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Dreaming about crush

Attraction rehearsed where it costs nothing. Crush dreams are among the most reported and least predictive..

What research shows

Not measured as a theme, though known people outnumber strangers in dream casts by a wide margin in content analyses.

The psychological reading

Dreaming about someone does not indicate their feelings and does not predict contact. It tracks how much attention you have been paying, which is a fact about you.

Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 2,880 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.