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epitome of incomprehensibility
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The dreams that come with prepackaged interpretations mostly seem to be making fun of me.
But that's what I get for illegally streaming what's supposed to be behind a paywall: the interpretation usually costs extra.
Last week, my teeth were falling out in chunks of two or three, as if those came prepackaged too. My tongue could feel them when they were disjointed, crumbling. That felt very real.
When there were no more left, I opened a shallow, yellowing paper box that held tiny light bulbs, the kind on the strands we'd string around the Christmas tree. But the shapes of them reminded me of the end of the IV I'd had in my arm for an MRI abdominal scan back in January 2020.
It was just to inject a dye that would temporarily turn my intestines blue or something (and there didn't turn out to be anything wrong with them). But the presence of the IV made this procedure seem like a severe illness, a surgery. I was also worried that it could cause me to bleed uncontrollably and get dizzy.
I shed a single drop of blood, captured in the Christmas-bulb-like end of the tube.
But I WAS dizzy after, something to do with the MRI's magnetic field. That time I didn't panic but plodded after the nurse back to the cot; soon after I lay down, the roaring in my ears subsided and I felt normal again.
Anyway, back to the dream, where Patrick from my Phonology and Syntax classes comes by and notices me holding the box, frowning.
"I had a dream where my teeth fell out," I tell him. "And because I'm superstitious, I'm afraid it means I'm going to die soon." I'm grinning, but afraid.
He smiles reassuringly, says, "That doesn't represent YOUR death, you know. Just death in general."
And with those comforting words, I wake up.
...Prof. Google says teeth falling out is a common anxiety dream, something I had an idea of before. With this one specifically, especially since my linguistics classmate showed up in it, I suspect that the falling-out teeth stand in for linguistics assignments, or more generally Things To Do.
I was late for one thing and afraid that this would make everything else crumble. But it hasn't, chomp on wood.
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