Friday 28 May, 2004
Dragon of Nightmares
Mea's musings on dentists reminded me of my one and only re-occurring nightmare:
I am eating something, and suddenly I feel in my mouth how one of my teeth breaks as I am chewing the food. As I reach with my finger to remove the piece, another one chips as I touch it. Panicking, I spit out the pieces of teeth, swallow some air and close my mouth, and yet more of my teeth crack. I try to touch them with my tongue to count the number of damaged tooth, but my tongue gets covered with tooth-splinters. I spit and cough the pieces away from my mouth for minutes as more and more of pieces crack away. It feels like every one of my teeth is broken, their nerves are exposed to cold air.
There is never any physical pain, but the anguish of the dentist bill (UK private dental care prices are sky-high) and the feeling of physical degeneration (which I loathe) always makes me wake up with cold sweat and drumming heartbeat, and it takes minutes before I realize my teeth are OK.
Every time there is financial trouble in my life or I am highly stressed, this same nightmare comes to haunt me. It may not sound so terrible as you read it, but the experiencing is always horrible, perhaps because it feels so damn real.
Posted by Dragon at 28 May 20:46, 2004Yup. I've had that one too. Not very often, though. It's definitely on of the scarier ones.
# 2 - Sif (on May 29, 2004 07:36 AM):
Same here. My teeth break rapidly one after another and start crumbling down with the most awful metallic taste in my mouth (old cavity fillings). The worst version of this dream included fangs that spewed out black poison/pus as I opened my mouth to spit out the broken pieces. Just like that, in the middle of an othervise normal dream, it feels real.
# 3 - rhia (on May 29, 2004 09:08 AM):
Seems that these tooth nightmares are more usual than I thought. I have bad teeth and developed a healthy phobia of dentists in early age. I'm slowly getting over it (injection needles are *way* better now than in the 80's :-) but still have tooth nightmares.
The most disgusting one ever did not contain breaking teeth. I had small baby teeth growing out of my eyes and had to pick them out. Yuck. My skin still crawls when I think of that one.
# 4 - Dragon (on May 29, 2004 10:04 AM):
I feel for all of you. Never realised other people had similar dreams.
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