CW: death, childbirth, death in childbirth
Before Derleth, Anakin Skywalker's "nightmares" had been actual visions of the future, sensations and premonitions arising through the Force rather than what his mind conjured from his own subconscious fears. Although his Force sensitivity remained, this was a different world, possibly an entirely different galaxy, supposedly another dimension or universe. Did that make it a different Force, not the Force? That was a question for people who focused on the mysteries of the Force, and Anakin had never been one of them.
Back on Coruscant, he'd had visions of his wife, Padmé Amidala, at the end of her pregnancy. In their waking hours, Padmé and Anakin had playfully debated whether they were having a son or a daughter; Padmé's medical droid monitored maternal and fetal health, but she wanted some things to remain a surprise. Padmé claimed to have intuited she was having a boy, while Anakin was certain the strength of the baby's kicks indicated a girl. In the visions that came during the rare hours he slept, he saw Padmé's flushed and tear-streaked face as she screamed through her labor and called out for him. As the visions grew more detailed, he saw Obi-Wan Kenobi—his former master, his best friend, both a brother and a father figure, a mentor and a peer—beside Padmé, urging her not to give up. But despite Obi-Wan's pleas, Anakin felt the life fade from her. The fate of his and Padmé's child was unclear; was their child to be born, to live?
When he slept in Derleth, the nightmares were different. Perhaps that made them a memory of a vision, rather than a true vision. Perhaps visions of home weren't possible here. In the nightmares, the child was more clear, but that clarity was not true seeing and the child's features varied or were obscured by other horrors. Sometimes, the newborn child was somehow capable of strangling or smothering Padmé. In others, Anakin could hear the child and Padmé screaming in the distance as he tried to fight his way to them through a sandstorm, their voices gradually failing as they died. Or Padmé lived, but she and Obi-Wan cooed together over the child, which was Obi-Wan's, and laughed about Anakin not knowing. Or there was no child, just Padmé, broken and dying in his arms exactly like his mother had. Or Shmi was there but she wasn't alive, her cold arms cradling her warm grandchild after crawling out of her desert grave. Or Padmé reared up mid-labor to wrap her hands around Anakin's neck as she told him he must die with her, and they did. Or she gave birth to a child that was also the Force, as the Force-child told him this was what came of being fathered by a man with no father.
... And then there was the one where Jar Jar Binks played midwife.