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. [1]
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. [2]
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.
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. [4]
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. [5]