![]() Teeth grinding didn’t correlate with anything that had been assessed including psychological distress, typical dream themes, or sleep disturbances. Rozen and Soffer-Dubek found that the teeth falling out dream correlated with dental discomfort upon awakening but not self-reports of teeth grinding. The researchers asked subjects whether they ground their teeth at night. Subjects also filled out the Brief Symptom Inventory that assesses anxiety, depression, and other manifestations of psychological distress, and a questionnaire that assesses sleep quality. One of the categories, Sensorimotor Excitement, deals with teeth dreams as well as a few other items. 20 subjects filled out online instruments including the Dream Motif Scale (Yu, 2012) that looks at 14 categories of dream theme. Rozen and Soffer-Dubek set out to examine the possible relationship between teeth dreams, dental tension, other common dream themes, psychological distress, and general sleep disturbance. That provides reason to think they experience more somatosensory excitement when they’re sleeping. The same body of research demonstrates that people who have teeth dreams are more likely to have somatosensory dreams like flying, falling, or being chased (Yu, 2010). ![]() The teeth grinding idea, however, is consistent with studies that show that sensory stimuli can translate into dream content. We can conjecture that the latter explanation is the one Freud would have been onboard with. The other was that teeth falling out was a symbolic manifestation of some sort of emotional distress. One was that the dream stemmed from actual dental distress like teeth grinding experienced during sleep. The investigators came up with two hypotheses to account for the prevalence of the teeth falling out dream. Why We Dream About Our Teeth Falling Out: Two Hypotheses Why, then, do so many of us dream about our teeth falling our (or breaking or rotting)? Two researchers Naama Rozen and Nirit Soffer-Dudek tried to find out and published their findings in 2018. That’s odd when you think about it considering that this is not something that frequently happens to very many of us in waking life. ![]() A recent study (Yu, 2012) found that 39 percent of people have this dream. As it turns out, dreams about teeth are common, specifically, the teeth falling out dream. ![]() Using modern sampling, survey, and statistical methods, they can identify dreams that are common to many people even across cultures. Today, researchers are studying dreams with more scientific rigor. ![]()
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