dental dreams.
© 1995 Jamie Zawinski
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I guess thinking about that awful toothbrush
incident from last year had an effect, because I've started having
dental- But the more notable, recent tooth- I can't tell you how weird it was to be half awake, and see one of my
recurring nightmares played out on the TV screen. I wasn't really sure I
wasn't dreaming it myself: had I just wrapped a TV around a dream, and
then wrapped the ``am I really awake'' thought around that?
Well it turns out that it wasn't a dream, it's a movie called
Dark Angel: The Ascent, and it's actually pretty good in a
really low budget B-movie kind of way.
Another wonderfully weird dental nightmare:
So this dental nightmare began with me standing in front of a mirror,
looking at what had become of my teeth. My two front teeth were an inch or
two long, like a rodent's.
``That's no so bad,'' I thought. ``They'll wear down eventually.
This isn't permanent.''
Some time passed, and I guess it was the next day, and I had somehow
managed to bump these protuberant teeth or something,
One night I had fallen asleep with the TV on, and woke up in the middle
of the night to a scene of a middle-aged man waking up and walking in to
the bathroom. He looks in the mirror, and sees that his gums look weird.
He touches them, and a tooth comes out in his hand. And then he tugs out
another. And another halfway. He begins a long drawn-out moan, and stumbles
out of the bathroom. Then he looks down at his hands, and his fingernails
are peeling off. He screams, and suddenly it's all back to normal.