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Well I have some pretty spun dreams at times.

One that keeps popping up, and one that I experienced just last night,is that all of my teeth are falling out. Like all of them. In the dream they just go very loose, and they all come out when I rub my toungue against them. I end up just spitting them all out. Pretty freaky, and SO REAL. Takes some convincing when I wake, (which is usually shortly after I have spat all of my teeth out, usually in the dream I end up having just a mouthfull of dislodged teeth and i just go bleh and out they come in one pile) that I still have all my teeth, and its soooo relieving lol. Anyways this is a dream I have at least every 6months or so.

Meaning?? My teeth are actually quite healthy, and i visit a dentist regularly. Im not worried about them in the least so this removes any form of anxiety relating to my teeththat would show up in the dream.

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Teeth are symbolic of the ability to make decisions, and problems with teeth can be related to indecisiveness.

If you are dreaming about losing your teeth, you may have �bitten off more than you can chew� in a particular situation, or relationship. Dreams of losing teeth could mean that you feel you have lost the ability to make decisions, and you may feel that some situation is out of your control, or you are headed in a direction you don�t want to go in.

These dreams may also be an indicator that you are not assimilating information around you, so you don�t have all the facts about certain situations.

In this type of dream it�s very important to pay attention to how you are feeling, as it�s your feelings about the dream that will really tell you what the dream means!

Are you happy? Are you losing teeth and then getting new ones? It may mean that you are growing and moving forward.

Are you embarrassed about losing teeth? This may indicate a fear of failure, or you are worried about making a bad choice.

Do you feel you need to keep your mouth closed so no one can see that you�ve lost teeth? It may be time to sit back and listen rather than always being the one to do the talking.

Are you anxious about losing the teeth? Any anxiety in dreams generally means there is something in real life that�s also causing anxiety. Do you have anxiety about any changes coming up? Are you fearful about making a wrong decision?

Are you having teeth problems in real life? The dream could then be an indicator that it�s time to get yourself to the dentist!

Every night our subconscious mind reaches out to us through dreams. Sometimes we don�t heed the messages when they are pleasant, so it sends us a dream that really gets our attention. Just remember, the subconscious is sending us these messages with the intention that if we pay attention, we�ll receive a healing benefit.

taken from bellaonline.com

HOWEVR i like this old boys take on the dream.

That you are starting a new phase in your life. I recall in the dream when i did check them out in the mirror there where tiny little nubs showing in the gums, Im hoping that they represented a new set of teeth.

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This kinda makes sense as Im starting a new job on Monday, one ive been chasing for a while, and just last week got a DiDs group up and running here. But hmm. Hopefully an indicator that I am moving into a new phase. Life has been pretty stagnant.

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In old Polish folklore, dreams of teeth represent death or sudden changes. But don't worry: my mum's been freaking me out with this since I was a kid and even though I have the occasional tooth dream, I still appear to be quite alive. My teeth, on the other hand, are in a terrible state! (I write this as I finish off my third doughnut of the day...)

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LOL thanks Marcel :) im banking (hoping) on the sudden change.

Not ready to die yet :)

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When we are kids all our teeth fall out and new ones emerge.

Maybe it's symbolic of your evolution from a young hothead to a an older wiser state of being.

I noticed when I joined here you did have a tenancy to jump to conclusions at times, now you seem to be becoming more rational and slightly less hasty in your judgements at times.

Well at least now you listen to reason anyway.

Don't take it the wrong way no offence intended, but I call 'em as I see 'em

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Interesting, I also have a very similar dream sometimes, though I don't loose all teeth, just one or two. Or More commonly I dream that they are very loose and will soon come out.

and I also have pretty good teeth, apart from some wear from a few years of amphetamine abuse they are quite healthy.

hmm, I'll be watching this thread, psychologise away peeps :)

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really Magic? i was that bad 8 months ago?

i realise (with hindsight) I was becoming quite opinionted and judgmental of folks.

I put that down to burnout working double shifts in a rehab. My tolerance of people with substance abuse issues had dropped dramatically. I dunno, beforehand as well I had lifted myself(with my familys help and many cbt sessions ;) up from a pretty low point in my life, but yeah unfortunately brought out a pretty ugly condescending facet of my nature.

I guess by facing and accepting my own demons and negative parts of my own personality, the same deficits in other people shone out to me like a beacon as a reminder, and disgusted me.

Moral of the story is that things that shitted me about people where very real aspects of myself, that I had confronted.

But yeah I guess u never stop learning as life goes on, Im definately a different person to who I was 3 years ago. But right now i guess my life is going to change radically in the next 2 weeks, which i feel the dream is indicating. For the first time in my life im going to be working in a awesome job with a fair bit of responsibility. As well ive just taken on a group facillitator andspokesman role with a mens support group for the central west, our first group was last sunday , with things amping up over the next year.

My lil girl is coming down for the christmas holidays on Sunday, so yeah things have shifted in a big way rather quickly. Life spins me out, but yeah im excited for what the future will bring :)

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really Magic? i was that bad 8 months ago?

I guess by facing and accepting my own demons and negative parts of my own personality, the same deficits in other people shone out to me like a beacon as a reminder, and disgusted me.

Moral of the story is that things that shitted me about people where very real aspects of myself, that I had confronted.

 

I don't think you were an ogre or anything

Maybe I just noticed for the same reasons you do in others, I have a judgemental streak that comes out when I've been on the piss that's why I don't drink much anymore.

It's not easy to accept your own shortcomings but it's the only way to deal with them.

You've got to start by being honest with yourself, which many people never do.

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I've def had my share of teeth dreams. They often carry pretty macabre overtones for me. I recall one about finding my teeth in an old wooden box... off the top of my head I can't recall gaining much great meaning from it. I haven't looked much into Jungian Psychology - although I currently visit a psych' who is of the Jungian school of thought, (or however you put that)...

I'm having a little bit of difficulty following the gist of the thread in terms of what way you look at dreams. From the second post it looks like one of those dream book type ways... as in the same thing is true(ish) for everyone... a butteryfly means this and a tooth means that... That has never felt right to me, although the excerpt you posted above does state that dreams are our subconscious' way of getting hold of us, (paraphrased that) it doesn't elaborate enough on that point.

For me a recurring dream is about something that we are not processing and the brain is doing its best to get us to work it out in whatever fashion it can. For me dreams are really about the feelings that are generated and very little about the images/symbols that are contained within them.

I have a recurring dream which absolutely disgusts me about there being a murder victim or two that I somehow become aware of there whereabouts.... through coming across it or digging or whatever really... and then I have this massive sense of fear/paranoia/anxiety that I am going to get the blame for it because i found it or saw the person doing it or whatever... so I spend the dream trying to work out how to not get busted for it!!! IT is HORRIFIC!! I always wake wondering if it was real for a while and then so so so thankful that is was just a dream.

My interpretation of that dream is that I am hiding something in my life that I just need to be telling those around me. The feeling of snavelling it away and perhaps being convicted of a murder is so horrible that it presents a challenge of whether to just tell the truth and trust in whatever happens after that. That is it's message to me in my waking life... since working that out and trying to be more honest in all my affairs with people I haven't had the dream for a long time.

Thats my take anyway.

Tops to hear about your job man, I think I can guess what the other job is too and congrats. Also way to go on facilitating the mens group. I'm sure we will bump into each other on our travels around this land.

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man I have had the same dream! where I have accidently killed someone, or even killed someone by some devious means and for devious reasons, then plot how I am going to get away with it andnot get found out. sooooo bad!!!

definately a shadow aspect of myself turned concous in the dream state..dreams are weird.

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For me, murder dreams, specifically ones in which I am the perpetrator rather than the victim, always occur at the beginning of an intensely happy stretch of time. It's almost like clockwork... In fact, I sometimes wonder if my conscious awareness of this symbolism is perhaps what perpetuates its frequency.

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aren't teeth meant to symbolise vanity or some shit???

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what's the reason for spitting your teeth out? do you do it out of frustration, anger?

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Definitely had many teeth dreams over the years. They are awful.

Faustus mentioning vanity is interesting. I also have occasional dreams of my hair falling out, and another one where my face becomes deformed. It is almost worth it for the feeling of relief when I wake up...that "OMG, it was just a dream" feeling is awesome.

The ones I truly hate though: Nuclear war dreams. Usually I am younger in them, sitting in my old lounge room when a emergency broadcast signal comes blaring over the television. The air raid sirens start up then there is silence as the sky turns bright as the sun. Bloody terrifying.

Don't get me started on the one where my toilet came to life and started jumping around trying to eat me. I escaped though, I ran outside and started to fly a kite, climbed up the string to get away while my toilet is jumping up trying to snap at my heels. :o

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reason for spitting them out is that they are just floating around in my mouth.I specifically recall rolling them around my toungue for a while before hoiking them. I think i come to the realisation that theyve all fell out and theres not much i can do about it, so i just spit em out.

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I have pretty much the same dream you describe in your opening post, it also happens one or twice a year. Like you describe I usually wake from the dream when my teeth are free floating in my bloodied mouth.

I awake with a sense of "thank god it was just a dream" due to the horror of the situation but also a strong anxious feeling of living my life with out teeth. It feels so intense and so real that I automatically check that my teeth are still their and will continue to check for the next couple of minutes. I would also agree that their are overtones of vanity to the emotion behind these dreams for me.

For me, the teeth dreams are one of the most perplexing recurring dreams I have. I tend to have some understanding of most of my other dreams. I have heard at least a couple of other description of similar recurring teeth dreams on T.V or radio. Maybe it is just as simple as a dream about the fear of extreme physical trauma which will leave me disfigured.

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yeah, or something like inability to deal with arising circumstances, events you can't control.

roll with the punches. one thing i've learned is that life fucks with you, that's just life and that's how life goes, it might run according to plan for a little while but usually it doesn't go to plan for more than week before some unsought-after shit requires you to spend energy or re-think your path. if your teeth fall out you've gotta deal with it and move on.

or, maybe you are all going to die in a nuclear fallout :unsure:

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That's ridiculous. Everyone knows that teeth mean money. Go to casino I say..

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I don't think I've ever had teeth falling out dreams, and I have some corkers. I think sometimes dream interpretations can be bang-on the money. From the age of around 9 to 12 I had a few recurring dreams about there being an apple at the end of my bed. I'd reach for it, ever so hungry and thirsty, but I don't even like apples really. I'd never reach the damn apple. I read somewhere that apples can be symbols of carnal knowledge.

Don't get me started on the one where my toilet came to life and started jumping around trying to eat me. I escaped though, I ran outside and started to fly a kite, climbed up the string to get away while my toilet is jumping up trying to snap at my heels. :o

 

I'll see your killer toilet and raise you an angry Donald Duck chasing after me in his little cartoon convertible Beetle car shooting at me with a double barrell shotgun until I get to the top of a sheer cliff with no way but down, so down I went, hitting the river with crocodiles and swimming over to the other side where my family were waiting.

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I've had some pretty vivid teeth dreams myself. They eventually went away due to me getting rid of stress in my life. Just pray you don't have the Vagina teeth dream.

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i have become aware of dreams more due to the movie INCEPTION. the movie is based primarily on the belief of controllable dreams, its a fictional movie of course and the makers openly admit that the movie is not true to scientific rationale but it basically is. it just gets better with every viewing and in after watching it i can wait to go to sleep so i can try to remember im dreaming in a dream..............done it before but then the dream dies.

analysing dreams is not valid in my opinion, i think it just represents the brain storing information. ie we do our normal day, there is not enough time for the concious mind to deal with waking stimuli and storing all the data, so the brain puts it in the waking storing area...then only when ouside influences which control brain function (being awake) ceases the brain must assign that temporary storage to its true place in brain.

as we sleep, billions of bits of info are cruising down to their final resting place forever, the deep brain..........this info is then shut away for permanent storage and access if needed in the future.............unfortunately our deep brain must reject a lot of the information, perhaps it see's it as detrimental, or damaging so it reverses back up to the previous temp storage area, this is where dreams are created..............reverse storage issues, the initial first storage area doesnt want it back the the brain must destroy the information via dream escape.

maybe the information thats rejected simply didnt fit, or is so irrevelant that its deemed useless....so theoretically what we dream is pretty much like a internal defense mechanism........dreams are the fish john west reject.

on a personal womans weekly style analysis incognito i would say that we value teeth as a symbol of our external beauty, teeth represent the vanity of our spirit, without teeth even miss universe looks horrible and we all pretty much know as humans that teeth are temporary, they fall out and are replaced when young so that feeling of losing teeth in already repressed in our thoughts somewhere, combined with the knowledge as adults once a tooth is gone, its gone and we are more aware of our fragility and ever creeping up of death. it also could signify financial stress....a trip to the dentist is very expensive, so the fear of losing looks combined with financial hardship is expressed through fear of losing teeth.

anyway its all guesswork......dreams are meant to be a personal insight into repressed thought......its our fears that block new pathways in the brain developing, fear is the gatekeeper to creation, so embrace the bad dreams as a sign your brain is repairing and ejecting the shit and the good dreams are the thoughts filling the space it was meant to be.

anyway i like the subject, thanks for posting incognito....my brain hurts now and i appreciate the topic making me think random weird shit.

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Incog,yeah I've had many teeth-falling out dreams in the past,but mainly I was pulling them out with very little resistance...to the point where I was spitting them out as they kept "feeling" extremely loose.

It used to freak me out,sometimes I would wake up and check! Then one night I was quite happy to get rid of them and haven't had that type of dream since.

Now EVERYONE is out to get me!!!!!

My Q to you is how did you feel at the time of the dream?

Loss/grief?

Shock?

Relief?

Pretty much IMHO has to do with changing directions/growing wiser and your acceptance or reluctance to let go as you have little control over your life's direction,though you know it's changing.

Cheers mesc...

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mainly the shock of losing all of my teeth, but then this dream i ended up accepting the fact, and was thinking about how much it would cost to get dentures :)

losing all ur teeth at once feels pretty bad though!

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I used to have a dream fairly frequently where one or more of my front teeth would feel odd and when I touched it it would feel like slate or rubbing two fragile materials together and would give me the feeling similar to when someone scratches their nails on a blackboard. I never could pin it to a certain feature of my life at the time, either way it felt fucking gross in the dream. It would completely break down into nothing as I touched it but I dont remember what happened after that.

Not exactly the same but there is some similarities with the dreams mentioned here. Havent had the same dream for ages so maybe it was related to something going on within my brain at the time.

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