Teeth Dream Meaning

Classical dream interpretation, read from the source books — not from other websites.

Almost every page about dream symbols on the English internet copies the same sentences in a circle. This site does something different: it goes back to the two classical dictionaries that most of those pages are indirectly quoting, and puts their actual entries on the page — next to each other, with locations you can check.

What this site is

A growing set of dream-symbol pages — teeth, snakes, water, rain, fire, doors, and around thirty in total — built on one method: for each symbol, you get the entry from the dream dictionary attributed to Ibn Sirin and the entry from Al-Nabulsi's Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, side by side, translated, with the exact source location for each.

The method, stated plainly

Every page on this site places the two classical dream books' original entries next to each other, each with a checkable location: the English compilation Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams (Pearl Publishing House, 1992 — a later compilation attributed to Ibn Sirin, not his autograph text), and the Arabic original of Al-Nabulsi's Ta'tir al-Anam (Dar al-Fikr edition), cited to the page in the online library where it can be read directly.

Where the two books disagree, we show the disagreement instead of smoothing it over. Where one book contradicts itself, we show that too.

The first page: teeth falling out

The first symbol page is live: teeth falling out — one of the most common dreams there is. It walks through what both books say about teeth, including a passage where Al-Nabulsi gives two conflicting readings on the same page, and the part of the Ibn Sirin compilation that mirrors his Arabic almost word for word — evidence that the two "sources" are one tradition seen at two centuries.

Two entries, as a sample

Ibn Sirin compilation — "Teeth"

"Falling teeth in a dream means longevity, or living past one's contemporaries. … If the upper teeth fall into one's hand, they represent profits. If they fall in his lap, they mean a son, and if they fall on the floor, they mean death."

Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams, Pearl Publishing House 1992 — "Teeth" entry

Al-Nabulsi — سن (Tooth)

"All the teeth indicate the children, and may indicate wealth, livestock, hired workers, holdings and stores, death and life, separation and reunion. … The teeth are the people of the dreamer's house: the upper ones are the men on his father's side, the lower ones the women on his mother's side." (translated from the Arabic)

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam — shamela.ws/book/1217/177 (printed p. 180)

What's coming

This site reports what two classical texts say about dream symbols. It does not predict anything and does not give medical, psychological, or religious rulings. The books themselves disagree with each other; no dream book settles what a dream means for the person who had it.