The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary
by Nancy Wagaman
Seeking help or answers.
The importance you place on being able to achieve, handle things, or cope in your life (or a desire for help in improving those abilities).
A desire to improve your support of self (such as through self-expression or emotional nourishment).
A feeling or fear of (physical, emotional, or mental) discomfort.
Fear of intimacy, or of intimacy in a particular situation.
An issue involving trust, vulnerability, or accepting help from others.
See Doctor, Healer, Mouth, Tooth, Pain, Medical Office
Dream Symbols and Analysis
by DreamForth
To dream about being at a dentist’s office suggests that there is occasional concern about the honesty of someone close to you. You may sense that something’s not quite right with them, but in the long term, this concern will benefit you.
To dream that someone else is being worked on by a dentist indicates that impropriety will surprise you, especially when it strikes close to home.
Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia
by James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Owning to childhood associations, dentists in dreams often symbolize anxiety and fear of pain. They represent the principle of inflicting pain “for your own good.” The primary activity of dentistry is drilling and removing decayed matter, and replacing it with new dental material an activity that, in a dream, may be a metaphor for other situations in one’s life.
