Dreams about the body

Teeth falling out

Where there is no grinding, the usual reading is exposure: teeth are what you show when you speak or smile, so losing them maps onto fear of humiliation, ageing, or saying something you cannot take back.

Pregnancy

A project, an idea or a change in gestation. The stage in the dream often matches how far along the real thing is.

Blood

Read as life force and what is draining it. Blood connected to family imagery often points at inherited patterns.

Hair

Cutting hair is read as deliberate change of identity; losing it as change imposed from outside.

Poop

Elimination and what you would rather be rid of. Universally reported and rarely discussed, which is itself part of the pattern.

Miscarriage

Something in development ending before term — one of the few dream themes where the literal and symbolic readings are equally common.

Skin

The boundary between you and everything else — skin dreams concern that boundary failing or changing.

Giving birth

Producing something that then exists separately from you — the dream is about the separation as much as the creation.

Eyes

Seeing and being seen in one image — eye dreams are the most self-referential in the dictionary.

Birthday

A date that measures you against expectation — birthday dreams cluster around actual birthdays.

Snail

Slowness with its home attached — snail dreams concern pace rather than progress.

Feet

Contact with the ground — feet dreams concern your footing rather than your body.

Haircut

A deliberate change to how you are seen — haircut dreams concern decisions about presentation.

Hands

The part of the body that acts — hand dreams concern capability rather than appearance.

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56 subjects · 392,840 searches a month

Every the body dream people ask about

Ordered by how often each is actually searched. We publish the demand figure because it answers a question no dream dictionary does: is your dream unusual, or is it one of the most common ones there is.

#	Dream about	Searches / month	Share of category
1	Losing teeth	68,120	17.3%
2	Pregnant	63,100	16.1%
3	Teeth fall out	33,820	8.6%
4	Poop	31,000	7.9%
5	Losing a tooth	27,100	6.9%
6	Losing teeth in	27,100	6.9%
7	Getting pregnant	18,100	4.6%
8	Makeup	9,900	2.5%
9	Wet	9,900	2.5%
10	Someone pregnant	8,800	2.2%
11	Pregnant in	8,100	2.1%
12	Loss of teeth	8,100	2.1%
13	Teeth crumbling	7,290	1.9%
14	Vomiting	5,800	1.5%
15	Giving birth	4,300	1.1%
16	Birth	4,000	1%
17	Dead body	3,800	1%
18	Teeth breaking	3,600	0.9%
19	Missing teeth	3,300	0.8%
20	Brushing teeth	3,300	0.8%
21	Miscarriage	3,200	0.8%
22	Skin	2,900	0.7%
23	Teeth in	2,400	0.6%
24	Broken teeth	2,000	0.5%
25	Teeth pulled out	1,900	0.5%
26	Teeth being pulled out	1,900	0.5%
27	Rotten teeth	1,900	0.5%
28	Pooping	1,890	0.5%
29	Going bald	1,760	0.4%
30	Feces	1,440	0.4%
31	Loose teeth	1,440	0.4%
32	Losing your teeth	1,300	0.3%
33	Pregnant biblical	1,300	0.3%
34	Birthday	1,300	0.3%
35	Touching feces in	1,300	0.3%
36	Seeing poop in	1,300	0.3%
37	Cracked tooth	1,000	0.3%
38	Pooping yourself	1,000	0.3%
39	Pooping myself	1,000	0.3%
40	Someone being pregnant	1,000	0.3%
41	Periods	1,000	0.3%
42	Eyes	880	0.2%
43	Pooping in public	880	0.2%
44	Playing football	720	0.2%
45	Breastfeeding	720	0.2%
46	Loss teeth	720	0.2%
47	See yourself pregnant in	720	0.2%
48	Unknown dead body	720	0.2%
49	Nose bleeding	590	0.2%
50	Nosebleeds	590	0.2%
51	Out of body experience	590	0.2%
52	Giving birth to twins	590	0.2%
53	Nose bleed	590	0.2%
54	Teeth break	590	0.2%
55	Period	590	0.2%
56	Teeth breaking in	590	0.2%

The most-asked the body dream is Losing teeth at 68,120 searches a month — 17% of everything in this category. Just 5 of the 56 subjects account for half the demand, which is the usual shape: a handful of dreams everybody has, and a long tail almost nobody asks about.

14 with full pages · 27 listed here · 736,190 searches a month in this category

Everything else people dream about in this category

These are searched too rarely to justify a page each, and a thin page would serve nobody. The figure is how often the subject is looked up per month — the one thing about it that is actually countable.

Nose bleeding 840 Playing football 770 Nose bleed 730 Breastfeeding 980 Nosebleeds 590 Having heart attack 520 Breast milk 510 Speaking tongues 440 Heart attack 430 Fear 390 Hand washing clothes 390 Cutting nails 350 Surgery 350 Underwear 330 Birth 280 Faces 260 Urine on floor 260 Scared 260 Eyelashes 250 Sick 240 Getting shot stomach 210 Stepping on poop 210 Getting stabbed stomach 210 Stepping poop 210 Toenail coming off 210 Nail 210 Vomiting on 200