Dreamly counted the themes of 65,220 dreams recorded in its app between January and October 2026. Home and family come first, as they did in our study of 189,480 dream reports. Teeth, at the heart of one of the most searched dreams on Google, appear in only 1 dream in 90.
Key figures
- Home appears in 29.1% of dreams, family in 28.7%.
- Teeth appear in only 1.1% of dreams, and flying in 2.2%.
- Dreams about work, school and exams peak in May: 24.4% of dreams, against 12% in September.
Home and family, in nearly 3 dreams in 10
Over the first ten months of 2026, nearly 3 dreams in 10 mention a house, an apartment or a room (29.1%). Family, from parents to grandparents, comes up almost as often (28.7%). Next come love and partners (16.5%), then work, school and exams (14.3%).
This ranking matches our study of 189,480 dream reports: home first, family second, however the data are counted.
The “famous” dreams are rare
Type “dream about” into Google in English and “dream about teeth falling out” is the very first suggestion. In French and Italian, losing your teeth is among the top three (checked on 8 November 2026).
In the dreams people actually write down, teeth appear in only 1.1% of cases, or about 1 dream in 90. Flying: 2.2%. Love and partners come up 15 times more often than teeth, work 13 times more.
May, the month of exam dreams
The share of dreams about work, school or exams changes over the year. It reaches 24.4% in May and 19.1% in June, against 12% in September and 13.2% in October. The peak coincides with end-of-year exam season in many countries. The gap between May and September is well beyond the margin of error.
“We imagine our dreams are made of falling teeth and flying over rooftops. What people write down in the morning is mostly their home, the people close to them and their work. Our dreams are first of all about our everyday lives.”
Martin Berbesson, founder of Dreamly
Method
- 65,220 dreams recorded in the Dreamly app between 1 January and 31 October 2026, in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian.
- Percentages and margins of error are calculated on the dreams in the app’s main database, the only one where themes were counted.
- Every journal counts equally: we calculate the share of dreams with each theme in each journal, then take the average. A very active journal therefore cannot skew the result.
- Themes are detected with families of words in these 6 languages. One dream can count in several themes.
- 95% margins of error: about ± 2 points for home and family over the year, ± 3 to 6 points for work dreams month by month.
- Privacy: no dream text was read or published. The calculation only produces counts.
Limits
- These are Dreamly users, not a representative sample of the population.
- Word detection can miss a theme or flag one wrongly.
- The report counts what dreams are about. It does not say what they mean.
- Figures by language are not compared with each other: the keywords do not cover every language in the same way.
Cite this report
Dreamly (2026). The 2026 Dream Report: what we dreamed about from January to October. https://www.dreamly-app.com/dream-report-2026/
Both charts can be reused freely with a link to this page: chart 1, chart 2. For an interview or more figures: hello@dreamly-app.com.
Go further: the full study of 189,480 dream reports. Dreamly is a dream interpretation app for iPhone and Android.
