What Does Your Pregnancy Dream Really Mean in Korean Tradition?
You wake up at 3 a.m., heart racing, from a vivid dream where you're holding a baby you don't recognize—or you're watching fish leap out of a river. Your first instinct? Google "pregnancy dream meaning." But here's what most dream interpretation sites won't tell you: if you have Korean heritage, or you're simply curious about non-Western symbolism, your pregnancy dream might be carrying a completely different message than Western psychology suggests. The Korean tradition of pregnancy dream interpretation, called taemong (태몽), is ancient, specific, and surprisingly consistent across generations. Unlike generic dream dictionaries that lump all pregnancy dreams into one category, taemong recognizes that the *type* of dream matters enormously. A dream about tigers means something radically different from a pregnancy dream about fruits or water. And the distinction can matter deeply to someone waiting to conceive, already pregnant, or simply trying to ...