# Freaking teeth falling out. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128 "2000-10-08T06:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/21 "2000-10-09T00:52:11Z")
Valerie - Ouch! That sounds painful. Mine are never painful, just really freaky. I can feel the teeth coming apart and crumbling into a chalky mush, like sand, only bigger pieces. Strangely, I have no recollection of the dreams past this point. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/22 "2000-10-09T01:17:46Z")
Mine are just like that too - tiny, mushy pebbles in my mouth and no pain. In my dreams, I can sometimes generate them by running my tongue over my disintegrating teeth. (Of course, then I can’t stop myself from doing this.) Sometimes I seem to get more pebbles than original teeth. Very disturbing with an unsettling feeling that lasts about an hour after I wake up. Maybe my teeth are telling me to go see a dentist. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/23 "2000-10-09T01:36:18Z")
I have a recurring fear and nightmare of my teeth being methodically broken and pulled using large nail clippers…grosses me out. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/24 "2000-10-09T06:02:22Z")
Me? I’m just waiting for **Satan** to post here. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/25 "2000-10-09T12:37:27Z")
I had a similar dream and posted about it a while back. Check [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36218) for some relevant info. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/26 "2000-10-09T13:04:26Z")
The day I had dental surgery, I had a dream that night that my older sister came into my bedroom, shot me in the back of the neck with a rifle, and my teeth flew out. I am always having violent dreams that I’m lying on my floormat and something terrible happens to me. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/27 "2002-03-12T05:57:17Z")
Wow! I’m not alone!! Mine sound like Demo’s dreams - my teeth just painlessly crumble and become like pebbles. Sometimes I get a mouth full of crushed broken teeth and I have to keep spitting them out. I wake up freaked out and have to check my teeth. I don’t buy the explanation that I read that said it’s caused by guilt over lies that are hurting someone - I don’t have outstanding lies to feel guilty about. I’m also surprised that vanity is mentioned, because I’m not terribly fussy about my looks. Furthermore, I’m not a mother, so I can’t understand the maternal guilt explanation, and as for the sex thing… I find it hard to believe. So that leaves - nothing! I’ve always figured it’s because I feel guilty over not going to the dentist more often, but I’m so phobic of dentists now that I’m not prepared to go unless I’m in pain. Still, I would expect to have something set off the dentist guilt, but I don’t always dream about my teeth when I have been thinking of dentists, and I haven’t always been thinking about dentists when I do get the dreams. The grinding teeth thing is possible. When I was about 16 my dentist said “Hmmm… a bit of wear there… do you grind your teeth in your sleep?” and I said “How the hell would I know?”. Seems like a stupid question if you ask me! ---
**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/28 "2002-03-12T06:08:39Z")
Oh, man. The teeth-falling-out dream. I hate that one. I get it when I’m stressed. I notice a loose tooth, then I’m tasting blood, then suddenly I’m spitting them out one by one. When I wake up I don’t know whether to be horrified or to cry inconsolably. ---
**Author:** ![BalmainBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@BalmainBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BalmainBoy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/29 "2002-03-12T08:09:21Z")
In my dream, the dentist says “The teeth are fine, but the gums will have to come out…” ---
**Author:** ![sulamith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sulamith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulamith)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/30 "2002-03-12T11:32:48Z")
Thank goodness I’m not the only one with this weird thing going on. I have had many different variations of this dream. The worst was the one where I was about to walk down the aisle at my wedding and all my teeth fell out in the back of the church. I started looking for them with blood pouring down the front of my wedding dress. OR, The one where they were loose so I started pulling them out myself and large chunks of my palate and jaw were coming with them, and it didin’t hurt as my whole face was caving in. BLECK! A friend of mine has a dream analysis book, and in it it says that tooth loss dreams mean worries are passing. I don’t know about that. Those dreams make me pretty worried about why I’m having the damn dream! ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/31 "2002-03-12T14:37:03Z")
Damn, Homer, it’s like pulling teeth to get you to open up about yourself.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128/32 "2002-03-12T17:08:47Z")
Oh, I’ve had many variations of this dream usually as a result of one or more of the following: 1. when I’ve forgotten to floss or if I’ve eaten something that makes my gums sore 2. general stress I’ve never had blood in my tooth-fall-out dreams. But I have had them all become loose like a row of dominoes falling over. And in these dreams I always, ALWAYS end up spitting teeth out, one at a time in amounts that far exceed the number of teeth the any human could possibly have. I call these “Chicklet Dreams”. (In the dreams, my teeth are usually bigger, whiter and more square than in real life.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaking-teeth-falling-out/36128.md?page=1)