The baby sits inside this site's tooth cluster by one shared clause: in Al-Nabulsi's teeth entry, a falling upper tooth that lands in the dreamer's lap reads as a son — the child is the thing the teeth are counting. This page opens that child ledger itself: plain answers first, no Arabic or Chinese on this screen, every quote checked to its printed page.
You held a baby — the general reading
The headword in both books: a child carried in one's arms means responsibility, distress and difficulties. But the same entry immediately doubles the reading into an asset column: carrying a child also means managing an inheritance or a financial investment, and Al-Nabulsi's mirror clause puts it more grandly — whoever carries a boy manages a domain. And the baby has a temperament: a child in a dream represents a weak enemy who sometimes shows friendliness and at other times demonstrates enmity. Holding a baby, on these pages, is holding a small, unreliable principal.
A boy or a girl?
The compilation keeps a strict, counter-intuitive gender ledger: begetting a boy means worries, burdens or sickness, while giving birth to a girl means relief from distress or easing of difficulties — and for the pregnant dreamer the sexes trade places outright: a woman who dreams of giving birth to a girl will bear a boy, and the other way around (printed pp. 53, 80). Al-Nabulsi keeps the same polarity — the little boy carried is a worry, the little girl is fertility, might and ease after hardship, and carrying a girl is explicitly better than carrying a boy. The books hedge even their own hedge: children, they add, could mean sorrow and pain or happiness and joy — if they are your own children, they mean temptation with money.
The sick man, the old man, and the mirror
Three clauses show the reading runs off the dreamer, not the baby. A sick person who sees himself as a child is read as facing death — while a depressed or penniless old man who sees himself an infant gets the page's most famous line: relief, health, and freedom from his sins, like the day his mother gave birth to him. A scholar who finds himself in a kindergarten shifts to ignorance and loses his rank — but a person being instructed like a child receives an inheritance from his mother. And if a man with a pregnant wife looks in a dream-mirror and sees a child's face, his wife will beget a son who looks like his father. Al-Nabulsi mirrors all four, clause for clause, and adds a fifth: whoever sees himself beardless inherits from his mother.
A baby died in the dream
The compilation's bereavement clause reads against every folk expectation: loss of a child in a dream means the opposite in real life — rejoicing, reunions, pleasures and earning respect — though the entry keeps a second, colder option: sometimes it portrays an intention of one's children or wife to separate from the family. The received Zhou Gong book carries two child-death lines in two different chapters, and they disagree with each other — one reads a small child's death as quarrels, the other as added joy. Both lines are quoted at location in the note below and in Sources.
Crying on your lap — and a stringed instrument
The strangest clause in the entry, and it is in both books with the same furniture: a little child screaming in your lap means you play a string instrument — in Al-Nabulsi's wording, you strike the oud. A child that disdains to come near its father means financial promotion and enjoyment of life; a prisoner who carries a little girl is released from prison; the destitute who holds one has his adversities lifted, the poor one thriving. And a small boy on his own is worries, responsibilities, hard work, catering to ignorant people — the age scale runs from burden (infant) through worry with a pay-off (little boy) to glad tidings (teenager) to power (mature child).
Chicks, lice and missing children
Two near-adjacent entries in the same books carry the fear side of the symbol. The compilation's chicks entry (printed p. 79, one page before the Child headword): a chick in a dream represents a stolen or a missing child, and the sound of chicks is the voice of insolent people. Al-Nabulsi keeps a headword three pages on (printed p. 221), boys of lice: a swarm of little boys who cannot be brushed off means corrupting people trailing after your wife whom you cannot restrain. Both clauses are quoted verbatim in Sources — the honest report is that these books also know a child image that is simply frightening, and they price that too.
The finding: one baby, four switches
Set the two entries side by side — Al-Nabulsi's (صبي) headword, one thousand years after the compilation's Child entry — and the clause order is a mirror: carried baby equals burden, teenage child equals glad tidings, the besieged town where a beautiful child descends from the sky is near deliverance, the scholar in school turns to ignorance, the instructed child inherits from his mother, the sick man becomes a child and dies, the aged man becomes a child and is born again, the mirror face promises a resembling son, the crying lap produces a string instrument, the child is a weak enemy with two faces. The inheritance is exact, and on top of it the pair install four switches a folk summary drops. Switch one — age: infant, teenager, mature child are three different entries on the same page, and their valences run from burden to power. Switch two — sex: boy worries, girl relieves, and the pregnant dreamer's sexes flip in real life — the only clause in the cluster that reads the dream backwards from the womb. Switch three — the dreamer's state: the same self-as-infant image is a death sentence for the sick and a second birth for the desperate; the books sort outcomes by condition, not content. Switch four — who carries: a prisoner carrying a girl goes free, a man carrying a boy manages a domain, and carrying a girl is better than carrying a boy.
And two collisions no English round-up repeats. Inside the Chinese book: the received Zhou Gong text carries child-death in two chapters with opposite verdicts — quarrels in one, added joy in the other — while its newborn line reads a boy or a girl alike as great fortune, exactly against the Arabic boy-as-worry ledger. Inside the Arabic books: the Child entry itself concedes both poles in one sentence — children could mean sorrow and pain or happiness and joy — and Al-Nabulsi contradicts his own page in print: the little girl of the (صبية) headword is fertility, might and ease after hardship, yet of children actually born to the dreamer he writes that if the child is male the outcome is praiseworthy and if female it is blameworthy (printed p. 218). The same self-contradiction this site found on the teeth page, where one caught tooth cuts the line of heirs and another keeps the property. The books are not inconsistent by accident; they are ledgers, and a ledger lists both columns.
The entries, briefly
The Arabic side comes from two books: the compiled English dictionary attributed to Ibn Sirin (Pearl Publishing House, 1992 — "Child" printed p. 80 per the book's own end-of-volume index, which also locates Chicks at 79, Childbearing and Childbirth at 80, Boy at 53 and Son at 401) and the Arabic original of Al-Nabulsi's Ta'tir al-Anam, whose (صبي) headword sits at shamela.ws/book/1217/214 (printed p. 217, باب الصاد), runs onto shamela.ws/book/1217/215 (printed p. 218) where the (صبية) girl entry also sits, and whose (صبيان القمل) clause sits at shamela.ws/book/1217/218 (printed p. 221). The Chinese side is four verdict lines from the received Zhou Gong book, chapters 3, 14 and 18. One sample of each book, translated, then the full checked passages in the sources section at the bottom.
"Child: (Little boy) In a dream, a child carried in one's arms means responsibility, distress and difficulties. A teenage child represents glad tidings or dispelling one's worries. ... Seeing a mature child in a dream means power and superiority. ... If one sees himself as a newborn child in a dream, it means that he will become wealthy and prosper. ... If a sick person sees himself as a child in a dream, it means his death. ... Carrying a child in a dream means managing an inheritance or a financial investment. ... On the other hand, if such an elderly person who sees himself in a dream as a little child is suffering from depression or financial difficulties or health problems, then it means relief from distress and good health and that he will become free from his sins, like the day his mother gave birth to him. ... A child in a dream represents a weak enemy who sometime shows friendliness and at other times demonstrates his enmity. ..." (elided; full entry in Sources)
- (صبي) هو في المنام هم وغم إذا كان طفلاً يحمل والصبي المراهق بشارة وإذا كان البلد محصوراً والناس في شدة ورأى أحداً أن صبياً حسن الصورة دخل المدينة أو نزل من السماء أو خرج من الأرض فإن البشارة قد دنت والفرج لأهل ذلك الموضع والصبي البالغ عزة وقوة.
Zhou Gong, stated plainly: the received Chinese dream book this site quotes chapter by chapter carries the baby in four verdict lines, in three chapters — 新生男女主大吉 "a newborn boy or girl: great fortune" (ch. 14, spouses and conception); 抱小儿女主口舌 "holding a little girl: words will be spent over you" (ch. 14); 小儿死者主口舌 "a small child's death: quarrels" (ch. 14); and 子死者主添喜事 "a child's death: a joy is added" (ch. 18, grief and death) — the same image with opposite verdicts, one chapter apart. The teeth bridge line is 齿落更生子孙兴 "teeth fall and grow again: descendants flourish" (ch. 3). All quoted at location in Sources; nothing else is claimed for the Chinese side.
What modern research adds — and what it doesn't
The one survey designed around infant dreams is a three-arm study of 273 women — postpartum (n = 202), pregnant (n = 50), never-pregnant (n = 21) — interviewed within days of birth and again by telephone (Nielsen & Paquette, "Dream-associated behaviors affecting pregnant and postpartum women," SLEEP 30(9):1162–1169, 2007, PubMed 17910388; full text re-pulled today). Dream recall was equally high in all arms (88–91%), but infant-themed dreams spiked by condition: 86.0% of recalling postpartum mothers and 88.4% of recalling pregnant mothers had dreamed of the new or future infant, against 21.1% of never-pregnant women. Postpartum infant dreams were also darker — anxiety in 75% versus 59%, the infant in peril in 73% versus 42% — and more often enacted: motor activity in 57% of postpartum women (searching the bed-covers for a lost baby) against 24–25% in the other arms, with 60% reporting a need to check on the infant on waking. The authors' name for the pattern is the baby-in-bed nightmare. That is the modern layer's entire answer to "dreaming of a baby": in the one population systematically studied, the baby dream is a continuity picture of waking maternal vigilance, common, anxious, and sometimes acted out — and it says nothing about boys bringing worry or girls bringing relief. Outside that population the numbers simply do not exist: no general-population survey reports a prevalence for baby dreams, and the theme checklist behind the 2018 teeth-dream study (PubMed 30319507) has no infant item — its full text, re-checked today, contains none of the words baby, infant or newborn. The classical four switches — age, sex, dreamer's state, who carries — are not variables in any published design. The gap is reported, not papered over.
Sources (all passages checked against the cited pages)
Ibn Sirin compilation — "Child," printed p. 80 (Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams, compiled by Muhammad M. Al-Akili, Pearl Publishing House 1992, ISBN 1879405032; a later compilation attributed to the 8th-century scholar, not his autograph text; the book's own page index lists Child at 80, Childbearing and Childbirth at 80, Children at 81, Chicks at 79, Boy at 53, Son at 401). Full entry: "Child: (Little boy) In a dream, a child carried in one's arms means responsibility, distress and difficulties. A teenage child represents glad tidings or dispelling one's worries. If one sees a beautiful looking teenage child entering a town or descending from the skies or appearing from beneath the ground in a dream, it means that the glad tidings will take effect shortly. Seeing a mature child in a dream means power and superiority. If one sees himself as a child learning in school in a dream, it means that he will repent of a common sin he is used to commit. If one sees one of the renowned people of knowledge sitting in a kindergarten and learning along with other children in a dream, it means that he will shift to ignorance, lose his rank, or that financial changes will affect his living conditions. If one sees himself receiving instructions like a child in a dream, it means that he will receive an inheritance from his mother. Ifone sees himself as a newborn child in a dream, it means that he will become wealthy and prosper. If a young boy sees himself in a dream as a child, it has a negative meaning. If a sick person sees himself as a child in a dream, it means his death. If one sees himself as a child being reprimanded in a dream, it means that he will be conquered. In a dream, if one looks in a mirror and sees his face to be that of a child, and ifhis wife is pregnant, it means that she will beget a son who will look like his father. Carrying a baby child in a dream means distress and burdens. A child in a dream represents a weak enemy who sometime shows friendliness and at other times demonstrates his enmity. Ifone sees that his wife has just delivered children who are playing around him in a dream, it means distress or misfortune and the consequences could be either good or bad. Carrying a child in a dream means managing an inheritance or a financial investment. Ifan elderly person sees himself roaming as a little child in a dream, it means that he will commit an act of ignorance or lose his dignity, ideals or sense of honor. On the other hand, if such an elderly person who sees himself in a dream as a little child is suffering from depression or financial difficulties or health problems, then it means relief from distress and good health and that he will become free from his sins, like the day his mother gave birth to him. If one sees that he has a little child who disdains from coming near his father in the dream, it means financial promotion and enjoyment of one's life. If one sees a little child screaming in his lap in a dream, it means that he plays a string instrument. Children in a dream also could mean either sorrow and pain or happiness and joy. If they are one's own children in the dream, then they mean temptation with money. Children in a dream also could mean contentment with little or loss of one's means to earn his livelihood or they could mean money or marriage or a flourishing business. Bereavement of a child in a dream means the opposite in real life. It also means rejoicing, reunions, pleasures and earning respect. Bereavement of a child in a dream is sometimes interpreted to portray an intention of one's children or wife to separate from the family. A little male child in a dream represents worries, responsibilities, hard work, catering to ignorant people or dealing with trivial and time wasting people. If a prisoner sees himself carrying a little girl in his dream, it means that he will be released from his prison. If one who is going through hard times sees himself holding a little girl in a dream, it means that his adversities will be lifted. If he is poor, it means that he will thrive for success and the little girl then represents his glad tidings." — "Childbirth," printed p. 80, continuing onto p. 81 (the running head "DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 81" sits mid-entry in the scan): "Childbirth: (Giving birth) Seeing one's wife giving birth to a son in a dream when in fact she is not pregnant means wealth. If a pregnant woman sees herself giving birth to a girl in a dream, it means a boy, and if she gives birth to a boy in the dream, it means a girl. Giving birth to a girl means relief from distress, while giving birth to a boy in the dream means distress and worries. If a sick person sees his mother giving birth to him in a dream, it means the approach of his death, for a deceased person is wrapped in a shroud, while a newborn is wrapped with a receiving cloth. If the person in question is poor, it means that his financial conditions will change for the better, but if he is rich, it means restriction of his earnings, for a child is dependent on others while his move ments are restricted. If a traveler sees his wife giving birth to a new child in a dream, it means obstruction of his travels and changes in his plans. If a woman gives birth to a child from her mouth in a dream, it means her death. If a man gives birth to a son in a dream it means illness, escape from danger or separation from a bad wife. If a man gives birth to a daughter in a dream, it means relief from distress, happiness or the birth of a child from his posterity who will grow to become a renowned leader. Ifa woman gives birth to a cat in a dream, it means that her child will grow to be a thief. Childbirth in a dream means relief from hardships, recovering from illness or departure from one's home or neighbor hood. Childbirth in a dream also means comfort, relaxation, payment of one's debts and repentance from sin. If a woman gives birth to a son in a dream, it denotes the conclusion of her sufferings, glad tidings, payment of her debts or repentance from sin. Ifshe gives birth to a daughter in the dream, then it means honor, prosperity and ease. If a poor man gives birth to a child in a dream, it means prosperity. If he is rich, then it means distress. If he is unmarried, it means a forthcoming marciage, so that his future wife will give the birth he saw in his dream. In general, if a man sees himself giving birth in a dream, it means his death or the death of a relative, or it could mean experiencing poverty. As for a needy person, it means relief or an escape. As for a merchant, giving birth in a dream means loss of his investment. (Also see Dragon)" — "Boy," printed p. 53: "Boy: (Young boy) Seeing a young boy in a dream means receiving glad tidings. Begetting a boy in a dream means worries, burdens or sickness, while giving birth to a girl in a dream means relief from distress or easing of one's difficulties. Carrying a young boy in a dream means carrying burdens. Giving birth to a boy in a dream also could mean having a helper. A beautiful looking young boy in a dream also signifies good luck and victory over one's enemy. Seeing a beautiful looking boy in a dream means that beautiful and pleasant things will take place in one's life, or it could mean satisfying one's needs. If one is called a teenager in a dream, it signifies the necessity to take a ritual ablution, or that something good or bad may take place in wakefulness." — "Son," printed p. 401, the whole entry: "Son: In a dream, a son may mean a daughter or a servant." — "Chicks," printed p. 79: "Chicks: (Baby; Chicken; Fowl) A chick in a dream represents a stolen or a missing child. The sound of chicks in a dream represents the voice of insolent people."
Al-Nabulsi — (صبي), shamela.ws/book/1217/214, printed p. 217, continuing at /215, printed p. 218 (Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi d. 1731 CE, Dar al-Fikr edition; باب الصاد; translation ours). Headword: "- (صبي) هو في المنام هم وغم إذا كان طفلاً يحمل والصبي المراهق بشارة وإذا كان البلد محصوراً والناس في شدة ورأى أحداً أن صبياً حسن الصورة دخل المدينة أو نزل من السماء أو خرج من الأرض فإن البشارة قد دنت والفرج لأهل ذلك الموضع والصبي البالغ عزة وقوة." Then the school clause, which breaks across the page — on p. 217: "- (ومن رأى) أنه صبي يتعلم في المكتب فإنه يتوب من ذنب كان" and resuming on p. 218: "يعمله إذا كان تعلمه قرآناً وإن رأى الشخص من العلماء أو الولاة أنه يتعلم في المكتب فإنه يجهل أو يتحول من العز إلى الهوان." (the sentence runs across the page break: whoever learns in school repents of a sin — if his learning is Qur'an; and if a man of knowledge or a ruler sees himself learning in school, he turns to ignorance or changes from might to abasement). — "- (ومن رأى) أنه أمرد فإنه يرث ميراثاً من أمه وإذا رأى الفقير أنه صبي قد ولدته أمه فإنه ينال رزقاً وغنى والفتى إذا رأى أنه صبي فلا يحمد ذلك ولا يتم غناه وإذا رأى المريض أنه صبي فإنه يموت." (beardless = inheritance from his mother; the poor man sees himself newly born = provision and wealth; a young man seeing it = not praised; a sick man seeing himself a child = he dies.) — "- (ومن رأى) نفسه صبياً وله محاكمة فإنه يقهر." (a trial means being conquered; the face in the mirror continues: and if his wife is pregnant she brings a son resembling him; carrying the small child is worry, and the boy is a weak enemy who shows his friendship then his enmity) — "- (ومن رأى) وجهه في المرآة وجه صبي وكان له حامل فإن امرأته تأتيه بولد ذكر يشبهه وحمل الصبي الصغير في المنام هم والصبي عدو ضعيف يظهر صداقته ثم يظهر عداوته فإن رأى أن له أولاداً قد ولدوا له دل ذلك على هم وغم فإن كان الولد ذكراً كانت العاقبة محمودة وإن كانت أنثى كانت عاقبته مذمومة." — "- (ومن رأى) أنه يحمل صبياً فإنه يدبر ملكاً وإن رأى إنسان كبير أنه تحول صبياً رضيعاً فإنه يأتي جهلاً تذهب مروءته فيه وإن كان في هم شديد أو ضيق أفضى إلى الفرج والصحة ويخرج من ذنوبه كيوم ولدته أمه." (carrying a boy = managing a domain; a great man turned suckling infant = an ignorant act that goes his manhood — unless he is in heavy worry or straitened, and then it leads to relief and health, and he comes out of his sins like the day his mother gave birth to him) — "- (ومن رأى) أن له ولداً صغيراً بعد أن لا يخالطه جسده فهو زيادة ينالها في دنياه ونعيم والصبيان الصغار يدلون على هموم صغيرة يسيرة." (a small child who keeps his distance from your body = increase and delight in your world; small boys = small, light worries) — "- (ومن رأى) أن في حجره صبياً فإنه يضرب بالعود والصغار في المنام تدل رؤيتهم على الإجرام قال الله تعالى: {سيصيب الذين أجرموا صغار عند الله وعذاب شديد} وربما دلت رؤيتهم على الأفراح والزينة وربما دلت رؤيتهم إذا كانوا أولاد الرائي على الفتنة بالمال وربما دلت رؤية الصغار على إطراح الكلف والقناعة بأدنى العيش أو العجز عن الأسباب وربما كان الصغير غلاماً للقنية لأنه معدود لقضاء الحاجة كالغلام وربما دل قتله على العلم الوافر لقصة الخضر عليه السلام وإن قيل فيهم البنون تدل رؤيتهم على المال والأزواج وكثرة الخير المترادف." (a boy screaming in your lap = you strike the oud; and the small ones, by the Qur'anic verse — {siṣību alladhīna ajramu ṣighārun ʿinda llāhi wa-ʿadhābun shadīd} — "there will befall the criminal ones humility before God and a terrible chastisement" (6:124), which Nabulsi cites against the word صغار; perhaps also joys and adornment; one's own children = temptation with money; perhaps contentment with little, or inability to pay the costs of living; and killing a child may mean abundant knowledge, from the story of al-Khiḍr; and it is said: sons mean money, spouses and abundance of heaped good). — The girl entry, same page: "- (صبية) صغيرة رؤيتها في المنام تدل على خصب وعز ويسر بعد عسر ينمو ويزيد والرضيعة خير محدث فيه ثناء حسن وفيه خير من جو فإن كانت بكراً أو أصابها فهي خرقة لم يلبسها أحد غير صاحب الرؤيا وأصابها والطفلة الصغيرة من التقطها أو حملها أو ولدت له فإن كان محبوساً أو محصوراً أو متعدياً في خصومة أو مديوناً أو فقيراً أفرج عنه وزال همه بالبشارة بها وإن لم يكن شيء من ذلك فالطفلة هم وغم وحزن وإن ولدتها مريضة أو مريض فرج عنهما إلا أن تلد من الفم فإنه يدل على الموت والصبية والطفلة دنيا لمن رآها والبكر هي حرفة ودنيا مقبلة لمن ملكها وإذا رأت المرأة أنها طفلة فإنها هي حرفة ودنيا مقبلة لا تلد أبداً لأن الطفلة لا تحمل وإذا رأت المرأة الحامل أنها طفلة فإن حملها جارية تشبهها." — "- (ومن رأى) أنه اشترى غلاماً أصابه هم ومن اشترى جارية أصاب خيراً." — "- (ومن رأى) أنه يحمل صبية فهو خير من أن يحمل صبياً." — "- (ومن رأى) أنه عاد طفلاً فإن كان في قماط سجن أو مرض وإن كان مرسلاً وله مال ذهب عقله أو حبس عنه ماله وإن كان فقيراً عاش إلى أرذل العمر." (returning to childhood: in swaddling = prison or illness; let loose with money = his mind goes or his money is seized; a poor man = he lives to the most decrepit of age). And on shamela 218 (printed p. 221), the adjacent headword (صبيان القمل): "- (صبيان القمل) هو في المنام قوم مفسدون فمن رأى صبيان القمل في منامه ولا يقدر أن يزيلها فإن امرأته يتبعها قوم مفسدون ولا يقدر على منعهم." — boys of lice are corrupting people; whoever sees them and cannot remove them — men of corruption follow his wife and he cannot prevent them.
Zhou Gong Jie Meng — received 27-chapter text (corpus checked line by line): ch. 14 (夫妻 产孕 交欢): "抱小儿女主口舌" — holding a little girl: words will be spent over you; "小儿死者主口舌" — a small child's death: quarrels; "新生男女主大吉" — a newborn boy or girl: great fortune. Ch. 18 (哀乐 病死 歌唱): "子死者主添喜事" — a child's death: a joy is added. Ch. 3 (身体 面目 齿发): "齿落更生子孙兴" — teeth fall out and grow again: descendants flourish. The two child-death lines sit in different chapters with opposite verdicts; both are printed, neither is smoothed.
Modern research. Nielsen T, Paquette T. "Dream-associated behaviors affecting pregnant and postpartum women." SLEEP 30(9):1162–1169, 2007. PubMed 17910388 (full text re-pulled today: three arms — postpartum n = 202 mean age 29.7, pregnant n = 50, null gravida n = 21; dream recall 88.1% / 88.4% / 90.5%; infant-themed dreams among recallers 86.0% / 88.4% / 21.1%; dream anxiety 75% vs 59%, P < 0.05; infant in peril 73% vs 42%, P < 0.0001; any dream-associated behavior 63.4% postpartum vs 39.5% pregnant; motor activity 57.3% vs 24.4% / 25.0%; post-awakening: anxiety 41%, confusion 51%, need to check on infant 60%; baby-in-bed (BIB) nightmare pattern defined; primiparas recalled infant dreams more than multiparas, 87.4% vs 66.4%). Rozen E, Soffer-Dudek D. "Dental irritation and teeth-grinding may be associated with dreams about teeth: an association study." Frontiers in Psychology 9:1812, 2018. PubMed 30319507 (full text re-checked today: the theme checklist has no infant item — the words baby, infant and newborn do not occur in it).
This page reports what two classical Arabic texts, the received Chinese dream book (including its own child-death contradiction), and the one designed research study can see about dreams of babies. It is not a prediction, a medical or religious ruling, and no dream book — classical or modern — settles what a dream means for the person who had it. If this dream unsettled you, note the move every source on this page makes in its own form: the books do not ask whether the baby is good or bad; they ask whose child, how old, what sex, and who is carrying it. For the mouth-side of the same ledger — a falling tooth in the lap means a son, and a child's death reads two ways in the Chinese book — see teeth falling out and death.
Related questions
- Teeth falling out and death — where the tooth ledger counts sons and heirs
- Blood dreams — the same books' menstrual clauses read the unmarried, the pregnant and the past-period woman three ways
- Dreaming of a dead person alive again — the entry whose progeny clause meets this page's bereavement flip
- Wedding dreams — Al-Nabulsi's pregnant-bride clause, next door in the same book
- Dog dreams — the puppy clause that borrows this entry's swaddled foundling
- Teeth falling out dream — the classic page that started this site