dreams (significance of) (teeth)

Last night I dreamed that my teeth were falling out. It was the second or third dream of that sort that I’ve had recently. Last time I had this dream, it was horrifying because it wasn’t supposed to happen and I didn’t know why it was. The one before that, I think, it didn’t matter because every time a tooth would fall out, there would already be another one in its place. This time I wasn’t growing new teeth, but I’d gone to the doctor–who, incidentally, was my mother, who in real life is not a doctor–and she’d said that it was a normal disorder that she could fix. I didn’t like all my teeth falling out–I was worried about how it looked–but I was relieved that she could fix it. I think I assumed that meant she could make my teeth grow back too. So when I woke up this morning I looked up the meaning of my dream (even though I generally don’t believe that dreams mean anything) because I figured it could at least be entertaining.

Apparently, falling teeth dreams are actually quite common. And the explanations actually make a little bit of sense, but I firmly believe that that’s just because they cover worries that everyone has. I refuse to believe that dreams have any significance, but on the other hand. Repeating themes are repeating. They seem possibly important.

~ by chuckhannah on January 3, 2009.