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Help with the meaning of a dream

Unicornius

22:33 / 11.05.04

I need help with a dream I had last night. Its not a recurrent dream but I think it has some significance. I dreamt that I lost all of my teeth, there was a lot of blood but I felt no pain. My lower frontal teeth remained attached to my gum but where hanging outside of my mouth.

Any possible meaning?
Tnxs

electric monk

02:58 / 12.05.04

Dreams of losing your teeth can be associated with feelings of impotence, or at least that's what my "10,000 Dream Symbols" book says. Me, I'd suggest you think about what teeth symbolize to you. What do you think about when you think about teeth? Are they just tools to make digestion easier or are they an ivory gateway standing before an abyss? Any other details from the dream that you can recall?

Unicornius

03:28 / 12.05.04

Well all of them had very long roots about 2 inches long. I pulled the first one out and had a metal hook at the end, that's why my other teeth didn't fall completly. Apart from my face being filled with blood as well as my hand where I was holding my teeth with. I dont remember anything else. I woke up after touching them, or maybe after seeing my palms.

And what teeth mean to me? I dont know. I have been trying to find any meaning but sadly they dont mean anyhting to my waking mind

sine

04:35 / 12.05.04

I started having "bad teeth dreams", recurring, about five years ago. Freaked the hell out of me. Then one night when me and the mates were all hanging out talking nightmares, I brought it up: "that dream where all my teeth fall out".

The response was a resounding chorus of "You too? I thought I was the only one!" Turns out half the people I know have these dreams...crumbling teeth, detaching teeth, molding teeth and so on.

Mine stopped when I bought an Oral B and started using Listerine regularly (recent studies show antibacterial mouthwash is as effective as flossing; and I know y'all wish you were more diligent flossers, right?)...

illmatic

07:32 / 12.05.04

It's certainly a dream symbol I've heard of before, though I've never had it, IIRC. Teeth are part of us that develop late and are subject to change both in childhood and later life (think teething babies, gummy old people, your dad's falsies in a jar next to the bed). So I can see why any significant emotions be it anxiety, fear etc might focus around here. Think also of the importance of the mouth and orality. So I can understand the surreal dream logic, but it may have significance, it may just be random dream shit. You'd have to look at what's going on in your own life and figure it out. I found a useful tup with dream work was to focus on the emotions felt, rather than the specific meaning of symbols.

Seth

08:18 / 12.05.04

Also: the mouth can be used for eating, speaking, and breathing (sorry if this sounds horribly obvious, but in my experience it's been amazing what people have been known to ignore). Many teeth dreams involve a blockage to one or all of these things.

Bear

09:37 / 12.05.04

I read somewhere that dreams of teeth falling out are a sign of an illness coming on, it's certainly true in my experience. I often have dreams like this when I'm about to catch the cold/flu. But as stated it could be anything...

Wasn't there another thread about this recently?

Unicornius

01:41 / 13.05.04

You've nailed it Seth. It's all about speaking. Thanks.

Seth

06:57 / 13.05.04

Good stuff. Now tell me about it in great detail. I keep dossiers of psyhchological profiling on all you Barbelith nutters, so that I can better manipulate you via the interwebnet.

All will fall before me!

gale

16:12 / 13.05.04

Hi,

Just looked at this thread. I have had dreams about all of my teeth falling out, like yours, no pain lots of blood. Weird. I had the last one a couple months ago. I should have noted what was going on in my life when I had those dreams--now I will.

Sekhmet

17:10 / 14.05.04

Even weirder - I had one last night, then logged on today and saw this... I only lost one tooth, and it was painless, even though I could taste the blood and feel the weird little gummy holey space with my tongue. (I had a dream the night before that I lost the stone out of my wedding ring, so I'm thinking maybe there's something I need to be talking to hubby about - trying to figure out what, though...)

The last time I dreamed about losing all my teeth, I made an appointment the next week to see a dentist, and found out I had and advanced case of periodontitis... so if nothing else, maybe you should get your choppers checked...

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