What research shows
Related to the being-locked-up item at 24.0%, thirty-second of 55 in Nielsen & Zadra, 2003.
Objects
Dreaming about being kidnapped
Loss of agency imposed by another — distinct from being chased, because here it has already happened..
The psychological reading
The captor is usually faceless or unknown, which supports the reading that the dream is about the condition rather than a person.
Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 4,100 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.