What research shows
76.5% reported it in Nielsen & Zadra, 2003 — behind only being chased. Men reported it more often, 85.0% against 72.4%.
Objects
Dreaming about sex
The second most common dream theme in existence, and one where the content is rarely about the person involved..
The psychological reading
Sexual dreams involving people you have no waking interest in are the norm rather than the exception, and content analyses find they track closeness and attention rather than desire.
Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 33,650 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.