Creepy Nightmares

Okay, so ever since I was a little kid I've had these bouts of reoccurring nightmares. Ever couple of years for about a week or so I have really creepy nightmares about my teeth. It's the weirdest thing. So, this past week I've been treated to another round. The places and situations change but the theme is the bit that's always the same. When I was little they would take place in an elementary school (not any elementray school but a sort of composite of all of the elementary schools I had ever been to) and would sometimes involve other people. The most notable one of these featured my Uncle Barry who was for some reason visiting me at school (at night because it's a freaky ass dream so of course the circumstances are often freaky as well) and we stop for a drink at a water fountain and suddenly his teeth crumbled and fell out into the water and then so did mine. And it's strange because as with the best nightmares I could've sworn that I felt it happening. A few years ago I had another bout while in university in Nanaimo where I would be doing ordinary things (going to school or just hanging out) and suddenly my teeth would begin to crumble or just fall out whole. After one particularly vivid dream I actually woke up with 2 chipped teeth. Needless to say it was quite disturbing. So this past week I've been having yet another variation on the dream. I'm at my current age and here in Japan but of course so is everybody else I've ever known and I'm at my apartment (which of course isn't my actual apartment but a creepy, bizarro nightmare apartment - which actual sounds like some of the real apartments I've lived in now that I think about it...) and we're having some kind of dinner party with people I haven't seen for ages (and never really liked for that matter) when suddenly I feel something strange going on with my back teeth. So I discreetly sit on the floor wedged between a giant piece of furniture which suddenly appears beside the table and a sliding door which also makes a rather sudden appearance and reach into my mouth to check out what's going on in there. And to my horror (oh yes my friends, horror with a capital ROR as in hor-ROR) some of my teeth are loose. Not just a little loose but loose like when you're a kid and you're losing your baby teeth and you can wiggle them around with your tongue until that last little stringy thing connecting the tooth to the gum finally snaps and you can pluck that sucker out of there. A couple of nights ago it was some of my front teeth which was unsettling (as I'm sure you can imagine). I mean what little girl doesn't hope and dream about becoming a toothless hag at 30? Did I mention that I also have very bad hair in these dreams? Gah! Anyway, last night it was the back teeth. So there I was, wedged against my sliding door, wiggling my teeth (some of which were kind of hollow...weird) until they were hanging by one little thread. There were about 4 of them on the go. And I was thinking "okay, if you hurry you can pullthem out before anyone notices and go back to the party and no one will know that you're a total freak." Which sounds like a plan to me. But the last strings holding the teeth are really really strong, and stretchy. And suddenly they hurt. And I can't pull them out but now I've got 4 teeth attached to the gums by stringy bits that are about an inch long so I obviously can't pretend that nothing's happening and then I wake up and I'm so relieved but I have to check to make sure it was just a dream (because that's what you do isn't it?) and oh shit. The same teeth that were loose in my dream are actually loose. Not as loose of course but quite loose nonetheless. This is not a good thing. And then suddenly I'm back in the creepy apartment with my annoying guests, one of whom is trying to take over my party with some nasty buns that she bought because I'm still wedged up against the sliding door trying to secretly remove my freaky teeth before anyone (especially the party highjacker) notices. And then I really woke up. And my teeth aren't loose although I've got to admit, I couldn't bring myself to actually check them for quite awhile. So frickin' creepy.