What research shows
Dream emotion skews negative in every content analysis since the 1960s; fear and sadness outnumber joy substantially.
Actions and situations
Emotion released without cause — laughing dreams are among the rarest pleasant ones..
What research shows
Dream emotion skews negative in every content analysis since the 1960s; fear and sadness outnumber joy substantially.
The psychological reading
Laughing at something that is not funny on waking is the dominant report, and dreamers often cannot reconstruct the joke.
Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 1,760 times a month. Which dreams have been counted →
The version matters
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.
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.