Welcome to my brain where my dreams do some weird stuff that I don't always understand. Some of my better dreams are long forgotten by the time I open my eyes lately but when it comes to the stressful dreams, I will typically remember them and this one even reminds me of a previous stressful dream I had a few days ago. I wasn't going to write this one down but as I thought about it, another similar dream popped into my head. This dream is a recurring dream and I first had one like it Here but the one it reminded me of is not quite a repeating dream but similar to dreams where my teeth are falling out.
Plastic In between my Teeth
Thats right. Plastic. Like Saran Wrap. There's quite a bit of discomfort when food gets stuck between my teeth. The pressure it causes is very frustrating. Of course, in a normal real life circumstance it's easy to pluck the food out and "relieve the pressure".
I was walking down a boardwalk and started feeling extreme discomfort of something stuck in between each tooth. This was followed by a short glimpse of just my teeth. My face was gone, no head, just the top row of my teeth floating in a dark room. Then there was a thin sheet being placed around my teeth. The plastic molded to my teeth and went in between and then the discomfort began.
Something had to be done about this so I began to try to pick at it with my fingers. It wasn't easy trying to grip a little corner poking out. I kept on trying and it felt like forever. The discomfort was unbearable. As soon as I got a good grip, I pulled softly and it started coming out. I kept on pulling and more came out until finally! Absolute relief! It was quite a bit of plastic.
"There's no way this much plastic could have been in my teeth!" I thought.
I don't remember what I did with all the plastic, but it wasn't long before the discomfort began again but only in specific locations. It was still the top row of my teeth but in between my molars that are closer to the back, so it was back to my top row of teeth floating in a dark room. I guess this made it easier to reach back there with my hands. I remember looking "up" at my top row closely as I tried to pluck the rest of the plastic out. I could literally see the plastic poking out. Once I got a good grip, I pulled it out and I had relief again. This was slightly less plastic then the first one, but still way more plastic that could fit in between my teeth.
Glass Shards
Dreams about teeth seem to be quite common and have a number of interpretations. It could be that there is a communication problem as dreams that focus on the mouth are indicative of that since our mouths are our main way of communicating. I did a little bit of searching to try to understand more and it could also mean losing something, change, fear of loss or beginning a new phase in ones life. My life has changed so much this year that I have had quite a few of these. I believe I've written about having dreams about my teeth falling out before but I hadn't actually posted about them. This one was a little different. The trauma of these dreams normally prevents me from remembering much detail about anything else. I have friends that don't have teeth, so I literally have a fear of losing my teeth.
I was experiencing discomfort in my teeth and when this happens I tend to stretch my jaw and mouth. This causes all my teeth to come loose and fall out at once while I tilt my head forward and cup my hands under my mouth to catch all my teeth. The difference with this dream is that it wasn't teeth, but broken shards of glass.
Thoughts
These dreams are very symbolic. There is a certain level of fake going on around but I'm not sure what will come of it, but it's hard to really pinpoint what this can symbolize because of the massive amounts of changes that I have made to my life since last October. The last 12 months have been very interesting to say the least between personal changes like getting back into crypto and exercising, drama and now I have my in-law needing to move in for a while. There's a huge positive to this as I will be a little less stressed knowing Grandma is watching my kid instead of her teenage brother.
When people piss me off I seem to have a way with words that apparently cut through your soul, because that's what the shards of glass tell me. I should consider thinking before I speak or maybe tone it down a little.
I have been a bit angry lately because I really didn't want this day job, but I knew I needed it. I miss my Steemit life.
Waking up and sitting down to read articles and blog all day was great, but it certainly wasn't paying the bills (since I'm only powering up)...so it could mean the fact that I want to scream sometimes because I don't want to do this day job anymore but I know I have to keep going because I need the money. It's funny I never felt like I needed the money, but now that I have it, it's too good to let go. So I stay tired and keep working instead.
Have you ever had dreams of your teeth falling out? Do they happen often?
When it comes to the drama, I tend to be able to overlook it pretty quickly because I am always focused on my future. I feel like every time I make an investment in crypto that I have one of these dreams and I've been investing a lot lately so it explains a bit why I have had them more frequently. A $170 Ethereum investment just a short 2 1/2 years ago would have granted me $79 grand today so these dreams could even be indicative of the millions of dollars I missed out on. I feel like I've lost that wealth. My investments today could make me a millionaire in two years, so I'm just riding the train again but this time, better prepared!
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Dream Log
July
May & June
Could not remember any dreams during these months
April
| 4/10/18 | 4/12/18 | 4/13/18 | 4/15/18 |
March
| 3/3/18 | 3/15/18 | 3/20/18 | 3/30/18 |
February
| 2/1/18 | 2/2/18 | 2/4/18 | 2/7/18 |
January
| 1/3/18 | 1/4/18 | 1/6/18 | 1/10/18 | 1/15/18 | 1/17/18 | 1/19/18 |
2017
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I could only imagine the discomfort. wince
Most of the elderly I knew believed that when you dream of your tooth falling out, it means someone in the family or a person very close to you is going to die. To prevent the death from happening, you have to bite into a wood or anything that's made of wood immediately after you wake up. Although they couldn't prove or atest the truth of it, it's a very scary dream to have.
Your interpretation of the shards of glass might be right. Dreams sometimes serve as warning when something is amiss in our waking life.
Good luck on your investment and may you find happiness on your day job. :)
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I've never heard of that. Always nice to hear alternative interpretations like that. I wonder how many people still bite wood when they wake up from these dreams. Thanks for sharing!
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