What research shows
Insects and spiders together scored 33.8% (Nielsen & Zadra, 2003), seventeenth of 55, above snakes at 22.1%.
Objects
Dreaming about roach
Persistence you cannot negotiate with. Cockroach dreams turn on the fact that the thing keeps coming back..
The psychological reading
Disgust rather than fear is the reported emotion, which puts this with rats rather than with snakes — the concern is contamination, not danger.
Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 22,090 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.