What does it mean to dream about eyelashes?
Eyelashes tend to point to delicacy and small charms, the fine detail of how you guard and present the eyes, and sometimes to a passing wish.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read the lashes as part of the eye's allure and its defence, a small ornament tied to looking and being looked at. Losing them can mark a fear of fading charm or of exposure.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see lashes as a fine edge of the persona, the soft framing of how the self meets the gaze of others. Their loss may mark a sense of something tender being worn away.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties lashes to waking thoughts about appearance, grooming, and small vanities. They often surface when a person has been attending closely to how they look or feel scrutinised.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Folk custom made the fallen eyelash a thing to wish upon, blown from the fingertip toward some hope. The eye and its lashes were long thought a doorway through which the soul looked out.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Brewer; Frazer).