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Dream logic at the dentist: when your teeth become puzzle pieces
I had this dream last month where I was at my old dentist's office in Springfield, but the waiting room was also my high school gym. The dentist told me I needed a filling, but instead of a drill, he handed me a small box of those plastic puzzle pieces from a kid's game. In the dream, it made perfect sense that I had to fit the right shaped piece into the cavity myself. I remember the exact feeling of pushing a star shaped piece into my molar and it clicking into place. The whole thing felt totally normal until I woke up and my jaw was sore from clenching. It's funny how your brain just accepts these wild rules as fact when you're asleep. Anyone else have a dream where you had to fix your own body with random objects?
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the_diana3mo agoTop Commenter
Try a mouth guard, it fixed my clenching problem fast.
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the_elliot28d ago
Yeah the mouth guard thing is real. I got one after my dentist noticed I was grinding my teeth flat. It took like a week to get used to sleeping with it but now I can't sleep without it. My jaw used to ache every morning and I'd wake up with headaches. Now all of that is gone. The only downside is you have to clean it every day or it gets gross fast. But totally worth it for not wrecking your teeth while you sleep.
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evan_green5228d ago
Did anyone else find that mouth guards made their clenching worse though... I tried one for a few months and it just made me grind harder against it. Felt like I was fighting something in my sleep instead of relaxing my jaw.
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ellis.faith3mo ago
Remember that feeling of the star piece clicking in? That's so specific. Did the dream logic also give you a sense of whether you did a good job or not, like a grade from the dentist? My weird ones always have a weird consequence, like fixing something wrong and then my teeth turn into something else.
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