the teeth rotting/crumbling/falling out dream

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have you had it?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN

― minna (minna), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

is it that we're all replicants because we all have the same dreams?

― minna (minna), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

we are replicants because Dr. Tyrel made it so we can't distinguish our dreams and memories from falsehoods.

― hstencil, Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I know it means somehting but I can't remember what. I sometimes dream I'm pulling a really long hair out of my mouth... ugh.

Read Carl Jung's "Man and his Symbols" - I'm loving the idea we have a collective unconcious and that there's a shared memory thing happening passed on down the generations somehow. It would explain SO MUCH.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

yep, had it. personally, i don't think dreams mean shit.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i've had dreams like this. sometimes they're really gross (i.e., teeth stuck into the gums with electric wires).

i think that the teeth-falling-out-of-yer-mouth dreams mean that you lied about something and you subconsciously feel guilty about it. or something.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.spiritcommunity.com/dreams/Book1Chapter1993.html

(but keep in mind this site is called "Spirit Community"... eww.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I had this two years ago during the holidays. I remarked upon it to a friend after my second or third memory of it and he told me that it means that you feel powerless. I thought that was odd at the time, but now I think it may have been quite appropriate.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It means that you can either choose 23 'lix0rs, 16 female, 7 male to rebuild ILX after it is destroyed or save your teeth and doom the board to TOTAL ANNIHILATION!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It means that you're grinding your teeth in your sleep.

The worst teeth dream I've had was this one where my teeth started vibrating very painfully, fell out, and there was a giant colony of MAGGOTS living in my gums!!! It was so gross

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had a lot of teeth dreams (and I've long been sort of fixated on teeth), but I've never had this particular one, which is weird as pretty much everyone I know has.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The worst teeth dream I've had was this one where my teeth started vibrating very painfully, fell out, and there was a giant colony of MAGGOTS living in my gums!!! It was so gross

Well I was eating rice, but hey, why not start that diet now?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeth dreams often literally mean you're worried about your teeth. Otherwise, they often mean you're worried about your health. And other than that, write it off as a general anxiety dream. When I'm stressed, I have nightmares about tornadoes.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never had a cavity in my life or any sort of oral surgery (knock on wood), and i never had a pathological fear of dentists (either now or as a kid). so it has to be subconscious.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Trying to determine the meaning of dreams is like trying to determine the meaning of the Bible

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I hear if your teeth fell out in your dream that means they actually fell out in real life.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I hear if you dream it means you're sleeping. It's true. Heard it on Oprah.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

IN REAL LIFE?!?!

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's my guess: the reason the teeth dream is such a common anxiety dream is because it's something we all worry about, but not consciously all the time. So teeth are in a prime spot to surface in our dreams.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually had this dream a few days ago! And yeah, it does seem to recur every so often, and in my case i'm sure it has something to do with what slutsky and Kenan said, as I lost a tooth back in high school. The tooth adjacent to the one I lost has always felt a little loose, but there aren't any problems with it; it's totally functional. But I guess there's a subconscious fear of it falling out that manifests in dreams..

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 29 May 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone told me it was caused by worries about money, but anxiety seems to be the general theme!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 29 May 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i heard impotence.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 29 May 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

nah, secret desire to join a Bulgarian circus, obviously

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 May 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

IT MEANS U R ALL GAY, TEETH R0XOR

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 29 May 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeth suck! wait, no they bite. I always get that wrong.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 May 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Freud: "The meaning of dreams 'with a dental stimulus', which often had to analyse in patients, escaped me for a long time because, to my suprise, there were invariably too strong resistancesagainst their interpretation. Overwhelming ecidence left me at last in no doubt that in males the motive force of these dreamswas derived from nothing other than the masturbatory desires of the pubertal period."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, in a footnote: "A communication by C.G. Jung informs us that dreams with a dental stimulus occuring in women have the meaning of birth dreams." -- meaning dreams about the woman giving birth.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I don't know about about Freud's idea of the dream, but I have always thought this was to do with stress or worry over something. I have had this dream a few times & it always really scares me as I have a huge fear about losing my teeth.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

scary dream about losing teeth = represents anxiety of losing teeth?

*mass freudians, jungians and lacanians split sides*

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

No, i didn't mean that! I was stressed over something else!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, I hate this dream. I have them fairly often... most memorable one was where I had all these loose teeth underneath my tongue and I was scooping them out with my finger. But they looked like shark teeth like they had at the gift shop of the science museum.

I used to have tornado/stress dreams all the time, but not so much lately. I'm not sure if it's cuz I'm less stressed or it's just a bit played out.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I vote for played out. I haven't had a dream in ages, but 90% of my dreams involve my teeth in some way. I think it is because they are John Elwayan in proportion, so it's an obvious part of my body to dream about.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't remember ever having a teeth dream. But I tend to forget dreams.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never had this dream, is that odd? I feel kind of strange now that everyone has had this dream but me.

I dream about my apartment being filled with crying cats or my friends & family turning out to be alien impostors, but nothing about teeth.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

One thing about dream interpretation that you gotta consider is that each of these symbols in your dreams aren't always going to measure up to a standard translation, and often similar symbols in our dreams mean completely different things to each person, as each symbol usually can represent a wide variety of things from person to person.

I've had the teeth falling out dream too, but it's been a VERY long time now since then; about the same time-span, I also had dreams about watching a big jumbo-jet crash into the ground from like 100 yards away...both of which occurred pretty often for about 6 months. I thought I was going crazy (I kinda was though).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

(In mine, my teeth weren't rotting, they just started falling out, and I remember trying to catch/gather them in my hands, and there were far too many to have come out of my mouth...there were like HUNDREDS of teeth falling out of my mouth.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/elway.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

I heard that dreams where your teeth are rotting and falling out means someone close to you is going to die. I don't believe it though. I recently had a dream where only ONE tooth fell out. What does that mean then? Someone NOT close to me will die? And who cares anyway!

But teeth dreams are creepy dreams.

― Margo, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think they represent fear of not taking care of yourself/watching what you do, etc. The fear manifests itself in the form of bad dental hygiene leading to teeth rotting.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/PKD_MAN_WHOS_TEETH.jpg

― sexyDancer, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I had one of those today. :(

― Ask For Janice (thatgirl), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I just read the TITLE of this thread and I tremble in fear.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Good grief, I had that dream just last week! I looked at my teeth, and they were all red around the edges, and loose. I pulled one of my front teeth out! Ugh, it was horrible.... A relief to wake up.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

But Jody have you had the dream..?

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

all the molars on right side of my mouth, top and bottom, came out. :(

― Ask For Janice (thatgirl), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Count yourselves lucky you haven't had the one where yr dick falls off.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Luckily, after some worrying, I always manage to put it back on. It seems to have some sort of natural adhesive quality.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure it's quite sticky to begin with.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

But Jody have you had the dream..?

i have the dream all the time.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

never had this dream. why the fuck not?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

for me that dream means i need to go to the dentist and i should stop putting it off.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i have this dream often

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Turbine boosted subterfuge
times four hundred and twenty two:
a delicate rearrangement
of each other's living room,
the surprise of first seeing
the inexplicable sprayed
across every stick of
furniture and dingy wall.
"It's as if I was
like turbo-charged."

A dream of front teeth,
missing and fondly recalled.

-- jack cole (jack_col...), November 30th, 2003.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I recently had a dream where I was about to change a baby's diaper it was stinky and all but the diaper turned into a Whopper I mean from Burger King like and it smelled the same and I got hongry.

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Accoring to Freud, the teeth falling out and extraction of them are symbols of castration as a punishment for masturbating.

Hmm, I checked the search engine but I couldn't find it... yet I'm sure there's been a thread about this before?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

modern thinking is that it is an anxiety dream about not having what it takes in some aspect of your life. But it's also a "working out" dream meaning that if you remember it, you're brain's creatively working on how to deal with your issue of stress.

― Ask For Janice (thatgirl), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I woke up during one of these dreams and discoevred I was clenching my teeth very hard, and was indeed in danger of breaking them. I've always thought the teeth-breaking dream was a way of avoiding saying something to yourself in yourself, something that part of you doesn't want to hear.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Found it! Note how I say the same things on that thread that I say on this thread, like a broken record:

i don't feel my teeth!!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, there's a link on that thread to this thread, creating a feedback loop that may destroy us all!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Ms. Lurex... I've never had this dream up until two years ago (long after I started jacking off), and I'm pretty damned sure it has everything to do with the fact that I'm two years overdue for not only a dental cleaning, but some cavity-work as well. I've been chewing sugarless gum and swishing ACT like crazy in the interim, but the dream persists in showing up once every few months.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It means that you're grinding your teeth in your sleep.
I do this quite a lot. As well as dreaming my teeth crumble. This is because you are in emotional distress. So in a way music mole is write: underneath you're worrying too much.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

My dream's a little different I think. My teeth seem to clump together into big, sharp-edged clumps of teeth, like breaking a set of vampire dentures into a few pieces.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

And then I pull them out.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

im still kind of awed by how common this dream is, and it's not like ppl read abt this dream and then have the dream, most ppl have it independantly before they even realise how common it is, or at least i did... im kind of more interested in that aspect of it,the mechanics of how so many ppl experience these near identical thoughts - i wonder if it's just as common in non western societies?

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm having this dream during my eighth month of pregnancy. I can buy into three theories given my current situation. 1 -- Loss of sexuality / poor body image. 2 -- The beginning of a new stage of life (as in tooth loss in childhood). 3 -- Loss of control over aspects of my life. Hard to say which it really is.

― brady h, Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't even worry about it, it's probably all three.

― LC, Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Bar accosting/horse chomp/dentist's chair scene in Cremaster 3.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 4 April 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I am really amazed by how common this dream is, it's quite a relief actually. I've had different versions of the dream for a couple years now and I always wake up frightened/anxious.

― CG, Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ive recently had this dream and my teeth r now getting slightly loose, so i went to dentist and she sed that i grind my teeth!!! so from now on im goin 2 wear a gumguard wen i go 2 bed!

― kelly, Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome.

― Fr4ncis W4tlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

A) Teeth are on of the first things a person sees when they meet you, you could be worried a bout your appearance.
B)The teeth can represent the problems,as in the more teeth that fall out the more problems you have, or your mind saying hey I have no control, the teeth are falling out and you can't stop the situation.
C)the dream can be a positive message through a painless falling out of the teeth where they have no pain when they are coming out,it would be like heads up im worried here lets not spiral out of control. Or if there is pain you need to change the situation you are in or take care of the problems quickly because you all ready have too much guilt and crap to work out.

― The tooth Fairy, Sunday, 25 April 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, talk about a celebrity post!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 April 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not had this dream since my tooth actually broke (disintegrated?) while eating pasta. Since then - two crowns, two root canals and seven fillings. I hadn't seen a dentist in awhile. Now I have had seven holes drilled into my head. Smile! Before that, I always had teeth dreams. Hmmm...I wonder why?

― aimurchie, Sunday, 25 April 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

had a dream the other night that I kept coughing up broken glass

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 31 July 2025 04:12 (two days ago)

i'm surprised i missed this thread back in the day. i made a song and a one-off zine both titled "teeth in the rug." standing at the bathroom mirror, teeth loose in my jaw, pulling them out, etc.

sample of lyrics (if memory serves):

vicious fucking dream
vicious fucking dream
there's teeth in the rug
they fell in the basin
my tongue's out

no doctor could fix this
there's no more sleep

― andrew m., Thursday, 31 July 2025 15:36 (two days ago)

Surprised I missed this too. I’ve had forms of this dream all my life starting at age five or six

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 July 2025 21:15 (two days ago)

I have never had this dream. Definitely had weird things like having an abundance of head or facial hair, or being completely bald. Other more body-horror type things too. But no teeth falling out.

― Floyd 'The Oyd' Lloyd (dog latin), Thursday, 31 July 2025 21:18 (two days ago)

this is a frequent one; i'd guess it's because i clench or grind my teeth. interchangeable with dreams where i'm wearing my retainer, which is funny since i completely avoided wearing that (and the ortho, based on what she saw, complimented my diligence about wearing!)

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 1 August 2025 14:57 (yesterday)

oh man, I used to have dreams about my retainer somehow becoming fused with my teeth so that I was unable to get it out

― sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2025 15:02 (yesterday)

and I used to have the falling-out dream but not anymore, my theory is it's guilt-related

― sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2025 15:02 (yesterday)

(for me anyway)

― sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2025 15:03 (yesterday)

for the last few years I don't even have a dentist anymore, yet somehow I haven't had this kind of anxiety dream for ages. When I say dream, it was more like a reality at points in the last decade!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 1 August 2025 15:09 (yesterday)

Anybody else have the dream where you're in a room somewhere and you suddenly have to pee, so you just go right there on the floor (it's usually carpet), then you think "oh shit, what have I done?!" and try to figure out how you can clean it up before somebody else comes in?

Didn't think so!

― henry s, Friday, 1 August 2025 15:24 (yesterday)

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