Lack of Teeth

For the second time that I can remember, I dreamed my teeth were falling out. Beside that it may have been due this time to the fact that I was laying on the floor and woke up with a side of my face feeling a bit numb and my teeth kind of hurting, this is also what I found out about these kinds of dreams...

"Dreams of falling teeth are the most common dreams that Dream Moods receives. The typical dream scenarios include having your teeth crumble in your hands, fall out one by one with just a light tap, grow crooked or start to rot. Such dreams are not only horrifying and shocking, but they often leave you with a lasting image of the dream. So what does it mean?

One theory is that dreams about your teeth reflect your anxieties about your appearance and how others perceive you. Your teeth help to convey an image of attractiveness and play an important role in the game of flirtation, whether it is flashing those pearly white, kissing or necking. Thus, such dreams may stem from a fear of rejection, sexual impotence or the consequences of getting old. To support this notion, a dream research found that women in menopause report to have frequent dreams about teeth. This points to teeth dreams as being related to getting older and/or feeling unattractive and less feminine. Teeth are an important feature to your attractiveness and how you are presented to others. Caring about how you look is natural and healthy.

Another rationalization for these falling teeth dreams may be rooted in your fear of being embarrassed or making a fool of yourself in some situation. These dreams are an over-exaggeration of your worries and anxieties. Perhaps you feel that you are unprepared for the task at hand. However, you will find that your worries are unfounded in most cases. Sometimes what plays out in your mind is far worse than what is reality.

Teeth are used to bite, tear, chew and gnaw. In this regard, teeth symbolize power. And the loss of teeth in your dream may be from a sense of powerlessness. Are you lacking power in some current situation? Perhaps you are having difficulties expressing yourself or getting your point across. You feel frustrated when your voice is not being heard. You may be experiencing feelings of inferiority and a lack of self-confidence in some situation or relationship in your life. This dream may be an indication that you need to be more assertive and believe in the importance of what you have to say."

Based on today's events, either of these explanations are appropriate. To start, I drove all the way to my cousin's house to take her to work with me only to realize I didn't have the keys to the shop door. So I go home and get them. Making my way back to the shop I realize I don't have the towels. Actually, I didn't even wash them. Get to the shop and they barely have any towels usable for cleaning with, but we couldn't even clean the back because some machines were getting worked on. So we clean and we leave. I get home and start the washing of the towels. Once they're done, we go to the gas station and are on our way to the shop to give them the towels because they need clean towels. But OH! The towels are NOT IN THE CAR! My fault. So we go back home, get the towels, drive back to the shop and drop them off. I get home and put some ground beef in the sink to thaw while I then promptly find my way to my room and become a lifeless slab of ground beef and fall asleep in the middle of the floor...not before finishing off that last blog which I barely remember writing. So I dream my teeth are falling out. I don't remember much, but I do remember looking in the mirror and seeing my front row of teeth still intact and thinking well at least I can still take pictures, but then they started falling out, too. I had like 5 teeth left when I finally woke up and my face kind of hurt. There was a guy and a woman in my dream, too, but I don't remember who they were. I'm eating some tacos now. My teeth are not falling out. But today hasn't been my day at all. I guess for every up there must be a down? Is this the downward spiral before the upward spring that is my birthday? Maybe? I hope so...

Hasta la pasta,
Mouse <:3 )~