Terrifying!

[anji1971]

Just over a week ago I had one of those dreams, where your teeth start falling out. This time it was slightly different, at least for me. I kept waking up in my dream, notice that I still had all my teeth, but then they would start falling out again. I think it was six or seven times that I lost my teeth in the dream, before I finally woke up for real.

I had an important exam the next day and a job interview the day after that. Nobody needs to tell me what that dream meant. But believe me, this was one of my less crazy dreams.

Oh I just HATE those teeth falling out dreams!! It's got to be the most horrible feeling........always a relief to wake up from those.
Is it really stress and anxiety that trigger dental dreams?? I always wondered what they meant.

[drache]

I've never had a tooth dream, but I was born (or raised?) with weakly rooted teeth and I fear loosing them when I'm awake, so perhaps that bestows some immunity upon my dreams

[CrazyHedgehog]

The tooth dream - agggghhhhh It never hurts, but if I get this dream, I have literally thousands of teeth in my mouth and I cant get my mouth clear of the damn things!!

with lucid dreaming, I have a trigger...you can set it to what ever you want, for me its my hands.
If I am dreaming and I see my hands, in that instant, i know its a dream, and 1 of two things happens..I either become far too conscious and wake up with the excitement or I take control of the dream, and for me I usually start flying everywhere, just cos its my dream and I can! It never seems to last long though, I tend to drift back off into dream world again!

[Serpentine99]

Ive had all of the dreams you guys have talked about, probably because i do so much thinking when im awake that it carries over into me sleep, my head comes up with some pretty in depth dreams, down to the clothing someone wore that day or a tattoo someone has, and they dont really have a story line, theyre most always incomplete short stories that run on from one to the next.

[CrazyHedgehog]

The worst is when I am stuck on a problem, like a java programming problem... I will dream about it, fix it in my dream, and then wake up and have to write it down quick before I forget!..the sad thing is that the fix usually works,...so does this mean I think more clearly when I am asleep?

[anji1971]

The worst is when I am stuck on a problem, like a java programming problem... I will dream about it, fix it in my dream, and then wake up and have to write it down quick before I forget!..the sad thing is that the fix usually works,...so does this mean I think more clearly when I am asleep?

I've come up with solutions to problems in dreams, too. I think maybe when we're awake, we let all our other thoughts crowd in and overshadow our problem-solving skills, so when we finally sleep, our brain can focus more clearly on the problem itself. I don't know for sure, but it does seem to work!

[Serpentine99]

i do my homework in my bed before i go to sleep, and sometimes i nod off and i dream i finished the homework, and i wake up like 10 mins before i have to go to school with no homework done, talk about an early let down!