What research shows
Known people outnumber strangers in dream casts by a wide margin in content analyses, and family members are the most frequent characters of all.
People
Dreaming about family
The cast you did not choose — family dreams are the most literal in the dictionary and the hardest to generalise..
The psychological reading
The dream usually stages a relationship as it currently is, not as it was — which is why dreams of parents change after a shift in the waking relationship rather than before.
Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 5,140 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.