Monday, March 13, 2006

Of dreams incessant

Four months ago, somebody asked me if I have any recurrent dreams. Now I am able to recall one. I often can't just recall some random topic that my brain didn't come up with. My memory is like a box of chocolates.

But I remember now I often have this dream where my teeth are crumbling. It starts with a loose tooth that my tongue just can't stop playing with. Then it falls out and I try to recount if it was a baby tooth and supposed to fall out. Then another becomes loose, and so on. Other teeth start to crumble into pieces instead of just falling out clean. I can feel the bits shifting in my gums. It's not painful, just a bit scary. I run around with a mouth full of tooth fragments trying to find something to hold them. So what does it all mean?

Many explanations are available on the web of course:

1) Stress, problems and difficulty at work

2) Anxiety about appearance

3) Foreshadows health problems

4) Reproductive worries (since, y'know, now I can't carry my kids in my teeth from one nest to another)

I think it's because when I was little, I've always had a hard time with my baby teeth falling out. I was a big chicken when it came to pulling them out. I'd be stubborn and resist til a tooth's connection has all but receded away and it's only in place because I keep pushing it back in. Oh, and my dentist was also quite generous with the threats of rotting teeth if I didn't brush and floss and stuff.

I'll try to recall other recurrent dreams. Funny, I've never ever had the naken in public one.

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