I keep having really, really strange dreams.
Last night, I dreamed I was hanging out with You in his garage, when his girlfriend came out and started yelling at me (which would most likely happen in real life). Then somehow, the scene changed, and we were suddenly in an ambush, and I had to get all weaponed up, with two rifles slung across me, and the ammo clips attached to my belt.
Remembering it now, it seemed like a scene from Halo 2 (which I’ve watched [redacted] play numerous times), except that we were outside a throne room, and we were trying to overthrow a king, but he was attacking us first. You and others were already in the room, bunkered down to weather the gunfight.
Not me, though. No, I walked in, guns blazing, and the king hit me multiple times. Somehow, though, I knew that the bullets weren’t going to hurt me. Like being shot with a bb gun. I fell to the ground though, my body ending up somewhere near You. I whispered to him to make sure that everyone thought I was dead.
I had landed with my gun under me, though, and the way I was propped up while still in the open gave me a clear shot at the king for when he forgot I was there. I woke up before anything else happened, though.
And the night before—Wednesday night—I dreamed that something terrible had happened to me, and I had a broken leg while missing all the teeth in one half of my mouth. No one was paying any attention, though, and no one would help me. I was sitting in a class at a school somewhere, and all of the sudden, I was coughing, and the rest of my teeth were coming out in pieces, chipped off, and then the whole tooth.
What’s really disturbing, is that this isn’t the first time that I’ve dreamt about loosing my teeth. It’s a fairly common occurrence in my dreams.
The site Dream Sleep lists the meaning for teeth dreams (specifically where teeth are falling out) as:
It can literally mean that you are frightened of losing your teeth. It can show the beginning of a new phase of life just as we lose our teeth when we pass from early childhood and head towards adulthood. You may be worried about your self image or the dream may signify unexpressed anxiety
Another Dream Dictionary defines the meaning of teeth in a dream as:
Teeth usually symbolize power and/or control. Animals use their teeth for defense and nourishment and show their teeth when angry. Humans often display similar behaviors. Look and see if you are losing or abusing power and control in any area of your life (especially if you are losing teeth in your dream). Old dream interpretations say that dreaming about teeth is a bad omen that suggest financial difficulties.
I am sure this fits into my life somehow. And I am even more sure that the teeth dream relates to the gun battle the night after.
The question is, who am I battling to get my power and control back?
—”When You Dream,” Stunt: Barenaked Ladies
