Tongue in Dreams

Dreaming about tongue is analogous to experiencing deep sensations of pleasure. The human tongue derives a great deal of pleasure from taste, texture, and temperature. A perfect combination of these elements elicits new experiences for the person with the tongue dream.

Also you will continue to venture outside your comfort zone to experience new pleasures.

In a dream, the tongue may also signify something else. The tongue may represent a person who is speaking too much about other people. Or that you are holding back from saying or expresses a lack of personal confidence. For example, if someone is talking about themselves and can’t find the right words to say it could be because they have an underlying fear that they are not perfect or not good enough in some way.

Some people believe that a dream of one’s tongue falling out signals that there is something wrong with one’s mouth and teeth.

36 thoughts on “Tongue in Dreams”

  1. I dreamt that my tongue was made of layers, and the top layered keeps falling apart, so I had to peel it off- but the process kept repeating until the layers of my tongue all fell apart and hung out of my mouth, barely holding onto each other by a thread. Like a paper chain cut out.

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  2. I’ve been having the same dream for over 15 years now, every single night. Its that my tongue keeps growing and growing to the point where it wont fit in my mouth and it quickly pours out into my hand, and my hand is so full of the tongue it can barely hold it. I cut it out, by the way the process of cutting it is extremely difficult, I need a knife or something sharp to cut it and there is no pain, just embarrassment because its in public and every one can see me anyway just as soon as i can cut it, it has grown back again. This dream sickens me and terrifies me. No one knows what it means.

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    • Hi,
      I had this same dream last night about my tongue growing and growing to the point where I have to cut it off. It freaked me out for hours after waking, along with other elements in my dream (nightmare)!
      Nicole

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  3. I had a dream that my tongue was falling apart.
    Like it was hanging out of my mouth.

    The tip fell out and I was afraid to speak.

    I never had this dream before. And lately I’ve been going through alot.

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  4. I’ve had this dream numerous times. I dream that my tongue is covered in thick layer of ???? (much like a super furry tongue from having your digestive system out of whack). I literally have to pull thick layers off to reveal my clean, health tongue underneath. It literally comes off in chunks and doesn’t hurt. Often i have to conceal the bits of pull off as it’s so gross.

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  5. Dreamt last night about pulling layers off my tongue. Was still left with a tongue which was short and I could hardly stick it out or talk.

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  6. I have this reoccurring dream of skin on my tongue. (I have had this dream 10+ times) It’s usually thin and long and I will start to pull it off but it’s attached at the end and it hurts. (I usually don’t feel pain in my dreams but this one I do) Sometimes I rip it off fast but it hurts so bad and bleeds. And other times I just leave it there bc of the pain, so I just have this string of tongue skin attached and I sort of freak out.
    Last night the dream was really weird. I had the skin but it grew and turned into sort of like a tree branch and got hard. This time it was attached to my whole tounge so I couldn’t rip it off without ripping my whole tongue out. I was able to cut a little bit off the other end so it was shorter.. But I could not walk or turn my head or anything bc I had this huge branch sticking out of my mouth. Yuck.

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    • i had almost the same exact dream early this morning it was around 3 am and i woke up from it and in the dream i was at a dinner table at a restaurant with a group of people, and all of a sudden my tongue, a thin pink layer like a copy of the tongue itself fell out of my mouth, in thin paper like copies like when a snake sheds its skin and so then three other layers came out or more after I had to pull them out myself, and then I was terrified because everybody at the table was looking at me and then I woke up

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      • Dreaming of your tongue shedding layers, much like a snake sheds its skin, is a deeply symbolic and transformative dream. The tongue is not just an organ; it’s a powerful symbol of communication, self-expression, and taste. When it sheds, it can represent a metamorphosis in how you communicate and express yourself.

        The analogy of a snake shedding its skin is particularly poignant. Snakes shed their skin to allow for growth and to remove parasites that may have attached to their old skin. Similarly, this dream could signify that you are shedding old ways of thinking, speaking, or expressing yourself to make way for new growth. It’s a renewal, a rebirth of sorts, in your communicative self.

        Being at a dinner table in a restaurant with a group of people adds another layer of meaning. Dinner tables are places of social interaction, where we share stories, laugh, and sometimes confront difficult topics. The act of your tongue shedding in this setting suggests that this transformation is happening in a very public or social aspect of your life. Perhaps you’re finding your voice in a group, or you’re learning to speak up about things that matter to you.

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  7. I dreamt I was with my grandmother (who is no longer alive) and with my mother…we were walking around and all of the sudden my tongue fell out…there was a new tongue but I still had my old tongue in my hand, I would continually put it back in my mouth to use my old tongue but eventually I kept it in my hand and walked around with the old tongue in my hand..I guess I forgot to keep using it and eventually it curled up so I threw it away…however either during this entire time of right after I threw it away small pieces of my new tongue kept falling out (new tongue and pieces were already there as replacements)..this was not painful in any way but I kept having pieces of tongue replaced by new tongue and pieces falling off… during this dream I found a penny n the ground so I was trying to put my grandma in a safe place so I could pick up the penny for good luck…then my grandma and my mother went off some place and I was walking around alone in a public place when suddendly all kinds of wild animals starting with a pack of lions, started attacking all people…. everyone was running so I started running then I stopped and just watched. Then I saw a mother bear with her cubs coming at me and I though I better start running so I started to but immediately stopped thinking they would not be hurting me and I was right. Later my mother was talking to someone and an older son of someone I knew in the dream was asking for money so I offered to give him 10,000 dollars… then I realized I would never get the money back so I was regretting the offer as he came to me and was thanking me and staying around waiting as if I would give it to him right there and then but I told him that we would need a contract knowing I had already changed my mind and since he would not leave I left telling him I needed to find my grandmother… then I was woken up… Any insight to this strange dream is appreciated…oh, when I went back to sleep I had another dream and this one I was with a boyfriend and friends and we were all naked, I kept trying to cover myself with a black towel and in this dream my mouth was continually full with some sort of paste, like taupe color ..I continually kept scraping it off my mouth and then it would appear again… the whole dream I was taking with paste (like bread dough consistency) out and it kept “reappearing or growing back”…2 weird mouth dreams in a row???

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  8. Hey, I had a friend dream of me, she saw me vomiting worms and grey matter and my tough in the end fell and hung from my mouth, I am a bit disturbed, can anyone interpret.
    Thanks a ton

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  9. I had a dream I was speaking in tongues in presence of people,i also could heal people in my dream,what does this mean?

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  10. I had a very peculiar dream which after I describe it many may think sounds horrific, but as the dreamer my experience of it wasn’t anything near it, although this isn’t to say that I found it pleasurable either. I dreamt that I had a lighter and I was burning the surface of a tongue. Who’s tongue? I don’t know. It wasn’t my tongue I assume as it was sort of just there floating.

    As I would hold the lighter to the surface the blood would eventually start to condense and accumulate, bubbling onto the surface. When this happened I would sip it down, or perhaps the act was more like sucking it through a straw. After the blood had been cleared I’d repeat the process of burning the tongue with the lighter and drinking in the blood that’d bubble up.

    What’s even more strange is that I wasn’t alone in the act. Although she never seemed to be an active participant, this other figure (whom my mind automatically identified as ‘female’) presided over my act, and I somehow understood that the purpose of her presence was to encourage me in this bizarre act.

    I really doubt I’d get any insights into the possible meanings of this dream by posting this here, but who knows, the internet is a big place and you never know who may read this that may have some clue (or so I tell myself).

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  11. I had a dream that I was trying to tell my therapist something and every time I tried to tell her something, I couldn’t because my tongue was so swollen. It filled up my entire mouth, all I could make were unintelligible sounds, I started crying after not being able to speak.

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  12. i had a dream I had thick white skin over my tongue. It made my tongue really dry and uncorfable and had to keep peeling the skin off. It’s freaked me out Becoz it felt so real!!

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    • Same here, however in my case it’s a paste like substance…

      For me it’s like it starts of as a normal dream but soon after, this thick paste like substance just randomly starts to grow on my tongue… however, everytime I try to pull it off or scrape it off, it just seems to be growing back, so it’s becomes this endless struggling loop to get rib of it but I can’t… People will try to talk to me, but I’d hide it coz I don’t want them to see me like this, so I’d run off to find a tap or something to help wash it off…unfortunately, not even water seems to work, and that eventually is what wakes me up.

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  13. Omg!! I had the same dream of peeling thick gross stuff off my tongue!! It gives me chill just thinking about it!! This is scary to me that so many people have had this dream

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  14. I had a dream my tounge just disconnected n I had not tounge… I had to learn how to swallow and talk.. When I talked people thought I was deaf… This was more of a nightmare or dream… It was too realistic and I woke up moving my tounge… The oddest part was that I think I have a talent for singing but I don’t look into singing in the realworld mayb I should start taking it mor seriously… Ever since I left my rose quartz heart at home bad nightmares and drama has occured if ur havin trouble sleeping definatly invest in one no joke you’ll realise I was right

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  15. i had a dream that i was in a swiming pool and it was full of money coins and lots of coins went in my mouth i kept trying to get them all out then i noticed that one of them burned mu tongue and left a round shape

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  16. I dreamed that my tongue peels off…like the person above who said its like peeling beef…it’s like I am peeling thick layers off…to get to my tongue…
    but I cant remember anything else wtih the dream. The other person mentioned not being able to talk until it’s peeled, that seems familiar in my dream too. But, the bottom line, this peeling is gross, i pull and pull, and thick layers peel off….

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    • I HAD THE SAME DREAM IT WAS LIKE RUBBER BAND LAYERS JUST COMING OFF THE MORE I PULLED THE LAYERS THE MORE IT GOT TANGLED LIKE RUBBER BUT THE I CUT IT OFF WITH SCISORS ND MY TOUGUE WAS ALL ROUGH I COULDNT TALK MUCH

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    • I have the same one. Its gross. .i’m. Embarrassed. But theres nothing i can do. Thick layers just hanging. I have to pull and pinch off layers to get my regular tounge back

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  17. i constantly dream that I can not talk until I peel of chunks of my tongue out of my mouth and it comes out like strips of beef. then I can talk for awhile but then again I have to peel my tongue again. If I dont peel off to much it does not hurt. Somtimes it is bloody, and sometimes I have to pull it out of my mouth and have to kind of saw it loose with my teeth. what the heck does that mean

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    • That’s a very odd dream. It is not so much what you are doing to your tongue, but the final outcome allows you to talk and express your ideas. Are there moments in your life that you feel would have improved if you had been heard, rather than holding back?

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