If you have recurring dreams of your teeth falling out, what does it mean (if anything)?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

i have good hygeine, so no worries there, but i've had this one a regualr basis for over a decade.

[Qanisqineq]

1. I have that dream too

I always wake up and make sure they are all there. I thought maybe it was because I broke one and now have an implant.

[suninvited]

2. I have those dreams !

and when I wake up I floss extra diligently

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. i'm told it's common

someone said it represents insecurity, but i don't buy that explanation

[XemaSab]

3. It's a general anxiety dream, and a common one

Like realizing it's the week of the final and you haven't gone to any of your classes in weeks. :P

[suninvited]

5. Oh? Like every other week of my life?

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[XemaSab]

6. Totally

:P

[qwertyMike]

7. I have dentures

But I have dreams about going out with no pants on.
Are they connected?

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. That means

you want to bite your own ass.



:P

[qnr]

8. It means your toilet is going to fall through the bathroom floor. You have no

porcelain parts (normally) so your dream had to use enamel. Be careful on those late night trips to the john!

[BlueIris]

10. Besides indicating anxiety, the teeth falling out dream can also suggest

issues related to domestic discord. Artemidorus interpreted the mouth as the home, with the teeth on the right side symbolic of male inhabitants, and the teeth on the left synonymous with female ones. Sometimes, teeth falling out in a dream can represent fears of loss of a domestic partnership, or of familial separations.

[AllegroRondo]

11. According to Freud, something about sexual repression

of course, EVERYTHING from Freud was about sexual repression.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. fear of death

[bluethruandthru]

13. Feeling things are out of control.

I've read that dreams of teeth falling out, bones breaking, dropping things repeatedly, etc. means that you're feeling that you're not in control of something in your life.

[unpossibles]

14. I have heard it represents change or upheaval in your life

I had a weird ruined house dream the other night - we were rehabbing the house I grew up in, and I got kinda spooked by it.

[geiger]

15. I was told once it means a fear of speaking one's mind.

[Scout]

16. I used to have those dreams in college...

and psych prof told me it was "unusual" for women to have them, as they meant I had castration anxiety!

I'd think it is more general anxiety or fear of powerlessness.

[jobycom]

17. I had dreams of my hair falling out, then it did.

So watch them teeth!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. Feeling powerless about a situation...

is one that I have heard. I have had a long history of those dreams.

One thing to seriously watch is to see if you are doing any teeth grinding while you are having those dreams. I discovered that, during those dreams, I would grind the shit out of my teeth, causing one to eventually crack. I think the teeth grinding was the physical manifestation of the stress and anxiety I was feeling in waking life, while the dreams were the spiritual manifestation of the same issue.

[liontamer]

19. I read once that it means you fear betrayal from friends n/t