I have this theory that maybe it doesn’t symbolize anything at all. Anyone else think it’s a possibility? Maybe we just dream about losing teeth and it doesn’t mean anything? I know I’ve never been pregnant (I don’t have a uterus, you see), and I’ve had many of these dreams after losing my virginity. None of the ideas posed here could possibly apply to me. I don’t try to interpret my dreams, so I think my subconscious would know better than to throw a bunch of symbols at me in my sleep, knowing that I would forget half of them and disregard the other half. I’m a no-nonsense kind of guy, and I’m sure my subconscious understands that. If my subconscious wanted to tell me something, I think it would tell me in a way that I could understand. Don’t you think? If your subconscious mind was trying to communicate something to you in a unique way, wouldn’t you understand it? Don’t you think that you’d be able to understand something that your mind was trying to communicate to you?
It’s like the Pentacostals. See, at the Supper of Pentacost (from the Bible), all these people came together to fellowship, but they all spoke different languages, so God gave them this common language to speak. They spoke in tongues, but they understood one another. It was a different language, but in the context of this supper they all understood it. Today, the Pentacostals flop around on the floor and speak in jibberish at church services. It doesn’t make sense today, because nobody understands what they’re saying. If God was really trying to speak through them, wouldn’t he do it in a way that somebody could understand? Why would God yell jibberish at the congregation through the lips of Sister Helen? Doesn’t he have better things to do?
That’s how I feel about the subconscious mind. It’s retaining info all day, and entertaining me at night. That’s it, though. It just retains and entertains. It doesn’t try to better me. If it does, it’s not doing a very good job because all these dream symbols are over my head.
Yeah… So I’m of the belief that dream symbolism in general is bunk. But I stick with my earlier statement that it could reflect poor self-image or some kind of stress. I dream about work or something when I’m stressed sometimes. My dreams do reflect what’s going on in my daily life, and not by directly reproducing it, but by reproducing the feeling. So instead of trying to figure out what losing your teeth means, think of how you felt when you lost them or what was happening. Still, I think you won’t really learn anything. “Let’s see, I was nervous because I had a date the next day.”
Useful revelation…