One of the worst things that can happen to a person during sleep is a nightmare. In today's ever faster society stress and external factors can affect the course of someone's sleep pattern, so nightmares are a growing occurrence these days. Stress, medicine, lack of sleep and lots more factors contribute to the creation of nightmares. One of these and a nightmare that occurs to many people is the “missing teeth” nightmare, but what does it mean?
The “falling teeth” dream is believe it or not one of the most common nightmares in the book. It happens to more people than you might initally have expected! These dreams unfold in very similar ways and have many subtle variations (for example you might experience crumbling teeth or alternatively your teeth may fall out one by one. These dreams are surely shocking, disturbing and remain in the dreamer's mind a long time after they are awake, but like all nightmares, they have their origins in the dreams psyche.
One of the best theories about these dreams concerns the ever growing importance of the way you look in society, the importance of teeth in sexual attraction and in everyday life. This fear of loosing teeth may have a direct root in the importance that teeth have, and may disclose fear about impotence or the all too common fear of getting old. So one of the reasons for these dreams is as we've seen deeply rooted in the real world and it is a concern that affects all of us.
Another interpretation of the common falling teeth dream is the omnipresent fear of being embarrassed in public. The dreams that are linked to these can be easily overpowered by eliminating anxiety and the worries that cause them. Another of the explanations given by researchers is that you feel powerless in your life and because teeth represent power (the power to byte, chew), the lack of power in your life may be responsible for these be experiences. It may be your wife's lack of attention, you feel pressured at work, and so on; this dream is telling you that you need to put your foot down and take a stand, have an opinion, develop an attitude. Finally, one of the last common theories is that women at menopause dream of loosing their teeth because they fear they will get old.
A couple of not so scientific theories about the “falling teeth dream” are deeply rooted in the traditions of Christians, the Greek and other cultures. One of the first theories states that falling teeth mean the loss of faith in God , the Greek explanation states that when you dream of falling teeth someone close to you will die or is very seek and the Chinese say that these dreams mean that you are a big liar in real life. One of the last and most appealing theories is that falling dreams means financial growth, mainly due to the fact that falling teeth are associated with the tooth fairy.