Not every baby dream is a taemong. Korean tradition separates the two carefully, and the difference is in what the dream did.
A baby generally reads as a new beginning and a new responsibility. A laughing baby is read as good news arriving.
A taemong announces; an agi-kkum accompanies. If nothing was given or received — if you simply saw or held a child — tradition reads it as something in your own life beginning.
Haemong also reads the baby's state. Calm and well is read as a beginning that will hold. Crying is read as a beginning that needs more from you before it settles.
| A laughing baby | Good news. |
| Holding a baby | Read as taking something on, willingly. |
| A crying baby | A beginning that still needs tending. |
| Finding a baby | Read as something unexpected entering your care. |
This page is the tradition in general. Your dream has details no page can hold — what you did in it, how it ended, what you woke up feeling.
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