What research shows
Not measured separately; being locked up scored 24.0%, thirty-second of 55.
People
Dreaming about police
Authority arriving uninvited — police dreams concern being judged by rules you did not set..
The psychological reading
Reported more often by people with no legal trouble, which supports the reading as internal judgement rather than external threat.
Not among the 55 themes ever measured — searched 4,720 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.