Teeth falling out im Traum: Was es bedeuten kann

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Die kurze Antwort

Teeth dreams are among the most widely reported typical dreams. They tend to show up around worry about how we come across, loss of control, or change, and they do not foretell illness or death.

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Psychologie und Forschung

Forschung

Survey studies of typical dreams list teeth falling out or crumbling among the themes many people report at least once. No research supports a single fixed meaning. A continuity reading asks what in your waking life feels fragile, exposed or out of your hands: speaking up, being judged on appearance, money, ageing, or a situation where you feel you cannot hold on. Some people also notice these dreams after jaw clenching or dental work, so the body can supply the image while the emotion supplies the story.

Nielsen et al. 2003
Domhoff 2001

Klassische Texte

Geschichte

Artemidorus, writing in the second century, read teeth as the members of a household: upper and lower teeth stood for different people in the family, and losing one could be read as losing a person or possession. He also noted that the same image could mean relief for some dreamers, for example a debtor shedding a burden. His method depended on who the dreamer was, not on a single dictionary meaning.

Artemidorus 1644

Volkstümliche Überlieferung

Tradition, keine Wissenschaft

Tradition: American popular dream books, around 1900

Popular dream books of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century treated losing teeth as an omen of bad news or ill health. We report this as how people once read the symbol. It is not a forecast, and there is no evidence that teeth dreams predict anything.

Miller 1901

Fragen an dich selbst

Where in your life do you feel you are losing grip or being watched closely right now?
Was anyone else in the dream, and how did they react to your teeth?
What did you want to say, or keep from saying, in the days before this dream?

Quellen

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Tore A. Nielsen, Antonio L. Zadra, Valérie Simard, Sébastien Saucier, Philippe Stenstrom, Carlyle Smith, Don Kuiken (2003). The typical dreams of Canadian university students. Dreaming 13(4): 211-235.
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- Fundstelle: typical dreams questionnaire, results (Fundstelle noch nicht geprüft)
Survey of how many people report having had common dream themes (being chased, falling, teeth, flying, exams, nakedness and others) at least once.
G. William Domhoff (2001). A New Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams. Dreaming 11(1): 13-33.
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- Fundstelle: pp. 13-33 (dreams as simulations of personal concerns) (Fundstelle noch nicht geprüft)
Dreams as embodied simulations of personal concerns (the continuity view). The backbone of our psychology lens.
Artemidorus of Daldis (1644). The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica), in five books, übersetzt von Robert Wood. London.
erstmals veröffentlicht: 2nd century CE
gemeinfrei
- Fundstelle: Book I, on teeth (Fundstelle noch nicht geprüft)
Greek dream manual from the Roman era. We paraphrase the public-domain Wood translation (1644). Modern translations (White 1975, Harris-McCoy 2012, Hammond 2020) are copyrighted and only cited.
Gustavus Hindman Miller (1901). What's in a Dream (later reissued as Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted).
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- Fundstelle: entry: Teeth (Fundstelle noch nicht geprüft)
An American popular dream dictionary. Its entries are written as omens ("foretells"); we only report how people once read a symbol, never as a forecast.