water dreams to occur. It is an internal stimulus. In case of sudden start of bleeding during a sleep, this cause becomes external, as a blood is sensed externally. Thus dreaming of going deep in water, like falling or diving, and suffocating may occur.

For a woman, an ovulation is a reason of floating or walking on water in a dream. It notes that you are prepared to start a new life. Also, dreaming of swimming in deep waters and not feeling shortage of air may represent a release of an ovum. This is internal stimulus. Additionally, same meaning of being fertile is indicated by fishing or seeing fishes in clear water. This fertility knowledge is based on physiological and psychological cooperation in human body, thus it used as a ground for clairvoyance. And symbolic significance of fish in water is always associated with pregnancy.

For a woman, during a pregnancy dreaming of water is usual. An internal stimulus is an amniotic fluid inside a sac within belly where a foetus resides. Thus the movements of embryo increase frequency of water dreams. If foetus moves or water breaks while sleeping, before it happens or during the process, a mind can invoke an image of storm in a sea or an ocean. Also drowning or choking with water means the same.

For a man, especially for a young adult, most common during adolescence, a pressure in the reproductive organs caused by a seminal fluid can be internal stimulus for a dream about water. A nocturnal emission can invoke the visions about being at beach near calm sea or ocean, lying in a bath, swimming in a river or a lake. A release of a sperm resembles running water from shower. Thus during an ejaculation and an orgasm a dream of taking a shower is usual. In addition, a wet dream, as a cause of physical function, consists not only of water but erotic images too, it can be a nude attractive body floating in an aquatic surroundings.

For a woman is same as for a man, but not so frequent. A nocturnal vaginal wetness and an orgasm can trigger the water dreams. It can be seen as overflowing, turbulent water becomes calm.