I keep dreaming that my mother who passed away 7 years ago keeps showing me items in all different shades of orange then I wake up but it has happened a few nights in a row

Dreams only mean what they mean to you. Try to think of a connection that might not actually be about the color, but about something that sounds like orange, or something she had that was orange, or just something you wish you had told her. Someday it might all fall into place, but it might not. You might just miss your mother and what she taught you. Maybe you saw a mother give a child an orange the other week. Only you know.