Baby Teeth

So, evidently dreams can be contagious. I didn't have Catherine's teeth falling out dream, but Gary did. And get this - in the dream:

1) He and I had a baby.
2) The Baby's teeth all fell out.
3) He made a guitar pick for me out of the baby's teeth. (Hey, not my dream, but I'm still getting stuff. And you know I would so love a guitar pick made of baby teeth.)

Then, in the dream, his mother asked "What's the baby's name?" and he replied, "Dunno. We might not keep it." She pointed out the baby was old enough to have lost all its teeth and we couldn't give it back now.

I can't even start muddling through what all this means. The dream site Catherine referenced doesn't mention my understanding of teeth falling out (losing ones children). Which in this case would mean our baby had had children, which I suppose is a dream complaining we won't have grandchildren (but we will have guitar picks). Then again, her site also mentioned control issues (which makes me wonder why all S_____s don't have this dream every night) or loss of innocence. This would make sense and probably be spurred by our niece's determination to grow up entirely just in her Sophomore high school  year.

I don't want dreams like this. I want my subconscious to send me PowerPoint slides with bullets.

Comments

[Catherine]

Wow, that IS perplexing. What on Earth could that dream mean?

I'd like my subconscious to not only send me my dreams in Power Point slide format with bullets, but also accompanied by a color pie chart and perhaps a flow chart as well.

[TheQueen]

Perhaps it's something to do with the wedding we just went to. All his cousins his age had just become grandparents.

[Caroline]

I used to have dreams that I'd get a loose tooth, and once it fell out, all the others would just start coming out. I'd quickly have a handful of all my teeth and be walking around trying to figure out what to do with them.

I actually don't think I've had that dream since I had a child. Weird. Still have plenty of other bizarre dreams, though.

[TheQueen]

Bizzare. Never in my life have I had the tooth dream. However, my childhood recurring nightmare was: I was lost somewhere, wandering around, then suddenly I make a turn and walk out onto a big wooden floor and I turn my head and suddenly realize 1) Ive been lost backstage 2) now I'm on stage and 3)theres a huge audience of people looking at me. Then I'd wake up. Perhaps that one's common too.

[Caroline]

I had the tooth dream last week after a 2+ year lull. *sigh*

[Sterling Delorme]

Heh, I get what you mean about wanting simple dreams. If there's a tooth in the dream, then it should at least mean something direct. Like there might be a toothache later on, or that it's time to pay a visit to the dentist. Something that's easy to understand, you know? I do agree that a guitar pick made of teeth would be rad, though.

[TheQueen]

Sterling - Wow ... this is an old post. I could refer you to later posts on how a bad dental visit led to Gary's migraine...