Dreams of orphans are much more related to unnamed people, more related to fantastic beings, and much more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to peers.

Orphan dreams are much more related to sadness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.

Dreams of orphans are much more related to home, much more related to work, and more related to human-made places than dreams in general.

Dreams of orphans are much more related to friendly acts, more related to disasters, and more related to death than dreams in general. They are less related to sex and less related to eating and drinking.

Orphan dreams are much more related to vivid dreams, more related to good dreams, and much more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are much less related to lucid dreams, much less related to recurring dreams, and less related to bad dreams.

Dreams of orphans are more related to hearing than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

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 orphans 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 orphans in dreams. See how you feel about orphans 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 understand the symbolism of an orphan in a dream, begin with the definition of an orphan as a child without parents. Now ask what that can compare to: feeling abandoned; needing guidance, love, or care; the sense that parents or other adult figures are absent physically or emotionally; facing the challenges of life alone. Stretch the idea of an orphan further and it can symbolize being away from your family or missing them. It’s a way of expressing feeling alone or without family, even if temporarily. See: Family For example, a woman dreams about being in a home and finding an orphaned child in the basement. She asks the child why he’s there, and he says he’s waiting for the mail to arrive. It’s a way of saying she misses her father, who takes long business trips. Waiting for the mail to arrive to the home symbolizes her waiting for this all-important male to come back. The child is in the basement because the basement is where things are put out of mind. She’s trying not to miss him too much. Dreams with the theme of orphans and orphanages arise commonly in people who feel estranged from, or abandoned by, their parents or family. Being an orphan in a dream is a comparison that sums up their feelings and perceptions, albeit in an exaggerated way. You are not necessarily an orphan but might as well be because you feel unloved, unwanted, or excluded. Those feelings can be projected onto a surrogate character; e.g., an orphan. It’s likely to be a projection of something about you, though a dream can use that image to symbolize encountering something that’s been abandoned, such as a project, idea, or pet. For example, a woman dreams about driving through an unfamiliar neighborhood and finding an orphaned child on the side of the road. She pulls over and asks the child where her parents are, and she replies that they died. She tells the child that she will find her a home. The orphan symbolizes a house she visited while house hunting. The real estate agent told her that the elderly couple that used to live there died suddenly, and the house sat for months with no attention or care. It is, in a sense, orphaned, and the woman’s motherly instincts are pulling her toward buying the home and giving it the attention and care it needs. “Orphan” can capture the idea of taking care of people who need guidance and parenting. People can be described as orphans when they lack direction in life or behave like unruly children. Even as adults we can have figures in our lives who are like parents. If you are cut off from that support, then your dreams can symbolize the situation as involving an orphan. An orphan can symbolize something in your psyche that’s left out, not integrated. It’s a comparison used to describe something that’s left out or unwanted, and it can be used far and wide. For example, a project is said to be orphaned when it’s abandoned, and adults can be described as orphans when they lack direction or are isolated and friendless. Any of these ideas can be symbolized by an orphanage. It’s a dream setting that sets the scene and gives an overview of the subject. See also: Adoptions, Children, Childhood homes, Family, Family homes, Museums, Pets, Psyches, Strangers, Widows