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What are adoption dreams about?

The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about adoption dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with adoption dreams. These are the words that make adoption dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of adoption dreams can be illuminating about show adoptions affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example adoption dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how adoptions in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that adoption is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that adoption is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, adoption dreams have more sadness than 96.3% of dream symbols, more family than 96.2% of dream symbols, and more love than 94.7% of dream symbols. On the other hand, adoption dreams have less lucid dreams than 92.5% of dream symbols, less hearing than 91.5% of dream symbols, and less sleep paralysis than 91.4% of dream symbols. Notably, adoption dreams contain a lot of love. Love is a wonderful human emotion! Even if love occurs within a dream, it is still love and it can feel wonderful. Since love is such a powerful emotion, it is best to be curious about it. Finally, dreams of adoptions are family oriented. They are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of adoptions will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Dreams help us to process our emotions and social relationships. In a certain lens, you can think of dreams as simulations of the world. This can be especially helpful for our relationships with family. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of adoptions is different than dreams of adoptions in general.

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How common are adoption dreams?

0.3% of dreams have the adoptions symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 300 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is very uncommon.

Identification

How are adoption dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like adopt. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols events and relationship events.

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What is most related to dreams of adoptions?

Adoptions dreams are notable because they have substantially more emaciation, Princess Leia, characters, orphans, Yoda, small cats, magnifying glasses, tabby cats, Portugal, Singapore, acid rain than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of adoptions?

Adoptions do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.

Deep dive into adoption dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in adoption dreams.

Who is in dreams of adoptions?

Who is in dreams of adoptions?

Dreams of adoptions 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.

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What are the emotions in dreams of adoptions?

What are the emotions in dreams of adoptions?

Adoption dreams 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.

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Where do dreams of adoptions take place?

Where do dreams of adoptions take place?

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.

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What happens in dreams of adoptions?

What happens in dreams of adoptions?

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

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How do dreams of adoptions related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of adoptions related to the type of dream it is?

Adoption dreams 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 much less related to sleep paralysis.

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How do dreams of adoptions related the senses?

How do dreams of adoptions related the senses?

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

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How can you make sense of adoptions in dreams?

Adoption dreams are very uncommon. Among other things adoption dreams are about love and family oriented. Do you think this is true for your dream of adoptions? How might your dream of adoptions be different?

All dreams have meaning

All dreams have meaning

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.

Look for the differences

Look for the differences

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.

Return to the feelings

Return to the feelings

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.

An interpretation of adoption dreams

An interpretation of adoption dreams

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

Examples of dreams of adoptions

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of adoption dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for adoption dreams. Read at your own risk.

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