Teeth Crumbling Dream
A dream featuring teeth crumbling generally represents feelings of powerlessness. This teeth dream imagery reflects insecurity you are currently experiencing in some area of your life. The concerns could be about personal health, body image, relationship or job related. When you see you teeth crumble in your dream, you are reminded of the cost of a decision you’ve made or a dilemma that can be costly or risky. Crumbling teeth dreams can be a call to look at what is falling apart in your life and need some attention.
Dream meanings of crumbling teeth
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Dreaming about crumbling teeth could represent:
- A costly compromise or decision
- Things are falling apart
- Feeling powerless, losing your power
- Fear of the effect of aging on health and body
Crumbling teeth: Dream symbol for costly compromises
Crumbling teeth in your dream symbolize the cost of making a compromise that could be difficult to sustain long term. Dreaming of crumbling teeth reflect ambivalence you feel about a challenging situation or difficult choice you’ve made recently.
Perhaps you are feeling you have been giving your personal power away in a relationship or are staying in job or company that does not fully satisfy you. Dreaming about teeth crumbling points to the cost of this compromise. For instance you may experience frustration, feeling you’re wasting your talent or your time, value conflicts, tension within yourself or with others.
Teeth crumbling in a dream: When things fall apart in your life
A dream about crumbling teeth could also be a pun on the word “crumbling”: Typically, when things get out of control or are being destroyed under some pressure, we say that they “crumble”. Dreaming of crumbling teeth could indicate that this destructive dynamic is playing in your life.
The idea of losing your teeth or having teeth crumble could point to the fear or concern over losing your power, being involved in a situation where you feel powerless. Crumbling teeth could remind you in dream images that what was once stable and long-standing could very well be unstable and subject to change.
A possible interpretation for this type of teeth dream is about fear of physical aging, losing teeth as they crumble being a symbol of the effect of aging.
Crumbling teeth dream interpretation: Putting it all together
A dream about crumbling teeth is a reminder of consequences of a decision you’ve made. It usually symbolizes a compromise that is costly to you or possibly to people close to you.
When your teeth are crumbling in your dream, ask yourself how viable your decision is long term and consider what other options are available to you.
This teeth dream theme is closely related to the idea of things falling apart, both literally and symbolically. To further interpret your dream, ask yourself:
- What is currently crumbling under your feet or around you?
- Do you have the feeling that things are falling apart in your life?
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I keep dreaming that I open my mouth and I’m panicking hold out my hands and my teeth are crumbling as I’m spitting lots off blood out, but there is hundreds of tiny red balls coming out! That’s what’s confusing me they are not stones they are like squishy tiny balls and they keep coming with my teeth then I wake up every night feeling my mouth sometimes crying?????:(
i could feel my teeth crumbling i spat them in to my hand and its was bits of teeth it felt like 3 when i looked in the mirror it was only 1 then i felt them and they were all back in my mouth what does this mean?
In my dream I was talking to the guy I have a crush on & for some reason I was crying & then i held my hand over my mouth & then I started to scream & he just stared at me & I saw all my teeth falling out with braces on them & they all just started pulling out & falling into my hand it was really nasty looking then I fell down on the ground while running it was weird I dont know what it meant.
I dreamt I was biting a fingernail and my right front tooth cracked in half. I started Freaking out saying I knew this was going to happen and I sowed a drones of mine in my dream and she said it was no big deal. I ran into the bathroom and looked and it turns out all of my top teeth on the right side of my mouth except my back molar had crumbled out. Then as I was looking in the mirror the half of my front tooth started to slide out sideways and the part that was attached to my to my gums was the top part of a shark tooth. Then the rest of the left top side of my teeth crumbled out and except for my other back molar. I called my mom on the phone and told her I had to go to the dentist and I had to get them fixed right away but she didn’t believe me and said it wasn’t that bad and we had to go somewhere and it could wait.
Ive had the same dream over and over where my teeth start to crumble (like crushing a rock) and fall out of my mouth starting with the front bottom teeth. some just fall out in whole but the rest crumble. there is no blood or pain but every time i open my mouth they start to crumble, they grow back and do the same thing. its like a never ending crumble of my teeth.
I have had this dream many times. All the dream is about is my teeth are all crumbling and keep constantly falling out in handfuls and dont stop. And when I wake up it feels like it was real.
I dreamed that a tooth fell off, I then looked in the mirror and the whole front teeth fell on my left hand like sand. I looked in the mirror and saw tooth decade on my right side of my gums. I freaked then woke up.
In my dream I am talking to friends and family, i notice that a tooth is wobbly and I exhaust it with my tongue till it comes out. when it’s out I panic because adult teeth aren’t supposed to come out. The tooth that comes out is the incisor, you know the pointy one, bottom right hand side one. I put it back in and it heals. I then close my mouth and my molars crumble and break and blood is pouring and i just panic more and more, no one around me notices. I fall to the ground hysterical and it goes black. once its gone black I wake up.
Its a recurring dream i have been having. when i finally fall back asleep I dream it again.
Hi, my teeth became soft and squishy in my gums, my gums also broke and fell out in pieces with my soft teeth still lodged in the gums?
Thank you.
I was in my grans house which had exactly the sane layout as real life however one bedroom had been split in half so it was a bedroom and a bathroom also instead of it being my grans house it was my mums and me and my partner lived there. In the new bathoom there was a cute but vicious dog that was chained to the side of the toilet with a muzzle that wasnt on but was meant to be.. I was dying for a wee so i went o the other toilet which was like an aquarium, toilet was full to the brim with water and there was a really big fat blue fish vobbing round in circles on top of it.
My husband and I were sitting in a pick up truck over looking some body of water, when the teeth in the back of my mouth started to crunch and crumble all of a sudden and I started spitting out peices of my teeth and handing them to my husband.
It freaked me out so bad that I woke up and checked my mouth.
I had the same dream… smh
I dreamt my teeth were falling out and crumbling
I kept spitting bit of tooth out and when I closed my mouth, I was crunching my teeth
My dad was also in the dream, he took me to hospital, where they told me my teeth were crumbling like this because I had a fatal disease and that I would most likely be dead within 24hours
I dreamt that as I stretched my mouth a certain way my teeth would move and start popping out and crumbling. It was like rock candy in my mouth, except with y teeth. So I was trying to get to my room to tell my dad that my teeth were coming out, but the closer I got to my room, the faster they’d begin to crumble. I never made it to my room because I woke up really freaked.
I’ve had the exact same dream where I’m sitting there with one of my parents and my teeth start crumbling out and I start crying and the crumbled teeth are in my hands and I get the worst feeling wake up in a panic. In the dream, nobody really cares they go on as if its no big deal. Growing up I was told someone was sick or passing away but this same nightmare/dream is exactly the same atleast once a week
I dreamt my molars crumbled into pieces like eggshell no blood they just crumble completely, so i spit the pieces out go to mirror and see all my teeth are bad :s they are hallow some with cavities others huge holes but dont fall and my thought at the end is im gonna have to get implants.
I’ve had the exact same dream! And I was always scared of people seeing me with my mouth full of crumbled teeth…
I’m having dreams were some of my teeth crumble in my mouth
N I spit them out n some fall out. I don’t know what it means.
Does anyone know or have an opinion.
I keep having horrible dreams were my teeth crumble in my mouth one by one and I’m walking about with my teeth in my mouth and there making me gag, what does it mean?
I was dreaming that one of my molars and one of my bottom front teeth crumbled out while I was talking to a friend. And I had to spit out the pieces and I was left with tiny pointy sharp teeth. And then the top of my tongue pulled away from the bottom of my tongue, and it looked like the bottom was made out of a metal casing.
Was eating then all of a sudden I was spitting bits of teeth out, my entire teeth were all breaking bleeding & crumbling into pieces.. :-/
Hi . I keep having this dream of my teeth falling out in my mouth while I’m talking and I can feel the teeth all moving around my mouth like hard rocks!! It’s disgusting.. I dreamt I was talking to a group of students but my mouth was full of my teeth and I had to excuse myself to go and spit them out. When I did, it was even like some of my tongue was peeling away also. I’ve had this kind of dream before – always where the teeth fall, but remain in my mouth . What does it mean?
Last night I dreamt my boss was my dentist. I trusted him to be a competent dentist in my dream. He started to fill one tooth but he actually drilled out all of my teeth — including all of my molars, chiseled around my front teeth and then pulled one perfectly good tooth. He didn’t finish the job. All my teeth were left drilled out and chiseled. First dream ever like this.
I have often dreamt that my teeth have been crumbling. its the same dream over and over.. i’m newly married and have all the usual stresses that comes with this, i’m in a job that a fool could do and i know i could be more successful in doing something different, using my talents and actually working hard and achieving something because i’m good at it. any advice on what my dream means spacifically would be helpful.
I dreamt that i was riding a giant peach suspended under hundreds of seagulls. I lived in the peach stone with a selection of insects including a spider, a caterpillar and a grasshopper. I was fleeing from two vile aunts who i had gone to live with after the death of my parents in a bizaar rhino related accident. When i woke up i realised i in fact were the reclusive owner of a magical chocolate factory. What does this all mean??
right time to burn the james and the giant peach dvd.. and also the charlie and the chocolate factory one before this happens again..
hahahahahahahahhaha
It means you watch to much movies -.-
I dream of one of my tooth crumble
I had a dream where I was living in a luxury Condo, where you were waited on hand and foot. I was having mouth prelims with my mouth, bones and teeth were falling out and I had to actually spit the bone pieces and teeth out.I was having a hard time talking to others. At some point the staff became sick and tired of treated so rudely by the residents (I always said please and thank you.) The staff, once all residents were home, shut down the elevators and contact to the outside world. They took all phones, and cut all lan lines. They were torturing all residents, and the ones who tried to run were placed in a pool. I was in the pool and was swimming towards the end with my phone above water, swimming backstroke as fast as possible. I saw a lady who was a resident getting on a elevator that is used for people moving in that still worked. I threw her my phone telling her to call police because we were all going to be killed. She was unaware of the situation because she had been working out. After throwing her my phone I decided to jump out of the pool to get on the elevator to try to talk, with bone and teeth falling out of my mouth, to her and fully explain the situation. We took the elevator up, and she call 911 on our way to her condo. I saw a handheld CB and turned it on and placed it on the police channel and when I spoke into it the staff was alerted. Next the staff broke down the door, and came after me with chains, to either hit me with or restrain me. At that moment I was awaken by my partner because I was screaming NO, NO, NO.
My teeth broke into fragments
My teeth were wiggly so i stuck my finger in my mouth to wiggle it a bit and it crumbled, i then bit down and my teeth started crumbling in my mouth, and i was spitting them out like they were uncooked pieces of rice
Getting stabbed and fighting with a bunch of people
yesterday i dreamt that i gave birth to a grown up child that was of japanese heritiage and today i dreamt that my daughter turned up at my place with my deceased parents what could this mean
It had started wuth a chipped front tooth, then I was chewing gum and every single one of my teeth shattered.
Dreamt that i pushed my tongue against my front teeth at the top and my 2 front teeth broke off in half and basically crumbled into peices…
In my dream I am taking a shower and I am aware that I am dreaming then one tooth at a time starts crumbling and breaking until all my teeth do it and the only thing left is my roots and nerves.
Dream about the dentist drilling my teeth
I have a re occurring dream that my teeth fall out into my hands. They all just come out all at once and I know that I’m dreaming most of the time.
I dreamt that my gums were growing over my teeth and my teeth were all jaggy. When I went to show a relative they began to crumble out of my mouth and some were just falling out.
what does it mean to dream about your crush
I keep dreaming that my teeth are crumbling away but I can’t spit them out, it’s as if my mouth won’t open and my mouth isn’t bit enough.
I dreamt that my teeth were rotting and as I placed my hands on them my teeth were crumbling and I was just spitting out pieces of my teeth in my mouth. IN the dream the reason for my crumbling teeth were the side effects of an illness that i have. I was really scared and i was saying to myself that i was not going to stress about it, i would just replace them with false teeth, but then i was also disturbed about the dream again
i see my lower majority of teeth are fallen into my right hand.
they had yellowish color and and some had cavity on them.
i am surprised to see they are just like hand nails in terms of transparent.
all lower teeth start weak.
when i pulled out one lower molar teeth and put into my hand.
afterwards i vomit teeth into my right hand.
I dreamt that my mom and I were arguing, and for some reason I gasped and my jaw made an awful sound, first I ignored it and then went and stood in front of a mirror and checked it out. As I was looking, I grinded my teeth and my two furthest molers crumbled up and I started to bleed and felt the pain I was shocked and assembled the pieces with my tongue and spit them out, it hurt pretty bad and I went to a hospital, but ai got there my family said it want that bad even though, it was, err at least I felt it was.
Dreamt I had my tongue pierced with a bar. I was playing with the bar and I crunched down and broke my teeth. Started spitting them out in pieces. Freaked me out.
I had a dream that I was swimming in muddy water, with rubbish floating around me. I was with my partner. I told him not to put his head under. Then we got out. As we did my tooth felt loose and broke off. I tried to put it back in place. Then my mouth felt uncomfortable and all my bottom teeth except two, fell out in my hand. I cried and my partner held me. I said will he still love me if I have to have false teeth. At present my situation is that I have struggled a long time with money. My mother and father have bought a house for me which I will rent. The house will eventually be mine. But I feel it’s a great disturbance. I wanted to succeed on my own. I feel others will see me as a failure. I have three children. One at uni on a full scholarship. Another who is finishing year 12 and another year 9. They are dependent on me to support them. My father is aging and I am happy to move near to my parents house to help look after him.
I had a dream i was in a strange house and all my teeth started crumbling and i spat them all out into my hands and was left only with black stubs in my gums…what does this mean???
My teeth were crumbling.
In my dream my teeth began to crumble, so I cant eat my family is around me looking at me, my grandmother who has long passed is talking to me we are in a huge house that I have never seen before but I know where to go inside of it. and I am angry about not being able to cash a checke because my credentials are not what is needed.
In my dream I was sitting on a couch with my husband talking (don’t remember what about) and all of a sudden my mouth seemed to fill with something so I went to a bathroom and started to spit in my hand and it was full of pieces of my teeth and I looked in the mirror and and I had no more teeth ! I started to panic and then I woke up.
In my dream I was in a night club with my friend. I touch my jaw and notice that (really hard to explain) its broken so that all my teeth were still attached to my jaw but the jeaw is not attached to my face. Anyway it felt so real. Its also strange that this horrible dream is one of the only ones where people seemed to notice and care. After i noticed my jaw was broken I start to move it around and notice that my teeth are not falling but slowly braking from the pressure.
I frequently dream of two things: one is having a mouth full of gum that is stuck in my teeth and no matter how much I try I cant pull it out. There’s always more. The other is having a mouthful of broken teeth. I scoop them out, spit them out but my mouth is always full of my broken teeth. Its so weird and I always feel so frustrated during these dreams.
my teeth were falling apart and no matter how much I washed out my mouth they kept filling my mouth. Hard small piece and powdery filling filled my mouth completely and I remember gagging trying to get it off the roof of my mouth and tounge.Looking in the mirror in panic and realize all my teeth were chipped
My teeth crumbling and fall in my hands including decay tooth but when see in mirror I have all new teeth except one. Does any one know what it means?
I was telling for some maid to get out of my bed room go to their own room after I finishing talking to Ty hem When I move my mouth in wards most of my tooth were caused and follow my mouth including decayed tooth. But when I see it in mirror I have new once except one tooth trying to move. when touch.
I HAD THIS DREAM LAST NIGHT THAT I WAS AROUND MANY MANY OLD FRIENDS. PEOPLE WHOM ACTUALLY MATTER IN MY LIFE. HOWEVER, BEFORE I COULD SPEAK TO THEM I NOTICED A STRING IN MY MOUTH. I KEPT PULLING OUT THIS STRING AND IT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN MY TEETH, ALL OF MY BACK MOLARS. IT DIDNT HURT BUT I WAS DROWNING IN MY OWN SLOBBER AND BLOOD AND MY TEETH STARTED FALLING OUT, AS IF THE STRING WAS PULLING THEM OUT. I COULD SEE THE ROOT AND EVERYTHING. 4 TEETH FELL OUT.. AFTER THEY HAD BEEN SLOWLY PULLED OUT MY TONGUE STARTED TO SWELL.. IT FELT AS IF NO ONE CARED BUT YET THEY WERE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH ME AND LOOKING AT ME. I COULDNT BREATHE IN MY DREAM AND I TRIED TO CALL 911 BUT IT JUST FELT LIKE I WAS TAKING FOREVER TO DIAL. STRANGE DREAM, IT FELT SO REAL. I WONDER WHAT IT COULD HAVE MEANT…
When I dream about my teeth crumbling I also pull out a piece of string and my teeth start to crumble and fill my mouth and I am sick from it. Its a horrible dream!
I dreamed last night abt talking to people and suddenly I notice small and hard particls in my tongue,I looked at a mirror and so the small bits and also my tooth was halved and looked too wide for my mouth
in the real life I’m going through a period of changes.my ex bf who I still have feelings for,wants to make up whilst the new one is rich,in the same work field as me and wants to help me with my carrer
It might be the reason for my dream:doubts,new world unfolding before me….
I have had this dream alot lately and contribute to feeling powerless mt brother in real life has decided to go on. This journey of self discovery traveling the world with gypsies that he barely knows and is even missing our aunts wedding for this. while I get the wanting to discover him self I worry about him that he might get hurt or sick or worse even die i mean he is my brother and i care alot about him and i feel powerless because he won’t talk to anyone about it
I was standing in front of a mirror when all of a sudden I tasted something bad and felt some flaky particles on my tongue. I opened my mouth and saw my molar tooth decaying and crumbling. it looked so real and scary.
i was sitting in my friends house on her sofa waiting for her to come back, when i noticed that there was a strange taste in my mouth, i knew then that it was blood so i run down stairs (my stairs in my house) and then i was in my house bathroom, i looked into the mirror and one by one my teeth were falling out, no way to stop them, i blocked the sink so they couldn’t go down the drain, i looked up and there were no bottom teeth nor top teeth. i woke up crying, feeling stressed/anxious and worried..
There is never a background or scene to describe, other than my teeth crumble apart in my mouth. I open my mouth and pieces of whole teeth fall into my hand. All sensations from the teeth in the mouth to hand feel real. It feels like real life no difference. I have had these dreams for 10 years. I have had a tumultuous 10 years, lots of ups and downs. I attribute these dreams to extreme downs and feeling of powerlessness. Usually the “I f’d up” time’s. I am curious, if you have dreams about teeth falling out, have you made a mistake that you regret recently?
I have, i’ve had these nightmares for maybe 10 years like you have. It’s always so painful and embarrasing, seems so real like you say. I also suffer from anxiety, and was terminated from my job 2 years ago, which I regret every day.
I am playing in th casino and friends are telling me i know how to play really well i make a bet and i miss and they lough my chewing teeth uper and below on the left side crumbel and i spit them out in my hand in littel peices. but their is still more in my mouth so i got to the bathroom and i go in and their are girls inside, so i apoligace and go into the next one and their girls their too they gigel and wisper as i spit out my teeth into the toilet and they leave one by one. ))) dam this was not a nIce dream ! )
I had a dream that I was pulling out one of my front teeth, on the upper half, and when i pulled it out, it was like chalk, or some crumbly, almost flakey, material. I dreamt that I was trying to tell my girlfriend and she was laughing in my face and telling me she didn’t have time to ehar what i was telling ehr. The night ebfore i dreamt that I found her having sex with a mand and while i was asking about it/confronting her in the dream, she was laughing and saying thing slike ‘it’s no big deal’ and ‘it was nothing’ and eventually ‘it didn’t happen’. She’s never cheated on me, in fact, she hates cheaters, but in both dreams I was helpless and crying, trying to get her to listen to me.
I had a dream that I was walking with my friends down a street laughing and talking and all of a sudden my teeth just started crumbling in tiny pieces and I kept spitting them out. Gross feeling, was so real…
I dream that my teeth crumble & I have to keep spitting them out. I often dream this alongside dreaming I’m about to finish my degree at Uni but have forgotten to hand one essay in…they are both linked to anxiety I believe.
had a dream that my teeth was falling and crumbling in my hand
My mother was being very distant from me and replaced me with another mother and daughter and my father said i havent been there for my mother then my teeth started to rot and crumble profusly out of my mouth overfilling my hands!
I dream my teeth are crumbling and falling out of my mouth into my hands and i need to get to a dentist quickly and try to contact one to no avail. if i then keep my mouth closed the rest of my teeth firm up and stop crumbling.
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