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
I had a dream that I had foreign objects instead of teeth in the back of mouth at the top. I had to pull real hard to pull them out of my mouth. I still feel like I feel the pain from me yanking them out of my mouth.
Then the next day I was at the dentist and she asked me if i felt the hole in my bottom teeth in the back. I said no, she said its huge, infected and should be making me sick.
Why all the dreams about teeth? None of the reasons seem to relate to me.
I had a dream that I coughed up a premature baby out of my mouth. The baby was perhaps 6 inches long and was so translucent, like mucus, but the structure of the forming body could be seen. There was also a visable beating heart and the baby moved. I placed the baby on a paper towel and asked family members what I should do to save the baby’s life. Do you know what this may allude?
I have been in love with a certain someone for a very long time but I have never acted on it or told him about it. Just recently I had a dream that we were with some of his friends & his hands were dirty & he put his right index & middle finger into my mouth for about a minute or so & he & his friends were smiling & laughing about it. I dream of him often but I can’t find a meaning to this dream anywhere… Please help tell me what you think it means???
Night before last I had a horrible nightmare that my mouth was pried open and an object forced into the back of my throat and I was forced to swallow it. It resembled a nail. I could actually feel it go down my throat and cut a path where it ended up in my chest. I woke up with a sore throat and it still feels like I have an object there when I swallow. I could not see a person or a face, but the corners of my mouth are cracked now and painful. Most haunting dream I have ever had
I had a dream that my sister and I were trapped in a room/closet by a little boy (the closet was long, narrow,had two doors, and it was hard to get from one door to the next). Every time I would make it to the next door it would be blocked. Whenever I would try to scream for help my words wouldn’t come out no matter how hard I tried. I could only speak when I drank something. I finally got out of the room and started to attack the boy that trapped us in. The boy eventually won and said that if I fight him anymore he’ll kill my brother. I got up to keep him away from the door that my brother was behind, and he got away from me. The boy then did three loud knocks and the door started to open. That was when I woke up.
I had a dream that I was talking to my boyfriend at his house and I walked into the kitchen and started pulling out long tangled chains of hair, different colors and length. By the time the last one came out their was a bone shard at the end like it had been stuck inside of me, the hair felt so real inside of my throat that I could feel it and could barely breath. When I woke up my throat was seriously dry and I felt like I was going to cough out more hair. What does this really mean??? Why am I having this dream? I’ve been having nightmares for three days and they have been extremely terrifying this is the third one.
Jacqueline – Having actually sat and help people explore such a dream it also ended up the person releasing something – words, feelings, or things that they had said and regretted.
It is something that your life process want to get rid of, and it keeps trying unsuccessfully. It could be anything from things you have said that you regret, to difficult memories from childhood.
If you want to release it see if you can imagine entering your dream again and allowing your body to spontaneously carry on and through to satisfaction. It may take more than one session. You could use http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/the-arm-circling-meditation/ to learn the process. Also see http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
Tony
I read somewhere that if a woman dreams of giving birth to a child from her mouth, she will die soon. Is that true?
I had a dream that I was at a party and went into the kitchen. I went over the sink and there was a cut in my mouth with tiny shards of pennies coming out and bleeding at the same time. And it wouldn’t stop. What does this mean?
I lost my wife several months ago. I try hard to dream of her, but every time I do – she is mad at me and will not kiss me. I recently had a dream where she was about to kiss me, but her lips were made of metal silver bars. Why can’t I dream of her kissing me. This saddens me greatly.
Hi Paul. After my lover passed away I had the same dreams.. I’d always want to kiss him but he’d never kiss me back.
It wasn’t until a few months later I dreampt of him and he was sad.. And wanted to kiss me.. I realized I was dreaming and took full advantage to ask him why he hadn’t want to before and he looked down and started tearing up.. He told me that he’s learned he’s dead now.. My dream went on.. I asked him if he ever hears me talking to him, he said yes, but that he doesn’t come around to often because he’s in limbo now..
At this time I never heard of the word limbo. And to this day I know I learned it in my dream.. Since then… I don’t dream of him anymore sadly. It will be 11 yrs this Xmas
Throughout my whole life I have often had dreams of different instances but the common theme is pulling little plastic bits out of my mouth. Most dreams it starts off as one or two and ends with me gagging because my mouth is producing so much of it. When I pull it out, it’s like little white misshapen plastic or hard wax. Any ideas on it? Thanks much.
Patricia – It is something that your life process want to get rid of, and it keeps trying unsuccessfully. It could be anything from things you have said that you regret, to difficult memories from childhood.
If you want to release it see if you can imagine entering your dream again and allowing your body to spontaneously carry on and through to satisfaction. It may take more than one session. You could use http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/the-arm-circling-meditation/ to learn the process. Also see http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
Tony
I had a dream about evil beings. Then a kind of sleep paralysis where something opened my mouth and shoved an large acorn into it. I woke up and spat and spat and brushed my teeth, but still feel a strong compulsion to go to church. I’m not religious at all and I love oak trees, I grow them.
Any thoughts?
Adam – You unfortunately have taken in wrong information about dreams and life. To save me a lot of writing the same things over and over please see – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#Summing
There is so much to learn, and the paralysis is actually a wonderful action arising from your Core Self and means no harm. The evil beings are symbols the dream process uses to show you the evil you have taken in by your own thinking and living.
The dream arise from your own life process. Now supposing your Life sees that drinking colas and eating rubbish is not in line with what Life knows is good, then it tries to communicate that to you. But there are many things that can ‘get into us’ that life warns us about. Things like believing things that are really untrue and against ones best interest. Living a life that constantly takes; being a person living a lie – and many other things are shown by dreams as parasites or evil beings. But you need not be afraid of them, they are just images and feelings that you have taken in, probably from films and books.
The mouth in dreams is often referring to the womb – or at least something that you take in which can become a living influence. The large acorn is a reference to something put into to you by the action of the life force, something that can grow into a mighty representation of your life. But there is so much that nearly everyone needs to learn, so please see http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Paralyzed and this is important http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Important
Tony
I recently dreamt about pulling two spoons from my throat. All I remember was the pain of oulling the spoons out, and bringing up blood.
I have also had a very realistic and scary dream where I was in my old house, standing outside with my mother (I think)
When all of a sudden a plane fell from the sky, soon after loads of planes were falling. The pilots could control the aircrafts and I had to help a man in a helicopter land it.
I know these dreams are crazy, and I have always been told I have a very active imagination (I often have very realistic dreams which I wake up in tears over)
Billie – You do not have an active imagination. Everyone dreams about five or more times a night, and every dream is usually unique – quite an imaginative output. What they should have said to you rather that having an active imagination is that they are slightly dead, so cannot remember a huge part of their life. 22 years of their life is spent dreaming.
Dreams often stand in place of actual experience. So through dreams we may experiment with new experience or practice things we have not yet done externally. For instance many young women dream in detail of giving birth. This function of what might be called ‘imagination’ is tremendously undervalued, but is a foundation upon which human survival is built. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/imagination-and-dreaming-2/
Have you had something forces on you, such as food or medicine, which was a very bad experience? I ask this as there are many associations with spoons, and your seems to be painful. Pulling them out of your throat shows you bring releasing the feelings involved.
To get more understanding of your dream try using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
Tony
I keep dreaming that my brother is in hospital in intensive care because the roof of his mouth has fallen off. I am trying to get to the hospital and keep getting texts on my mobile telling me to hurry up because time is running out. For some reason I want to have my car towed to the hospital to save n petrol and I can’t get it towed and then when I wake up. I have had this dream 3 times in the last 7 nights
Had dream a big black and grey moth came out my mouth and I had to pull it out
I had a dream that there was a long string in my mouth,so I took some tweezers and pulled it out. It didn’t hurt at all. Then one by one my teeth started falling out as if they were held together by that string. What does this mean? Please reply.
Billy – The string is an old symbol of connecting with something or finding you way. It probably connected with things you have spoken about at some time.
Your teeth are often your social image of yourself, and to see them all coming out is often a sign that you are afraid of ageing or losing your vigour.
These are simply fears you have created by all the rubbish pushed at us about looks, losers, lost it words. You are a survivor – the one in a million sperms that survived and grew, found its way into the wondrous egg and became you. Then you survived childhood – no mean feat, and are still here to write to me – a survivor.
Grab hold of the wonderful impulse of Life that took you through that amazing journey. Feel it in you, kneel before its wonder and let it still live in you. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/individuation/ and http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/
Tony