Mouth
Your mouth is a fundamental part of life. It takes things in such as food, pleasure or even pain. Basically the mouth is a pleasure area, but it is also the way you express pleasure or pain, as with smiling, crying or grimacing. So the mouth is a way you communicate as well as satisfy yourself or gain your needs. As an organ of expression the mouth can also give thanks for life and utters beauty in words or sounds. This is a way you can uplift the dark things in you and transform them. See Using the Voice
Sometimes speaking can be likened to shooting things out of the mouth, projecting them to or firing them at other people angrily. But the mouth can also be receptive as when we take things into our mouth pleasurably.
As we eat with our mouth, it can indicate what you take into you, or what you expel or need to get out of you, as in the following example.
Example: I go into a bathroom and begin pulling weeds from my mouth. Weeds, weeds and more weeds come out from my mouth – come from deep down inside of me. I am still pulling them out when I leave the bathroom and someone, a woman walking behind me, helps me to pull some weeds that are trailing from my mouth behind me.
Pulling stuff out of the mouth, such as hair or weeds, is a common dream, and most likely expresses the feeling of discomfort we feel if something foreign is in our mouth or throat. It shows the feeling of urgently trying to rid yourself of something that is unpleasant – perhaps feelings you have taken in, or things we have said or done that leave a nasty taste in ones mouth. Perhaps there is something you are not admitting to yourself. Or it can represent the lies and untrue stories we have been fed as a child, but also strong emotion as we express the results of trauma. See Exploring Sound
A dream of our mouth being buttoned – button your lip – or sewed up, could suggest that inwardly you regret having said certain things, or need to hold your tongue. Or perhaps you have been made to hold back your feelings as a child, so have had to sew up your mouth – figuratively. But speech is a lot more than noise or emotional expression; more even than utterance of thoughts. It is the giving form or clarity to what was previously unseen or unknown. Through the mouth we can pour love, praise or crit to others.
Sometimes the mouth may represent your house and the teeth the inhabitants or your family or other inhabitants. So the dream of losing a tooth thus logically becomes a symbol that a person in this household is dead, or that one wishes him dead.
Chewing: Considering something; mulling over something; trying something out – getting a taste of it so to speak. See Digest
Kissing: On the mouth is often a way of intimately sharing oneself, emotionally, and also a sharing of body fluids, which is either a form of trust or of careless introvention.
The kiss, oral pleasure, was our first area of loving with our mother. From that original centre of pleasure, it grows into anal and genital pleasure. When that happens the body begins to move. But there was still no engorgement. The movement was the forerunner of the inner pleasurable urge to thrust or be penetrated. So there can be a slow and internal growth through escalating feelings, and not an outwardly ordained set of movements that lead to “sex”!
Mouth fixed closed: Inability to express something, or a decision not to express something you hold inside. Sometimes a feeling of being inadequate socially, or that you do not have the power to get people to hear you. As in the example below, not having people understand what your difficulty is.
Example: I am in a situation which is different every time, but always includes different people in a conversation. Suddenly I can’t talk. It’s as if my mouth is sewed together on the outside. I make muffled noises, straining my muscles to open my mouth. I think that if I pull hard enough the stitches will tear, but they never do. It seems to me that even my muffles are loud enough to be heard as a scream, but no one I’m with seems to notice. They smile and carry on as usual. By this time I feel so desperate I usually wake up in a terrible state.
Pulling something out of mouth: Trying to clear emotions or attitudes not properly expressed. Perhaps one is not admitting something. Try Arm Circling Meditation but allow any sounds that you feel a need to express.
Teeth coming out of mouth: See: teeth; Chew.
The mouth can also give birth: People often dream of giving birth from the mouth. The shape of the mouth is similar in some ways to our sexual organs, and can also discharge things. This usually happens when the person has something important they want to say, and is a way of allowing life in us to give thanks and birth to something new. See birth
Idioms: a bad taste in my mouth; all mouth; a big mouth; butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth; down in the mouth; hand to mouth; horses mouth; loud mouth; mouth watering; nasty taste in the mouth; put your foot in your mouth; put your money where your mouth is; shoot your mouth off; shut your mouth; silver spoon in mouth; word of mouth.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is happening to the mouth and in what way might that link with everyday experiences or feelings?
If I remember how I felt in the dream, when has that feeling occurred in my waking life?
Do any of the above descriptions link with what is happening in the dream – if so what are they describing about my life?
See Being the Person or Thing – Trauma – Examples of – Digestion – Self Help – Letting things Happen – mouth the function of
Comments
Hi there, I had a horrible dream last night and have run into some rather bad luck in the past few months so wondering if any of this is a sign? I’m looking for a light at the end of the tunnel.
Okay, so it started out I was in a beautiful beach seeing colours of turquoise, aqua and purple in the sky. Riding my horse along the beach I run into a friend. We go back to my house after chatting and I realize my whole house has been renovated drastically. While speaking to my mother I start to feel a pull on my face, like swelling. Ignoring it I kept talking until I couldn’t talk any longer my mouth had swollen so bad it was impossible to speak. I could not swallow and could hardly breathe, while everyone just stood there looking at me.
I then woke up, in quite a state.
Please help, it’s become a bit traumatizing. Thanks so much!
I’ve been having this horrible dream lately and I would like to know if there is a meaning behind it.
So basically I’ve been dreaming about pulling lizards and snakes out of my moth, anus and vagina. Sometimes I even see them coming up my legs and other times they are already there and i’m just keep on pulling them out one at a time and thy just keep on coming…
What could this mean?
Marisol – I haven’t come across a dream like this before, but it has a mixture of mouth, vagina and reptiles.
I wonder what you feel each time you see the reptiles? Is it an awful or sickening feeling, maybe like disgust?
Reptiles and snakes usually represent ones basic instinctual feelings, such a reproduction and survival. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#reptilebrain
So it could mean that in some way you are either frightened, disgusted with or not dealing well with the primal energy. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/energy-sex-and-dreams/
It might be helpful to use – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/
Tony
I dreamt my mouth was big inside and had a hockey puck sized wasp nest on the inside of my left cheek. There was a kanker sore and a raspberry looking sore also. One wasp was attending the nest so then I tried to expel the wasp by hacking it out and my deceased mother was their helping me try to get the wasp out and talking about how to get the nest out
I had sleep paralysis, possibly just a dream and saw the “shadow man” or “hat man” he was wearing a balllcap, I watched him walk into my room, while I was completely paralyzed, he picked up my left hand as he sat on the left side of the bed, and put it in his mouth. I started trying to wake up, making as much noise as I could trying to fight it and get my hand back, terrified, I was woken up by my dad asking if I was okay.
I woke up for a few seconds but was soo tired I couldn’t stay awake and said yes and fell right back asleep. I experienced this paralysis AGAIN, this time I couldn’t see the person but I could FEEL her above me and I was choking, an old woman was trying to suffocate me.
I woke up quickly after that, feeling disturbingly terrified.
HELP….FOLLOWED BY DEMONS?
Marilyn – Did you read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/sleep-paralysis/ If not please do so.
Also please see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Reaction
When we meet anything that we feel will overpower us as you were feeling we automatically feel fear and our dream self puts horrifying images there. I’m sorry for putting so many links in but most people are completely unawares of what dreams are, and mix up what we meet in waking life with our dream life – which is TOTALLY different. So please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#Summing
So your feeling of a woman is simply an image you create by your fear – also the feeling of being suffocated is your struggle against your life will. You fear it will kill you – I know it because when I met death face to face I could hardly breathe. Then I was ready to fully experience IT and passed easily into a wonderful feeling of LIFE.
So you are in a wonderful position to actually experience the wonder and hugeness of sleep and the opportunity to face your fears of death – which are unfounded. It is your fear of being totally alive that is strangling you and producing demons. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/ also http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/
Tony
I had a dream that I was in the car traveling with a co-worker. I happened to be driving the car and telling her that my tongue was sore. She said that hers had been too. I looked in the mirror and had three bumps on the side of my tongue. When I opened my mouth, the bumps were black spots. I began to squeeze the one at the tip of my tongue and a fly came out.
I had a dream I had to put a baby girl in my mouth and I was struggling to throw her back up. I’d what this means but I would like to know
I dreamt of having flem so thick I had to pull it out of my mouth and it was actually a string that at the end was mangled into a knot with my girlfriends hair scrunchy and a black plastic bag at the end of my tongue!!!
Any suggestions?
I dreamt that I had a pimple over the chin and a little under the lip, then I popped it and pulled it out, as I was pulling it my lip was cut and I had a hole on my lip where I could see through it. What does it mean?
Maria – The pimple is a sign that something has marred your beauty. Maybe it was things you have been saying about others that are not beautiful and needed to be squeezed out of you. The hole means people can see into you, so be kind and loving, even to yourself.
Tony
I had a dream that I was clenching my teeth that had I bit huge chunks of my cheeks and tongue out of my.mouth.
I had a dream last night that my gums were full of what looked like blackhead pimples. These “pimples” covered the entire surface area of my gums. I recall being very anxious and panicked because I knew it wasn’t normal so I started picking them. As I picked I realized they were not pimples at all but seeds. I ended up with an entire bowl full of these small black seeds and still more were in my gums. As I kept picking them out I realized my gums were left pitted.
I just had a dream where I was speaking to my father and two other men and suddenly felt like I had a hair in my throat. So in the dream, I was trying to pull it out and I woke up vomiting. I’m a little concerned.
Sara – This is about your feelings and relationships with men. You probably have some slight tension or difficulty in your throat when you that connects with your father, and because of that with other men.
It is something you need to express through your mouth – sounds. In therapy it is seen as a sign of held back emotions. So I suggest that you try http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/methods-of-awakening/#Voice
Tony
would like to know the meaning of dreaming of someone putting there tongue in my mouth. I was sleeping and felt a tongue in my mouth I opened my eyes thinking that it was my husband and when I did my husband was asleep not facing me. Can you tell me what this interprets.
Josie – First of all you have to realise that dreams produce all the body sensations, and they are like a real external experience. Please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#Summing as it will help understanding.
You didn’t say whether it was pleasant or unwanted. It helps if you really describe what you experienced.
Tony
I have dreams of pulling unprocessed food out of my mouth or white slimmy endless rope like object. Always starts out as me feeling around in my mouth and then I find a little piece of something stuck in my mouth somewhere. It could be a tooth, side of my cheek, or throat. I start to pull it gently then more and more starts to come out. What could this mean?
Janie – If you really want to find what your dream means I suggest you imagine yourself back in the dream and you start pulling the slimy stuff out of your mouth. As you do this allow any feelings and body movements to develop. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/processing-dreams/#usebody
But the meaning of the dream is probably that you have a slight tension in the neck, probably not apparent to you, but more of what you allow yourself to express through your mouth. If you mange to use what has been suggested this will work out.
Tony
I had a dream where I was chasing a women into her home. Once being in there she’s with her husband and out of nowhere I start pulling out maybe 10 needles from my mouth. I bleed more and more after pulling each one out… What does this mean?
Marissa – It might be that you have been saying or thinking negative thinks about a woman and her relationship with her husband. But if not that, then things you have said are being shown as destructive and you are losing energy – blood.
Tony
I had a dream lastnight that that there were small food like substance coming out of my mouth then the got larger then I was able to pull them out when I they hit the sink they turn into huge insects…Please help me
Trisha – What comes out of the mouth is words. At first it seems to you they are like food that could nourish, but then you realise in your dream consciousness that they are irritating things, something you would not like to be in you or to come out of you. What is it you have done to cause that feeling?
Tony