My Teeth Keep Falling Out! Options

I have these reoccuring dreams where some of my teeth fall out. And I mean very vivid, realistic dreams where I feel a tooth is loose, no pain but I can feel it against my gums. Then either some of my teeth fall out or I end up removing them.

The dreams themselves are not always the same but the theme of loosing some of my teeth happens like 3 or more times a month. Like a few days ago I had this dream where I was totally awake and alert, in my bed lying in a way that was totally normal. I didn't even know I was dreaming. But then I notice a tooth is loose, usually on the left of my jaw. I think I chew with each side equally, but one commonallity is I loose teeth on the left side. Then I kept realizing I was dreaming, actually wake up, fall right back to sleep and have the same damn dream all over again.

I have an idea about what teeth in general mean in dreams but I curious about teeth falling out. I have not been able to find anything that sheds any light on this and am hopeing someone here might have some insights.

Well in one sense I am glad to hear others have similar dreams. On the other I can't help but wonder if somehow we are not sharing some kind of psychic bond or something really out there. I mean two mods and admin, three people thousands of miles away from eachother, only thing in common is participation on this site, all having similar dreams.

One time I had a dream like this and I kept spitting up razors. I didn't want to swallow anything because they were razors and I didn't want to kill myself. So I ended up with my mouth hanging over a sink and I just kind of drooled these razor blades along with my teeth. As far as that dream goes I assumed it had to do with saying things I shouldn't or speaking about things that dangerous or may put me in danger.

I was thinking that maybe vainity could fit as vagrant dreamer suggests but like him my appearance just is not a high priority. I do think I tend to be fastidious about my oral hygen and I know a couple of my teeth are kind of crooked, not like in a real gnarly kind of way. And actually in the 8th grade I had braces and when I had them removed my teeth were perfectly straight. But I stopped wearing the retainer because it kept me awake at night and I kept thinking I've swallow it in my sleep. So a couple of my teeth got misaligned. Which was really fraustrating because before I had the braces my teeth were straight already, aside from a very minor under bite.

Another thing that stands out is that sometimes in these dreams my teeth appear damaged or decayed. And I don't want to loose my teeth so maybe it is just an unconcsious manifestation of a fear of lossing my teeth. But it could also be related to lossing overall health. I think loss of health would make more sense than vanity (for me at least).

To me, teeth represent two things: The ability to defend yourself (biting) and the (external) ability to acquire nourishment, ie. in the sense that chewing is the first act you perform when you bring food into your body.

Therefore, if I dream of my teeth falling out or succumbing to decay, these are the first areas of my life I look at: Am I worried about my ability to defend myself or about my continued ability to gain nourishment. In a transferred sense, this would mean f.ex. that I might have (sub)conscious worries about my job, health, how I appear to others etc.; Mind you though, it's not so much vanity as it is about the possibility of appearing weak (think alpha individuals who worry about loosing their status).

This would be my take on it anyway.

Cheers,

A