Encyclopedia of Dreams

by Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen
If you dream of taking a waif in and caring for it you will see a great increase in your business affairs. But just to see a waif and do nothing humanitarian to help it will denote a sudden loss in business or love.

To see many waifs huddled together show that your sorrows will increase tenfold.

Strangest Dream Explanations

by Dream Explanations - Anonymous
Dreams of a waif signify that you are identifying with the aspect of you that is vulnerable, flimsy, helpless, childlike, and insecure. Perhaps you have given your power away and this dream is helping you to realize that you need it back.

See Victim.

New American Dream Dictionary

by Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
1. Feeling alone.

2. If one dreams he/she adopts a waif, then someone close to him/her is in need of help.