Here are a few additional ideas about the image of teeth in dreams that might also be helpful.
For example, over the centuries, the rows of teeth have been seen by people as the “battlements” protecting the inner soul, and this idea crops up in dreams. If the teeth are in bad condition, falling out etc., it could point for instance to some misguided attitude or way of looking at things that is putting the person’s overall outlook and behaviour at risk in some way.
Also, the image of teeth loosening and falling out often relates to anxiety dreams. Maybe a person recently experienced an upsetting incident, but might not have seen how it affected them and the dream is trying to point out that any unacknowledged anxiety could take hold too much if not dealt with in some way.
Additionally, teeth can sometimes symbolize aggressiveness. Eventually becoming rotten, falling out etc. could therefore point to a certain aggressiveness being the specific type of “misguided attitude” mentioned above, but a person could be very unconscious of the fact that he or she even experienced having aggressive feelings towards others, so the dream makes it plain in the image of teeth falling out etc.
In addition, in times past when the image of losing one’s teeth appeared in a dream, the automatic and mostly superstitious assumption was that it was connected in some way with physical death although in reality, it normally represents a danger to overall psychological health.
The idea of death being attached to the image of losing one’s teeth in a dream could have arisen from the fact that in the past, older people often would have lost all of their teeth and this would make it hard for them to consume adequate nourishment, contributing significantly to illness and death. Scurvy also caused the teeth to fall out and death usually followed soon after. As Pantodragon said, the inability to effectively “chew over”, swallow and digest various psychological issues can lead to serious problems in the long run.
Svance22’s dream about pulling out a long cancerous string touches on the same idea, that is, some usual way of thinking and acting is, or could potentially become, “deadly” if not worked at consciously “in the open” and not left “buried inside” too often.
As always, gathering spontaneous memories, thoughts and feelings about a given image in a dream can be a starting point in finding at least a basic clue about its meaning.
If a generally good interpretation is hit upon by the person, then a recurring dream should stop or at least happen much less often, especially if any appropriate changes the person makes are kept up over time.
I hope these added ideas can be helpful in some way.
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