Subject: Keith K.
It’s a very vivid, visceral dream, when it is happening, it feels absolutely real, and it recurs at least once a month. It always starts with me sitting at a desk, sometimes at an office, sometimes at a classroom, sometimes at home. I am focused on something as I become aware of a sharp pain in my tooth. I reach up to wiggle the tooth and realize it is loose, very loose.
I decide it is loose enough that it should be yanked out, so I pull on it, and feel the connecting tissue rip as my tooth comes out, usually a molar, into my fingers. It hurts, and I can feel blood seeping from the gap in my teeth, but I continue on with whatever I am working on.
A few moments later, I feel another tooth get loose, and then another. During the dream I will rip every single tooth in my mouth out, and am left with a handful of teeth, and a mouth that is bleeding profusely. There is a lot of pain in the dream, and a lot of blood. I don't seem sad or upset about it, but confused. When I wake up, it is with a sense of urgency, and I physically have to feel my teeth to make sure they are all there and not loose.
Please help me, why do I keep having this dream? What does it mean?
Comments
I've been told this dream signals a major life change about to come
Posted by: Allison | March 4, 2008 11:53 PM
Man I have this same dream! Except it always happens while I am sitting at my desk at work and after I pull the first tooth I go into the bathroom to look in the mirror. I then pull out almost all of my teeth. I also have no emotion. I am a light sleeper also and rarely dream or at least I can't remember them. Crazy stuff.
Posted by: Josh Best | March 5, 2008 08:56 AM
I had the same kind of dream for months before I was even consciously aware that I was going to be divorced from my ex-wife. Are there major changes on your horizon or the potential for such changes?
Posted by: Mark M | March 6, 2008 10:18 AM
If this continues to bother you, there's one website I go called "Dreammoods.com" It is a Dream Dictionary that has a lot of descriptions to what you're dream might be saying to you in your waking life.
I've had to many dreams that could make for a horror movie.
Posted by: Jeanne L. | March 7, 2008 01:33 PM
I've heard losing teeth means you are lying. I hope your not.
Posted by: madammina | March 11, 2008 08:06 AM
I actually used to have an extremely similar recurring dream a few years ago. Sometimes my teeth would come out on their own, simply by falling out, or I would pull them out myself. Not always with lack of emotion, but usually just confusion. I found later that I seriously grinded my teeth during the night. I have since gotten a mouth guard from my dentist and I haven't had a dream like that since. My teeth would hurt when I would wake up also though. I hope this helps, I would at least look into it.
Posted by: Andrew P. | March 11, 2008 06:53 PM
I've also had similar dreams. Some involve my eyes too. Very strange...
Posted by: Pablo Z. | March 11, 2008 08:06 PM
I also have the same reoccurring dream, sort of. In my dreams my teeth always crumble out of my mouth. there is no blood or pain but i can feel the crumbling and feel a sense of calmed panic. i read that the dream means you are afraid of becoming old and losing your beauty, perhaps indicating vanity. i found out recently that my mom had the same dreams, but she would pull her teeth out like taffy.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 11, 2008 08:37 PM
I have teeth-destruction related dreams relatively often, as well... I believe that they generally symbolize having communication issues, either difficulty saying something or difficulty keeping control over what you're saying.
This is a personal thought, I haven't seen it in any dream dictionaries, but if you've ever had braces or major orthodontic surgery, etc, it could also possibly mean fear that you're undoing things you thought you had fixed and under control. This might just be me, though.
Posted by: Claudia | March 11, 2008 09:53 PM
They say that dreams about losing your teeth symbolize you not being in control of your life.
Posted by: Todd Davenport | March 12, 2008 04:44 AM
I had a similar dream, only it was my jaw rather than my teeth. My jaw broke and my teeth all came out and it was really gross. I think i read that it had something to do with communication. I forget, at this point, what was going on, but it seemed to make sense, that it was communication or a big change.
Posted by: Jess | March 12, 2008 05:58 PM
I haven't had that dream, but I have dreamed about being hit in the mouth with a hammer and having my teeth smashed for me. It is actually more of a waking dream, one that comes to me in flashes sometimes when I am daydreaming or napping.
Posted by: Jack | March 12, 2008 07:42 PM
According to Greek culture, a loose tooth means a family member or close friend is very sick or near death.
Posted by: Michael T | March 13, 2008 04:28 PM
Many times when I dream I have also an episode like that in my dreams, all my teeth came off one by one an I have to remove them by myself. Usually I am doing other things in the dream. But I don't feel any pain and blood doesn't come out.
Posted by: Kemm | March 18, 2008 11:36 AM
To dream that you are toothless, signifies your inability to reach your goals and advance toward your interests. Gloom and ill health will be part of your setbacks.
These dreams usually mean anxieties over your appearance, your lacking sense of power or your inability to communicate. These varying situations bring about emotions which may manifest itself as the sensations you feel as your teeth is being pulled out of your gums.
Posted by: Pagan Dreams | March 21, 2008 09:50 AM
I had this kind of dream when I worked in the money cage at a bingo hall. We were constantly working with tens of thousands of dollars, and everyone who had ever worked in there had the same dream. Also, at the same time I was snorting crystal (which I do not do anymore) that might have contributed to my teeth dream.
Posted by: Misty | April 10, 2008 05:14 AM
I had a similar dream six years ago when I was pregnant with my second son, it happened a few times...my son died during birth, Just had a tooth dream the other night that my boyfriend was trying to pull my tooth out, really worried
Posted by: jennifer | May 11, 2008 01:43 PM