Tooth Grinding Support Group

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i have nightmares and this i think causes me to grind...i emeber grinding when i was little due to stress

I have dreams about all my teeth crumbling and falling out all of them at the same time. I do this all the time,and it really bothers me. I have worn my teeth out from grinding. My bottom teeth are so sore, and i alwasy wake up with my jaw clenched and sore.

yes alll the time

yeah for sure, bruxism is caused, or is a cause of sleep disorder. i had a sleep study done and my heart rate jumped up to 120 bpm through the night. thats like running full speed!.....id say im having nightmares

i use to but i grind my teeth every night without having nightmares. i started due to anxiety when i was little as well.

Yes I used to have very vivid nightmares most of the times I bruxed.

I did have nightmares as a child and I do remember teeth grinding as a part of the experience but it was only a minor one in my case,...

My general speil about nightmares is:

I am a true believer that nightmares are all about emotion rather than any particular dream symbology, so to me it doesn't matter if its a shark or a toothbrush chasing you, its how you feel about the situation. I used to be plagued by nightmares when I was a kid, the way I got over them was partly growth, partly the fact that I realized that a dream doesn't affect or hurt my waking life in any form other than my behaviour as a result of experiencing the dream...

the thing with nightmares is, ironically if you could simply ignore them they wouldn't be a problem, but because thats not possible the dream situation brings you into a state of awareness/alertness, due to that you take in more detail/notice/sensory data about the situation itself, which makes you even more scared because you are being faced with a situation that you have now seen/noticed theres even more to be scared of... and you'll be in a position to more readily notice something like this again...

The dream can often perpetuates itself that way... since I cannot tell you how you feel, (nor do I believe anyone can, aside perhaps from guessing or at least attempting to empathise) it is you who has to learn to overcome this...

All I can do is try to keep you informed in a way that perhaps something I said may occur to you during the dream, hopefully a truth that eases the situation, that you remember all your doing is dreaming... (nightmares at least are by definition lucid dreams)...

With any luck, like me you may come out of this with the gift of lucid dreams of your own choosing, rather than being stuck in the horror of one you appear to have no control over...


Note: there is another less desirable possibility that I don't really suggest for people who are fragile (mentally) or have mental instability... that is desensitization, forcing yourself to further experience the dream, learn everything you can about it.

I'm sure most people who experience them for reasons I explained earlier either know much already, or think they know all there is to know about them... but eventually, especially if you amp up the experience by facing it, sooner or later what scares you about them will no longer do so, or you'll simply realize the stark truth of it being nothing more than a dream... however this is unlikely to occur on the first "replay" around after learning of this, and secondly, the whole goal is to not be frightened anymore, why try to re-experience that?...

Hope this helps and I wish you good luck and many future Sweet Dreams!