I know - i broke my promise to blog on the weekend... but I hope it's no biggie ;)

Anyways, today I got a call from my concerned boyfriend whose housemate has the same problem as me - grinding teeth in my sleep as if i'm strangling someone. His friend Brett's girlfriend is also a dentist, and warned Brett that if he continued to grind his teeth and did nothing about it, his teeth would wear out, he would required dentures and implants, and it would never be the same again.

Normally, if my boyfriend warned me of a similar situation ie. if i dont stop wearing heels, my feet will get sorer as time wears on (umm.. sorry, can't do that.. heels are a must for shorties), i would normally have waved it off.

However, this particular issue hits pretty hard with me.. you see.... teeth are the subject of my recurring nightmare..

I know I know, most people have really scary recurring nightmares of monsters and stalkers and stuff like that.. but my recurring nightmare is my teeth.

It is a very short nightmare, but always identical in content but over time, seems to have grown more sinister in nature. In my dream, i just run my tongue over my teeth and each one falls out individually onto my hands. As I stare in shock that I've lost all my teeth, I try to put each one of them back into the gum sockets, but as I try to eat things, they all fall out again... and this cycle occurs over and over again in my dream.... And over time, I have actually noticed that in my dream I tell myself "wake up kae, it's only a dream", but I never wake up. It's my subconscious living in my subconscious..

But anyways, when i dream, i usually grind my teeth at the same time (or so i think)...

This dream was the catalyst for me to go out and get private health insurance.. and it's also the dream that will catalyze me into going to the dentist and asking for a plate to sleep at night with.. :(

You're probably thinking im strange... but do u have weird recurring dreams too ?