Adoption dreams are more related to animals, more related to peers, and much more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to insects, less related to unnamed people, and less related to fantastic beings.

Dreams of adoptions are more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to fear.

Dreams of adoptions are more related to home and more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to human-made places, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Adoption dreams are more related to health events than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts and less related to disasters.

Dreams of adoptions are more related to recurring dreams and more related to good dreams than dreams in general. They are much less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Adoption dreams are more related to taste than dreams in general. They are much less related to hearing, much less related to smelling, and much less related to vision.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience adoptions in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about adoptions in dreams. See how you feel about adoptions now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. To dream about adopting a child can symbolize taking on something new, such as adopting a new character or personality trait, lifestyle or hobby. Parts of yourself can take form as dream characters, so to adopt a character in a dream can mean accepting and integrating a part of yourself. You adopt it into your personality or thought processes. Adoption can connect with being a parent or provider, and that association can branch out far and wide. For example, you have a friend who needs a lot of guidance and encouragement. It’s like adopting a child. Adoption can reflect a wish to be a provider or play the role of parent, to provide care and love. It can symbolize a protective parental instinct. Teachers and other professionals who work with children use the word “adopt” to describe their relationships with some of the children under their care. It suggests a special bond between them. A sibling can, in a sense, play the role of parent when he or she takes care of other siblings. Adopted can mean accepted, such as being accepted into a social group, or accepting something as fact. Dreams can play with words, so adopting can mean “take on” in the sense of adopting an idea, belief or responsibility symbolized as a person or pet. If you want to have a child and haven’t been able to, adoption in a dream can be a suggestion to look into the possibility. Alternately, adoption can mean “substitute.” For example, some couples treat their pets like children and “adopt” them. See: Pets The symbolism gets deeper for people who were adopted. Their dreams can explore related subjects such as the desire to know more about their biological parents. Dreaming about giving up something for adoption suggests that you need help handling something—it’s too much work or responsibility. If your thoughts during the dream are along the lines of “I don’t want it,” adoption is more likely to mean you want to give up something completely. If your thoughts are “I need help with it,” adoption is more likely to mean “help!” People say that something like a project or idea is their “baby.” Or their baby is their car or home. They’re saying, “This is mine; it’s important to me.” A young woman dreams about being pregnant with five babies—an overwhelming proposition—and thinking through her options. Adoption seems like the best route. The dream flips from a scene of making a doctor’s appointment to being in a classroom at her college, with classmates, discussing their ongoing job training. Suddenly she feels like she’s ready to give birth and heads toward the hospital. The teacher comes along for part of the trip but is unable to keep up. The dream is about five projects given to her as part of her job training. The amount of work and learning involved to complete them is overwhelming, like having five babies at the same time. What she has learned in school is going to carry her only so far, as symbolized by the teacher going along for part of the trip but being unable to keep up. The solution for the dreamer is to “adopt” the projects, which she calls “my babies.” It’s a way of tapping into a deeper level of commitment and personal resources. If she treats the projects like babies she’s adopted, she’s more likely to succeed. Problem solved. See also: Abortions, Babies, Children, Family, Miscarriages, Orphans, Pets