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April 06, 2000

What does that dream mean, anyway?

Okay, so I'm not the only one who has weird dreams about their teeth. Monique has 'em too. (And she somehow knew about my secret wish to be her "journal quote of the day," joy...)

So now I'm doing some web surfing to try to find out what the teeth dreams mean. It's not looking so good for me so far. Dream central said this in their dream dictionary:

"Teeth was the most requested dream word of all so here goes... If you dream of having false teeth this indicates that you will have unexpected help on a problem. To dream of rotten teeth shows that you have been telling someone a lie or using your smooth words for getting your own way no matter what. If your teeth are rotten, crooked, and/or falling out this means that your lies are hurting someone very badly and that you will soon be found out. If you dream you have swallowed a tooth you will soon have too 'eat your words'. It becomes much easier to interpret this kind of dream if you think of teeth as representing words. When the dreamer is not the one with the bad teeth you will naturally have to watch out for someone lying to you."

But... but... I haven't lied to anyone! What's up with that!?!

This site said:

"Teeth represent the very roots of the self, and the values and personal priorities that are involved in our decisions. Dreams of tooth loss often occur when a compromise is made (even for good reasons) which undermines the self in an ongoing way. The very "you" of you becomes eroded. Frequently something taken on as a temporary measure becomes more permanent and is not a good fit. Then we "forget" that we never intended to live this way permanently. We focus on making the self accommodate the situation. The friction between the arrangement and the self threatens to crumble the irreplaceable parts of the self. The compromise isn't necessarily wrong, but the harmful aspects of it need to be evaluated with clear understanding, and long-term options reviewed."

Huh. Interesting. Doesn't mean a damn thing as far as my life is concerned, but hey, at least they aren't calling me a liar.

Hmm. There's an awful lot of dreck on the web. Plus I'm running out of lunch hour... I'll look more later. Meanwhile, if you know what my weird dream means, tell me.

Other than the weird dreams, there's nothing much interesting going on. work is too busy. We haven't started getting ready to move yet. Oh, and I accidentally ruined a very nice surprise Barry had for me -- my watch broke recently, and I was pondering buying a new one. On Monday, I was bored and puttering around on eBay, and found a Casio Baby-G watch for cheap. I've wanted a Baby-G for months, but they're really expensive. So I bid on it, and won, and decided I wouldn't tell Barry, I'd just wait 'til I got it and then gloat about the bargian I'd found.

Ha.

I won the auction Monday. Tuesday night, Barry came home from work and handed me a small box. Inside -- a limited-edition Baby-G watch, somewhat better than the one I had just bought. D'oh! He couldn't take it back, and I can't cancel mine... I like the one he bought better, anyway, so my mom is inheriting the one I bought. And Barry says he's never going to surprise me again.

Posted by Mary Ellen at April 6, 2000 01:32 PM

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Posted by: vanessa lujan at December 10, 2003 04:18 PM