Acesta este un guest post, desi autoarea nu stie inca asta. :)
Totul a pornit de la faptul ca azi-dimineata am visat ca-mi picau dintii (chestie care credeam ca-i foarte rara si defapt e foarte comuna) si m-am pus sa caut pe net interpretari ale visului. Stiam ca exista interpretare de frica de pierdere a potentei sexuale, asa ca l-am cautat pe Freud. Nu mi-a parut bine ca ne-am intalnit din nou, dar na, trebuia.
Apoi am citit ca inseamna ca cineva din familie o sa moara sau e grav bolnav. Gripa asta ma face sa ma gandesc…
defective yeti
What’s the deal with the “teeth falling out” dream?: A few times a year I have a dream in which my teeth are either loose or falling out. I’d always assumed that these dreams were unique to me, until a few years ago at a party when I overheard a girl describing just such a dream to a friend, who responded with “Oh yeah, ‘the teeth falling out’ dream. Everyone gets those.” I’ve since discover that this is not strictly true: not everyone gets them — The Queen doesn’t, for example. But they are certainly not rare. In fact, in The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud named it as one of the four “typical dreams,” along with “falling from a height, … flying, and embarrassment because one is naked or scantily clad.”
This was a tough one to research, not due to dearth of information on the subject, but rather because of abundance. There are a bajillion websites that purport to interpret dreams, but most of them appear to utilize the scientific method commonly referred to as “guessing.” A good example is this one which says that the “teeth falling out dream” must have to do with anxiety over children, because “animals carry their young around with their teeth.”
The most common explanation on these sites is that the “teeth falling out” dream reflects anxiety about appearance. I can see that, I guess, but it seems like that when I have this dream, I am much more concerned about the actual loss of my teeth rather than about my resultant appearance. Another common interpretation is that this results from the dreamer’s fears about “losing power”. That hits closer to home for me — in the dreams I always find myself wondering how I’m going to eat with no teeth — but I haven’t made a conscience effort to note when these dreams take place and see if they correspond with feelings of “power loss” in my waking life (like, when I’m in close proximity to Kryptonite).
Perhaps it’s the skeptic in me, but I find the most plausible explanation to be the most boring: that the dreams are a manifestation of bruxism (“the habitual, involuntary grinding or clenching of the teeth, usually during sleep”) which, according to my dentist, I show symptoms of. I guess I better get that Night Guard after all.
Bonus! Who was in The Wiz?: Dorothy: Diana Ross; The Scarecrow: Michael Jackson; The Tinman: Nipsey Russell; The Lion: Ted Ross; The Wiz: Richard Prior.
M-am simtit destul de empatica cu autoarea pana la partea cu: cred ca visez asta fiindca scrasnesc din dinti cand dorm. Apoi, dintr-o lene epica m-am pus sa citesc comentariile. Primul si cel mai sumbru comentariu zicea ca:
It’s been a long time since I read “Interpretation of Dreams”, but I believe Freud said those dreams were due to anxiety over loss, usually a major one. Of course, Freud said a lot of things, much of which has been discredited.
Pentru ca asta explica niste chestii pe care eu incerc sa nu le bag in seama. Dar comentatorii devin din ce in ce mai patetici (plini de pasiune, adica, ca asta inseamna patetic) si intriga ia intorsaturi amuzante: :))
- I’m not sure if a tooth dream would be caused by bruxism or not, but I can tell you for sure that it doesn’t work the other way around. I’ve never had a dream about losing my teeth, but I have such severe bruxism that one dentist said that my teeth look like what he’d expect of a 50 year old. I’m 32. So I had to get a custom-fitted, $400 mouth guard. Which is now worn through in spots. Yeah. I grind my teeth alot.
- I always figured that it was (wait for it…wait for it…) a dream reflecting anxiety about losing ones teeth. But hey, maybe I’m just overly literal-minded.
Seriously, though, my big spate of tooth-loss dreams hit me at around the same time that my gums first started receding. I suspect that a lot of people start getting them at around the age when they first notice that they are becoming, quite literally, “long in the tooth.” So on some level, perhaps it is also a dream reflecting anxiety about the physical manifestations of the natural aging process.
- And I’m not a tooth-grinder. But, it does seem strange that so many of us subconsciously fear the same thing. I think it’s a shared dark spirit of mastication issues deep in our psyche.
:))
- There’s that other tooth-themed novel/movie, “Ruben Ruben” where the protagonist’s worst fear is toothlessness, and then he bangs a woman who’s married to a dentist, and the dentist finds out about his wife’s affair with the protagonist, and then the protagonist needs dental work and goes to the dentist-husband and wheee! What could more comical than some vengeful unnecessary tooth-pulling that results in suicide?
Tare-as vrea sa vad filmul ala acum! Cu persoana asta, care a comentat. :)
- The other night I dreamed I was eating a giant marshma-OWWW, QUIT IT! Okay, I’m sorrrrry!!!!
Si cea mai tare:
- Years ago I worked on a phone psychic line. A very upset woman called asking for someone to interpret some dreams. She and her boyfriend had both dreamed of losing their teeth, she said, and according to a book she’d borrowed, this meant that they were surely going to die.
A little further conversation revealed that she had dreamed about needing help to pull her own tooth because she couldn’t do it alone. Meanwhile, the boyfriend dreamed of his teeth falling out and being unable to stop them. The woman then casually mentioned that she wanted to leave the boyfriend but didn’t feel up to doing it alone; she needed help. He was fully aware of her plans and knew he couldn’t stop her.
You didn’t need to be a psychic to figure out those interpretations. She was just relieved to hear she wasn’t facing imminent death.
Na deci, cu ce-am ramas din asta? Cu mai putina paranoia si cu un semi-zambet pe fata venit de la cat de ridicol suna subiectul, dupa ce-a fost disecat in o mie de parti de o gramada de oameni cu aparate dentare si experiente malefice la dentist. Eu zic ca nu mi-e frica de pierderea nimanui (ca asta e singura interpretare care s-ar potrivi). E prima-prima oara cand am visat asa ceva. Voi ati visat asta vreodata?
