Loneliness
The felt absence of the right company — solitude that has stopped being chosen.
Loneliness in a dream is the dream's image of the felt absence of the right company. Loneliness is not the same as being alone; one can be alone and at rest. The dream brings loneliness when something in your life — a season, a city, a stage of work — has placed you among people who cannot see you, or away from the few who can. Loneliness named honestly is the dream telling you the absence is real and is information about who and what you need. Loneliness denied, dressed up as independence, is the dream noting that the absence is still there and the cover story is using energy you could be spending on finding the right company.