

The tooth dream might also mean that you are potentially facing a period of personal or professional growth. Teeth dreams may indicate that you want to go back to an easier time, when your parents, family, and teachers went out of their way to encourage and care for you. You have to make difficult decisions and work long hours words of praise can be far and few between. The dreams may stop recurring as you finish the transition.īeing a grownup is often confusing, difficult, and thankless. Teeth dreams could represent your transition from innocence to experience in a particular situation. Teeth can symbolize growing up – you are born without teeth, get baby teeth, lose your baby teeth, and get your adult teeth. So what does the dream mean? Because teeth dreams are so common and so traumatic, a number of experts have weighed in about its meaning over the years. In fact, the results of a 2012 study found that 39 percent of respondents said they had experienced the dream at least once in their lifetimes 16.2 said the dreams were recurrent and 8.2 said they regularly had the dream.īut just because something is common doesn’t mean it is not scary – just the thought of losing your teeth can keep you up at night. If you have had the “teeth falling out” dream, you are not alone. You run to the nearest mirror and are horrified by the toothless version staring back at you. You continue chewing and then, much to your surprise, a tooth falls out.

Has this ever happened to you? You are eating and suddenly something in your mouth does not feel right.
