I Bet the Tooth Fairy Is Behind This...

For years now, I've had this recurring dream. Actually, I don't know if you can call it a recurring dream if it's not the same each time, but the same thing always happens to me. It actually really creeps me out a lot. What happens is that I lose one or all of my teeth. I'm never in the same situation, but at one point or another, my teeth fall out. What's even creepier is that I'm positive that I can taste blood in my mouth. You know? As in I've just lost a tooth, and now the hole is bleeding.

Last night I had this dream again. I don't have the dream every night, but it usually occurs every few weeks, to every few months. In the dream, I wasn't aware of anything around me, I was only aware that my back molar was becoming lose. I tried not to play with it, but after a while I probed it with my tongue. That made it worse, and it seemed to fall apart in my mouth. I spat chunks of the tooth out for what seemed like an awfully long time before I got it all out. Then the tooth beside it started getting lose. I woke up before anything happened to it.

Now, I've looked up the meaning of this (not that specific dream, but losing teeth in general) in one of those dream books, and it had two interpretations. The first was a fear of growing old. The second was I wanted to be pregnant. I can tell you right now, I'm not interested in being pregnant any time soon! And I never really thought I had a problem with getting older...

Well I don't know...Every once in a while I wonder what kind of person I'll be when I'm older. Will I still look OK? Will I lose all my teeth? Will I be forced to wear Depends? I guess the idea of losing my independence scares me a little bit. I don't want to have to rely on others to take care of me.

But on the other hand, I'm sure that most people would say the same. But I don't hear my friends telling me that they all have this little dream of losing their teeth for no particular reason. Generally I don't put a lot of stock into these kinds of books anyway, because I believe that each person's subconscious is individualized by each person's experience.

However, I don't remember having any traumatic experiences with teeth, so I guess it'll be left a mystery...