What research shows
Not measured. Children report doll dreams more than adults.
Objects
A human shape without a person in it — dolls unsettle for the same reason as the uncanny valley..
What research shows
Not measured. Children report doll dreams more than adults.
The psychological reading
The disturbance comes from near-humanness rather than from threat, and dreamers describe the eyes more often than any action.
Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 1,850 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.