Earlobe
The soft hanging tissue at the bottom of the ear — a small part of the face often used for ornament and for tenderness.
An earlobe in a dream is the dream's image of a small soft part of the face that has very little structural role and carries a disproportionate amount of tender meaning. The earlobe is what earrings hang from; it is what a child touches in a parent's body in the middle of the night. The dream brings the earlobe when something in your life — a small physical intimacy, a marker of belonging worn at a tender point, a piece of recognition delivered by an unimpressive part of the body — is currently being held by a feature whose entire job is softness. An earlobe touched gently is the dream affirming the small intimacy. An earlobe torn, the small ornament gone, is the dream noting that the soft part of the contact has been damaged and the structure for tenderness has lost one of its anchors.