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What are adoption dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like adopt.

Adoptions in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 300 dreams.

What are the major highlights of adoption dreams?

Adoptions is a normal dream symbol. Having adoptions in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Adoption dreams are about family

Dreams of adoptions 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. Other symbols that are like this include nieces, orange eyes, Jamaica, adoptions, jealousy, living rooms, general family, Ecuador, brothers, and Austria.

Adoption dreams are about love

Dreams containing adoptions are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of adoptions are about love. It simply means that if you dream of adoptions, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Malaysia, conflicts, crying, qualities, therapists, animuses, husbands, instagram, communicating, and guilty.

Adoption dreams focus on sounds

Dreams of adoptions have more words related to sounds than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, adoption dreams involve the auditory world. They focus on sounds and hearing. Other symbols that are like this include casinos, Joe Biden, pheasants, compensation, vaginas, senses, uranus, Sweden, Lebanon, and worms.

Adoption dreams focus on vision

Dreams of adoptions have more words related to vision than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, adoption dreams involve sight and seeing objects. Other symbols that are like this include cocaine, peeing, Jamaica, finding money, Cuba, Finland, Voldemort, vaginas, Thailand, and senses.

What symbols less present in dreams of adoptions?

Adoption dreams are notable because they have substantially less large gatherings, epidemics, sleep paralysis, groups, being naked, elevators, sleeping, garages, mirror, darkness, pools, vomiting, flying, paralysis, churches, games, maps, genitals, nightmares, lucid dreams, zombies, screaming, opened my eyes, circles, doors, heaven, and bags than 95% of other dream symbols.

How does the dream symbol of adoptions affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of adoptions

Who is in adoptions dreams?

Overall, dreams with adoptions are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of adoptions are more related to animals, much more related to family, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to insects, less related to different roles, and less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in adoptions dreams?

Overall, dreams with adoptions are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of adoptions are much more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to fear, less related to pain, and less related to fun.

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in adoptions dreams?

Overall, dreams with adoptions are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of adoptions are more related to home and more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to human places, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in adoptions dreams?

Overall, dreams with adoptions are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of adoptions are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do adoptions in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with adoptions are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of adoptions are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do adoptions in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with adoptions are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of adoptions are much more related to taste than dreams in general. They are much less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and much less related to vision.

Hearing

much less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

much more than usual

Vision

much less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of adoptions in dreams?

Adoption dreams are very uncommon. Among other things adoption dreams are normally interconnect, family oriented, about love, focus on sounds, and focus on vision.

Do you think this is true for your dream of adoptions? How might your dream of adoptions be different?

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

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

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.

What are possible meanings for dreams of adoptions?

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

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.

Examples of dreams of adoptions

Read some real dream reports of adoption dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

is it possible to get into someone else's dream?

i had a dream that i adopted someone else's identity. i had different (not from my real life) friends and life that i knew well. it felt so real that when i woke up i was really confused.
is it possible that my subconscious mind created a completely new person that appeared in my dream or was i dreaming someone else's dream?

i had a dream that i adopted someone else's identity. i had different (not from my real life) friends and life that i knew well. it felt so real that when i...

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Left ear cut and bled

I had a strange dream I don’t really remember much first it was some eatery . I was with my brother and we were trying to get something to eat . Then suddenly it changed to me being with my friends and they were trying to show me a page from where they r ordering cute clothes but notifications pop up and looks like my bf’s friends are trying to hit on me . Then again the scene changes and it’s like medieval time kinds of and I’m with a bunch of people and two of them are adopting a teen girl so to make her their blood child they make a cut and mix blood . And like idk wat happened in next scene I see my left ear is cut and it’s bleeding .and I’m very angry and while walking away I say if it gets septic or etc I will come back and destroy the whole town for doing this to me ? What does it mean ?

I had a strange dream I don’t really remember much first it was some eatery . I was with my brother and we were trying to get something to eat . Then suddenly...

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Dream about accidentally killing a cat

I had a dream where I was sleeping on my bed, and a cat (apparently I had just adopted it) was bouncing around the bed not letting me sleep. I thought to myself, oh I shouldn't have adopted a cat I'm no good with animals and I was trying to put it to sleep. Then I was awake and I put her out of the house in the hopes that it'll go away. Few hours later I went to the window to check if it has run away, and saw that it was lying lifeless. It was a tiny black cat with a white face. I remember feeling horrible in the dream about this.

I have never had a pet and I don't have any feelings towards any animal and I am horrified at what my mind showed me!! The image of the poor cat is not leaving my mind! Does this mean something??

I had a dream where I was sleeping on my bed, and a cat (apparently I had just adopted it) was bouncing around the bed not letting me sleep. I thought to...

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I just woke up in tears and heavenly crying. Never in my life has it happened to me

Please help me translate this dream, it’s the first time I have a dream like this. I woke up and couldn’t stop crying for 10 minutes.

TLDR; I find out me(20 yo female) my 16yo brother, my 19yo cousin were made in a lab by our parents. My 8 yo half sister (from my father) was not, she was actually born naturally. I then get to see my creation in a lab as myself now, and I see myself as a baby in the end.
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In my dream I randomly ask my mom if we’re (me and my younger brother well him Nate) adopted and she giggles and hesitates but then casually says yes.
Nate (16yo) doesn’t seem so surprised since he found out from looking at papers (which actually happened irl he’s been looking around secretly at my moms documents to find out things about our parents divorce)
He told me about us being adopted but I didn’t pay much attention.
Anyways, we sit next to our mom (then in the dream she becomes that other person, younger and skinnier idk) and behaves a bit more easy going. She answers questions we have (I can’t recall them now)
I feel so sad finding this out and wish I never knew, Nate seems ok with it almost like it doesn’t affect him at all.

Now the weird part that freaked me out.
The moment I was born. Or to be exact “made”.
My parents are at a hospital and there’s an Indian doctor who i feel like I’ve known my whole life (but it’s actually a famous figure who I’ve never met and just recently got back to their contact not an actual doctor)
That doctor is working with my parents about having a baby.
Somehow I end up in a laboratory with my mum and my dad (I am the same age as I am now but I can’t see myself, I see from my eyes but im standing there with them),
They’re making me in lab, I was made in a lab, my mom was mostly doing the work side by side with my dad, and boom BABY ME I see myself as a baby being created with the hands of my parents and I burst into tears.
My dad holds baby me and says look what a beautiful baby, baby me points at my mom and says “mama” then points at my dad and says “dadda” and then point at myself(I can’t figure out if it points at herself or present me) and goes silent for a few seconds. Then says “(my actual name)” and from their reaction it seems like they knew it was gonna be my name before baby me said it. They’re proud of baby me and themselves for making me. I cry so hard and say out loud the last thing that matters
“When you die I have no one. Not a real brother not real parents not real cousins or grandparents im by myself”

My mom gets mad and says “see that’s all she cared about” my dad says “see but isn’t it comforting? You could do whatever you want, risk everything, truly live without worrying about the results”
I woke up crying so hard.

I know this dream means something because I have never felt so strongly about a dream. Please tell me how to get the meaning it’s so early and I can’t go back to sleeping

Please help me translate this dream, it’s the first time I have a dream like this. I woke up and couldn’t stop crying for 10 minutes.

TLDR; I find out me(20 yo...

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Body swapping, abandoned amusement park and creepy girl child. My most bizarre dream ever!

I'm running through a jungle with a brown snake wrapped around me, his head above my right shoulder. We are speaking, but this doesn't seem strange at all. We're laughing and joyful, having a complete blast. Although this first part of the dream is harder to remember, we're basically going through this jungle with the snake teaching me how to swap conciousnesses with different animals. This is to teach me the "lessons" and physical experiences of different creatures while allowing them to spend time as a human to better understand us as well.

We emerge from the jungle and find ourselves looking across a vast grassland. To our side, following along the treeline, is an elephant. This elephant is barely touching the ground with its tiptoes, flapping its big ears and traveling in strangely graceful, gliding hops. Sharing a conspiratorial glance, the snake and I take off toward the pachyderm. Throwing a startled glance over its shoulder, the elephant flees. We take off in hot pursuit!

We're led on a long merry chase, until we finally catch up to him in a dilapidated amusement park. The rides are covered in rust and overgrown with creepers. The elephant heads straight for a small, stagnant puddle in an area of broken concrete. To my amazement, he executes a graceful swan dive right into this shallow puddle and disappears. I run up to the edge of the puddle before hitting my belly and shimmying close enough to peer in. Under the shallow green water is a perfectly circular hole that leads down deep into darkness. As I press my face closer trying to get a look at what's in there, the large gray head of a seal pops out. His penetrating, inky eyes unnerve me, and I scramble back.

His head disappears back into the water just as I hear a creepy little girl giggle behind me. Turning around, I see a girl of about 6 in an old fashioned frilly dress cupping something in her hands. When I ask her what she's got, she opens her hands and holds them up to me, still giggling. In her palms is my friend, the brown snake. He's been chopped into little slices that look like sushi roll pieces. In the center of each piece, there is an eye staring up at me, moving around. I shove the girl away in horror and start screaming "What have you done?" I tell her we were going to bring him back to life after the body swap, but now we can't, she's ruined it. I keep insisting we (I'm not sure who I meant when I kept saying we ) were bringing him back to life and am very distraught. She regards me calmly before adopting the creepiest condescending smirk. She looks me right in the eyes and says, "That's not what you were doing at all, was it?"

I wake in a cold sweat. I mean, seriously, wtf!!! This has got to be the most bizarre dream I've ever had.

I'm running through a jungle with a brown snake wrapped around me, his head above my right shoulder. We are speaking, but this doesn't seem strange at all....

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