Dream

Last night I had a nightmare. It's a recurring nightmare that I've had several times a year since childhood. It's one in which my teeth either rot, fall out or crumble. It's awful.

Last night in the dream I noticed that one tooth in particular was a little loose. Then gradually I noticed that it was getting more and more loose until finally I could actually pull the entire tooth out of the socket clean and easily. Since I was hopeful that maybe the dentist could just put it back and somehow fix it, I shoved the tooth back into the socket. That's when I discovered that several more of my teeth were getting loose like that as well. That's when I started freaking out a little bit. I tried calling my dentist to tell her it was an emergency but every time I tried to speak, my teeth kept popping out of their sockets and I kept scrambling around and stuffing them back into their sockets. Finally I got them all back into the sockets so I went to look in the mirror and saw, to my horror, that all the teeth that had been falling out had turned grey and the rest of my teeth that I had thought were fine had crumbled to jagged little nubs. The pieces that had 'crumbled' off were all over in my mouth and I could feel them crunching as if there was sand in my mouth. At that point I jerked awake and immediately checked to make sure my teeth were still intact and seemingly healthy.

I wonder what this dream means.

Do you have recurring nightmares? What are yours?