Definition: Dreams about adoption refer to a need or desire to make a change in your life, take on a new role, or build relationships, signals a simpler way of life.
If If you dream about adoption, it indicate that you are feeling lost or insecure in your life, a hint for a specific aspect of your psyche. It also mean that you feel the need to love someone and that you feel needed, it is best not to get involved in a situation.
Adoption also mean that you are entering a new phase in your life , especially when it comes to your career or your relationships, a premonition for competition and triumph. You feel the pressure to move and move forward through your choices, stands for the birth of something new.
Being adopted yourself mean that you feel the need to feel safe and loved, suggests harmony, intimacy, merriness, prosperous undertakings, personal spirits. You are looking for a family that will accept and support you, a signal for positive gains, of life.
However, dreaming of adoption should not be taken as a wish to actually adopt, suggests the status of your where you are headed in life.
In the end, you must ask yourself what adoption means to you, symbolises a visitation of a spirit or a communication from your subconscious. Are you facing a change or an important decision in your life? Are you trying to meet your need for safety or security?, draws attention to feelings of fear and anxiety, you need to swallow your pride in some situation.
Dreaming of adoption suggests a desire to create a family or being looked after, hints the truth. This dream symbolize an aspect of nurturing and caring that is missing in your life, something that you need to find within yourself or seek from others, hints a domestic life. Additionally, it also indicate an unconscious wish to start anew, to leave behind something and start fresh, you also tend to open yourself too easily which makes you vulnerable.
Adopting a child in a dream seen as a symbol of taking on new responsibilities, accepting someone or something as your own, and creating positive change, a premonition for your vitality and liveliness. It also indicate a sense of protection, being a guardian figure, and a desire to give love to those in need, suggests divine power, longevity, eternal love, protection and unity.
An orphan symbolize feelings of abandonment, loneliness, or being disconnected from others, stands for warmth, values. This dream indicative of a need for support and care from those around you, you are on to the past.
Giving a child up for adoption symbolize feelings of loss, sacrifice, or a sense of letting go of something that is no longer serving you, self-love, renewal, inner growth, optimism, inspiration and hope.
In Christianity, adoption a representation of God's role as a parent, adopting the faithful into his family, signals light heartedness, positive energy and joy. It also symbolize the story of Moses or Jesus' birth, a sign for your desires for some form of commitment.
In Hinduism, adoption indicate karma, as one reaps the fruit of their actions, draws attention to aspects of yourself that you. It also indicate the importance of family and community, as adoption is commonly practiced, unfortunately draws attention to someone who is cold or distant.
In Islam, adoption is not recognized, but rather fostering is encouraged, an admonition for your tendency to buy your friends or buy compliments and favors. This indicate a need for temporary support and guidance, or the importance of kinship ties, your sense of coldness could reflect your feelings about a lover or a certain person.
In Western culture, adoption seen as a noble act, as it involves providing a home for a child in need, a warning signal for your negative ideas of anything experiences with dangerous or heartless women. However, it also indicate a sense of insecurity or a desire for acceptance within a family or society, draws attention to the reward for your hard work and efforts.
In African culture, adoption seen as a way to create kinship ties, to include others into the family or community, a portent for your desires to be liked and recognized. It also indicate a sense of communal responsibility and sharing, signifies something may have started as minor has now become a huge problem.
In Asian culture, adoption is viewed with more reservation, as adoption outside of one's bloodline is not as common, signals your tendency to keep your feelings to yourself. It indicate a desire for conformity, traditional values, or a sense of duty, a hint for your subconscious dislike for his/her significant other.
From a psychological perspective, dreaming of adoption symbolize a need for nurturing or support, or a feeling of wanting to belong or be accepted, indicates endurance, patience and longevity. It also indicate a need for closure or resolution, as one seeking to close a chapter in their life and move on, an omen for domestic bliss and prosperity.
This dream also indicate a lack of identity or a need to redefine oneself, as adoption often involve a shift in identity and family dynamics, states erupting emotions.
If you dream of adoption, it helpful to explore your feelings around family, responsibility, and care, hints harmony or disharmony in your life, depending on the situation. Consider ways to nurture and care for yourself and others, as well as ways to make positive changes in your life, a metaphor for letting go. Seek support from those around you, and consider the importance of building strong relationships and bonds, denotes someone in your life that you need to care more. Additionally, it helpful to reflect on your values and beliefs, and consider how they shape your sense of self and belonging, refers to your deeper, melancholy feelings.
Dreaming that you are being adopted ensures a profitable future, while adopting a child predicts wealth accumulation during old age, or an inheritance if it is a relative’s adoption.
If you see yourself being adopted by a group or family, this means acceptance among the people pictured, or self-acceptance with regard to your perceived roles and responsibilities to that group.
Seeing yourself alone waiting for adoption is an alternative type of desertion dream. Alternatively, this reveals insecurity about not being accepted or loved, or feeling totally out of place in your surroundings.
What exactly is being adopted? This symbol can represent an aspect of yourself— an idea or a characteristic with which you’re becoming more accepting and comfortable, thereby adopting it into your being.
Feelings of nurturing, or the desire to love, nurture, care for, or support someone else.
Being adopted (when you weren’t in real life) can represent someone who has taken responsibility for you in real life (or a desire for that); feeling dissimilar from (such as in beliefs or attitude) one or both of your parents; feeling love for or loved by a parent-like figure.
See also: Mother; Father; Family
2. If child is rejected, a new idea is rejected.
3. If dreamer feels adopted, he/she is feeling out of place.
4. Not being dealt with honestly by someone.
5. Feeling that one wants to be adopted by and protected by someone.
If you’re adopted in a dream, it means that enemies may soon raise their hands against you.
If you adopt children in a dream it means that you will have difficulties in your love life.