This can be connected to human vanity surrounding our appearance, and our anxiety at being deemed ugly or poorly turned out to our peers. This can be a sign you are not as happy as you could be, and that this hidden problem is holding you back. How Common Are They?ĭreams surrounding teeth are some of the most commonly experienced dreams, and they can take on many different forms.įrom teeth being made of gold, to having unclean teeth, to dreams where they break and become damaged, each of these is thought to refer to anxiety and confidence (or lack thereof).ĭreams of golden teeth are thought to refer to strength and resilience, suggesting a confidence and fortitude against future problems.ĭreams about rotting or broken teeth can be related to hidden problems or secrets that are manifesting themselves in the dream. This was later supported and expanded upon by Carl Jung and others, and this has come to be considered the closest understanding of where dreams come from, at least from a sense of narrative and meaning. Psychologists and dream experts have pondered the subject for years, going back and forth about what these commonly held dreams can mean on a psychological level.Īustrian psychologist Sigmund Freud believed that a person’s dreams reflected their unconscious desires, anxieties, and opinions. However, the subject of these dreams (and patterns therein) are dependent on verbal retelling, as such there is no concrete proof. This has been observed in animals as well, suggesting that they too dream when asleep. They occur mainly in the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep, when the human mind is most highly functioning and almost resembles being awake. Human beings spend around 2 hours dreaming per night, and whilst the dream can seem much longer than this to the dreaming person, each bout usually only lasts between 5-20 minutes. Dreams about losing our teeth can be especially strange and troubling, after all our teeth are important for both eating, talking, and make up a large part of the aesthetics of our faces.īut just how common are these dreams, and exactly what do they mean? Dreamsĭreaming is a succession of images, ideas, sensation and emotions which usually occur involuntarily in the mind during sleep.

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