Tooth Dreams Explained & the Law of Attraction

[The Cusp]

Almost everyone has had a disturbing dream about their teeth and wondered what it meat. I recently had a dream where I was peeling the skin off my hand that felt so much like a tooth dream, it led me to ponder the the source of this dream yet again. The awnser lies in one commonality every dreamer has in common. Dreams are not the random, chaotic mess of imagery they appear to be. In fact they all unfold according to one universal rule. Wherever you direct your attention will create detail. The more attention you give something, the more complex it will become. This holds true for objects, plotlines, dream characters, or even yourself. Everything in your dreams can be expanded exponentially. All you have to do is look in any dream journal here and you will see tons of examples of what I'm talking about In regards to tooth dream, they have no meaning. They hook your attention with your concern for your teeth. Once your attention zooms in, it begins to create more and more detail, pulling you in further and further into that aspect of the dream. This is the pitfall of lucid dreamers, everything in dreams is a potential black hole of detail waiting to swallow you up. I'm still working out how this relates to dream control and stabalizing dreams. Spinning is just a way of focusing your attention on your body through the feeling of movement, allowing you to strengthen it with detail.

[KuRoSaKi]

Wow you just totally explained what happened to me in a dream I had a few days ago. I was looking a glass window and I noticed my front top left tooth was WAY chipped. Then I noticed my teeth were all different sizes and in very bad condition. Then my gums started becoming a terrible looking mass with really bad teeth contained within with holes in them, chipped, and jagged. And you are very right it was if it had zoomed in showing all of the bad things in my mouth. (No I have Some good Teeth In RL) Thanks for Explaining/Clearing that up though.

[sourcejedi]

Nice explanation. I can't remember anything quite as disturbingly graphic as Brandon's dream, but I have had the teeth-falling out dream myself. I would disagree that the explanation implies they have "no meaning". You have to think about your teeth to start with before the more detail-more attention-more detail cycle kicks in, and there might be factors that make you more or less strongly affected by the cycle (that is, how fast it works, how long you dream about it, how strongly you react emotionally in a dream about having your teeth drop out). There can be a message in the fact that you start to think about your teeth, or that they interest you enough to pay attention to them. That said, I can see the point that once this cycle kicks in, you can seem to be having a very significant dream about your teeth but it need not be important in any way.

[The Cusp]

You have to think about your teeth to start with before the more detail-more attention-more detail cycle kicks in That cycle is always in effect, and dictates the shape of your dreams completely. The tooth dreams are just an extreme example. The process of directing attention and forming detail is always happening. It's just normaly more spread out and balanced. This happens not only for things you look at, but also for things you think about in reaction to dream scene around you. It's a clear chain of your attention jumping from one thing to another. Every element in your dreams is a direct result where you directed your attention previously. Say you dream of a woman in uniform. If the first thing you look at is her cleavage, the dream may unfold in a sexual manner. If stop to pay attention to her uniform, you may find yourself in jail. In a sense you level of confidence affects your dreams, but ultimately, that just influences where you direct your attention again. The only meaning to be found is in where and why you choose to focus your attention. Tooth problems are such a universal an inevitable occurance, making it an inviting trap to swallow up your dream attention completely. I think this is going to help me to teleport in dreams, and I won't waste so much lucid time traveling.

[skysaw]

Wherever you direct your attention will create detail. The more attention you give something, the more complex it will become. Interesting. Sounds reasonable.

[Lunalight]

That sounds reasonable. I've had a few 'teeth-falling-out-before-my-eyes' dreams, and as I had braces for three years, they were scary. Now that totally makes sense.

[The Cusp]

That Law of attraction may apply to waking life as well. As I was walking to work today, there was a green wrapper crumpled in a ball on the ground. It glinted in the sun and caught my attention, and for a moment, it's round shape made me thing it was a cool looking marble. I actually saw a marble. Then I another feature of this "marble" caught my eye, and as I inspected that particular feature, the rest of it looked more like a ring. And again, I actually saw a ring. The closer I got, the less the features of the ring made sense, and then I saw what it really was, a crumpled wrapper. This was a perfect example of how things change in dreams, only it happened to me while i was awake. This Law of Attraction I've discovered has so many implications and applications, I could write a book on it!

[RedfishBluefish]

This is interesting; it could explain a few things, such as that text changes when you look away and look at it again. I suppose this phenomenon could be something your brain does to conserve memory and 'CPU cycles' (to use a computer analogy). If so, this could also explain why some people lose lucidity: they focus too hard on their surroundings, perhaps leaving little brainpower for stuff like actually REMEMBERing that they are dreaming. Of course I don't know, so there you are...

[Asymptote]

Wow! I like your explanation! It certainly does a lot to explain all the "teeth-falling-out" dreams I've had, and why I've remembered them so vividly...

[The Cusp]

I had read somewhere that you're always dreaming. When you sleep, you are only dreaming. When you are awake, you are dreaming + awake. The dream state never ends, only your waking state does.