What does it mean to dream about losing your teeth?

When you dream about loose or falling teeth, you should first see if there is really anything wrong with your teeth. Maybe the teeth are slightly loose and you didn’t pay attention during the day, so your subconscious mind is dreaming. I reminded you.

The psychological interpretation of dreaming about losing teeth indicates that a loved one is about to leave.

But often there is not something wrong with the teeth, but I dream about teeth falling out. What is going on?

In the past, there was a folk saying that losing teeth meant that the elderly (or relatives) would die. This was a superstition. But sometimes tooth loss and death of the elderly do happen one after another. Why? Because when people vaguely feel that an old person may die, their subconscious mind will indeed tell you by losing teeth. Because teeth are exposed bone tissue, tooth loss means "separation of flesh and blood."

There is another kind of separation of flesh and blood that is different from death. Please look at the following dream of a woman in her 40s:

My teeth are a little loose (when I woke up, I found that they were in that position in the dream) The teeth were my dentures), I quickly used my hands to hold them up, but unexpectedly they fell off when I touched them, but there was still a nerve attached. I pulled it out with a little force, but the nerve was not broken. I kept pulling it out, getting longer and longer, and more and more. I suddenly felt very scared and wanted to ask for help, but there was no one around. I felt like my intestines were about to be pulled out. I turned my head in fright and saw my husband walking out of the door.

Friends who often watch horror movies must be familiar with this set of shots. It starts with some inexplicable things that will make you feel scared. You start to follow the clues, and the more you search, the more frightened you become. When your fear reaches the extreme, the terrible answer appears in front of you. The dreamer's answer is "The husband walked out of the door", which means that her husband's departure is the source of her fear. The husband is a person who looks like flesh and blood but is not a real blood relative, so she will choose the position of dentures to describe him. She tried to save him, but instead accelerated her husband's departure. That long nerve is reminiscent of the old saying "a lotus root is cut off and a thread is broken", which is really worrying. She hoped someone could help her, but no one could. "She turned her head in fear" was actually an attempt to avoid the issue of her husband leaving, but how could she avoid it? You have to face what you should face.

Dreaming of losing teeth also means "losing face" or "speaking imprudently" and other psychological meanings.

Since there is indeed a connection between dreaming about tooth loss and the death of an old man (or other relative), why do I still say that "a tooth falls out and an old man dies" is superstitious? That’s because dreaming about losing teeth not only has this meaning, but also has many other psychological meanings. Losing teeth can also mean "losing face" or "ruining one's self-image" because losing teeth can affect one's appearance. Losing teeth also represents the psychological reflection of carelessness in speaking, because lost teeth are also things that have to be spit out from the mouth, similar to words. In addition, it can also express patience, which is what the saying goes, "knocking off teeth and swallowing them in the stomach"; it can also express the loss of decision-making power in action, because teeth can also symbolize decisiveness.

Let’s look at the dream of a 33-year-old foreign company employee:

I just bought a new lunch box, which is imported. I am very proud. Just as I was about to eat, I suddenly found that all the teeth in my mouth were missing. I woke up in a hurry. Don’t people always call work their job? Her new lunch box is her new rice bowl, and foreign companies can still be regarded as importing rice bowls. In today's era, it is not surprising that they feel proud of serving such a rice bowl. It’s just that it’s difficult for people without teeth. Teeth here refer to the ability to eat, which also symbolizes the ability to work. When she faced a job, she found or worried that she did not have the ability required for the job.

Dreaming of losing teeth is a psychological reflection of "sadness of aging" or "discarding the old and replacing it with the new". A boy dreaming of losing his teeth may be a fear of his father.

Tooth loss can also express two opposite feelings. One is the sadness of aging, because people will lose teeth when they get old. The second is the joy of growing up, because when children grow up, they have to lose their deciduous teeth and replace them with new ones. No matter how old the dreamer is, as long as he feels old or old-fashioned, he may have the former dream of losing teeth. Similarly, as long as he feels that he is growing up and abandoning the old for the new, he may have the latter dream of losing teeth.

Freud believed that losing teeth is a symbol of castration. A boy dreaming of losing teeth indicates his fear of being castrated, and this fear of being castrated is related to his potential hostility to his father. We can admit that losing teeth sometimes symbolizes castration.

However, castration itself also has a deeper symbolic meaning, which is the "loss of masculinity."

We can often find situations like this: the father is too strict and authoritarian, and suppresses his son very much. If the son is weak, he will be suppressed by the father's authority, so the son becomes very honest, very submissive, very cowardly and timid. Although such a son is not "castrated" physically, psychologically he has actually lost his masculinity and is "castrated." If a boy is faced with this situation, he will dream about being castrated, or take a step back and be more subtle and dream about his teeth falling out. This certainly includes hostility towards his father, but it is more about fear of his father than hostility.

The specific meaning of tooth loss in a dream can be determined based on the meaning of the context.