Orphan

We experience our identity and sense of self as almost exclusively connected to the parenting we receive. To have no connection to those parents is to have a disconnected sense of identity. This can be either devastating or liberating, and the sensations of the dream will reveal more detail for you. An orphan in a dream may represent an idea, choice, behavior, or pattern that is not connected to the modeling you received from your parents. When a person loses his or her parents to death, the individual becomes an orphan, and such an image in a dream may relate to that fear or the processing of grief after it has occurred.

1- To dream of an orphan indicates that we may be feeling vulnerable and possibly abandoned and unloved.

If we are looking after an orphan we are attempting to heal that part of us that feels unloved.

If we experience ourselves as having been orphaned it may indicate that we need to be more independent and self-sufficient.

2- We have to come to terms with our ability to grow up and to move away from our parents. When our lives force us into losing them, either by death or other circumstances such as moving away, we may experience the feeling of being orphaned.

3- Spiritual desertion.

(Foundling, Waif) Picking-up an abandoned infant in a dream means picking-up one’s enemy, in conjunction to the story ofMoses and Pharaoh. Picking up an abandoned child in a dream also could mean returning things to the way they should be, or dispelling distress and sorrow. Ifone sees himself planting an apple tree in a dream, it means adopting an orphan, or caring for one.

To find oneself as an orphan in a dream means depression which is caused by injustice.

To be an orphan in a dream also means feeling depressed because of one’s love for a woman, loss of property or money.