"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry David Thoreau

Consistent with the psychoanalytic perspective, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams suggested that dreams are a representation of unconscious desires, thoughts and motivations. According to Freud's psychoanalytic view of personality, people are driven aggressive and sexual instincts that are repressed from conscious awareness. While these thoughts are not consciously expressed, Freud suggested they found our way into our awareness through dreams. 

Freud listed the distorting operations that he claimed were implied to repressed wishes in forming the dream as recollected. It is because of these distortions that the content of the dream differs from the latent dream thought reached through analysis. The four operations include: 

1. Condensation- one dream object stands for several associations and ideas.

2. Displacement- A dream object's emotional significance is separated from it's real object or content and attached to an entirely different one that does not raise the censor's suspicions.

3. Representation- a though is translated to visual images.

4. Symbolism- A symbol replaces an action, person, or idea.

Below is a link to interpreting certain dreams. Certain symbols are common in dreams and psychologists have done research and studies to determine what these symbols can mean for an individual. 

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/

A very common dream that people have is that there teeth will fall out of their mouth. It may happen in many different ways. One theory of dreaming about your teeth falling out is anxiety about the way you look or how people perceive you. Your teeth help to convey an image of attractiveness and play an important role in the game of flirtation. Such dreams may stem from a fear of rejection. 

Whether we believe it or not, our dreams seem to speak a lot about how we feel about certain life issues or what we may be unconsciously worried about. Our dreams can probably tell us more about what we are thinking than we actually know for ourselves.