Stuffed / full mouth in dreams – what does that mean (dream interpretation stuffed mouth)
Dream interpretation of a stuffed/full mouth. A lot of people dream about having a mouth full of food, chewing gum or something else that makes it absolutely impossible to talk, and maybe they even experience the feeling of suffocating. The following is a walkthrough of what dreaming about a stuffed or full mouth can mean.
The mouth is a very important organ. It is the place where we consume food (and dispose of food if it is not good for us – i.e. vomit). Dreaming about food is often an image of psychological /mental energy (see this blog post about food in dreams), and the mouth can therefore be a symbol of how we consume and “digest” external experiences, for example an emotional one.
To keep pulling something out of the mouth (gum, food or something else) as an image of something that is somewhat uncomfortable which we should dispose/get rid of, or that we currently try to get rid of. You might dream that your mouth is full of a gum-like substance, and that you are constantly trying to pull all the gum out of your mouth, but there keep being something left, and it is like there is no point in trying to pull it out.
This could symbolize that you have “swallowed”/experienced something unpleasant in your life that you are unconsciously trying to dispose of in your dream. However, because you are not actively doing something about it in your actual life, your subconscious will be filled up by “gum” – that is, the experience or the thoughts that you are ignoring. You might even find that the thoughts or experiences you have “swallowed” have turned into something that is suffocating you because you are not getting rid of it (i.e. talking to someone about it).
The elements that suffocate you could also be potential lies you have been “fed” as a child, and these can be difficult to get rid of. Maybe the dream thus invites you to look at the “truths” you have in life (your beliefs, and where they come from). Again, the dream might say; you need to deal with this –perhaps you need to talk to somebody about it. See also dreams of strangulation/suffocation.
Full or blocked mouth as a symbol of not being heard. You can also dream that your mouth is in some way blocked, and that you therefore are prevented from speaking (for example with duct tape, or something else that prevents you from being able to talk). It may simply be a symbol of a general feeling of not being heard or seen, or maybe you have a hard time saying no in certain situations? What kind of a mental duct tape have you put on your mouth? Is it you or someone else who has put it there? You are the only one who can remove it.
A final alternative interpretation is that your subconscious is trying to tell you that you’ve said enough, and that you need to be quiet.
Also read: Why I no longer interpret dreams for free
NOTE: Dream interpretation / analysis is not always an easy sport, and the best way to know whether you have come up with a meaningful interpretation is that you really feel – deep in your stomach – that this is right for you in your life right now.
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I’ve had this dream maybe twice now but this time the scene was different. I was checking on gum and had to pull huge globs of it out of my mouth and around my tongue. After I got the gum off I had what seems to be shredded
Part cheese all in my mouth that I kept spitting out until I felt like I really couldn’t breathe. I waived to everyone in my dream and signaled I couldn’t breathe. One guy looked at me in my eye and looked away and just kept standing there. Finally a group of ppl in the back noticed me and rushed over. The only person who helped was a face I recognized of a girl I haven’t spoke to in yrs. She whispered to me can you breathe? I shook my head no and she did something to my lips and it woke me up out of that nightmare
I had a dream last night where spaghetti was like not dully eaten at all and stuck in my throat so id try to puke it and it wouldnt come up so id borderline have to pull spaghetti from halfway down my throat… Long ass noodles it was not appealing at alll. Happened multiple times in my sleep. Wtf
I have been constantky having dreams about me eating stuff in my mouth(like different kind of food stuffs), but i always fail to chew them, so i try to remove them, though its been always hard , it could take me like hours to finally get the food out and sometimes i end up either hurting or losing some of my teeth.
Hi! My name is lindsey i am 23 years old. i have been having very vivid dreams more frequent than all of my peers i have discussed with just to them having no similarities. the last 3 nights i have experienced lucid dreaming without trying, yet completely aware of my dreams and am able to take complete control consciously. To the point where i am showing my boyfriend in real life of 7 years, how to do it and that it is real (in the dream). i have had maybe 6 dreams of rocks filling up in my mouth no matter how much i remove them, as well as gum. Also about 10 of me taking my teeth out and it being almost satisfying. Most of the dreams i have occur in the house i lived in the first 13 years of my life in a small town called cherokee kansas. my parents divorced at 14. I also have quite a few about the end of the world, watching the beginning of the end of the world through explosion out a window, or nazi like soldiers kicking doors down and trying to hide. I believe i become so good at lucid dreaming is because i have experienced more than most in my dreams more frequently. I have had dreams also of being almost raped or actually raped and its very terrifying to experience that feeling in a dream to wake up and be like wtf? Ive had dreams where i could remember about 3 months of the dream when i woke up from it and started crying hard to my boyfriend because i remembered a different part of our life that didn’t exist. I have never told anyone online because i don’t know who to speak to. But its getting intense. any sight, or idea what may be causing this?
thanks in advance maybe,
Lindsey
I experienced something rather unsettling in a dream i had about two days ago. I was trying to open my mouth wide enough to fit a white ball that i could only compare to a jawbreaker into my mouth. No one was pushing the jawbreaker into my mouth and i wasn’t pushing into my mouth either. I just know i kept trying to open my mouth wider to fit the jaw breaker. I did get the jawbreaker to fit but it’s size made it very uncomfortable because i could not move mouth at all and felt stuck. Yet, I had a weird urge to close my mouth tighter on the jawbreaker, so i did and i heard a loud snap from the back of my jaw. I panicked and somehow managed to quicky open my mouth wide enough for the jaw breaker to slip out. I then closed my mouth and did nothing as i was in a state of worry and confusion seeing as that i wasn’t bleeding from anywhere but felt that something bad definitely happened.
Dear Aliana – thank you for your comment and highly interesting dream! Unfortunately I have decided to no longer help out (for free) here on my website – I simply cannot keep up with the enormous amounts of comments I get (daily). I would however love to help you in a personal 1:1-session – please see more here: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I just had a dream that little tiny discs of silver was randomly in my mouth and I spat them out, but every time i got rid of them, my mouth would have some in there again. Later in the dream, i had a lot more tiny little silver discs and other random 3D shapes in my mouth so I’d spit them out, but it kept rapidly filling with silver again.
Can you help me interpret that? I feel like there’s major symbolism there but I can’t find any information about silver and mouths together.
I have a strange one. Every so often if have a dream where my tongue swells that much that i cant speak. Whoever i am speaking with in the dream, they dont address that i am struggling to speak, its as if they dont realise and it is only myself in the dream who can. A lot of saliva is built up in the dream when trying to speak with a swollen tongue so i stop speaking, swallow and then try speaking slower and taking my time. Its feels very very real and its happened a few times now. Any advice?
hi there i just wanted to know i has a dream of my mouth exploding i was sitting down with two acquiescences whilst waiting for someone to come out of a meeting …..
Dear Bentjie,
thank you for your comment and very interesting dream! I currently cannot keep up with the enormous amounts of comments I receive daily (currently more than 200 unanswered), so I have decided to no longer offer this kind of help. I would however love to help you understand your dream in a private online session – see more here. Best regards – Michael
I have had such dream where I keep pulling out something that seems not to end from my mouth, but in reality am the type that talks, and most times when I talk it causes a lot of problem. Whenever I feel maltreated I talk it as it is outrightly.
Dear Eunice,
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I keep having dreams about this sometimes it’s a bread dough like substance that I keep pulling out of my mouth and it never really ends. I can’t breath but I’m calm the whole time I’m just focused on pulling it out of my mouth. I can feel it being pulled from my stomach and throat. I’m using both hands to pull it out constantly. I have to bite down on it to cut the substance into smaller pieces and take a break but it comes back up. A couple days before this dream I remember thinking how my older sister always mocks my sexuality but greeting me with a “hello” (In a gay like accent) and then limping her wrist. Her husband will join in and mock me with the same greeting. They think it’s funny and I smile/laugh and brush it off like it’s funny but I’m 26 now and don’t like my nieces and nephews seeing their parents treat their uncle like this. I’m not an object for their entertainment and my sexuality isn’t a joke, it’s a part of who I am. I know my sexuality makes parts of my family uncomfortable and maybe comedy is a way for them to deal with it but I feel like I have to tell them to please respect me and that those kinds of “funny” greetings are not welcome anymore. I’m uncomfortable bringing this up because to them it’s a joke and at first I thought it was funny too trust me I have a sense of humor I can laugh at myself but they have been doing this for years now and to me it’s grown tiered. I’m getting older and it’s starting to cross a boundary where I don’t feel respected. I’m the youngest adult in my family so no one really listens to me. It’s taken me a while to speak up for myself when something bothers me.
Now as for lies that I was told as a child.
Both my parents told me as a child that they loved me but when I came out everything changed they were deeply conflicted. My mom took it better than my dad however when I really look back at it, my parents really only loved me if I met their standards. Growing up they would always lecture my sister and I about how hard they work and how ungrateful we were. They would minimize our issues because as kids they had it much worse. (We’re all first generation immigrants. My mom Is 72 and my dad is 57 years old) However they never took responsibility for their actions and how they made us feel as children. They would just tell us they are doing their best and tell us to be grateful. I don’t really feel loved by them. I always felt like a burden to them. I can’t really bring anything up to them because they always make excuses for their behavior and act like they did all they could. (Which I’m sure they did but it doesn’t mean that I didn’t feel neglected as a child) All they did was work which I’m grateful for because we had a home, food, clothes and an education. But they never cared to get to know me. What I like and don’t like. (There was a lot of neglect in this area like not caring about my future or my passion in painting and a lot of criticism and no support) To them I was a child something to provide for and that was it, their love stoped there. I’ve had these conversations with my mother and she kind of gets it but somehow she manages to turn everything around and makes herself the victim. I already know her story and how hard life was for her she just can’t bare to know that maybe she wasn’t the perfect parent and that that’s ok I still love her. I haven’t really bought this up to my dad though I don’t think he really cares but I really should try to talk to him. I have to tell them and my family how I truly feel. This comment has a lot of personal information I hope it helps other people who are feeling the same way or are having this dream. I’m surprised to see so many people experiencing this. Thank you guys for sharing! Much love!
Hi Arturo – and THANK YOU for sharing your story! This could be a long answer but I will try to keep it short; first all would it seems to me that with you choosing to comment here, you are actually starting to remove that bread dough from your mouth – you are starting (maybe more than ever) to start speaking about how you truly feel! It seems that there is work to do on 2 levels for you – the inner level and the outer level. On the inner level it seems you still have to accept yourself fully (since you are heavily affected by the comments of your sister and her husband, and by the expectations from your parents) – so their view of the world, the “right” way to live/be is still influencing your own thinking – totally natural and normal! But not helping you. One way of dealing with this as I see it is to confront them. Telling them how you truly feel. Either directly, or maybe sending them an e-mail linking to this post (just an idea, you should do what feels right for you). I get a strong feeling that you need to tell them directly (face to face or written) how you feel when they do this. Because they clearly do not know, and I think you are right in guessing that their behaviour is a simply an expression of them not really knowing how to act around you – since this is clearly not something you talk about more openly. When you say out loud how you feel, I think it will be much easier for them to relax when you are there (and let you be who you are! – so that they can also be who they are). At the same time it seems that you also on an inner /more spiritual level need to work with the way you look upon yourself – a thought would be to start wearing imaginary “love glasses” – seing your self with more compassion and love. And maybe in the process also seeing your sister/husband and your parents from a loving place. Just like you are expressing in your comment; you understand where they “come from”. So my thoughts; a mix of inner and outer work – to get you to a better and more whole place. Best regards – Michael
I’ve this dream several times – it’s mainly me pulling gum out of my mouth. Last night it was plastic bags ( I had chewed them up).
I was sexually abused as a child by an uncle and also my mother lied to me about my father’s existence for the first 15 years of my life. I find it very difficult to belong. I grew up in a culture where the girl-child is not allowed to ask questions/ question those who are older than her. Most of the time I find it hard to speak my mind for fear of causing tension.
So I had this dream , one of my friends fed me this chewy food and we were in the middle of the sea, and I was kind of drowning, even when my head was above the water level, I was being suffocated by this chewy food
I keep having dreams that I was eating and suddenly my mouth fills up to a point of chocking me and whenever I pull the food out of my mouth with my hands suddenly the mouth fills again…but why?