What research shows
24.3% reported killing someone in Nielsen & Zadra, 2003, and men reported it substantially more often — 36.1% against 19.5%.
Actions and situations
Dreaming about killing
Not violence but removal — the dream usually concerns ending something and the guilt of wanting it ended..
The psychological reading
The victim is frequently unknown, which supports the reading that the act matters more than the target. Where the victim is known, waking conflict with that person is usually present.
Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 35,160 times a month. Which dreams have been counted →
The version matters
Different ways this dream shows up
Most dream dictionaries give one meaning for the whole symbol. In practice the specific version carries most of the information — losing every tooth and losing one tooth are not the same dream.
How to record a dream, why the feeling matters more than the content, and when recurring nightmares are worth a doctor rather than a dictionary — set out once on the main page.
Before you look anything up
How the dream felt matters more than what was in it. The same image can arrive as comfort or as threat, and that difference tells you more than any entry in a dictionary — including this one.