I lose a lot of teeth in dreams. Why is this? I haven’t lost a tooth in 20 years, and yet twice a month, I lose a tooth in my dreams. I lost a molar last night, a guarantuan one. It was roughly an inch deep, as well as an inch square on top. I was talking to my father about it in the living room downstairs. I was like “I just lost a tooth.” He was like “where is it?” Meanwhile I was holding it in my hand, an enormous dental school quality molar. I had to shove it into his hand before he realized that I was holding it in front of his face.
I also always pee in my dreams, mostly in places I’m not supposed to pee. Earlier this week, I was in a fancy looking room, poorly lit by indirect noon-day sunlight smattering through curtains. It had lots of old antique looking things. I was not alone. I peed in a flower pot. Most of the time I have to urinate in real life as I’m having those dreams.
But I never need to have teeth replaced in real life, so, what’s the deal?
I’m obsessed with severe weather, so when I dream of tornados, that’s not surprising. But molars? Not sure where to go on that.
The cube next to me has two phones without voice mail set up on them. As a result, they will ring dozens of times before finally timing out. One is ringing now. It has been ringing for over a minute. The cube is, by my estimate, 8 feet by 8 feet. The call is internal, meaning that the caller knows this about cubes. How long does it take for one to navigate to the phone in an 8×8 cube? Not long enough to warrant 20+ rings, that’s for sure.
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Some psychoanalysts believe that people who often dream about losing teeth have an unconscious (or conscious) fear about aging and/or total loss of their life dreams being realized.
However, psychoanalysts are also full of mumbo-jumbo. I think it would be interesting to talk about with an expert, personally. There have been times in my life when it helped to discuss distressing dreams (ie there were years when I had many many dreams about being chased by male aggressors).
Who knows what dreams may come…
I think you’re afraid of men. I think I am grinding my teeth.
There are many different opinions on the teeth thing – Freud listed it as one of his top-4. But yet, dream analysis is interesting, if not totally fallacious.
I used to have tooth loss dreams pretty frequently — but usually not just one tooth at a time; more like, suddenly I’d realize that most of my teeth had come loose and would definitely fall out if I opened my mouth. I researched it at the time, and it said the thing Lara cites, that the dreamer is likely worried about future misfortune. I haven’t had one in awhile, though — now most of my nightmares feature buildings blowing up on the horizon, or being on a plane that’s about to crash into a building. Fun!
Yes, but teeth-grinding is directly related to stress. Stress could be related to frustration, fear, anxiety, or something else. I think random dreams are not to be taken too lightly. Multiple dreams about the same kinds of situations are worth exploring.
How many times did you watch the planes hit the towers on 9/11, Bess? It is interesting that you are having dreams about a traumatic event that occurred, that you saw on television, but did not experience.
Many New Yorkers and other Americans still experience varying levels of PTSD from 9/11, depending on proximity to ground zero AS WELL AS watching it repeatedly on the news.
Hmm, probably the same number of times as everybody else in the world — if not fewer. Elliott has plane crash nightmares all the time as well, but mine are specifically where I’m IN a plane with some other people, and we’re looking out the windows at a building that we know we’re being steering directly into, and it’s the last second so there’s nothing we can do about it. Maybe I was a terrorist in another life? Hee hee hee.