New TikTok Trend About "Dream Babies" Shows How Women Naturally Want To Become Mothers, Even If Society Tries To Convince Them Otherwise

Reportedly, TikTok has over 1 billion monthly users, making it one of the most popular social media platforms available today. Content creators from all walks of life create videos showcasing anything from baking skills to their day-to-day lives as moms. You can always rely on TikTok to provide a window into the cultural zeitgeist, showing users the threads of common and shared experiences, especially amongst women. "Goblin mode" became the 2022 word of the year, which referred to a feral-like state of living in which women would leave their house in disarray, stay out all hours of the night, eat and drink to their heart's desire, and swear off all social norms and expectations. This trend was huge on TikTok, and it was an accurate look into the messiness and selfishness that is praised all over social media, encouraging young women to self-destruct rather than take responsibility for their own lives and think in the longterm. Another recent trend about dream babies has made a lot of people stop and wonder how modern culture and its anti-natalist narrative are influencing women's decisions to avoid marriage and motherhood.

New TikTok Trend About "Dream Babies" Shows How Women Naturally Want to Become Mothers, Even if Society Tries to Convince Them Otherwise

There's a new trend spreading across TikTok where young single women share accounts of their "dream babies." In other words, they dream about being a mother, holding their very own baby, and they suddenly wake up to realize that it was all in their head. Most of the women sharing accounts like this also share the incredible sadness they experience when they wake up and come to terms with the fact that it was all just a dream. TikToker @melamamiii, a Twitch streamer who also has an OnlyFans account, posted a video describing her dream baby (also using the hashtag #babydream). She was laying in a hammock with her baby snuggled into her chest. "I could feel the baby breathing on my chest," she said. She knew it was her baby in the dream and she was cradling the child. It was such a vivid vision that when she woke up she was disappointed to find that there was no child on her lap.

"When I woke up, I was laying like I was holding the baby, but my hand sunk into my chest," she recalled. "And then I realized there was no baby... like, f*ck, man!"

Another TikToker @geenarain shared a short clip of herself with the text, "Me after I had a vivid dream that I was pregnant and gave birth and had a baby boy that I loved so much and then I woke up crying and grieving my dream baby."

TikToker @zotbeauty.main shared a clip of herself nearly in tears with the text, "Thinking about the time I had a baby in the dream realm and every time I see her she grows a little older and she asks me why I leave her when I wake up." Many of the comments on videos like these also show that women have had "dream babies" and wake up saddened at the fact that it's not their reality.

Yet another woman on TikTok wrote in her video, "Waking up from a dream where I gave birth to my baby, nursed him, bathed him, held him as he slept, kissed his little head and felt his little breaths. But now it's 8am and I'm alone in my apartment and I have class in an hour." All the women who partake in this trend look incredibly sad and lonely.

Some Twitter users are sharing screenshots of these videos and discussing how this trend fits into the mainstream culture, which has spread anti-natalist propaganda for years—and successfully so.

Twitter user @LionsSpectre wrote, "There is a Tik-Tok trend going around, where women are talking about ‘dream children’, echoing what I wrote yesterday about the coming catastrophe of childless women. Please heed this warning."

Another Twitter user @CeltiberianMoon also shared some screenshots of the TikToks and wrote, "Women want to have babies and modern society is robbing women from this vital phase in life with wasted years in academia, debt and anti-natalist propaganda. A lot of childless women would have made great moms, it's very tragic."

While it's easy to write these videos off as silly TikToks, there is something happening here that should make us all stop and question whether our culture is encouraging women in the right direction. Now more than ever, we are told by society that having children is not only bad for the environment, but it's going to stop women from achieving their dreams and enjoying their lives. The likes of Chelsea Handler tell women that becoming a mother is going to ruin your dreams and completely wreck the things you love most in life. At the same time, our culture teaches women that the most important thing to do in your life is to focus on your career and be professionally successful.

As a result, higher amounts of women than ever before are swearing off marriage and motherhood and instead focusing entirely on their career or just dating serially and avoiding serious relationships. But even women in their 20s are starting to realize that they're lonely and perhaps they're actually more interested in motherhood than they thought they were originally. Not every single woman on the planet needs to become a mother and women certainly don't have to completely give up their career or education in order to prepare themselves for motherhood, but the rise of young women who are becoming captivated with the idea of motherhood is proof enough that maybe we shouldn't deny our biological nature. No matter how much society tells us that marriage and motherhood are going to ruin our lives, we have to face the music and realize that we're designed to to settle down and start a family. The more we fight it, the more we we will see trends like "dream babies" pop up all over social media.