I dreampt I was holding a baby, someone elses baby, and it began to root at my shoulder…
When I looked, I had a third nipple right above the armpit crease. Not a little nipple, but a full size erect nipple.
I handed the baby to someone and hid the nipple…
Thats all I can remember.
I am usually good at dream analysis, but I am stumped here…any thoughts?
you think you had a disturbing nipple dream? thats nothing. I dreamt I was with my old girlfriend and I was sucking on her tit…but her nipple was like a long strand of spaghettini…it was kinda neat at first, but it really started to gross me out near the end of my dream.
It’s gotta be something about motherhood in particular or nuturing in general, don’t you think? An inability to take care of someone? Needing to go to extrordinary lengths for someone? Or–I like this one–someone wanting something from you that you cannot (or choose not to) give?
Gee, I just posted on another weird dream thread, too. Is there money in this?
It’s your inner nursemaid and she’s all conflicted. You want to “feed” someone and suckle them emotionally and physically and you are unsure about this on several levels.
First there are your “commitment” issues which is manifested as your tenderly holding then turning away the hungry baby and then of course there is the whole body image thing you struggle with and being ashamed of your natural impulses, which is what the spontaneously appearing erect nipple and your attempts to hide it are all about.
Kelli, it might not be so much about not wanting to nurture. You sprang forth a nipple at an unlikely place, but closest to the shoulder the baby was rooting at. You rose to the occassion quickly, so to speak. You didn’t put the baby to your breast, maybe because it wasn’t “yours”. By handing the baby over, you may have been saying, “I’m capable of this, but it’s not really what I want to do now. Somebody else’s turn.”
The hinge of the biscuit would be: did you feel embarrassed about the newly-sprouted nipple, or was it more in the line of “Not now, I don’t need this, so I’ll just put it away.”?
Perhaps you are just expressing the wish to do things on your own terms, though fully capable of being there for others.
I think I read somewhere that humans have vestigal nipples running up to the armpits, under the skin. Don’t know if that’s true, but I did try nibbling on a girlfriend’s armpit in college. She thought it was kinda fun. Anti-persperant tastes nasty though, especially after it’s been sweated into. Kinda stale-oniony and bitter at the same time. But you get used to it.
I was stunned, horrified, embarassed… and I DIDNT want to nurse that baby! I nursed my own, and it was a lovely bonding experience… but to nurse someone elses would be wrong.
Jokes aside - I wouldn’t worry too much about it Kelli. Sometimes dreams are just a collection of random thoughts thrown together in a really unusual way. I’m still trying to get over last night’s dream (which was WAY weirder than yours no offence).