“To dream about losing a tooth represents man’s innermost worries — concerns about dying, aging, weakness, destitution and loneliness.”
- dreamforth.com’s dictionary entry for “toothless”
… In that case, I suppose dreaming about losing multiple teeth means that you are well nigh dead from worry?
This is my new recurring nightmare. I actually dreamt it twice last night, both times totally convinced that it was real—that this time my teeth really were falling out and we wouldn’t be able to get them back in. These dreams usually include a rushed trip to the emergency room, or the emergency dentist (I’m not sure if emergency dentists really exist), or the emergency something.
Now, to be fair, last night was also the first night that I had worn my retainers (which are supposed to be worn every few nights) in a couple of weeks. So it seems reasonable to infer that the aching mouth I woke up with this morning could have had more to do with those dreams than “concerns about dying, aging, and weakness.” But the dark streak in me finds that interpretation appropriate nonetheless.
How about you? Have you ever had a teeth falling out dream? Did you derive any meaning from it?
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Just for fun, two songs about teeth:
Happy Monday! 
March 29th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Hilarious. I have never dreamed of losing teeth. Now I probably will tonight!
I find the study of sleep and dreams to be fascinating. I studied it, very superficially, for a psych class in high school. I had to design a board game on it for a final project, but still, no lost teeth =)
March 29th, 2010 at 11:43 am
That is so alarming because I dream about losing all my teeth (they crack away and crumble out) a few times a week. I didn’t think I was terribly worried about dying and loneliness, but perhaps I am!
March 29th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Sarah: I actually found another interpretation which says that dreaming about losing your teeth indicates that your lies are poisoning your relationships! Awesome.
(here, under “teeth.”)
March 30th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
I can’t remember ever dreaming about teeth but I did only dream in black and white until I was 22…wonder what that means???
also…for a random bit of information there are indeed emergency dentists…I saw one…late at night for a certain little girl who knocked her teeth in.