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The awkward finding
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There is one piece of hard work on this dream, and it does not say what you would want it to say.
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Researchers at Ben Gurion University asked two hundred and ten students about their dreams and about their mouths, and teeth dreams tracked with tension in the jaw on waking, while they did not track with distress at all.
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I am not sure it settles anything, because the work is correlational and the authors say so themselves, and a jaw can be tight for reasons that have nothing to do with teeth.
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Both things can be true at once, that your jaw was clenched all night and that you have been bracing for something.
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What people have always said
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Long before anybody measured a jaw, teeth coming loose was read as a message about the family, and in a good many places it was read as a death coming.
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I am not passing that on as fact, because it is what people have said for a very long time, and whether that makes it true is your call.
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What I notice is that every one of those old readings is about other people, which sits closer to the being seen part than the anxiety version does.
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✦ CARRY THESE WITH YOU TODAY
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| Nobody is looking that closely. |
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| I can be seen and still be fine. |
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| My jaw can come down now. |
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| I do not have to hold it together today. |
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| Tap the one you need |
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✦ WRITE BACK
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One of those questions is the one you would rather not answer, and that is the one I want.
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TELL ME WHICH ONE
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If you get this one tonight, check your jaw before you check the meaning, and then tell me both.
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| Sleep well, |
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P.S. My dentist, when I asked whether she could tell, said she always knows before the patient does, then asked me to open wider. If you have been told the same thing, tell me what she said. She did not think it was a spiritual matter.
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