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Working on identifying the root of your anxiety, may help you understand this dream. Indeed, there’s some scientific evidence to suggest this dream may be linked to anxiety or psychological distress you may be experiencing. Anxiety or stressĪlthough dream psychologists focus on what the dreamer says they’re feeling, Barrett explains that dreams of teeth falling out are usually - but not always - anxiety dreams. Here are a few possible dream interpretations, some - but certainly not all - of which are based on scientific evidence. In other words, your dreams may depend on your experiences and emotional state that day, but also on human evolution. “Scientists who are open to the idea that dreams might contain hidden meanings generally agree that meaning is context-dependent rather than fixed, and attributable to some kind of phylogenetically wired script,” Bennett says. In fact, many scientists reject the idea that dreams mean anything at all, explains Jeffrey Bennett, PhD, an anthropologist, psychoanalyst, and associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas.

“Dreams are just our minds thinking in a very different biochemical state, which is more emotional and rich with imagery, and less verbal, linear, and logical,” says dream researcher Deirdre Leigh Barrett, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University. While online dream dictionaries can offer some insight, it’s important to remember that they lack scientific credibility. A simple Google search of “dream of teeth falling out” will send you down a rabbit hole of theories, interpretations, and analyses.

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