I have dreamed about losing teeth since I can remember having dreams. In these dreams it may be as simple as losing one tooth--it falls out and I think "oh, no, I've lost a tooth" and keep going with what I was doing--or as horrifying as losing all my teeth one by one, crumbling in my mouth and almost choking me to death. These occur very infrequently but I always wake in a panic that is equivalent to waking to a burning house--full-on body sweats, heart pounding, etc.
These dreams are always terribly realistic. I can feel my tooth in my hands or mouth. I can see everything, smell, talk to people, etc. It usually happens when I'm doing my normal everyday activities, adding to the realism.
About 6 or 7 years ago, though, I started recognizing the dreams for what they were WHILE I was dreaming, and would say things like "geez, I used to dream about these things all the time, and now it's real." Recently when I've had the dream, though, I'll respond by saying "thank goodness this is only a dream because this would really suck." When I can respond that way, the fear and horror of my teeth falling out goes away and I'm able to sleep normally again.
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I used to have a recurring dream that I was a mathematical variable (like X) and I was floating around in outer space being solved for, then substituted into another equation....then solved for again, and substituted again, and so on until I woke up. I think it was caused by an overload of calculus in college. I stopped having the dream probably 5 years ago.
Doreen, that's a crazy dream! Les, I've never had a dream like this one. Do you have dreams when you are sick like us Thornton sisters do - either a ball going reeeeeaaaal slllloooow, then fast as can be, or going up a hill reeeeaaaa slllloow, then fast as can me. There are different variatons of this dream we have.
Betty, this dream when you are sick is kind of like the one I would have where the large spool of thread is chasing me down the street all the way to a cliff where I know that I will have to hang on hoping that it will not crush me. Thank goodness I would wake up before it killed me. This dream was always when I was sick. Linda
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