I dream frequently, like nearly every night and unlike a lot of other people I am able to remember my dreams when I wake up. I don't often have scary dreams but I do have dreams that have feelings of dread or terrible things happening to me that are scary.
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I actually quite like going to sleep because of my dreams for the most part, but there is sometimes elements of my dreams that make me feel relieved when I do wake up. One of these things is parts of my body deteriorating or falling out.
One that is very common in dreams is when people dream about their teeth falling out. This is so common that it has been featured in many films and there are many speculations about what this can mean. Some of them sound like mumbo-jumbo that could apply to everyone just like astrology in that many psychologists claim that teeth falling out in dreams indicates that you are going through stress in your life. Ok, well who isn't? Another common one is that losing your teeth indicates that you are not taking care of a family member as much as you think you should. I find this interpretation to be so vague as to apply to everyone as well. Another silly one that they seem to attribute to almost any kind of dream anyone is having that is a bit stressful is that you having a "feeling of loss of self control."
The only one that I have read that actually seems to hold a bit of water to me is one where Dr. Gonzalez-Berrios stated that dreaming of teeth falling out indicates as loss of self-image in your own life, often because of letting yourself go a bit or getting older. This one makes sense to me in my own life.
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It isn't just my teeth in my dreams though. I often have problems with my finger or toenails in my dreams and if I pull on them, they come completely off, often revealing a horrible infection underneath or in some situations simply a void of nothing inside. There is no pain, the interior of my toes are just hollow. This has happened with my heels and knees in my dreams as well.
Something else that is kind of common in my dreams is that I will have some sort of really thick hair growing on some part of my body that isn't my head and I pull on it and it just keeps coming and coming, sometimes until it is several feet long and there is some sort of weed bulb on the end of it, kind of like a spring onion. Again, there is no pain in the removal of these things but it is just like I am turning into some sort of living Chia Pet and this is unnerving.
I will have an ear or part of an ear fall off, or fingers or even my entire forearm. I sometimes will also notice holes in my body but when I look inside of the holes there is no flesh, just a void of nothingness.
In all of these situations I feel zero pain in the dream, just a sense of dread about my body falling apart and what that will mean for me if this situation continues. Of course I always breathe a huge sigh of relief whenever I wake up. I never actually go and check my body in the mirror, I'm not nuts enough to believe that it was actually real when I wake up.
Then we also have loss of hair on my head in my dreams but this one is easy to ID since I am losing my hair as we speak and am going back to Saigon later this month to hopefully have the hair transplant procedure done on me.
Do you ever have things like this in your dreams? It's my understanding that the teeth one is very common but have never heard of anyone experiencing the other ones. I'm sure they have though.