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April 19, 2004
Weird Jaw Dream
I usually don't write my dreams up here since I don't believe dreams have any significance, but the internet seems to be telling me that the sole purpose of blogs is to post your dreams and have people comment their analyses of them. So here goes (actually, please don't post an analysis... I'm just telling a story here, that's all):
So I have really mild TMJ, which means my jaw can pop or unhinge at times. It's very painful. I often have dreams where my jaw fully dislocates on one side, and those dreams suck, cause it hurts like hell and have to put a lot of stress on my jaw bone to "snap" it back into it's hinge. It's really physically and mentally uncomfortable to do that. So anyway I just took a nap and during the nap I had one of these dreams. I was at some school-like place and I went into the bathroom to fix my jaw which had just dislocated on the right side. I'm standing in front of the mirror, pull and stretching the jaw bone trying to fit it around my skull and get it to lock into its socket when *snap!* it breaks in two, right at the chin. Not only that, but the right half of my jaw slides of of my "chin skin" along with my lower right teeth and another piece of the top of my jaw that broke off during the re-socketting attempt. So blood is pouring from my half-flappy mouth while I'm carring 7 or so teeth and 1 half of a jaw bone that itself is also split in two.
I go outside to look for help, thinking I need to go to the hospital probably. I see my car, and I think that maybe I shouldn't drive myself, considering my mouth is filling up with blood rather rapidly. So I approach a group of strangers (which oddly includes my ex-girlfriend) and do my best to ask them to drive me to the hospital. Mostly blood just pours from my mouth, so I wave the jaw bone and teeth in their direction and they get the point, so they take me to the hospital. Every once in a while a lot of blood escapes from my mouth and pours down my chin.
So I get to the hospital, and I'm going as fast as I can, but I don't know if this counts as an emergency since I'm not really dying and I don't feel so bad aside from the lack of speaking ability and mouth overflowing with blood, so I get in the regular line. There's lots of people in front of me so I do the "uncomfortable dance" untill it's finally my turn. The lady asks what's wrong and amid mouthfulls of blood I finally manage to painfully squirt out, "Emergency." She points me to a door 5 feet away and I go in there and my dream fades to black.
That's about when I woke up, a little gorssed out and uncomfortable in the mouth region. But the dream quickly faded from my mind until I just now made a sandwich and as I took the first bite I could have sworn I felt my jaw about to snap like it did in my dream.
Anyway, like I said I don't believe dreams mean anything. I just felt like it was long time I wrote an entry more interesting than, "Sitting here in the ARC... bored..."
Man... it really does feel like my jaw snapped.
Posted by dminky at April 19, 2004 01:59 PM
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