Dream About Teeth
Shows how reliable the body's defenses are — and how reliable the people close to you are.
Teeth in a dream
Shows the degree of reliability of both the body's defense system — its capacity to attack or to resist — and of one's immediate circle: friends and family. The loss of one or more teeth reflects a loss of vital force and tone.
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What does teeth mean in a dream?
Teeth are a functional symbol with a double aspect, physical and social. On the physical side, teeth show the reliability of the body's defense system — the ability to 'bite' (attack) or to 'grit one's teeth' (resist). On the social side, they reflect the reliability of one's closest circle: friends, relatives, the people one counts on. Losing teeth is one of the most common and most alarming dream plots. In scientific interpretation its meaning is unambiguous: a loss of vital force and tone. Each lost tooth stands for a specific loss — of a resource, a support, a source of energy. If one tooth falls out, the loss is targeted; if all of them crumble, the crisis is systemic. The state of the teeth reflects the person's current 'fighting condition': strong healthy teeth mean the person can defend themselves and get what they want; diseased, loose teeth mean the defenses are weakened. Which teeth are involved also matters: the front teeth relate to one's public face, the back teeth to hidden reserves.
What do different contexts of teeth in a dream mean?
Teeth falling out
A loss of vital force and tone. Each fallen tooth is a specific loss — of a resource, a support, a source of energy. One of the most common and most significant dream plots.
Crumbling teeth
A systemic loss of vital resources — the situation is worsening on every front at once. It calls for a serious reassessment of one's current position.
Strong healthy teeth
The defense systems are in good condition, the circle of people around you is reliable, and there is enough vital energy in reserve for both attack and resistance.
Dental treatment
An attempt to restore lost resources or shore up weakened defenses. How the treatment goes in the dream shows how well the attempt is succeeding.
More symbols in dream dictionary
Celebrity
Represents a typology that sums up or precisely defines a way of living or behaving.
Gold
Closely related to the dream image of Jewels.
Umbrella
Though meant to shield us from sun and rain, in reality it stands for the loss of a basic element of life (sun and water), since this mechanically opening and closing object is not vital to the person.
Willow
Sadness and hurt rooted in sexual drives that have found no outlet.
Needle
Points to foreign influences being implanted in the psyche — the penetration of a negative matrix.
Game
Empty pastime, compulsive behavior, going around in circles.
Toy
One of the forms the destructive program (the 'grid') takes: a useless object that soaks up the person's effort and quietly writes their attitudes to life.
Ideal
Either false convictions that have already come crashing down, or high dreams that still drive the person on.
Walking
A neutral action in itself; its interpretation depends on where the dreamer is heading or what they are leaving behind.
Hieroglyphs
Express the workings of a mechanism that operates against the person.
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